The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-09-14

the constant firing, and also instances
the driving off of the fever in Mexico
before the American troops in support
OF his theory.
The gross earnings of the Central
Pacific Railroad for the present wear
will be, it is estimated, in the neigh
| borhood of S15, 200, 900, of which S.,
100000 will be the net profit. The
gross earnings have been as high as
100000, with net gain of S9,OOO,-
OOO-about 80 per cent. The Chicago
and Northwestern Railway, which is a
well-paying road, does not get a profit
of 81, 100000 out of the gross receipts,
amounting to S14,000,000. And still
the Central Pacific has Just increased
| its freight rates.
Wisconsin seems to be a rather
| queer State in some things. 1t desired
to suppress wolves, and so offers a
bounty of So for every wolf scalp that
is brought in, providing the wolf
has been killed in the State. The eff
feet of this law is that hundreds of
honest citizens in the remote districts
have taken to raising wolves, and find
it rather lucrative employment these
hard times. The bounty of wolf scalps
has come to be a serious item in the
State expenditures, as $4,000 is paid
annually.
The English regisers of the Old
| Testament have closed their fifty-second
session The first revision of the minor
prophets was completed, and the re
vision of Esther was continued so far
| a = tho and Of tboN
since their first meeting ON the 30th of
June, 1870, have sat for 400 days, work
ing six hours each day, and thus have
revised the whole of the Old Testament
for the first time, with. the exception of
part of Esther, Job, Proverbs, Eccle-
siastes, Solomon's Songs and Daniel.
They have also been second time
through the Pentateuch.
IN the town of Norwich, Vt, on
the banks of a brook which empties
into a tributary of the Connecticut, is
an elm tree, the breadth of whose top is
ITO feet in diameter, and the circumfer-
ence of the trunk, three feet from the
ground, eighteen feet seven inches
The age of the tree is about 100 years,
and it is supposed that this is the larg-
est tree of the kind in New England.
The man who owns the land on which
the tree grows is ninety-six years old,
and is still vigorous in body and mind
Hewas born on the farm, and remem-
bers when this tree was so small that
he could span it with his fingers.
When man enters the Post-ofiice
and sees Il woman standing at the de-
livery, he braces up. smiles, and con-
cludes to wait patiently few moments
If there are two women there, he
sneaks up behind them and tries to
wink to the clerk to get his mail. But
when one of the women enters into
conversation with the official as to the
reason why the magazine don't come,
and how long before it will be here,
and if he is sure he looked in the right
box, the citizen jams his hat down over
his eyes and strides out of the Post
office lobby in a way that would do
credit to a professional pedestrian. The
next day he negotiates for lock box
Rome Sentinel.
Nothing more curious and startling
in the annals of crime has been discov-
cred lately than the murder of q
wealthy man in California by man
who held the office of public admins
traitor. No business coming to him in
the regular way, he deliberately pro-
cured the murder of friend whom he
had known for twelve years, in order
that he might have the administration
of his estate, which was large and
would yield q handsome return. 1t is
one of those stories which are hardly
to be believed; but the official and one
of his accomplices have confessed the
crime and all the circumstances.
Probably it never occurred to any one
to imagine that this office of public
administrator, which exists in this
State, and we presume in others, and
is a useful one, could present to any
mind the temptation to such a crime,
One of the New York papers is re-
minded by the circumstance, of the dis
covery made in that city some years
ago, that coroners were in the habit OF
having dead bodies found in the river
towed around from wharf to wharf in
order to multiply inquests and fees
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