The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-04-02
GENERAL.

"A gravestone in Woonsocket Or.
ID cemetery bears, beside the ordinary
inscription, the words "This stone is
not paid for" cut in by the irate maker.
"A circus proprietor has offered a
premium of $4,000 to the loveliest lady
in America on the condition that she
give her services for thirty days as the
main participant in grand daily
pageant. 1t is stated that as beauty,
and not talent, is required, good looks
alone will secure the prize. But what
man, or men, will dare decide the ques-
tionP ...
James Brown was at a social dance
given by Yellow jacket Hose Company
in the old Capitol Saloon building, Vir-
ginia City, New. He got drunk, and
became noisy. Town Marshal Kennedy
told him to keep still or he would arrest
him. Brown said: elf 1 was heeled
you couldn't take me-" Kennedy pulled
his pistol out of his pocket and handed
it to Brown, saying: Now you're
heeled, what are you going to dor You
are afraid to shoot" Brown had scarce
" taken the pistol in his hands before he
fred, mortally wounding Kennedy.
In France the damage caused by
the ravsges' of wolves has been roughly
estimated to reach sum of 50,000,000
of francs year. Such winter as the
present is very favorable to the depre-
dations of these animals, which swarm
into the departments into which the
Alps. and Pyrenees extend Several
deaths have recently been reported in
outlying districts, the wolves showing
q boldness which they have not exhibited
since they followed in troops in the wake
of the invading German armies ten years
ago.
MIR. Fawcett, the English Postmas-
ter-General, is about to propose a parcel
post at uniform rates, regardless of dis
lance. The charge up TO two pounds is
likely to be six pence; between two
pounds and four pounds, one shilling,
the payment in each case being made by
stamps. The railway companies will
carry and the Post -oflice willcollect aud
deliver, and the receipts will be divided
equally one half to the Post-office and
the other half to the carrying COM
panies. .'a .ort ' '-'
The Khedive of Egypt has given
orders to the Grand Chief of the Religi-
Gus Corporations that the ceremony
known as the "Dossa" must hence
forth cease The "Dossa ~ was pro-
cession which took place annually in
Cairo in the national ceremony known
as "Mewled- et-Nabi," and con sisted of
the passage OF sheik on horseback over
his PROSTATE co-religionists. The
Khediye has also made important modii-
cations in reference to sects who at these
ceremonies devour serpents and submit
themselves to blows from swords sin
short, for the future these religious fetes
will alone consist in the offering up of
prayers"
The device by means of which sew
eral artesian wells are driven near to
each other. and these and a pump are
connected by means of suction main,
has in several cases been productive of a
large and pure supply of water. One of
the. paper-millsiat Holyoke, Mass, has a
group of fifteen wells, driven in a square,
nine feet apart, from which two hundred
and sixty gallons q minute have been
steadily pumped for more than year.
A manufacturing company in Provi
denee, il, I.,0h has six wells in group,
and obtains from them more than one
hundred and sixty gallons of perfectly
pure water minute.
The most noted of the valleys in
Washington Territory are, for wheat,
Kittitass, Wslls Wala, Palouse, Col
vile, ASpokan, Aptannune, Wenass,
Natchee, and Klikitat; for corn, Simcoe,
Touchet, and Grand Coreles; for hay,
East Kittitass, Tee-al-um, Coral Creek,
and Okauagan; for peaches, plums,
grapes, apples, cherries, and apricots,
Walla Walla, Snake, the whole length
of the Columbia River flats, Simcoe,
Dry Creek, Wenatchee and Meetrow.
Fruits, as well as grains, grow to per-
lection in the Territory. The cattle
lands are on all the hill sides, plains,
and mountain slopes east of the Cascade
Range, which are densely coveredcwith
bunch grass, wild rye, and timothy,
upon which hundreds of herds of cattle
Craze the year round l99llOD