The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-06-13
EVENTS AND COMMENTS

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In THE three years 1t has been open +
the public, IS, ls6, s54 people have crosses
Brooklyn bridge.
IT WOULD be hard to determine, from
the proceedings of Congress, whethe
the average Congressman is in favor o
bogus butter or net.
THAT SUBSCRIPTION in aid.of the widow
of General Hancock has not reaches
the sum of $4,000. This looks a
though the nation was ungrateful.
The PoRE-packing industry, only
few years ago one OF comparative in
significance, has grown to enormou
proportions, last year consuming near
ly 100000 hogs.
BRADsrREKT ESTIMATES the loss il
wages, trade, ETC., in the late strike wa:
$4,000. Geo. Most Of this can never be
made up. The country is therefore
$4,000, 900 poorer because of these
strikes.
ONE DAY last week in a spasm of gen.
erosity. New York added $3.50 to the
Grant monument fund. At this rate
the monument will be completed in less
than five hundred years. The whole
aeair is q national disgrace.
DENVER IS ahead. A committee OF
solicitors for funds for grand Fourth
of July demonstration has beer sp-
pointed and are now at work. What
are the Salt Lakers going to dof Come
Fourth, and say something.
THE TINE TO befriend q man is dur
ing his struggles, trials and temptations.
1t costs nothing to befriend him after
his death" Nor can it do any good TO
abuse him after death. The mantle
of charity" is broad and cheap-to the
dead.
THERE ABE now published in the
United States 14.I6O newspapers and
periodicals of all classes. Among them |
are zoo religious and UNCONVENTIONAL |
newspapers, nearly one-third of which |
are printed in Philadelphia, New York.
Boston and Chicago s4a5
Why DoEss'r Commissioner Sparks
tackle the land grant railway companies
if he is really anxious to preserve the |
public domain for posterity7 Simple |
settlers are small game for great COM
missioner of the General Land Office
when large corporations might be hunt
ed as easily. "a zm Is y
THE New YoRK builder whose cupid
ity caused him to erect such tumble
down house which resulted in the death
Of several tenants, Is now serving term
in the New York. penitentiary. He has
the satisfaction Of knowing that the
State builded stronger than he and chat
bis life is ssfe.
THE BOGUS butter bill, which has re-
cently been agitatiag the solons at
Washington, appears to b, neither
one thing nor t'other. III II butterine Is
bad food, it ought to be suppressed; If
healthful, it ought to be let alone. The
tax on it viii produce neither
effect. .But-er-neyer mind. j
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THEoKRKA tof the United States and
Territories. exclusive Of Alaska, is in
round numbers about 900. oOo, 900 sores.
The extent Of the arabic area is, say
go. 100000 acres OF this amount there
were improved in isso. say 300. ooo. 600
acres. leaving ESQ, o0O. 600 acres yet to be
and made productive.
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AK IDEA of the rapid growth of the
south may be gained from the fact that
Iwenty-three cotton mills. which win
cost 5000. 90, are now in course of
erection in that section. The great
staple viii in future not be nanufac-
tured in, the New England States. butt
where it is grown, and the FAN Rivers
md Lowells of the future will be found
n the Southern States. ~ III
REFUBLIcAE FRAsoE, or rather some
# its rulers. seem TO have but poor
opinion of the stability of her institu-
ions. = They are still harping on the
blHand have virtually decided
hat the decree Of .bsnlshment shall ap- /,
,iy to all members of all families which.
nay at any time have, reigned in.
france. To make the measure CON-
'iete, they should have added the con-
iscation clause.
The LANDED propertv of En1lan5 !.