The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-18
GENERAL.

n NEW 1Ohh SlTl has Qdu OQ0 Oh Qer
shapely hands modelled in marble, and
has presented it as birthday present to
her affianced husband for a paper
weight.
The London Atbezgun1, in comment
ing upon some American peculiarities,
says the slender age at which children
in the United States begin to live in pub
lie, to make speeches and act parts is
very curious"
THE estate of an English miser named
Rhodes was lately wound up. 1t rea-
LIKED 100000. The sale of his effects
in his residence resulted in $28.75. The
property goes to two charities-the Lon
don Free Hospital and the National Life
boat Institution.
THE Portland Oregonian gives the par
ticulars of an adventure with a panther
at Myrtle Creek, Douglas County. The
hero of the affair was Gus Byron, prin-
ter boy, only 16 years of age. He fin
ished the brute in two shots.
PART of graveyard at Morehead,
KY, was destroyed in building a rail-
road, and indignant ghosts from the
disturbed collins have taken possession
of the station house which stands on the
spot. So say the ticket agent and other
employees, at least, and they have
proved their sincerity by resigning their
positions.
A sPoRTIvE youth of Olean, N. Y,
pointed a revolver at a young lady's
head, and asked if she would be his for
ever, just for a little joke, you know,
for he didn't know it was loaded.
eyes," she said, lodging her head to
one side, just in time to save her from
being killed, as charge of lead was
lodged in the wall behind her.
THE Central Park Commissioners of
New York City received petition from
George Francis Train, the other day,
asking for permission to put his feet on
the seats in the park. He stated that
the police had denied him that privi-
lege, and he wished to know what law
prevents him from enjoying that liberty.
The communication was placed on file,
and George is in suspense as to whether
he is vassal or peer.
POLICEMAN EGoLF, of Philadelphia,
it usually accompanied on his rounds by
big hound. golf went into house
to arrest man who was whipping his
wife, and was set upon by number of
roughs, knocked down, kicked and drag
ged about. Then the dog went into the
fight, and enabled his master to win.
But it was a hard struggle. The officers
skull was fractured and the dog had
three ribs broken.
THE New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer gives some alleged
particulars of the Grant Chaffee we'd
ding. He says that young Ulysses Grant
became engaged to Miss IChaffee at
Saratoga last summer; that Senator
Chaffee gave his daughter $4,000 in
Government bonds as wedding gift (;
and that young Grant never was engaged
to Miss Flood, although at one time he
was attentive to her.
A FEW days ago the neighbors were
drawn to house on West Twenty-sixth
Street, New York, by the most frightful
cries. They found a woman named
Mrs: Hall standing over her youngest
child. who was stripped naked and
stretched upon table. With one hand
the mad mother held the struggling in.
FAINT upon the table and with the other
she brandished carving knife in the
air. She told the frightened people that
she and her whole family were going to
heaven. The child was rescued and the
woman soon after became calmer. She
had been made insane by the recent
death of her husband.
The evening express train leaving
Pesth for Vienna on October 9 had to be
pulled up short when approaching Rakos
Station to avoid running down an enor-
nous buffalo, which had taken up a
menacing attitude between the rails.
This animal had, few hour previously,
brought goods train to standstill on
the same spot, which he evidently re-
garded as the frontier of his own espe-
cial domain. After many fruitless at
tempts to drive the huge beast off the
line, the railway officials contrived to
lasso him, and, tying his legs tightly to-
gether, to haul him bodily into an adj
joining field.
THE museum of old guns and other
small arms at the Armory in Spring
field, Mass, is probably the fullest and
Hlost curious OF any In this country, ex-
cept the one at Washington. First in
the list of old guns is Wheelock rifle,
wound up like clock, made by Colts.
fed Fleming in 1920. On the lock-plate
is battle scene between Turks with
bows and arrows and Europeans with
swords. Another is a curious Albanian
smooth-bore fint-lock used even TODAY
by the Turkish mountaineers and peas.
antry. An old Arab flint-lock has a
square piece of ivory SO fitted to the butt
OF the stock that the gun can be bal
anced in an upright position in the
Arabs tent. One, a matchbox, made
In the fourteenth century, is the oldest
gun in this country. 1t is discharged by
lighted tow or flax on the hammer,
drawn to the vent by hand.
The Mixed Population of New Mexico