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JAS BOBELETETER, Proprietor.
N^W ULM MINNESOTA
CURRENT TOPICS.
The exports from Rio Janeiro to fh
United States for the fiscal year 1876 77
were eight times as touch as the impoit3,
while 70 per cent, of the imports have
been drawn fiom four countries in Eu
rope. The trade ot this port was as fol
lows Imports $46,979,330 exports $50,-
650,340.
Russia has promised Persia to furnish
the capital for the construction of a rail
way from Tiflis to Teheran. It is ssid al
so that the extension of the line from the
Persian capital to Afghanistan is contem
plated, and that this is the object of the
mission of General Abramoff to the Emir
of that country.
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Among the notable incidents of the
stagnation of the last three years is the
fact that at Brussels not a single firm or
company in th~ iron trade has failed.
On the contrary. Belgium iron continues
to be sold, and England is being under
sold by Belgium in her own markets, and
has even had contracts filled in that
country in several instances.
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There is a project for a new Atlantic
cable, in opposition to the existing mo
nopoly. It is said that a syndicate of
French financiers, among whom is M.
Ponyer-Quertier, has coalesced with some
enterprising and moneyed Americans,
and that a large amount of the capital is
alread guaranteed. Of course, an appeal
to the public at large will be made. So
far, the idea has been favorably received.
The cereal crop of Prance is estimated
by the Statistical Congress, which lecent
ly met at Palis, at 1,336,000,000 francs
the wine crop at 1,099,000,000 francs:
the cattle and other meat products at
1,405,000,000 francs industrial revenues
are stated to be 4,800,000,000 francs The
augmentation of wealth in France since
1867 is estimated to be thirty-seven mil
liards of frances.
Mr. John Foiest, conductor on a Mte
xopolitan street car in Boston, has been
piesented with $25 by Mr. Richards,
President of the road, for courage in
electing an Indian from his car recently.
It seems that a half-breed Indian entered
his car, and after sitting quietly a few
moments, jumpted up and began to flour
ish a large knife in real Indian style. Mr.
Forest took the knife away from him and
ejected him from the car, thereby reliev
ing the passengers irom the suspense in
which they were being held.
Two vessels recently arrived at Man
zanillo, Mexico, from Germany, with
cargoes of flaming handkerchiefs, cheap
wines, cro"kery, hardware, etc., but no
improved machines o. agricultural
implements. The calico, the San Fran
cisco Chronicle sayes, sold at twenty-five
cents the vara: which is three inches less
than one yard the poorest and worst
adulterated wine for $9 a dozen,
petroleum for $7 50 a can flour ten cents
a pound a pound of nails twenty five
cents a felt hat $6 the commonest piano
$600. Notwithftanding the high duties
and port charges, these cargoes paid a
handsome profit. Why should not Amer
ican traders do as well, not better?
A sad disappointment awaited Mr.
JoLn Batfs of Pateison, New Jeisey, re
cently, when he went to New York to
meet his wife on an incoming steamer
fie waited on the wharf as the passengers
disembarked, expecting every minute to
see her. But she failed to appear. There
were joyful greetings on every side, and
still Mr Bates waited in vain. Thinking
that his wife might have been detained
on board, he sought the captain of the
steamer, who, as gently as possible, broke
the sad news that Mrs. Bates had been
taken sick, and died when the steamer
was only a short distance on her journey
She had been buried at sea. They had
been married but a short time, and she
went to Eagland to receive a legacy left
her by a relative.
Emigration from Europe seems to have
set in again pretty largely for the Atlantic
States. In the month ot August. 9,495
persons lett Liverpool as emigrants. This
is the greatest number in any month dur
ing the present year, except in the month
of May, when 9,880 saiLd. Nearly the
whole of last month's emigrants were for
the United States, and more than half ot
the whole number were English. For
merly, for every one English, there were
nineteen Irish emigrants. This is partly
Attributable to the gradual advance or
wages, the increased demand for laborers,
end the improved condition of small
farmers under the Landlord-and-Tenant
Act of 18b9, one of Mr. Gladstone's meas
ures of reform in Ireland which has turned
out well. It was a very bold, expedient
and experiment.
