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Day
12
Month
November
Year
1880
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Public Domain
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Col. I G. Gausc, repreaenting the Lat Mali.-itna omtgrewional district, is ded. Edwin liooth'H iniliatory appearanoe iu jondon, didn't suit our fínglixli omisins, or sumí: rca-on r otlier. ltis slated that Gerald Massoy, one o" Sngktnd' imted poeta, lias beootue iusane, nil is now an inmute nfan asylum. Last Saíurday's and Sunday'a morm was luite dcf-truntivn tu mrmeroufl vi sol! un lie lakcs, but there was no serious loss ol fe. It. isagain asertod tkal Bdisoi lias neary perfected bis eleotrio light; and will wot íave a rand illuruination. Too many failurew. Bettcr wait a littlo. Annnur k ('o., pork packorsof Ohioago, lounht u) 1,600,000 bbls. of pork at $10 er bbl. and sold out at fifi per bbl., makng over $9,800,000. Bccidedly a hoggúh nnmtioir The Oqtobershipmentsof whoatover the Nortlicrn Paoitto railroad into Duluth were '47,000 bushHs ; Into Minneapolis 01,000 iiisbi Is, Ol fcmount 77 per oent. waS No. I bard. Mayor Kalloch, of San Francisco, lias een arrested by the grand jury furdNobeyng the law. He hired uien by the day on he new city hall, when the law said it ihould be done by contract. Ordinary rye bread has risen to doublé he usual price in Russia. Great scarcity exista atSt. Petersburg and otlier provinces whieh American eompetition in wheat aud luur obviously fails to meet. Louisiana's rice erop is estimated at 250.000 barrels. This shows that the abolition of slavery has not ruined the riue jusinoss in the Pelican state. A single scull race between Hosmer, of' 3oston, and Laycock, of Australia, which oceurred on the Thames course, London, )n the 2d inst., the Australian won by three engths. The race waa f'or L200. Missjítuma C. Thursby has been spendng the greater part of the summer in Gernanj , where she has been staying for the senefit of her health, studying at the faine ;ime, ao that hersinging shows remarkable mprovement. Minister Lowell is winning goliien oi.in ods by his lectures and addresses in Engand. He lectured iu the Philosophical Institute at Edinburg, November 5th, on "The poet Gray." The records of Castle Garden, New York, for Ootober, show the total arrival of eruigrants lor the month to he 30,700, and a rand total of 275,327 sinee January 1, 1880. An increa.-e of 173,055 over last year tbr the same period. At the close of October tliere had been 25 miles of the Marqiifitte & Mackinac K. K. ironed and ballayted, and it, is exixcted that 10 more will be completed by Christluas. The company has purchased 40 acres of land in Marquette fronting on the bay. Aoting Postmaster General Tyner bas issued an order forbidding the paymept of postal motiey orders and the delivery of ¦¦tteis to lt. U. Wintersniith, Ijouisville., Ky., or A W. Marris & Co., New York, tpenta or represontatives of the Frankfort school fund lottery. Saine time during Sunday trdrglar coiupktely gutted the store ol'M yrowitz Bros., opticians. Fourth avenue and Twenty thiid street, New York, carrying away opera glasses, spectaclea, optical intruments, glas eyea, etc., to the value of $12,000 or $15,000. No arrests. The extensive wholesale dry good.- house of N. B. Howard, of Minneapoiis, has been closed uut by the sheriff. Liabiiities $384,000, with asseta nearly the sauie. The house had boen doinga business of $1,000, - 000 a year. 300 employés are thrown out of work by the failure. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has entered suit against the Chicago Tribune for $5,000 for alleged defatnation of character. The Tribune published an article saying the tuayor had counselled (he democrats to take forciblo possesssion of the polls and deposit their ballots. It will prohably end as most such suits do, in wind. Tbc riteamcr Rhode Island, of the Provideuce line, went ashorc in Naragansett bay last Saturday morning, and was a total loss. There were 170 passengera on board, all of whom were saved, together w ith the crew, who are reportad to have bchaved adiuirably. The boat was worth $500,000, her enginea and boilers alone costing $200,000. It was to have been her last trip of the season. Some quite extensive railroad ticket forgers have been captured at Chicago. Two men named Reed and Tilden, together with the printer who did the work- natned Baker, from Detroit - are now in custody, awaiting examination. Evidencc again-t them i.t said to be conulu-ive. They had some $5,000 worth of tickets upon their persons, aud alotofautograph platea, num oer types, punches, etc., when cuptured. Farmers in western Kansas have been erperimonting in irrigation during the past season. In one county there is a a tract of 300 acres under cultiyation, which is irrigatfil by a ditch supplied by the Arkansas River. Other ditches are abuut to be com rnenced, and considerable excitement prevails over the success of the experimenta. Samples of crops raised under irrigation have been forwardod to the agricultura department. Ie is announced that Miss Einrua Jewett has accepted Miss Minnie Pinno's challenge to ride a 20 inile raoe for $5,000 a side, and stipu-lates that the money shall be deposited in the First National bank of Chicago ; the race to be run on the Chica go driving park at the June meeting next year, each rider to furnished her own horses and chango as often as she chooses. ALondon paper reports Thos. J. O Ton nor, one of the most prominent leadirs of the Irish land league, as saying he is still of the opinión that the arrest of the land league will bc followed by bloodshed and anarchy 10 Irelatid. 11: insisis tliat the government will be responslblo for it, and not the Irish people. At Batesville, Noble Co., O., Nov. 7th, a terrible tragedy occurred. Frank M Biederbaugh, a wealthy young Germán, entered his home late at night under the influence of liciuor and with an axe mur dered his wife and child, then went into an adjoining room and murdered Mrs. Stephens and child, who were visiting there, and dealt the hired girl what he supposec to be a fatal blow, but she rocovered and gave the alarm. Search was instituted for the fiend, and toward morning he was found in a tobáceo houso with his tbroat cut. The wound was not deep enough to prove fatal, however aud it was dressec and his liíe saved, for a more appropriate death upon the scaffold, for they hang men who commit such deeds, in Ohio. Such a terrible deed seems altnost impossible to have been done by a human being.

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Ann Arbor Courier
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