The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-22
GENERAL.

NJ. DE FREYcfNET, the pilot of the
French ship of State, is practical en-
gineer. He used to be a railroad man.
A BERKs COUNTY Pa.) cat caught
seventeen young chickens in one day,
and was shot with the eighteenth in its
mouth.
In one house in Wilton, Conn, reside
a boy, his father, grandfather, great
grandmother, and great-great-grand-
father.
The City of Ottawa, Canada, COM
plains of hard times. There are said to
be seven hundred vacant tenements
there.
A FURNISHED house in Philadelphia
has been presented to Francis Murphy,
the temperance lecturer, and he will
make that city his home.
JAMES FISK, of Brattleboro, Vt,
father of the late James Fisk, Jr., in
tends soon to begin tour through the
country with tent and show.
JAY GOULD has purchased, on the
Hudson, the magnificent white marble
mansion of the George Merritt estate, a
short distance south of Tarrytown, for
1926, 900.
LONDON has just commenced to paint
the names of streets on the corner
lamps, and share of the public growl
about it as " another of them new
tangled American notions"
MRS. H. NJ BOLTON, who lately died
in Bonneville, Ky, was married in
Virginia at the age of thirteen, and has
living descendants numbering over 140
persons.
The Empress of Russia is fifty-six
years old, was married at the age of
seventeen, and is the mother of seven
children-six sons and one daughter
the last being the Duchess of Edin-
burgh.
ONE of the largest Jumps of solid
gold ever seen in San Francisco, and
now on exhibition, is about fourteen
inches long by seven in width, and six
in height. Its value was estimated at
$4,000.
The wholesale lager beer brewers of
New York have decided to advance the
price of beer from eight to nine dollars
a barrel. The increase in the price OF
hops, malt, ice, and other materials,
the brewers say, has compelled this
advance.
IRA CURTIS, an oysterman of New
Haven, Conn.,, has taken more than
sixty drowned and drowning persons
from the water. He makes a careful
study of currents and eddies for the
purpose of seeking bodies. He has re-
ceived almost no compensation for his
services.
TIE coffee and sugar industries of
Mexico, it is confidently expected by inn
porters of those stables, will be immense
ly profited by the construction of the
Mexican Central Railway. American
consumers will also reap an advantage
from the formidable competition thus
opened with the chief products of Cuba
and Brazil.
THE cold winter has done great dam
age to the exotics in the public gardens
of Paris. Over 10000 trees and shrubs
have been wholly or partly killed in the
Champs Elysees, 100000 must be re-
placed in the Bots de Boulogne, and the
new park at the Trocadero- must be en-
tirely replanted. The sum of 100000
will hardly pay for the damage done.
A REPORT to the British Colonial Of
flee from Labuan contains an account
of the edible birds nests included among
the articles imported there for export to
Singapore. These nests are found in
the walls of caverns in limestone and
sandstone hills, the greater part coming
from the eaat coast of Borneo. The
nests are known in the trade as white,
red and black. They are produced by
a species of swallow. The white are of
a semi-transparent white substance re-
sembling isinglass or gelatine. The red
are supposed to be made by the same
bird at different season of the year.
The white fetch $11.25, the "catty," the
red S., the black 81.
A MEMBER of the New York Assembly,
named Wren, formerly an actor, de-
clares that the day before Lincoln's as
sassination he got into quarrel with
John Wilkes Booth and agreed to fight
duel next day. In the morning he
met Booth, who made gesture as if he
intended to draw on him, TO which Wren
responded by Selling his pistol with the
idea of shooting Booth by firing his
pistol while still in his pocket. But
Booth extended his hand and apologized
for his conduct the day before. Wren
thinks that the salvation of Mr.. Lin
coins life depended upon that brief
moment that morning; and that but for
Booths change in his mood toward him,
he, instead of Mr.. Lincoln, would have
died that day.
CAPTAIN CHASE, of Portland, Me-,
is regarded as ordinarily truthful man.
He commands the brig Ysidora Rionda,
and writes from Matanzas that he has
seen a sea serpent. " 1t was a few min
utes before noon," he says, " when I
saw, about two hundred yards ahead of
us, the monster rear his head and part
of his body, about fifty feet in all-its
head being about sixteen feet out of
water, at an angle of about sixteen de-
grees-and suddenly dip it again, which
operation it repeated three times ere
lost sight of it. Judging from the por-
ton which / saw, the animal could not
have been less than one hundred feet
long, and about the size of molasses
hogshead in the middle. Its head and
jaws had flat, square appearance, and
by no means an inviting look for very
near approach. p"