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CRIMES ANli CRIMINALS.
Counterfeiters of United States coin
have been arrested atTowanda, Pa.
A $50,000 incendiary fire occurred at
Parkhill, Ontario, a few days since.
Henry Haocke, editor oi the Volks
freund of Cincinnati has been arrested on a
criminal charge of libel.
J. B. Colder,cashier of the Grocers' and
Producers'bank, Providence, R. I. is under
arrest for embezzlement.
Henry Greenbaum, cx-president of the
German savings bank, Chicago, has been put
under arrest for alleged embezzlement.
Gov. Howard of Dakota Territory has
offered a reward of $1000 for the arrest of the
parties who robbed the Cheyenne treasure
coach two weeks ago.
It has recently came to light that free
American negroes have been kidnapped in
the Southern States, and reduced to slavery
on plantations in Cuba.
Hiram Smith, Contractor of th3 Utah
Northern Railroad was arrested a few days ago
for cutting timber on Fort Hall Indian reser
vation. He was taken to Malad. Idaho, and
put in jail.
United States revenue officers in Ten
essee, have had a fight with illicit distillers
There were numerous exchanges of shots on
both sides, and four distillers are reported
killed, and several wounded.
Information has been received at
Washington from he United States commer
cial agent at PredraR Negras, Mexico, of the
murder of Walter Henry, a native of a Texas'
by Mexicans, near Sara Gossa.
Thos. Stewart and his sister, two old
people living on a farm near Richmond, Ky
were shot bv an unknown party a few nights
since. Stewart, hearing a noise in the yard,
got out of bed to ascertain the cause, when he
was mortally wounded. His sister, coming
to the dooi to his assistance, was also fired
upon and instantly killed,
On Sunday, the 6th inst., while the
congregation was worshiping in St Francis
church, New York city, a man entered, and
without a moment's warning plunged a knife
into the body of Mis Mary Logan, who, being
half drunk, he mistook her for his wife, from
whom he had been separated. The scoundrel
fledjbut was pursued and arrested. Miss Logan
was taken to the hospital and found to be suf
fering beverely from a deep cut in the abdo
men.
CASUALTIES.
The Sacramento, California, hospital
has been destroyed by fire. Loss $100,000
The inmates were all saved.
A cotton waste factory, at South Bos
ton, Mass has been burned up. Seventv-five
men have been thrown out of employment.
By the late violent storm the damage
done in the city of Chicago is es imated to
amount to between three and four hundred
thousand dollars.
PERSONAL, AND JruuITICAL.
The King of Burmah is dead.
A Liverpool telegram says Capt. Charles
H. Indkins, formerly a commander of Cunard
steamship, is dead.
Emperor William of Germany is to is
sue a proclamation announcing the failure of
negotiations between Germany and the Va
lcan.
Ex-Gov. Shepard, of Washington, is of
the opinion that Gen. Grant will be unani
mously nominated by the Republican party
lor President in 1880.
Sir Francis Grant, the famous portrait
painter and President of the Royal Academy,
died suddenly lately at his residence at Mel
ton, Mowberry, England.
Gen. Gier has been removed Irom ac
tive duty, having attained the age of 62. His
successor will not be appointed till Secretary
of war, Thompson, returns to Washington.
A dispatch from Berlin reports that
Field Marshal Count VonMoltke has tendered
his resignation. The matter will be decided
when the emperor resumes control of the gov
ernment
Tne President and family will remove
into he White House from the Soldiers'
Home, about the middle of October. The ex
ecutive mansion is being prepared for their
reception.
The rumor of the betrothal of Prince
Louis Napoleon, son of the late Emperor, to
Princess 'ihyron, daughter of the King of
Denmark, is revived in the London cories
pondpnee of the provincial newspapers.
In the California constitutional conven
tion, the legislative committee on federal re
lations reported House bill ten, prohibiting
Chinamen from being employed on public
works, favorably. An amendment that no
Chinaman be allowed to be employed to work
his tax was lot.
