Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-08-15
CURRENT EVENTS.

Cattle thieves are plentiful in northern
Arizona.
The Charleston Baseball club is called the
Earthquakes"
The buckwhcat crop Is said to be good In all
he Hudsop river counties.
The boom In fruit has caused boom In the
,ox factories Of Sacramento, Cal
Some Georgia farmers have found that this
ears watermelon crop has paid them 500 per
GRE
Firebugs are trying to burn the town OF
Flagstaff, Arizona, and the citizens are up In
arms
Fourteen journalists and authors TOOK
art In the Syracuse labor convention last
week.
Tho Vermont legislature, 1t Is said, will be
ished to exempt base. ball players from serv-
ing on injuries.
The growing corn crop Of Virginia is exs
pected to be the largest raised for the past
twenty. Ave years.
A New York dealer makes money by coDfin-
lug his business to the purchase Of duplicate
wedding presents
SOuhtcos buoulu IN piSsSif-
ing Faragut's old flagship, the Hartford,
says IN. Richmond State.
A child was born iu a Philadelphia patrol
wagon, the ether day, while its mother was
cling taken TO the almshouse.
At Atlantic City, N. j., one day recently, a
woman Is said TO have had her leg broken by
heavy wave while in bathing.
Miss Olivia Cobb, who is just ''out of her
Gems" aud has received thirty offers of mar
!1age, Is the belle of Athens, GA.
California frult-cauners find 1t impossible to
apply the eastern demand for their goods,
,ough they run both day aud night.
or the 800 900 bushels Of beans annually
Consumed by the New England states the lat
ter only grow onc-tenth OF the amount.
Five millions of dollars of European gold is
now on the way across the Atlantic for invest
vent In United States railway securities.
A state convention OF the labor unions Of
Massachusetts, will be held at Boston, Sept. 10,
% nominate full ticket for state officers
A California girl was recently cured By faith,
but on the way home from church her horse
ran away, and she is now worse than ever.
The attempt of the English. initiating dudes
TO introduc, the cutaway evening coat in
place of the swallow-tafi is thus far a great
failure.
New Port young ladies' anuse themselves
and tickle hch admirers by making fancy
Watching pillows for gentlemen acquaintanccs
who happen to own yatchs.
Five California couHtio. Men,
aocino Sonoms, Yolo, and Alameda-have
this Year 4. 1874 acres of hops, the product of
witch will be 1881, 2l0 pounds.
The young men OF San Diego, Cal, have
organized a Christian Temperance association,
and Will bald $1,000 hall. The association
has over two hundred members.
A current magazine speaks scornfully of
'thssc barbarOus days when dead birds were
worn In hats" 1t would be pleasant to know
that they are days which are no more.
Idlewild, the home OF n. P. Willis, 1t Is
stated, VIII soon be purchased by the town OF
Cornwall, n. Y. "a number of wealthy gen.
tlemen have made liberal subscriptions.
The Japanese affiliate more nearly with our
peopIs than those of any other eastern govern
nept, and many Of the Japanese youth are
educated here, Michigan university being a
favoritc school for them.
Sheffield, England, has just come into pos
,ession Of completed art gallery, well suppl.
NJ with objects, the gift of a brewer who left
bl5,oOe to build the gallery, with his own COL
ectIon OF paintings, valued at e3l00l
During the year 1886, 3l,3l9 children were
sorn In the city OF New York, according to
he records, but q member OF the health de-
partment says the figures are misleading and
bat there are thousands OF births that are
acE'r recorded,
A test OF the speed Of the Volunteer in the
Eastern Yacht club race is said to have shown
u 80 lss knots an hour for her, whereas It IL
'rpOated that Capt. Barr, OF the Thistle,
frankly sdR+ts that the Scotch cutter can
rot log thirteen miles an hour"
A BROOKLYN woman recently succeeded In
nortgasng her Si9l worth of furniture to
wenty-siI different firms for sums aggregat.
ng d, 600. which she squandcrcd at the races.
The hu .band had tho sale Of the furniture
hopped By an injunction, claiming that he,
sud not his wife, owned the property.
The town OF Augusta, Me-, with a popu.
alton OF J. 900 souls, is the headquarters of 10
nnnthtcy magazines, which have a combiued
circulation Of l, 1896 0J copies. Three of these
,avs a circulation OF 40, 800, of 10000 and
t! Of 800, 900 Six Of thcin arc devoted to agri
,ulture aud the remainder are literary.
". ]. Shepherd, of the Goth Pennsylvani;
Toluntccrs, who has been seeking a pension
Tor nearly twenty years without success, hai
inst received notice from Washington that ht
entitled to a pension aud backpay for
ru,Ind he received twenty three years ago
he will receive over $1,000 In back pay ant
lrearage.
Some young men OF Morristown, n. J. havl
refused to pay for carriage drive because
hey htrod the turnout ON Sunday aud the
tfiat- justice has upheld their position, Tn
= table keeper threatens to have them arreste
Or Sunday pleasure riding, and the youn;
men say that they will bring counter charge
| against him for letting horses and carriage
Tor amusement on Sunday
Friends Of Princeton college have given tn
iaoney for four Of fge fcllqwshlps for the mex,
= college year. The college has already half
dozen permanent fcllowships, and proposes
Y practica bic, TO open them to the graduate
. Of any approved college In America. Holder
: Of felIowships must live at Princeton throng
= the academic year and confinc their studio
sholiy 70 the department which they hay
chosen.
E Henry J. Ayers, of Naugatucks Conn,
r the possessor OF a protecting certificate" o
4 fun discharge from the British army. TIL
was received in reply to his application +
: Queen Ectosia for Jubilee discharge" a
h is called, Mr.. Ayers haYius deserted from
+ the English army In time Of peace aud EN-
grated 10 this country. His application wa
: farxarded none TO soon, as the period durin
: which ''1ubilee discharges" win be granted
nearly at an end.
The chief proposals in connection with til
intended rebuilding of the Paris Oper
Comique involve either the reconstruction {
= the house on the site upon which it formerl
. .tood, the erection Of a building on tn
Boulevard dos ItalIens at an outlay Of {, 900, 0t
!, francs, or the transformation Of the Sail