The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-04-26
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
A party of Chicago capitalists have
Just closed the largest purchase and lease
of marble lands eyer made in Georgia.
An official estimate of tho
amount of capital Invested in the coal
trade OF the Monongahela Valley is $ao.-
coo, 900.
There is said to be a man now
living in Wilcox county, Ga, who had 36
nephews in the late war, all of whom. ex-
ccpt three, were killed in battle. Fifteen
of them belonged to the same company.
A law has been passed by the
legislature of New Mexico requiring 500,
at the rate of 81 per day, to be expended
in labor upon all claims within 60 days
from passage of the law; including claims
previously located.
The Supreme Tribunal in Hun
gary has confirmed the acquittal of all the
Jews who were charged with the murder
of Esther Salomossy, 1t was alleged that
they killed her to obtain her blood to mix
with Passover bread.
The town of Deseronto in Canada
a large numbering center, is now illuml-
mated with gas made from sawdust. The
light obtained is perfectly satisfactory.
The discovery is important, from the tact
that the sawdust has heretofore been waste
matter.
A bill has been introduced in the
United States Senate which provides for
the establishment of Silk-culture Eureau,
which shall embrace in its organization
five silk culture stations, located in Penn
svivania, Florida. Alabama, Iowa and
California.
A process ofsolidifying kerosene
! oil is said to have been put in practical
operation at Bakoo, the Russian mineral
Oil center OF the Caspian oil fields The
substance has the appearance of tallow,
and can DC made into candles or made to
revert into its liquid condition. A 3wecd-
ish firm owns the process.
By locating $50 acres OF coal
land in Colorado and opening a vein, the
government gives the locator 60 days after
the land is surveyed and the plats ret urned
to the local land office to enter the same
and then II months is allowed in which to
pay $40 per acre for the land, provided it
is located more than 10 miles from rail-
road.
Borings for salt in Northern
Germany have revealed the existence of
immense deposits ofthe mineral in some
of the most neglected and forIorn locali-
ties One OF these drills reached salt at
d pth of about /. 100 from the surface, and
at 800 feet it had not penetrated the de-
posit, giving the immense thickness OF
more than 400 feet.
The Italian Government con-
tinues to devote its energies to the
s:rcns. hening of the navy. Toward the
end of this year two large ironclads-the
Francesca Morosini at Venice and the
Ruggiero di Lauri at Castelamare-will
} be ready to launch. AS soon as this Is
done two other first-class ships of war of
the type of the Italian will be put on the
stocks.
A convention of cotton-mlll
owners in the South, representing 3S3,57o
: onI 000 00O of
capital, was held at Augusta Ca, last
, week. The details of a plan Of concerted
, action to regulate production and control
of the market was left to a committee OF
Is: and also to formulate plan OF organ
, ization of all Southern and Western man
ufacturcrs.
An official of the Methodist Book
= Concern stated. last week, before the New
York Conference, that during the past
four wears the Methodist Church had paid
out Sc, 455, 900 for religious publications
and So, 600 worth of literature had
been supplied by the Methodist BOOK
: Concern Ten years ago $4,000 copies OF
, Methodist papers were disposed Of in the
Sunday-schools, and to-day 2,l3l,0Oo col-
les are called for.
A submarine boat which ought
to be able to destroy the navies OF the
world has been made at Stockholm. le
, was tried on the Malar lake. and Will
shortly be brought over to France. The
boat has The shape of a cigar, is 6i fect
long, feet wide, and has an engine OF
80 horse power. 1t is said that it can be
navigatcd under water, goes at the speed
of ten nautical miles the hour, and that
: four persons can. without any danger,
remain in it six hours running. The fun
nel-shaped cylinder is the only part of tho
boat which is visible. A winding stair
) leads to the bo at, which is steered from
the top of the cylinder, where glass root
enables the 1, an at the wheel to see the
| the surface Of the water and direct the
course cf his strange submarine engine.