The Marquis of Lome and Princess
Louise will sail for Canada the 14th of No
vember, on the steamer Sarmation, which
has been chartered to take the new governor
general and royal consort The Sarmation
will be met at sea by the British Nortk Amer
ican squadron, now in port, and escorted to
Halifax where it is arranged the marquis and
princess will first set foot on Canada soil.
At the Republican convention, in Low
ell, Massachusetts, of the Seventh Congres
sional district, Mr. Durgin, of Reading:, offer
'ed a resolution denouncing Gen. Butler for
proving false to the district and to the pledges
made by him in 1876, aud demanding his imme
diate resignation as a member of the Forty
sixth Congress. The resolution was adopted
unanimously. Boutwell's name was, with
drawn as a condidate.
The friends of Senator Thurman at
Washington have received dispatches from
Ohio wmch alarm them as to his condition.
The report is he is threatened with paralysis,
incipient symptoms of which have appeared.
He was known to have been very much over
worked during the compaign, his ambition for
the Presidential nomination having induced
him to undertake more than his strength will
warrant.
The Fitz John Porter court-martial is in
session at Governor's Island, N. Y. The Judge
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.advocate openedTne case on the part of the
Government in a long nnd exhaust.ve ad
dress. He reviewed the former trial and was
very severe on Gen. Porter, saying that his
defense had all been a series of afterthoughts.
He also Claimed that the witnesses he would
bring forward would give a different view of
Porter's conduct than has thus far been re
ceived through the evidence of accused, and
that his eonviction by the court martial was
proper and the sentence merciful- The ad
dress occupied the greater part of the day's
session.
The yellow fever ravages are extend
ing into the interior towns of the South.
Waddington, minister of foreign affairs,
has remitted 500 francs to Minister Noyes for
yellow fever sufferes.
The Missouri State Agricultural Soci
ety, which had been in progress in St. Louis
four weeks, closed on Saturday the 5th inst.
About 250 men employed in the New
Boston coal mines, near Mahony City, Pa.
are on a strike for 10 per cent, increase of
wages.
There seems to be as yet no real abate
ment in the prevalence and violence of the
yellow fever in the Southern cities and
country towns.
Dispatches from New York indicate
the probabilities of another serious, perhaps
general railroad strike. There is a clamor for
increased wages.
The Passaic, New Jersey, rolling mills
have been destroyed by fire. Loss $50,000.
Four hundred and fifty men have been thrown
out of employment.
The Paris Le Tempts makes an appeal
for suffers by yellow feyer in New Orleans,
recalls the fact that Louisana sent large sums
of money to France in 1871-72 and'75.
Atier deducting various legacies
amounting to about $100,000 the entire estate
of the late William Niblo, of New York City,
falls to the young Men's Christian Association
of New York.
The great failure of the Bank of the
City of Glasglow, has caused numerous oth
ers, and some very large failures, and that of
Smitti, Fleming & Co., East India merchant's
for $10,000,000.
Disaffected Red Cloud Indians are
making trouble and are being tampered with
and excited to hobtihty by hostile Cheyenne-.
Dr. James Irwin, agent of the Red Cloud
Indians has gone to Washington to consult
the government.
The government has received intelli
gence that Taad Gelden Pasha, on announc
ing that he had received orders to surrender
Pedontza to the Montenegrins, was killed by
the Albanians, and 156 officers aad men un
der his command massacred.
The City ot Glagow (Scotland) bark
has closed its doors, its liabilities are $50,000,-
000. The liability of the share holders is
unlimited. The bank was eastablished in
1839, and has some 60 branches. The failure
is regarded a national disaster.
A statement from one of its ministers
show that the Colored Cumberland Presbyter
ian church, not generally known to exist until
recently, has two synods and twelve presbyte
ries, with 104 ministers, 8,3 licentiates, 170 can
didates, and 30,000 communicants.
Acting Postmaster General Tyner has
ordered that no fines be imposed upon mail
contractors or deductions made from their
pay because of failure or irregularity in serv
ice in Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Louisiana and Texas, on account of
quarantine regulations.
At the second day's session of the
American Board of Commissioners for Fore
ign Missions in Milwaukee, eloquent ad
dresses were made bv Prof. Chapm, William
E Dodge, Rev. Dr. Goodwin and others
Five hundred thousand dallars is the amount
wanted for the ensuing year.
