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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
May
Year
1873
Copyright
Public Domain
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-The minor tails ot tho now census tables oi manufactures contain ïnattev both instructivo and amusing. Wo iincï, for in.sfcancc, Mial all tho people of the United Status dopond upon one shop lor thoir homo made artiüci;il eyes, and this shop only employ throe hands. ïhink of the consequBuces to ono-eyed jieoplo if this shop should burn up, or ono or two of these men should die, orthey should all go on strike ! Ibera aro 1,972 malt nianufactories ; at least there wero tbree weeks ago, büfore the beer law went into opcriition in Maeeiichutiotts; 1,((J8 duvotud to the manufacture of bounets ; only fou.r to mps :ind dusters, böt 60 to walking canes; S19 to patent medicines, üí to porfumory, and 4,G31 to cigars. A Paris paper announces tho abamlonment of the proposed i'runch l'Ixpedition of 20,000 troops agaiust Morooco, tho good oiKcers of the Knglish government having scourod a treaty under which the Einporor of Moroeoo agrees to pay for depiudations coinmittod williiu tliü territory of Algeria by tri.Ues lesiding in Morocco, and the áspense of French Wüilike preparations. A groat strugglo is said to bo provailing in Bbamokin, I'cnusylvunia, íor thü poasession of over ten thousand acres oi' authracito eoal región, valued at over $20,000,000. uno party haa buruod three houses whick tho otlier sido liad eroctod,, and retaliation is now theratoned. O. W. Wheeler, of Now York, representa one sido, and tho lieading Itailroad the other. Tho President haa directcd the dopartinent to be cloeed ou tho 30lh, that tho omployos inay participóte in tho coremouics of decoraüng soldier ' graves.

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Old News
Michigan Argus