The Republican journal., 1880-11-18
General1tl es.

iAia"i> is practically out Of debt.
France proposes at once to establish free primary
schools.
Luerena Mott died III Philadelphia Thursday,
aged -
A lady lost >4oooo in New y ork Friday, while
out shopping,
Gen. Garfield is the Youngest man ever elected
to the Presidency.
K A. osmer, supreme treasurer Of the Knights
OF Honor, is dead
Little Princess Mercedes of Spain, is rocked in
4 cradle costing - 400.
William NJ. Scott had bet half a million, it is
said, On HaLcCch election.
\ collision between Orangeme1 and the Land
League III Ireland is feared.
The deficiency Of the English wheat crop is
greater than al first reported
The story of The attempted shooting of Presi-
dent Hayes was fabrication.
Fred Palmer, a boy at Elmira. n Y, has lost
an eye from epizootic poisoning.
Eight men were burned to death by coal oil
explosion at BOrdeIl city, Pennsylvania.
The Laycock Hanlon boating match on the
Thames is off, as Hanion forfeited his stakes
Speculation in Wall street has LETT a cashiers
accounts in Hackensack. n J.. 100000 short.
1t is stated that Russian agents in New York
| purchased half million bushels of wheat Monday
| At Philadelphia two men were arrested Thurs
day while making counterfeit half and quarter sill
Yer dollars.
Beaconsfeld has received $4,000 for his new
novel "Endymion,' to be published the latter part
| Of this month
dmnution Of the public debt amounting to
nearly $4,000 600 since June Both is pretty good
| showing for even good times.
There was successful naval review at Fort
! Monroe. last week. President Hayes and many
| distinguished persons were present.
Three young children at Wilmington, Del
were recently killed eating sweet potatoes on
| which Paris green had been sprinked.
Mrs Abraham Lincoln is now at the residence
Of her sister in Springfield, H., and seems well
| pleased to be among her old neighbors again
From the Sd to the Sth inst, there have been
ten Of yellow fever and two deaths at Key
West. There some cases outside Of the city
limits.
The idea Of sleeping with the windows open,
which admits the chill and vapors of the night
air, denounced at the Boston health coEven-
ton last week
Col f. L. Drake, who sank the first well in
search Of petroleum in Pennsyvan and the
pioneer in the oil business, died at New Bethle-
| hem in that State, last week
Three brothers named Sherwood, tripets. and
all captains, celebrated their SEVENTEEN birth
day anniversary at Westport, Conn, last week
They resemble one another very closely.
General Grant spoke at banquet in New York
! THURSDAY night given BY Mr.. Romero, formerly
minister from Mexico to the United States, advo-
eating closer commercial relationship with Mexico.
Capt. Kidd's ghost looms up again. Searchers
for some of his sunken treasures have actually got
few iron scales from what is believed to be a
cannon embedded forty feet deep in mud at the
bottom of the Hudson river
In the sculling match over the Thames course
at London, between Edward Hanlan, of Toronto,
and Edward Trickett, of Australia the Canadian
won by four lengths. The articles of agreement
provided that the race should be for f400 the
championship OF England and the Sportsman's
championship challenge trophy which Hanlan al
ready held