The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Ohio Democratic State Con-
yention is set for Wednesday, July
10, at Columbus.
Constantinople has forty five thous-
and Jews, nearly all of Spanish
origin. They have thirty eight syna-
gogues.
There are sixty steamers now run.
ming on the mississippi and its tribu-
taries that are successfully using
electric lights.
Since 1870 twenty large buildings
have been constructed in Rome for
government use, at an outlay of
twenty. five millions of dollars.
The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
will build bridge across the Diablo
Canyon, $40 feet long, and resting on
trestle-work 220 feet in height.
A Greenback-L Labor conference is
to be held in Trenton, n. j., on Mon
day, Both instant, to transact business,
the call says, of vital and immediate
importance.
On the first day of its issue 2,OO0,-
900 copies of the New Testament
were sold in England and about
100000 in this Countrywide greatest
book sale in the history of the world.
Col. Thomas A. Scott, the leading
railroad man of his day in the world,
died in Philadelphia last Saturday
evening. He has been in declining
health for several years, and his death
was not at all surprising. He was 81
years of age, and is reported to have
left fortune of SIT 100000.
The past week was another re-
markable week of immigration, and
the probabilities are that the total ar
rivals for May will exceed 10000.
Such number for single month
would he beyond all precedent.
In addition to the ordinary
scourges of the army worm and p0ta-
to bug to trouble our farmers this
summer, there is new insect pest in
the shape of black asparagus bug,
which easily digests Paris green sand
the destrucaIve locusts in some re-
giens are preparing to take the field.
Mrs, Lincoln, the widow of Presi-
dent Lincoln, Is so near the grave that
hopes of her recovery have been
abandoned. Mrs. C. NJ. Smith, her
sister, says that she daily grows
weaker. and Springfield and Chicago
physicians intimate that she cannot
survive many days. Secretary Lin
coin will be at his mothers bedside
this week.
Two swords that had belonged to
Major General C. w. Sanford, which
originally cost $500 each, were sold
at auction. in New York on Friday.
va zee. a japanese merchant bought
one at $50, and the other was bought
in by a representative of the estate
for Sl3. Two swords used by Fechter,
the actor, brought SIS and $40.
The latest sensation in Georgia is
the appearance of clouds of locusts in
various sections of the state. In
middle Georgia especially they are
very numerous, and much specula-
tion is INDUCED in as to the probable
result of the visitation. Immense
numbers of them have appeared in
the swamps below Augusta. AS yet
the planters are not apprehensiye.
John Hensley has been profiting
from a damaged spine, from which
he had been suffering for long time.
He found an unprotected hole in a
street in indianapolis, carefully fell
into it and got 81 900 damages. Then
he went to Chicago, fell into another
hole and succeeded in getting 81, 800
from that city. Further profit from
that bad spine has been cut off by
II ensley's arrest for perjury.
A project has been formed at Oswe-
60, New York, to test the vilidity OF
the law allowing the various towns
and cities to issue bonds in aid of the
several railroads now in operation or
in progress. A Syracuse lawyer
named Stephens is at the head of this
proposed reputation, which, it is
feared, will create panic among the
holders of these bonds. They have
been regarded as the safest of securi-
ties, and are held by savings and
other banks in such amounts that
their reputation would be a serious
matter.