The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-10-05
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-GeOTSS fTeHCl, HILL crazy III
mate of the Newton (Mass.) Poor
house, tried to poison his companions
by putting about pound of Paris green
in pan of milk, because he was jeal-
Gus of another inmate.
The Indians are really more capa-
BILE of civilization than we were disposed
to believe. They have taken to robbing
trains. The first thing you know some
of them will start savings bank on the
Boston plan.-Ha1Ob Eye.
"A relic of the John Brown raid, the
| Sharp's rifle of one of the raiders who
was shot on rock in the Potomac,
has been fished out of the river, where
it has lain almost nineteen years, by
Charles McCarty, of Harper's Ferry
Nine. Rinehart, a lion tanner, came
near being killed while she was per-
forming in a cage of wild animals at
Marlboro, Mass, an Infatuated panther
biting her on the arm and hip. Her
GOODNESS saved her, and she cowed the
beast with a whip.
-" How many make a crowd?' asks
the inquisitive man of the Edenburg
Herald. Well, we reckon, on Sunday
evening, that the presence of the father
and mother will make the largest par
lor awfully crowded to the young cou-
ple.-GOWG'ada Enterprise.
While going home from an Aurora
(TeX.) revival meeting on a Sunday
evening, Eli Ramsdale and Jack Hayes
got into quarrel over the girl both
were after, and fought it out with jack
knives for a quarter of an hour. 1t
proved fatal encounter for both.
"A Chinaman found nugget of
gold in the Dunolly district of Australia
weighing over twenty-five pounds. A
rush of miners to the place was the
result, but thus far none of them have
been lucky. Australia's yield of gold
has been steadily declining for years.
The origin of electing by ballot
may be traced to the ancient Greeks.
When member was to be elected,
every voter threw little pellet of bran
or crumb of bread into basket, carried
by servant round the table, and who
ever dissented lattened their pellet at
one side.
In the French International Exhibi-
ton of 1867 was shown lock of Won
derful completely, which admitted of
3,674,3S combinations. Heuret passed
a hundred and twenty nights in locking
it, and Fichet was four months in un-
locking it. Now they can neither shut
nor open it.
"A party of Mirable (Mo.) fanatics
attribute all disease to the possession of
devils, but in trying to cast the evil
spirits out of John Ballinger, a typhoid
fever patient, in spite of the opposition
of his doctor and brother, they wrought
him into such a frenzy that he died be-
fore they were through with their in
cantation.
:" If l should marry Eliza Jane"
said the prospective son-in-law, 81
should frankly confess one thing in
ADVANCE am of rather hasty temper
and apt to get mad without cause :"
'Oh, that'll be all right" blandly
replied the dear old lady, 81 shall go
and live with you and I'll see that you
always have cause"
REsURGAM.
No more blossoms in the orchard,
No wild flowers in the vale;
Soft-yOiced wood birds cease their singing
In the shadow haunted dale,
Gone the dancing summer sunshine;
Gone the song birds from the glen,
But fair hope still sings, 81 Be happy
Summer days and picnics and snake bites
and red ants, and sunstrokes and circuses and
mad dogs and ice cream and strawberry festi-
walls and white pants, and Sunday school ex-
cursions and water melons, and moonlight
drives, and livery bills, and hives and flies and
the fourth of July will come again.-hamkE Eye.
John G. Jordan, Raleigh On. c.
smith, had an old shell brought him to
make into gate-weight. He put it
into his fire, stepped out to speak with
his daughter, and soon saw his shop
blown skywards, with an explosion
heard a mile away, which sent a mule
in the street outside into a dead faint
H. P. Russell, of Ironton, Mo-, soaked
shell fired from one of Prices guns
in 1864, in barrel of water for six
weeks, and then tried to extract its
contents with hammer and cold chisel
Fragments of the bomb were picked up
half mile distant, but they hope Rus
sell will recover.