The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-01
GENERAL.

Marshal, is keeping liquor shop in
Minneapolis.
Mr.. SETH GREEN says he will have
3,000,0 California brook trout for dis
tribution next year.
Two small steamers have recently
been brought oUt from the United States
for the trade between the Mexican gulf
ports.
The Mexican Department of Public
Works has forbidden the operators on
the Government telegraph lines to take
part in politics.
NINETY-FIvE centennial trees-one
for each county in Tennessee-are to
be planted on the Capitol grounds at
Nashville, to be known by the names of
their respective counties.
AGRICULTURE is to be made an obi
gatory study in all the elementary
schools of France. This is a recent
action of the French Senate, and was
adopted by majority of 254 votes.
The cause of woman suffrage seems
to be losing ground with Massachusetts
legislators. The last vote in the House
of Representatives was heavier against
/ SAAA S1o1.
A SCHEME for the colonization of
northern Mexico with Americans is be-
ing organized at San Antonio, Texas,
which will, it is thought, settle the bor-
der trouble question if it is carried out,
ALTHOUGH the St. Gothard tunnel is
opened, its ventilation is as yet defec-
tive, and quite recently a man was
found suffocated to death in it. 1t is
calculated that the tunnel will not be
finished till December.
BY the will of the late Gen. William
Badger Tibbets, of Troy, N. Y, $780,
900 is bequeathed with which to build
Soldiers Home in Troy, conditioned
upon $4,000 additional being secured
within five years.
A WOMAN has been surprising
Parisians by the performance of four
birds, trained to such a degree that they
select from a series of cards replies to
almost any question from the audience.
"Five crowned heads" have been
pleased to be pleased with the feathered
performers.
MARY STICK starved herself to death,
at Allegheny, Pa. She believed that, in
consequence of her sinfulness, God had
commanded her not to eat. She was
kept alive in a hospital by having food
forced down her throat, but on her re-
turn home she refused to take any nour-
ishment, and died after six weeks of al
most entire abstinence.
REV. NATHAN SITES, an American
Methodist missionary in China, was re-
Gently beset by a mob at Yenping-foo,
and seriously injured with clubs and
stones. If a magistrate had not inter-
fered he would have been drowned by
the Infatuated populace. The outbreak
is said to have been caused by ill-treat-
ment of Chinese in California.
IT seems the contemplated war be-
tween Russia and China will have its
effect in the United States. An order
has been received by the Winchester
Arms Company to make from fifteen to
twenty million cartridges for the
Chinese Government. This is the first
order ever given by the Chinese Gov
eminent to foreigners for the manufac-
ture of cartridges.
A FARMLAND down near Wytheville,
Va, the other day, as he jumped over
fence, felt something dangling from the
seat of his breaches, and supposing it
was q piece of brier, looked around
preparatory to brushing it off. 1t was
a viper, which had struck at him as he
knelt to drink out of spring, and the
fangs of which had been fastened in the
cloth of his pantaloons.
WASHINGTON, VT, has twelve men
whose united ages are 1,056 years, viz:
Deacon Samuel P. Baily, 100 years;
Capt. Charles French, 95 Charles
Wright, SO; Capt. Leonard Bradford,
80; Jabez Fisher, So; Amasa Fairbanks,
SO; Caleb Carr, So; Harvey Spaulding,
"a; Ziba Crane, 81; William Harnden,
80; Joel Severance, 80; Amos Russell,
So. Average age, SO years.
Col. PHINEHAs ADAMS, of Manches-
ter, N. H., who has in his possession
one of the most valuable collections of
coins owned by single individual in
the United States, recently sold from it
a silver dollar of each year from the
date of the first coming for 1900. In
cluded in the lot was dollar bearing
the date of 1904, for which he paid $500,
and of which there are only five more
III eNlSUeuce.
A FEW days since the wife of a farmer
near Florida, N. Y, sold tin peddler
a bag of rags containing, among other
things, her husbands old coat. When
the husband came home and she in
formed him of the trade he dashed after
the peddler with electric speed, over
hauled him, got back the old coat, land in
its pocket found The 5000 in bills which
he had put there as place of safety.
AT BOSTON, England, few days ago
the Rev. Joseph Holmes, vicar of
Swineshead, and two of his parishion-
ers, members of the Swineshead
School Board, were convicted by the
county magistrates of corrupt practices
at School Board election, and by
their conviction disqualified from voting
at any Parliamentary, Municipal or
School Board election for term of six
years, besides losing their seats on the
Board.
ga SHEPHERDEss's FOLD" has lust
been discovered near London. Miss
Emily Scott, the proprietress of a
boarding school for boys, was arrested
for neglecting to provide food for her
maid servant, a 14-year-old girl, who
was found in an emaciated condition