Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-01-09


tive railway mileage for the past ten years
Year: s M''ss Year. mis- Hls. Year s Mils
1875. 1n2I1s79 4,72l 1888 s7'
ls76..., ...... liza s.s7'
1877. ..:,2sl 1881 ........ s,7Se
1878. ,6a7 1882 ii, 596
Wash Conner figures jay Gould's income
at $4,000, 600 year;
Tho total railway construction for 1884 was
$3.50 miles, the lowest since 1878.
The anthracite coal conference agreed or
80, coo, 600 tons az the production Of 1885.
B. Plat Carpenter, governor of Montana
left his homo at Nbu ghkeepsie, N Y. for Helena.
Henry Bswanger Of Philadelphia dropped
dead while sitting at a table telling joke to 9
friend.
The Louisiana sugar crop is said to be very
poor, and planters are gloomy over next year's
prospects,
Col Wolf has been called to Washington to
tell what became of that s22, 500 Of Cherokee
appropriation
Miss Ophelia Glover of Bismarck, while
temporarily deranged. committed suicide by
taking strychnine.
New York newspapers are said to be in a
very hard-up condition, owing to sadly de-
creased calculations.
intend to push it to the front in the house soon
after the reassemb]ing Of congress.
A man who registered as Arthur Peter son of
Sturgis committed suicide at the Overland
hotel, Deadwood, by taking morphine.
Mrs. Camm ack of Washington found deeds
in an old trunk substantiating claim to $15,-
1000 worth Of property in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Lucia W. Roebling, widow of the late
John A. Roebling, the famous engineer, died
recently after protracted illness at New York.
Gen. Wolseley has received 3 small piece OF
paper with Gen. Gordon's genuine seal on the
back. dated Dec IA, saying Khartoum was all
right.
Merrells s. Co., lumber dealers of P ittsfield
are embarrassed Liabilities, $4,000 to $780,
600, largely to Western lumbermen and in
dorsers.
legation at Pekin asserts that the Chinese re-
gard the United States more highly than any
other nation.
Ex-Gov Ordway has organized &, Dakota
banking and investment company, with a
branch Office in Washington and headq
at Bismarck.
TIE Christmas club, a benevolent and char
liable institution of which Miss Nellie Arthur
is president, gave a Christmas dinner to 600
poor children
It is reported that Hon. J. W. Morford of
Watertown, Oak, has made arrangements to
leave his extensive farms and return to Owa-
tOnna to reside.
The newspapers Of New York are said to be
all OF them having suffered seriously from
loss OF subscribers.
Cards are out at Gordonville, Va. - for the
marriage of Master Willie Scott of Gordonvillc,
aged four years, and Miss Jennie Perry of
Charleston, W. Va, aged six years.
At 1ifin, Ohio, Young Man Buckley gained
the affections and tho fortune of Widow Crom-
we'll, aged seyentv-fve, eloped with her. and
is now missing with her $780, 0Q.
Treasurer Wyman says that the department
at Washington is still able to furnish one and
two dollar notes in any quantities desired for
the redemption of mutilated currency.
Miss Tiny Willer died at Papillion, Neb
from an abortion produced by drugs purchased
in Omaha. An effort is being made to discover
her seducer, who is supposed to live in Omaha
1t is said at Omaha that Superintendent
Ravens, of the Union Pacific bridge division,
recently made determined effort to commit
suicide with morphine. He has been sick for
some time.
In the Christ church cathedral, Berlin, re-
Gently, Lord William Conyngham Plunket, lord
bishop of Meath was cOnsecrated archbishop
of Dublin The bishop OF Limerick performed
the ceremony.
Victoriano Nienez, a millionaire OF Carmen,
Mexico, celebrating his golden wedding recent
~, sent $780, in lump to the locust-eaten
district, and gave his government $4,000 to
help pay it's debts.
Sylvester Marsh, protector and president Of
the Mount Washington railroad, died at Con-
cord, N. a., recently, aged eighty He
was one of the pioneers in tho pork packing
business in the west.
Gen. Fremont is going to Mexico to examine
the title to ID, 100000 acres of land purchased
by an American syndicate 1t is proposed to
bring over from Europe colony of &, 600 per-
sons to settle on the tract
The tug Admiral exploded at Chicago AS
6UOu do tllC Sl1UhO ClGdIeu away d bCHTCu was
made for the crew, three in number. They
were Capt Andrew Green, Engineer Joseph
Hogan and William Bone, fireman.
The will Of Rev: Henry De Koven, who died
in Switzerland last July, was fled in Chicago
He disposes of $25, COO worth Of real estate and
$50, 900 worth of personal property, and leaves
it all to his wife, Charlotte De Koven.
Prof. Doremus of New York says the Egyp-
tan obelisk in Central Park is steadily and
surely dislntegrating under the influences of
american weather. He predicts that in 500
years the hieroglyphics will be illeg1ble.
Building and other improvements in Furgus
Falls the past year were as follows: Business
blocks, $525 600; residences. SIS, COO: street
improvements, &c. 600; churches. $4,000; to-
tai city improvements (estmated), $524, 900.
The deficit of the last worlds exposition in
Paris was upward of Sc, 0OO, 600, and that of
Philadelphia fair in 1876, was the only one
since that of London, in 1852, that paid expen-
ses.
An important contract has been made in New
York, which calls for the delivery of about
2,OO0, 600 pounds Of Lake Superior ingot cop
per. Deliveries are to be made monthly for
the five months next ensuing, beginning with
January. N' < a..
The marriage Of Lieut. A. & Frost Twenty