A general order just issued from the
war department calls the attention of officers
of the army to the section in the army ap
propriation bill passed at the last session of
Congress, prohibiting the use of the ai my as a
posse comitatus except in such cases as may
be expressly authorized by the constitution
or act of Congress.
A Madrid dispatch says: Considerable
alarm has been caused in that capital by the
appeal ance of twenty cases of what was sup
posed to be typhus fever in the most populous
quarter of the city,three sufferers having been
admitted to the hospital The doctor to day
declares that their symptoms are those of yel
low fever, and that the infection was brought
from Cuba jy soldiers.
The single scuil race at Silver Lake,
Mass between Reaeran, of Boston, and Davis,
of Portland, four miles, purse $300 took place
in the presence of 3,000 to 4,000 persons, and
was won by Davis, beating Reagan nine
lengths. Time 28 minutes 6% seconds. Rea
gon is reported to have been fatally injured by
the railr ad accident on the excursion train
returning from the race.
A courier from Spotted Tail reports
that a band of Indians crossed Wounded Knee
creek eoing in the direction of the new Red
Cloud agency. From information gathered
from couriers, etc,no lest than four parties
of hostile Cheyennes are said to have crossed
between Camp Robinson and Wounded Knee
going north, and the belief is these Indians
been aided in evading troops by runnsrs
from Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies.
The St. Louis Agrirultural and Me
chanical Association opened on Monday the
7th inst. As usual, it was children's day and
11 the public schools were closed for the oc
casion. The crowd of youngsters was im
mense, not les than 30,000 children and 10,-
000 to 15.C00 adults were on the grounds. The
display of live stock at the fair, particularly
horses and cattle, was very large and unusu
ally fine, and all the other departments were
well filled and very attractive.
A coroner in Arkansas, atter empanel
ling his jury, said, -'Now, gentlemen
you are to determine whether the de
ceased came to his death by accidence, by
incidence, or incendiary." The verdict
was that "The deceased came to his
death by accidence in the shape of a
bowie-knife."
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HOUSE AND FARM.
Recipes.
Filhpg for Cracked Ceiling.Whiting
mixed with glue water, or calcined plas
ter and water makes a good putty for
filling cracks in plastered ceilings.
Here is a receipt for a nutritious drink
for either invalids or giants: Beat up a
new-laid egg, pour on it half a pint of
boiling milk, sweeten to taste, and flavor
with lemon-peel, nutmeg, or vanilla.
Serve cold in a glass.
To Whiten Knife Handle*.The ivory
handles of knives sometimes become yel
ow from being allowed to remain in dish
water. Rub them with sandpaper till
white. If the blades have become rusty
from careless uage, rub them also with
sandpaper, and they will look as nice as
new.
Fruit Cake.Four eggs, two cupfuls
of sugar, one cupful of molasses, one-half
pint of sweet milk, one and one-half cup
fuls of butter, one large teaspoonful of
soda, one-half round of stoned raisins,
and five cupfuls of flour. Season with
cinnamon and nutmeg to suit your taste.
This is enough for two loaves."
Crumb Pudding.Old bits ot stale cake
can be made into a most appetizing dish
in the following way: Over a quart of
crumbs turn a pint of scalding milk, ana
let them soak then add three eggs, well
beaten, and half a pint of milk hall a
teacup of desiccated cocoanut. Bake
twenty minutes. Flavoring may be add
ed to suit the taste, and raisins and cur
rants if desired.
French ToastFor a family of five,
take five slices of breadthe longer the
bread has been baked the betterand
have ready a bowl of water into which a
pinch ot salt has been dropped. Take a
piece of butter the size of a walnut, and
thoroughly greese the bottom of a irymg
pan. then beat five eggs to a froth dip
each slice ot bread into the water then
into the egg, and place it flat on the bot
tom of the frying-pan pour over the re
maining egg which was left in the bewl
set the frying-pan over the fire carefully
turning the bread over when it becomes
a light brown. Pepper and salt to taste.
