Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-08-14

Seven-eightl1s OF the callers at the White
House come for political purposes. 3,
The distance from the city hall in Nav
York to the site OF Gen. Grants tomb is
nine miles.
Albany a. Y. J, by the recent. census, has
a population OF 96,0D0-.;+ Yain OF 5000
since 1850.
Lowell, Mass. has, according to recent
official i'gurAs, IL property valuation OF
SOL, 3lS,HL,.
Aprn,t. n,ents OF postmasters Of the low
I'er grades ATE made at the rate OF one
| hundred a day.
!! Reuben Casperwas shot and killed at
Berlin, Neb., hy Thomas Williams, son Ola
we'll known farmer.
Two hundred and forty appointments to
fourth-c class postmastershlps were recently
| announced in one day.
Ex-President Arthur will resume the pra G.
tice OF law in New York, Oct l, combining
himself to office work. He is worth 1OO,-
900.
Burr Blair Of Cincinnati says that fiftee,.
! months ago he ct1ulG have bought the Old
Grant house at Point Pleasant, Ohio, with
, the land, for $500.
Workmen are putting up 172 additional
lightning rod tips on the Washington monu
ment. The iron stairway to the top will
! not be completed Tor several months.
Atrain struck carriage at crossing at
Morristown, \. j., instantly killing Mrs.
Edward J. Brown, Miss Mary Brown and
The verci:t Of the jury in the Riel trial is
looked upon at Toronto as just one, and
the opinion is freely expressed that Riel
should suffer the extreme penalty Of the
law.
Worth, the man milliner, says Paris
dressmakers do Il business OF $50, 900 900
year md lose 81 100000 by bad debts.
Very little is lost through American Gus
TONERS.
Secretary Manning says that no change
will be made in the office OF clerk of the APP
pointuent DIVISION and itrwas never con
templated that Mr.. Albright should succeed
Higgins. ~
An Easton, Pa, dispatch says that @ ter
rife storm passed over that part OF the
state recently, doing great damage to grow
ing crops, railroads, etc. The loss will not
be less than 100000.
+ During q revival service at Centre Valley,
Pa. q veterinary surgeon named Hartline,
in endeavoring to reach the altar to make
confession, sank to the floor and expired
before medical aid could be brought. .''
Col. Fred. Grant states that all the writ
ing for the first volume OF his fathers book
| was done with the generals own hand, and
there is not q line in either volume which is
not his own Individual composition. .,.
A special fro:n Smyrna, Del. says q ter
rible cyclone visited that section recently
totally destroying property for miles in e
stretch 800 feet wide. Stock was killed, and
orchards and cornfelds ii ere destroyed. No
lives lost. ~ =.
Althea Hall, who claims to be the wife Of
Senator Sharon, pointed q pistol the other
day at ex-senator Stewart, rema rlSing: A. II
am bound to kill Stewart before the trial
is over, and don't know but what had
better do it now" <'@~' ri j,
Mime. Gailhard, vile OF one Of the direc-
tors Of the Paris opera, recently. died after
being married thirteen months, and after a
sickness OF thirteen days She was buried
on the 18th day of July. The. husband
tainted on the coffin at the funeral. 49,
I Adviees from various points throughout
the Estate of Maryland show the recent
storm to, have been the most disastrous
A cyclone swept path 200 yards in width
through Creil county. Houses. mills and
bridges were carried away n The loss is
roughly estimated at S15O,OO0, and may
be considerably more. IT,. ri u.
Daniel fDndly Field hassbeen giving All
other Dinner and taffy without limit, to
British nobs- Among those present were
Minister Phelps, Joseph Pulitzer of the New
York World, and many. Representatives OF
telegraph companies and news agencies.
Mr.. Field was supported on the right by
Chief Justice Waite, and on thel by the,
lord mayor OF Lond on. Senator Hawley
in his speech, which was q response to the
toast to the peace and friendship existing
between England nnd the United States,
thanking Canon Farrar for his kindl yftrilb-
ute to Gen. Grant during the Westminster
Abbey mem oriaI service, and spoke in
praise Of John Bright for the support lie
gave the North during the war OF the Rebel
lion. & ,ssssss s...g ts5 :|;*5@ !.
The article in the North German Gazette.
OF Berlin, attacking France in connection
with the advice OF the Paris Temps. that
the French cavalry on the frontier be rein.
forced, has seriously affected the Berlin and
Fran fort bourses. It. is supposed in Off
cial circles that the object of the article Isl
to prepare the public for q large increase in
the military budget 81 the German news.
papers, following the Gazette, dwell upon
the fact that the sspproacll Of France and
Russia toward each other Is ceinsisl entt with
Increasing good will between Eng land andi
Germ any. The rector OF the University sof
berlin, at celebration in honor Of the
founder, frederick ~ iil1iann, toasted the
health Of EMP or ~ Hmm iii the following
Words: Let us live in l5ease. Should, how
ever, the arrogan nee Of our neigh bors pass
rom daring words Into daring deeds. they.
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