The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-11-06
GENERAL.

BRIDESMAIDS now wear no jewelry.
FISH recently caught in the Columbia
River, Oregon, branded with letters,
were put in the Atlantic by an Eastern
hatchery.
GENERAL PATTERSON, of Philadel-
phia, and General 10. Lane, of Oregon,
are the only surviving Generals of
the Mexican War.
The tendency to make collections of
various articles sometimes runs in
strange channels. Mrs. Elizabeth Car
ter collected more than 500 teapots,
each possessing some Evolutionary in
terest. fl
FIFTY-Two years ago Henry Clay Sc
cured the position of messenger for the
Secretary of War for Charles, colored
man of Lexington, Ky. Charles still
performs the duties of the position, and
is said to be tine politest man in Wash
ington.
A FRIGHTENED horse ran into a
crockery-ware store at Bangor, Me-, the
other day, going the whole length of the
floor before he was captured, and al
cry, he was led out without having bro
ken single piece.
If you have a silver dollar with an
eagle who has eight feathers in his tail
squeeze it tight. 1t is worth 50. Only
800 OF them were struck off at the mint
when it was discovered that an Ameri-
can eagle can not have eight feathers in
his tail.
A WATCH which had not gone for two
years and defied the best efforts of the
matchmaker, was recently struck by
lightning in the course of a severe storm,
near Vienna, and now Vienna paper
announces with the solemnity of truth
that the watch has kept excellent time
ever since.
Pixies PEAK is 1886 feet in height,
yet flowers grow on the very summit.
These are of the same varieties, and as
brilliant in color, as those that grow
lower down on the mountain, but are
much smaller and more delicate. They
nestle close to the ground, and look
very beautiful against the snow, but it
has been found very difficult to gather
or preserve them.
THE curiositles of the postal-service
were again illustrated at New Bedford,
Mass, the other day. In opening bale
OF cotton at the Potomska Mills sealed
letter was found, directed to lady in
Prattsville, Ala. An uncanceled stamp
adorned the corner, and it was evident
~ dropped by some one who was
charged TO carry it to the Post-office. 1t
has been duly forwarded.
The date of the earliest eclipse of the
sun recorded in the annals of the Chin
csc, when "on the first day of the last
month of autumn, the sun and moon
did not meet tremendously in Fang
or in that part of the heavens defined
by two stars in the constellation of the
Scorpion, has been determined by Prof.
Won Oppolzer, of Vienna, to have been
the morning of October %, 2137 B. G.
On the bank of the Kennebeck, abuot
eighteen miles north of Augusta, Me-,
are the ruins of old Fort Halifax, erect
ed in the times of the old French and
Indian war for the protection of the in
habitants and to guard the river from
hostile incursions. Closely connected
with the fort is the public cemetery,
which now covers portion of the same
ground, the old graves in which attract
considerable curious observation. On
an old black stone there found is to be
read the following inscription:
Here lies the body of Richard Thomas,
an inglishman by BIRTH a whig of 70
cooper by trade, now food for worms.
Like an old Rum puncheon
whose slaves are all marked, numbered and
shocked,
He will be raised and put together again
by his maker.