The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-08-06
GENERAL NEWS.

The cotton crop of western India is
expected to be the heaviest ever
known.
The earnings at Sing Sing prison for
July were $1,000 in excess of the eX-
penditures.
A hop-grower at Minden, New York,
sold his entire crop of last year at ~
cents per pound.
The public debt decreased during
July $9,049, 1O4. The total, less the
available cash, is 81 ,480, 293 ,604.
BY vote of 209 to the house passed
bill to prevent aliens from acquiring
title to real estate in the territories.
Nathaniel H. r. Dawson, of Ala
bama, has been nominated commits
sioner of education by the president.
An Egyptian officer who has arrived
at Cairo from the Soudan reports the
destruction of Khartoum by the rebels.
In Adams county, Indiana, wheat is
thrashing out eighteen bushels to the
acre-one-thirG above the usual aver
age.
Silver sold in New York Tuesday at
0lt cents per ounce, reducing the
standard dollar to a valuation of 69
cents.
The Illinois Central road is making
contracts at FreepOrt for bridge mate
rial for line thence to Madison, Wis
cOnSin.
Detroit bases on its new city directO-
ry claim to not less than 200 900 pop
ulati0n, or an increase Of 1900 over
last year.
Five children, named Hauck and
Gillette, Were drowned while bathing
in the DeS MOineS river near KeOSau-
qua, Iowa.
Five hundred miners at Du Bots,
Pennsylvania, after strike Of twenty
weeks, have decided to accept the
wages offered them.
Work has commenced on the Ohio
railway of ninety-two miles, linking
Akron with Tiffin, in the interest Of
the Baltimore and Ohio.
Mr.. p. b. Smith, manager of the
Northern Pacific Elevator Company at
Fargo, estimates Dakota's wheat yield
for this year at 16, 000, 900 bushels.
Through the influence of Prince Bis
marck, German firm is said to have
obtained an eight-year monopoly of
supplying rails for Japanese roads.
Reports of yellow fever at New Or
leans caused a break of 35 cents in pork
on the Chicago board of trade, as also
considerable decline in lard and ribs.
The mail pouch recently stolen be-
tween New York and Pittsburg con-
tanned seventy-One registered pack
ages, nearly all of them from foreign
countries.
The citizens of Seymour, Indiana,
lynched Leander Moody, on Thursday
night, for an assault on young girl.
He was well-known desperado, ma
tive of Oakland Illinois.
1t is believed that the Pennsylvania
company is furnishing $8,0O0,000 to
build the st. Louis, Kansas City and
Colorado road with steel rails, rock
ballast, and iron bridges.
One hundred carpenters employed in
shop at Port Chester, New York,
went on a picnic in violation of orders.
On their return they found the bust
ness indefinitely suspended.
There is some excitement at Parsons,
Kansas, in regard to petitions for the
release of the convicted railway strik-
ers, whose unpaid fines and costs
amount to nearly 500 each.
Natural gas wells have been discov-
cred at Dundas and Appleton, Wis.
The well at Dundas was accidentally
set on fire when discovered and three
wOrkmen were badly burned.
The brick-layers Of Cincinnati have
struck against the employment of nom
union hOd-carriers, and work has been
suspended on every building on which
such carriers have been working.
There was light fall of snow at
Rome, New York, Tuesday. The sig
nal-service observer on Mount Wash
ington reports the ground covered to
the depth of one and half inches.
Twelve thousand men at the Hamp-
ton mines, at Williamsburg, Pa, have
struck against reduction of pay from
II to 60 cents per ton for mining: Sim
liar troubles at other mines are feared.
During Friday night the Baptist
church at st. Clair. Pennsylvania, was
fair doubtless grew out of temper
ance crusade by the Law and Order So
cIety.
Recent rains in the southwest have
stopped the panic prevailing among
cattle-raisers. Seven hundred beeves
were purchased at the Chicago yards
Wednesday to ship back to prairie
farms.
The Paramore narrow-gauge track,
leading from Cairo into Texas, is be-
ing widened for seven hundred miles,
and it is probable that close relations
will be established with the Illinois
Central.
Thomas b. Scott, one of the pioneer
lumbermen of Wisconsin, now resld-
ing at Merrill, lies at the point of
death. He was one of the founders Of
the republican party, and for ten years
was State senator.
The citizens of Georgia will in Octo-
Der vote upon constitutional amend
ment to supply artificial limbs to con-
federate soldiers and make suitable
nently injured in the field.
The republican caucus of both houses
I p W N'" = iT nynm;nant mercbant
ne San Francisco and chairman of the