Work Baskets.Take wrapping twine
or carpet warp, and commence at the
centre of the bottom and crotchet rounl
and round, thick and close, in a ^ort,
aoublp crotchet stich, keeping it widened
so it is flat, and when you get it as large
as you want it, make the sides in shell
work Starch it very stiff, and dry it in
the oven, with the door open. Dry it
over a flower-pot, vegetable dish, or any
thing you like. They are very conven
ient to set on a sewing machine and hold
a thimble and thread. If wanted very
elaborate, varnish with black varnish
ana trim with scarlet worsted or ribbon
Anyone familiar with a crotchet-needle
can readily make one from the above de
scription.
Soap.
Dissolve three pounds sal-soda in two
gallons of warm water slack in a firkin
three pounds ot good quick lime add tc
it the soda solution stir the whole thor
oughly with a stick, and add two gallons
ot boiling water stir again and let it
settle pour off the clean liquor in a clean
.ron boiler placed on the fire, and stir in
to it six pounds of clarified grease and
one pound of powdered borax let it boil
slowly until it gets ropy, about ten min
u.cs' boiling, and pour it into a tub or
tight box this makes a good hard soap
tor family use after drying a month or
so in a dry room, and cut into bars, it is
fit tor use.
Selecting JUeats.
In selecting beef to roast, if it be a
small family, the rib is by far the best
and most tender cut have some ot the
bone removed, then make your butcher
skewer the beef. The best beefsteak for
broiling is porter-bouse. The best beef
for a la mode is the round have the bones
removed and trim off all the gristle. For
corned beef the round is also the best.
For a mutton loast choose the shoulder,
the saddle, or the loin and haunch. The
leg should be boiled. Small rib chops
are best for broiling those cut from the
leg are generally tough Mutton cutlets
to bake are taken fiom the neck. For
roast veal, the loin, breast or shoulder is
good. Veal chops are best for frying
cutlets are more apt to be tough.
In selecting beet take that which has a
loose grain, easily yielding to pressure of
dark red color, smooth, witn whitish fat:
if the lean is purplish and the fat yellow,
it is poor beef. Grass ted is the lightest,
ox tue best, and next the heifer.
Perhaps the nicest mutton roast is a
small leg, the bone taken out, and the
cavity stuffed with forced meat. The
best beef roast is (for three) about two
and a half or three pounds of porter
house. Sirloin ranks* next. A rump
roast is very nice. Two to three pounds
is a very great plenty for three. In
chops, we tnrak, that irom the hind leg
of mutton best, unle-s you can get a
"meaty" sirloin. The same in pork, about
one and a quarter to one and a halt
pounds is sufficient beefsteak about the
same quantity. Porter-house steak is
cheaper than sirloin, having less bone.
Rump steak and round, if well pounded
to make them tender, have the best fla
vor.
H|-A LOOK Ahrud.
Vrotn the National live Stock Journal.
Last month the Journal cautioned its
readers against a hasty abandonment of
the business of raising corn and making
pork, on the ground that, taking one year
with another, no business was certainly
more remunernative. We now desire to
call attention to a new aspect ot the ques
tion. It is certain that nothing has ex
erted so powerful an influence in sustain
ing the prices and stimulating the pro
duction of beef in this country, for the
past year or two, as the foreign demand
brought about by the improved methods
of trasportation, that have enabled us to
place our fresh meats in the Engush
markets in 'good condition. Hitherto
this trade has been confined mainly to
beef, but lately it has extended largely to
pork and, by a paragraph which we
publish elsewhere, it will be notice i that
in a single week, early in June, 2,300 live
hogs wete received in Liverpool from
Ajnenca.
"We believe that there can be no possi
ble difficulty in thawaj of transportation
of hve hogs to Eogfanft from this couritry
in large quantities. Tjhey bqar transpor
tation much betfer and with less shrink
age than any other kind of live stock, and
there is scarcely a limit to the extent to
which the trade ihay be extended.
We do not know how extensive the de
mand for fresh pork may be in England,
but we understand that "in some sections
is enormous and if this be true, we
hould not be surprised to see the ship
ment of live hogs from this country car
ried on to such an extent as to have f.
material effect upon such prices at home.
