Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-05-23
Items of General Interest.


co this year than ever before.
LATE reports from Delaware promise
half or two-third crop of peaches.
Two thousand women or girls are en-
ployed in Birmingham, England, in the
brass-foundirg trade.
A YOUNG boy in LAFAYETTE, Ala, shot
his mother dead on her refusal to allow
him to 60 out hunting.
In a fight between two boys at Kansas
City, Mo-, lately, one Of them had his
throat cut from ear to ear.
DURING Eer imprisonment Laura Fair,
by careful speculation, has increased her
fortune by more t8an S150,OO0.
The maple sugar season is said to
have been bad one in the Northwest,
opening late and being very windy.
IT is estimated that China will be a
market for American butter and cheese
to the amount of 5000 tons annually.
In the Ohio Senate, the Apportionment
bill was passed. dividing the State into
seven Democratic and eleven Republican
districts.
A SMALL party of Iadians drove off
several head of stock from Mcpherson
Station, Neb. A detachment of troops
are in pursuit.
TnE steamship Baltic, which sailed
from Liverpool for New York, brings
out q number of persons who intend to
form colony in Nebraska.
The memorial edifce to Theodore
Parker is to stand on the corner of Berk-
eley and Appleton streets, Boston, and
will be completed by Christmas.
Mrs. WHARToN's attending physicians
having certified that her ill.health rem
dered an immediate trial dangerous, the
case will be postponed till next fall.
LEMBURa and Kelly, the alleged coun-
terfeiters of nickel coin, underwent a
preliminary examination at Boston, and
were held for trial IN $4,000 bail each.
The suit for the recovery of damages
for the destruction Of the Office of the
Bangor (Me). Democrat by a mob, during
the war, has been settled by the payment
of 1000.
ALEXANDER ROBINSON, chief of the Po
tawatomies, whose name is intimately
associated. with the history of Chicago,
died at the Indian Reserve, near that
city recently, at the advanced age OF one
hundred years.
The laws of Virginia provide that per-
sons guilty of burglary shall be punished
with death, or, in the discretion of the
jury, by confinement in the Pepitentiary
for period not less than five nor more
than eighteen years.
A ACHINAMAN IN California, who was un
able to speak a work of English, was
accused of receiving stolen goods and
was hung up to make him confess from
whom he obtained them, has been made
permanently insane by the outrage.
AT Hamilton, Ohio, a young man,
named Samuel Schofeld, who was to
have been married in few days, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the heart, on learning that his
employer, who owed him |, 200, had as
signed his property.
SINCE the beginning of the session the
President of the U. S., has approved
thirty three bills which originated in
the Senate, and one hundred and twenty
from the House. The House has acted
en- all the general appropriation bills ex-
cept the fortifcation and the bill for the
payment of certain civil expenses.
A YOUNG man named George Doup
mysteriously disappeared from New Prov
idence, Indiana, aud fears are entertained
that he committed suicide. He was en-
gagged to be married to his cousin, and
her parents had refused their consent to
the marriage on account Of consangulnl-
tv. Doup owned fine farm in Clark
County.
CANADIAN papers say that the emigra
ton Of French Canadians to the United
States from the townships, is assuming
larger proportions than ever. Since
January, 1871, no less than 125 families
have left the parish Of Somerset alone,
which is said to be rich parish, and the
emigration is largely composed of we!
to-do farmers.
IT is believed that the struggle about
to take place in Spain between the gov
crnment and the CarliSts will be a severe
one. The number of insurgents now in
the field is estimated at 10000 The
wife of Don Carlos accompanies her hus-
band in his campaign, and has resolved
to share whatever dangers he may meet
in his movements.
EDWARD S. STOKES writes a letter to
the public" in which, after deploripg
his sufirrirgs on account Of confinement,
he goes over the ground of his trial. He
Indignantly disclaims the alleged collu-
>ion with Miss Mansfield to hlackmall
Fisk. OF the other hand he asserts that
he was robbed by Fisk when il tnc oil
business with him, and entrapped into a
set lement by which he lost over $50,
900.
The trials of the persons who were
charged with numbering the hostages in
the prison of la Roquette during the
reign of the Commune have terminated,
and their sentences have been prOmulga-
ted. The woman Gavart, who was the
principal actor in this tragedy, has been
sentenced to death, and thirty other per-
sons who were connected with the crime
have been sentenced to Imprisonment for
various terms.
The pigeon trade is developing rapid
ly in Michigan, tifty-seven barrel having
been shipped in one week from Hartford
County, averaging twenty-three dozen
per barrel About one-sixth go to Chi
cann the rest - New York and Boston.