National Republican., 1880-12-25

1,LivGrpool win get her new water supply from
four dams scventy-two feet hign.
The elevated roads In New York now run their
hVe.cent trains morning and evening TO such hours
rs VIII accommodate all the business travel, loav-
ing the tcncent trains to men of leisure and 10 the
ladies' Eight miles for five cents in luxurious,
Well-waimed car is the perfection OF cheap travel
-
The successful IIcrdic Cab Company Is now
supplemented In Philadelphia by the revival Of
regular omnibus lines. The strcet.cars drove out
the omnibus twenty years ago, but there now
seems TO be room for competition again. They are
to run on Broad, Market and Chestnut streets, fare
four cents
"A gentleman of Camden, $. c.. has made q list
of fifty families out Of n white population of 1900
each one of which have hud twelve children or
upward. some had fourteen, two sixteen one
seventeen, and two twenly,ons each. If this runs
lation is probably correct
The New YORK French flats, or apartment
houses, appreciate the value Of property in their
vicinity An ordinary city lot, embraced in an
apartment house, will locate iifty opulcnt people,
while IN ordinary dwelling. viii accommodate no
more than eight OK ten. The retail storekcepers
mark the difference Ut once.
The tt vote of Tcnucssce ut the late election
was Hlium excess Of that Gust in 1876. IL N the
only Southern State which shows u considerable
increase. HanCOCS's plurality over Garfield Is
~ N5, Nu MS lnnOftty over all is lJWi2. III 1876
Iildcn had clear majority of 1900. The Repub-
lican gain Is u IOS the Democratic loss is 276GS.
AT Pampaluna, Spain, manufacturer of snuff
and cigars has adopted process by which the best
Havana t1buccO IS distilled until all the essential
properties are extracted. This is soaked into any
Kind of hbrOus leaves and from these are made
cigars and snuff of excellent lluvor at cost OF less
than fourth of That of the real article II Is said
the nicotine poison Is all excluded by the process.
Thp 1gtt v,FN paI,s, ,I,,ts n,,,,
of the peculiar people was liked In that city long
anterior Ia the Christian cn II Is said that when
SSSi pTGa 70 PftTGn pr ~, sS SahhsVIem at JSrs9em %
thought of the GNlCun tenClIcr aud that the reply
was protest against persecution, Thus they hold
that the Jcwsof Germany are guiltlcss of the blood
shed on calvary.
in colorcd church in Lee County, Georgia,
there is set up bacN Of the pulpit an cfigy OF a
man which at first sight looks Ikea scarccrOw II
Is Grudely composed of black, cloth stuffed out
with straw. The members of the church say that
II is likeness of Lewis Baker, powerful cOlOred
preacher who died last year. IL Is looked at and
spoken of with grcGt reverence by the people, es-
pecially the females
The arrangement by which the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad run liuc Of boats from North River
TO Locust Point will operate for the present to re-
icNe dependent shippers from Il monopoly. But
~ these days Of rapid transit i is too slow to meet
the wants of the public and the through line will
do the lighter and more profitable traffic. Evcntu-
ually II Is believed that this will force the BOltl
X.
Colonel Gorlon's scheme to settle the irish
land troubles by tile purchase by the government
ofall the lands west of the Shannon, and their sale
in small farms to the peasants, Is attracting much
discussion and some favor In England. The precc-
dent OF the measures taken to abolish slavery in
jamaica is quoted 10 sustain the course proposed
by Colonel Gordon His estimate Is that IL would
cost tSl,Wn,OOO, OF which great part would be
| paid back by sales.
A recent census Of Japan gives the empire
| of Great Britain This vast mass Ii nearly homo
| gcncous the whole foreign population not exceed
| ing 10000, including 1000 Amos, remnant of u
| conquered mce, and 5000 Cinnamon. In japan,
| rs everywhere the Chinese emigrant walks
through the streets with hisswinging gate and air of
! great selfcomplAcency, ~ though he belonged to
superior race. The japanese do not like them.
| The still unfinished new State House. at Albany,
y. y, hns cost upward of twenty millions of dol.
lars. II i likely 90 Justify Governor Robinson In
chnraccrizing u as agrcat public calamity" The
great arches which sustain the vaulted ceiling of
| the As,cmLlg chamber are found to be crumbling,
/ the suudstony gling unable stand the immense
| pressure, while the keystone has risen from its
socket, and has to hn kept down by additional
weights Of stone. There Is no immediate danger
of the fall Of the arches but granite will have to be
substituted for the sandstone,
There f. revision Of the English Bible whic
would be unhcsltatingly accepted by the most d
| won't adhcfCnts to the present version, and that
that most effective and DCryuasiyc translation f.