At all events we shall watch the further
development of the tradp with interest.
Waslitng BlanKets.
Seeing an inquiry for th best way to
wash blankets, some time since, I waited
to see if some one would not give a way
which I read a long time- ago, I have
tried it and know it is good:
Put a boi'er of soft water to heat: dis
solve and add to it a half bar of dirk's
soapeither the white or blue. Put your
blankets in a washtub, laying them in
somewhat like a coil of rope, so they can
be easily handled. Heat the suds scald
ing hot pour it over the blankets punch
them down, and cover with a quilt or
some heavy material to keep the steam
from escaping. Let them remam till
morning then squeeze and rub lightly with
the hands on no account use washboards
for blankets Then have a soft ciean
rinse water, but not more than blood
warm put the blankets into this, but not
wrine them, either with your hands or a
clothes-wringer but run "them fromasuds
into a basket, and let them drain, so as
to carry as little ot the dirty suds as pos
sible into the rinse water. Get them as
iree from the suds as you can, and then
drain them as before, and put them'
through a second tub of clean soft water.
Put them into your basket, witnout
wringing them let them drain, and they
are then ready for the line Hang them
lengthwise by the extreme outer edge,
not through the middle, and pu* the
clothes-pins near together, not more than
a finger's length apart. When the blank
ets are about halt dry reverse the edges,
and let the edge hang down that was
pinned to the line.
The mysterious Masked Lady.
At the masked ball, lately given by
Frances, Countess Waldegrave, a lady of
distinguished appearance, dressed in
black and wearing a domino, observed
two gentlemen who were conversing un
masked in an alley of the beautiful gar
dens at Strawberry Hill. She approach
ed them with easy grace, and opened con
versation in a light%
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and bantering tone.
er of her male interlocutors was
assured, by what "the Antiquary" would
have called "his fair enemy,"" that she
knew all about him, and could, and she
would, tell him many quear sterics about
himself. Well able to defend himself in
tongue encounters, the gentleman, whose
wit and whose persiflage were once the
delight of the House of Commons, in
which be is now a much-missed absentee,
replied that if she knew even a tithe of
the mischief he had done in life she
would compel him to borrow her domino.
Carrying the war into the enenry's coun
try, he proceeded jestingly to impugn
her assertion that she was a married wom
an, and accused her of having escaped
from boaiding school to take part in the
Stiawbeiry Hill gayeties. His younger
male companion, being scarcely inferior
inbidinage, asked permission to touch her
marriage ring, and, accepting the gloved
hand which she promptly extended, re
marked, after satisfying himself as to
the correctness of her claim, that so fair
a gage was worthy ol more respectful *a-
lution, and was peimitted to raise her
black glove to her lips. After a
diversified conversation, which lasted
about a quarter ot an horn, the lady glid
ed gracefully away, leaving her compan
ions in,puzzled mystery as to her identity.
Their guesses weie more ingenious thpn
described when an hour later he was
laughingly informed by the lady of the
most exalted rank in the assembly (the
Princess of Wales) that she herself was
the escaped boarding-school miss, and
that the domino which she had removed
from her face was af his serviceto hide
his blushes.'
Prince and Sovereign.
Dr. Ruppaner, the well-known German
American, and President of the Goethe
Club, of New York, was the hero ot an
adventure in Paris recently that attracted
much attention from those who saw it.
He had hailed a cab,'and as ne was about
to step in he was surprised to see another
man entering at the opposite side. Dr.
Ruppaner demanded ot the driver which
of the,two had hailed him first, aid the
driverVdecided in tavr of the New York
er. He then politely requested the stran
ger to descend, but the stranger answer
ed:.
'I am Prince giving a known
name. Dr. Rupanerrepliedu j,^
"You are a prince, but I am'a sovere
igna citizen of the United States and
without much more ado he gently took
the prince by the collar of his coat and
set him down quietly upon the sidewalk.
The prince went in search of another car
nage, and the "sovereign" rode off in
triumph. ~f
Egypt is the place tor juveaile excur
sions A boy can always find his "mum
my" there.