Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-24
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disintegration.
Petroleum has been developed near Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
Scranton, Pa, is to have silk mill to en-
ploy coo hands
Cattle are selling at $40 per head at San
Pedro, Arizona.
A man died at Wilmington, DEL, last Sat
urday aged lo2 years
Flour mills throughout the country win
restrict their production.
Pittsburg steel is being used for manu-
featuring in Great Britain.
! Another great loan has been decided upon
by the Russian government.
The Spanish cabinet has approved a bill
to extend the suffrage in Spain.
A co operative cotton MILL to cost $780,
600 is being built at Atlanta, Ga.
The estimated expenditures for tho war
department of France are Sl90,0)O,0oO.
The proprietor of a Chica,;J t.eatre fail
ed last week. with liabilities Of Sl5O,00),
A large vein Of coal, of good quality, has
been discovered near Chamberlain, Oak.
The Lake Superior ore mines will be de-
veloped to the extent of $4,000 this year.
For some time past there have be n ex-
tensive robberies of the mails at Ottowa,
Can.
An Alabama negro who took hrs first ride
on railroad train last week died from
fright.
The French senate has adopted the COM
mercial convention between France and
China.
New Zealand cheese is taxing formor
Canadian and American trade in Groat
Britain.
Tho Western Union Telegraph company
has added $1,000 miles of wire to its plant
this year.
Baron Hirsch has made donation of ST.
01o,oD for schools for Jews in Cal ia AMI
Bulzoylna
A New York firm sends codfish bills TO
France, England, Scolanl South Amecica,
Turkey and Groeco.
AL the coal mics along 'he Mon1nClhela
river closed down last week, brow ng 5,0T
miners out OF work.
The Italian senate, by small ma lrity,
has rejected thu bill for tbs ext ion Of
political suffrage to women.
Chicago lard is compose principally OF
cotton seed oil, stoarine and alIow, with a
small proportion Of genuine lard
The.proposed new Grain elevator at Buff
falo, n Y, is expected to have a capacity
for tho storage OF 1,500,03J bushels.
The six-days' walking match in New
York city last week was won by Lit lewood,
who broke the record with score Of 633
miles
! The Haytian government has released the
American schooner recently sci el in Hay
tian waters, and paid an indemnity Of
$1,000
! Chicago anarchists have established
schools in which children are taught the r
doctrines; six Of them were visited, having
, from seventy five to $50 pupils.
The unusual demand from Portugal this
year for American wheat is largely for
making macaroni, as the wheat of that
country is not suitable this year.
E The assistant dairy commissioner of
, New York says tina; only about per cent.
t Of the milk sold in the 1000 stores in New
York and Brooklyn is adulterated
The commissioner OF agriculture has APP
pointed comm. s5on TO investigate swine
, diseases in tho Uni ed States, and the meta
ods of their treatment and prevention.
There arc $780, 900 negroes in the United
/ States. In the south there are 1000 co orcd
school teachers They have colleges uni
versties and semiraries, and arc worth ST.
! 0Oo,0OO in property
Besides combating authorizations within
7: her own borders the Canadi N authorities
have under consideration meas Tres for tho
= exclusi of adultera'el lard and other
, products fro the United States and Ed
rope
] An inspection Of tho corn crop shows that
west of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers
it is generally in excellent Good ton but
east of these rivers it is a little soft, ng
To excessive rains after the crop had ma
tured.
London spends between S7,0o0,0G0 and
' ss,)Oo,0O0 year on pottel plants and cut
flowers Many Of these flowers come from
, Holland, France and even Italy. single
!. culturst in southern France claims to send
a every year $4,000 worth of white lillcs,
g snowdrops, llies-of-the-l alley and roses to
! Lonion.
Tho repeal "a the tobacco tax ia engaging
j. part cular attention in Indana and every
meeting go far held has passed resolutions
, recommend ng that congress should repeal
! the eight-cant tax. most formidable petit
O ton viii be prepared and laid before the
: next congress. memorializ.ng that body TO
. repeal lne lax.
In 1857 the production of wheat in Kansas
, was about 7,000,000 bushels; this year it was
about 1S0OO0OO bushels. The reports OF
I acreage sown this fall show an increase of
= from thirty to fly per cent in that devoted
n TO wheat. The growing crop is reported rs
8 looking well throughout the state 1t is al
! together PROBABLE that in 1889 there will be-
. q very large increase in the winter wheat
q crop Of Kansas.
j, Many years ago, among the household
= effects of a Scotch farmer who died in
i Canada, was an old por RAFT of Burns, which
|. sold for liot!e, and found its way n,o a
e pawn shop in Toronto. Soms ono bought it
. the other day for GO, had it carefully
cleaned and was rev ardcd by frd ny it to
be an oil painting in Haeburn, dated 1857.
He values it at 5000 and will send it to
Scotland, where it will be exhibited.
= The re emit convention Of all the leading
tobacco growers Of Indiana, at GAINESVILLE,
q to curtail the product, is causing consd ,ra-