The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1886-02-19
GENERAL GOSSIP.


California produced 47O,GOO boxes OF
raisins last year.
a violent form ofhog cholera is rag
ing around IIillsboro. III.
James Russell Lowell will sail for
England March 81.
Ex-President Arthur is suggested by
the Hour for the President of Yale Col
lege.
Shocking revelations of immortality
in the New Jersey state prison contin-
ue to be made.
Mr.. Edison's fortune is said to have
grown like the traditional SNOWFALL in
to a S2,OOO,OOO lump.
Mr.. Herbert Spencer says that Thos.
Carlyle's conversation during his last
years twas one long damn"
The California refinery has reduced
the price of sugar. Prices are the low
est ever known in San Francisco.
1t is reported that Gov. Albeit will
resign the Office of governor of New
Jersey ON account of his continued i'll
health.
The buds have come out on the Flor
ida fruit trees since the late freeze,
showing that the damage must be very
slight,
OTTAWA reports 81, 100000 of next sea-
sons lumber crop sold. One American
firm has bought to the extent Of ST &c.,
900.
The big Brighton ranch of 1900
acres in Custer county, Nebraska, has
been traded for 10000 acres of land in
Montana.
Senator Spooner is one of the very
few men in congress who free them
selves from the trammels of manuscript
when speaking.
Harriet Gross of New York city, who
died recently, left her entire fortune of
$4,000 to her servants TIer brother
contests the will.
Gen. John NJ. Scholield, now senior
major general of the United States
army, entered West Point in 1853, nine
years after Hancock.
Marquis de Mores has bought in New
York two Spencer magazine guns with
rifle barrels for bear hunting. He will
use dynamite cartridges.
At Fretonia, n. Y, natural gas has
been used for lighting for sixty-tive
years past, and is still SO used. The first
well opened is still productive.
The highest price ever paid for a
pointer Nog) was $3.50 for Faust,
bought in England in 1880 and now in
st. Louis.
Chardron Neb) business men expect
twenty-five thousand prospectors for
Wyoming and the Hills next summer
who willpurchase largely of them.
A farmer named Walls Doolittle of
Bethany, Conn, beat one of his farm
hands, William Ford. to death for fail
ing to mend some harness Saturday.
Mrs. Annie Post, Of New York, has
been arrested for drugging her servant
girl, Ellen Plunkett, and robbing her
Of $500 savings she carried in belt
around her waist.
Within a radius Of 100 miles of
Dodge City, Kan, 100000 head of cattle
have frozen to death, and 100 persons
have perished during the storms of the
past month.
Aaron Neumeyer, a Hun, has sued
thee oke company in Pennsylvania
which imported him for the recovery
of his wages, alleging that he is not
responsible for the strike which pre-.
vented him from working.
The British board of trade returns
show that last year the wheat imports
from India into England exceeded
those from Russia by 15,6O4cwt. The
United States is the only country sup.
plying England with more wheat than
India does.
1t is stated that reports regarding
losses by recent srorms in Kansas is
greatly exaggerated; that the number
of persons frozen to death within {
territory of l4O by 100 miles was six
teen, and the loss Of cattle will not bt
per cent.
Mrs. Bradley, of Madison county
! Georgia, is praised because she CAV,
birth to four children within twelve
months, and there are no twins in he
family, either. In March, of last yea
she made Mr.. Bradley the happy fathe
of triplets, and the first of thi
month she added the fourth child t,
her little flock.
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