The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-20
GENERAL.

Fred Lutzman, survivor of Water.
loo, died recently al Louisville. "
aged eighty four years. At the battla
of Waterloo he received bayonet thrust
in his side. 5al N..L 'na
The drains leading from the Pb;la-
delphia Mint yielded about 81 900 worth
of gold and silver at the last annual
securing. The recovery of metal by that
operation has amounted to so, 200 in
nineteen years.
AT Haverfordwest, England, the
other day, well-dressed man, in dis
proof of a charge of habitual drunken
ness, held up an umbrella, which he
avowed he had not lost nor mislaid for
fourteen months.
On cliff near Rincon Point. in
Ventura County, CAL, the rocks are so
hot as to be unbearable to the naked
hand. Sulphur fumes are also noticea-
BILE in that locality, and from all indi-
cations fierce fire is raging below the
surface.
The sudden appearance of the COM
ct caused great CONSERVATION among
the native population of New Mexico,
and their churches have been crowded
by frightened men, women, and chill
dren, praying that the dire calamities
they feared might be averted.
The head of the Tunisian mission
now in Paris is Mustapha Pasha, who,
when boy, swept a cafe in Tunis. The
Bey took fancy to him, took him into
his palace, educated him, and advanced
him to office after office of State, until
now he is Prime Minister, and, of
course, very rich.
Two lovers were united in marriage
by Philadelphia clergyman, the man
promising to ca at his house the next
day and pay for certificate. They de-
parted, however, without doing so, and
the clergyman prints a marriage notice,
with the words: "No cards, mo cake,
no cash, no certificate" This happen
ed in the City of Brotherly Love.
One man who is rightly emitted to
the name of pioneer of the Pacific
coast region is John J. Dye, now living
in Pajaro Valley, Santa Cruz County,
Cal, He is eighty years old, and wears
his age lightly, being yet hale and Wig
orous. In 1929 he left his native State
of Kentucky, Joined a trapping expedi-
ton to the far West, and after many
wanderings arrived at the puebla of Los
Angeles in 1882.
In the ella Valley, one hundred
and twenty miles from Tucson, Arizona,
are the famous Pintados. A heap of
rocks, about fifty feet high, is covered
with rude figures, geometric and ana
tomical. Here are squares, circles,
crosses, triangles, snakes, toads, and
vermin, men without heads, and dogs
without tails. The sketches are like
those of the Aztec calender stone in
Mexico.
Australia suffers from both animal
and vegetable plaques. 1t has groaned
under rabbit pest, and kind of water
cress, which somebody thought would
be "such good thing" but which has
served admirably to choke up streams;
and now it is in mortal dread of the
lanta,sa, shrub resembling a gigantic
raspberry bush, which was imported as
a garden ornament from France. Birds
like the seed and scatter it in all direc-
lions, and the shrub threatens to grow
densely and become an insufferable
nuisance.
"A society is now forming in Eng
land to introduce the participation
system of manufacturing, in which a
share of the net profits OF an undertake
ing is allotted to the workmen in addi-
ton to their wages paid at the full mar
ket rate. No less than one hundred
firms on continental Europe are now
worked on this plan, with universally
good results. This society will seek to
attain its objects by collecting and pub
fishing detailed information on the SUBJ
ject with which its operations are con-
cerned. .....
On dispatch from the Sheriff of
San Luis Obispo County, Cal, the Sher-
iff of Los Angeles arrested young wo-
man, apparently about seventeen years
old, and a person in boys clothes about
thirteen years old, encamped in the
willows near the city, with three horses
in their possession. On placing them in
jail it was found that both were girls,
who had run away and stolen the horses
for their journey. They had been eight
days on their journey, camping out all
the time. They gave the names of Rosa
and Emma Kearney, of San Luis Obispo.
Certain features of the new Tay
bridge that shall supplant the one which
went down with such frightful loss of
life appear to have been exactly fixed
upon. Its total length will be 10000
feet, or about two miles, and calcula-
tions are made for double the wind
pressure which the strongest gale will
ever bring to bear upon the bolts. The
wind pressure is put at twenty-one
pounds per square foot, and allowance
is made for fifty-six pounds. Each pier
will be entirely independent of an old
one, and will be'placed in an opposite
position. 1t is intended that there shall
be parapet of wrought iron, as a pre-
caution in case car should leave the
rails.