At Duluth the Higgins I*and company
) leased fifty forty-acre tracts of land to the
Kouclieltau Iron company for SIOO.tXX). for
thirty years, and a royalty of au cents per
1 ton fur all iron ore taken out.
In the report of the Illinois reform
school, just received by the governor, the
dormitory sy.-tem is condemned as In-ing
1 exceedingly bad fcr the morals of the
young boys confined in the lostit.itlon.
i Thv celebrated electric sugar cases on
1 the application of the plaintiffs have been
passed to the May trim of the circuit
court at Ann Arbor. Mich. It is expected
t hat the trial of the cases will take four
weeks.
Me.-sr«. Blankenburg, Drexel and Bid
dle, the committee appointed to distribute
> • pplies for tho relief of starving Rus
sians sent from Philadelphia on th-j
steamer Indiana, have arrived iu St. Pe
tersburg.
A judgment his been granted against
M. Field of the firm of Field.
Lindley cfc Wiechers in favor of Robert
Edit/, of New York for sll2, for stock
deposited with the firm and hypothecated
by them.
At Martinsburg. W. Va., Mrs. James
ak-Uuf. D beam;!i" house keeper, publicly
cowbu’sd Dave Weil, a clothier, who had
spoken disrespectfully of h»?r. She wi«*
tiuc<l, hut the people took up a collection
and paid her fine.
The wife of J. W. Attaway of Miller
couty, Arkansas, was in one night made
the mother of four fine daughters. Mr.
Attaway is about 45 years of age and has
been married about thirteen months. His
wife is about 21 years old.
