The Dickinson press., 1884-02-02
General News GOSSIP.

James Grlffen, q young farmer of York
township, Ohio, near Bellaire, invited his
neighbors to a butchering the 10th. After
the party gathered a fire was started with
logs from an old cabin that had been torn
down last spring, and the logs piled up for
future use. After the fire had been burning
tor some time a young man noticed that
one of the logs was hollow, and taking a
poker, be gave it a punch. To the SUE PRISE
and astsnlshme nt of all present SOME 500
gold pieces rolled out into the fire. The
logs were rapidly pulled off the fire, and a
general search was made. Gold pieces OF
ell denominations were Quad angiEg from
81 TO $40, and the total sum was somathing
over $4,000. Who ownedi it nobody knows.
The announcement is made that nearly
all the rail mills, iron works, furnaces,
and stove foundries OF St. Louis, are either
closed or running at half their capacity;
That all glass works are closed and there is
great depression among all classes, throw
log. perhaps 5000 men out of employment
and withdrawing a very large sum of
money from circulation, which has hereto
fore been paid for wages.
J.. B. and W. H. Anderson, grain dealers
millers. bankers, of Menden, Mich, have
failed. They had been in business there
sixteen years and were considered solid.
TIE business was quite extensive. No
money reported locked up in tire Cadillac
failure the last two months was prob
ably the cause of the firms embarrass.
meat
Bradstreet's Journal furnishes the follow
ing: There was 80 failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreet's during the
week, ending the 26sh, II less than the pre-.
cediDg week, 81 more than the corresponds
same week OF 1882. ABOUT 80 per cent.
were those of small traders whose capital
was less than S., 600.
Frank s. Heath, late proprietor of the
Cory, Pa, Herald, and chairman of the
Pennsylvania state greenbsck committee OF
1882, mas been arrested on a charge Of send.
ing indecent matter, advice to abortionists,
ETC., through the mail. he gave bail i'll
81, 500 to appear before the United States
court in February.
Several railroads, including the Burling-
ton, Alton and St. Paul, are declining to
take grain for transportation to Chicago,
J, unless for sale on track, because sill the
l'eleva ors are full. Warehouses capable OF
holding 450 600 bushels we're made regular
on the 23j. There arc 3OD, 600 bushels Oh
the tT3Ch IN CElCaSO.
@. s. Benham, who is six feet tall, threat.
ems to whip Editor Dana, of the New York
Sun for saying he had fed the city leaving
1920. 900 Liabilities He had only gone to
San Francisco on q wedding trip, and for
got to take care OF certain mining stock con-
tracts. Bsnham has paid up everything.
1t is understood that an attempt will soon
be made by the New England riends o
Cakes Ames, whose son / lieutenant gov
ernor OF NJ s~ssachusetts, to have expunaed
from the records Of congress he resolution
of censure passed upon him by congress for
the part he took ia The Credit Mobilier.
The Chicago, Milwaukee 6 st. Paul Rail
road company will return members of The
Dairyman's association who attend thu
convention in Faribault, Feb. Z and S a
one-tifth the regular rate of fare upon thei
showing a certificate from the secretary G
the association of their attendance.
In the United States district court, at ST
Paul, criminal information was fled agains
Hugh Duffy, charging him with sellin!
liquor at Vermillion without paying tn
special tax. He pleaded guilty and was sen
S1GO fine, and committed until paid.
Joseph hluu, WHO Las OOaS UuolucsS ~
Detroit for the past thirty years as a private
bunker, money lender, real estate anG
steamship agent. has suspended payment
His customers are mainly among the Ger
man working people, of whom great nun
bars had dep sits with him.
The Northern Pacific has received it
four new dining cars, making fourteen il
all 10Y owned by the company. Onl.
eleven of these are now in use, but the 9th
ers will be put en- as soon as the service is es
tended from Wallula junction to Portland
James Gordon Benefits old yacht Daua
less, owned by Albert and George Nickel
son, of Boston, W lie bound from Bosto
to the Mediterranean, put in at Fayal in
leaky condition.
The national executive committee of th
Prohibition party have decided to hold
national convention to nominate preslder
tial candidates at Pittsburg, Pa, early
May.
Good "window dressers' get 50, 900 yea
from New York dry goods houses. In Chi
cago 81, 200 and $3.50 are paid for the sam
services.
The frigate Colorado, which has cost 81
4lO, SOB, has been condemned at the Br.ol
Ign navy yard, and she will be sold at euj
,,cn.
The liabilities of George T. Collins, stat
prison contractor, Concord N. H., are 500
zoe. and assets 81. 900.