The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-12
GENERAL.

A CAT at the house of Peter Treon,
near Sunbury, Pa, has adopted fam
lily OF young squirrels.
FROM the suspension bridge which
crosses the Ohio River at Wheeling, w.
Va, no less than ten girls have jumped
to watery graves.
The Bangor (Me.) Commercial says
that In the village of Saltwater, that
State, recently, Capt. j. r. Blen, a
dashing young cavalry officer of the war
OF 1872, now eighty-seven years of age,
led Miss M. G. johnson, a blushing
bride OF sixty-five, to the altar.
THE obelisk ordered by her Majesty
to be erected at the spot where the
Prince Imperial fell, has been put in
position by Maj Stabb and small
party OF royal engineers, who proceeded
on this duty from Maritzburg.
A BERLIN journal publishes a list of
RUSSIAN ladies who occupy unofficial
diplomatic positions, some of them re-
ceiving as much as S65, 200 annually for
entertaining, bribery, and other secret
service expenses, and what is known in
Paris as tratS de representation.
"A CHILD which has been once sent
to prison." says a British writer, "can
never hope to get over the fact. The
punishment may have had the best pos
sible moral effect. The child NAV have
been thoroughly well frightened beyond
all chance of relapse. But whatever
Its subsequent character may be, it will
never quite shake off the DISGRACE of
what it has gone through"
The most ungainly woman in the
United States is said to be the richest
one-worth $25, 100000. Her ace ia
past taking into the census; her name
is Green; and her residence is at Bel
lows Falls, Vt. Her fortune came from
bluober; and, lest all small girls should
fancy to make a fortune that way, it
must be remarked that this particular
blubber was tried out on board whale
ships.
CAPT. MARTIN, of Nashville, Tenn,
owns piece of the dress that was worn
by the wife of President Washington on
the day of her husbands Inauguration.
together with the fan she used on the
same occasion. The dress was light
silk, with stripes, embroidered with flow
ers of needle-work. The fan is plain
white, on which the only ornament is a
silver-spangled wreath.
SOUTHERN hooking birds well de-
serve the name. They initiate not only
the songs of other birds, but human
whistlers as well. A lady of Macon,
Ca, relates that her pet mocking- bird
often deceives all the inmates of her
house by its clear imitation of the post
mans whistle. They go out to get the
letters, and find Jack on a spray, near
the fence, blowing his whistle and look
ing entirely innocent of any intention to
hoax the family.
The Charleston IS. CO. papers cele-
brate the heroism of two colored labor
ers, William Robertson and James Sew
mour, who went down into an old well
at the peril of their lives to recover the
bodies of Telfair and Stewart, colored
men who were overcome by foul air
while cleaning out the well. All four
were overpowered by the poisonous va
pors and by the time the bodies were
grappied for and drawn out only Stew
| art cnnld he rasnsnitatnd
MRS. SCOTT-SIDDONS says: "I have
Travelled through the United States for
eleven years, and know all phases of
society. The women here are very
much better informed than the English
women. American women possess a
certain grace and ease, what the French
call chic, that you will not find even in
the highest English society. A servant
girl here will dress herself in graceful,
natty way that an English duchess knows
nothing about"
THREE Indians and their boat disap-
peared from Cape Hurd, on Lake
Huron, six years ago. A squaw said
that she saw the boat move out upon
the lake, in the night, and then sink out
of sight. Her story was believed by the
superstitious Indians, who conjectured
that the three men, being extraordinary
ly wicked, had been punished with
death by the Great Spirit Lately two
white woodmen quarreled, and each
accused the other of numbering the
missing Indians. The fact seems to be
that together they committed the crime,
fastened the bodies in the boat, loaded
it with stone, scuttled it, and set it adrift
to sink.