The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-04-30

llSned year dSo III tulllHg camp
at Gunnison, Colorado, in its last
issue has a cut of the log cabin in
which the first nhmber was printed
contrasted with another cat of the
fine edifice recently completed for the
publication Office. The building is of
sandstone from quarries in the vicin4
ity of the town. three stories in
height, with a capacieus basement
for the press.room. The prosperity
of the paper has, of course, kept pace
with the rapid progress of the mining
camp into prosperous and flourish
ing town.
| An auction sale of thorough bred
and blooded shorthOrns at Wauke.
gan. Wis.,, last Wednesday melted
al out 100000. One cow. knewn Az
the Duches of Oxford XXI, was
started at 81 300, and bounded up to
$4,000 at the next bid. She was
finally knocked down at $4,000.
There were bidders on the ground
from Wisconsin. Illinois, Minnesota,
Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky
and Missouri. KirkleviDgton Duchess
XVI. brought $3.50 The Seventh
Duke of Kirklevington was sold after
heated contest for 81 600, starting
at only S400.
Messrs. Thurber & Co., of Rich@
mond, Va, have been receiving large
quantities of goods ordered by some
unknown person in New York pre-.
tending to represent the firm. The
scamp is supposed to be young man
formerly employed in Richmond
drug store. Of course, he managed
toget fraudulent drafts cashed by The
New York firms he favored with the
orders. The goods ordered by him
amounted to about 10000; but, for
tunately, tine seller of a thousand
barrels of kerosense found out the
fraud before shipping them.
A few days ago, while Jerry Sperat,
an eccentric farmer and hunter, who
lived i'm the heart OF Boston Noun
tains, twenty miles west of Fayett-
Vile, Ark. was returning home,
white man and two negroes suddenly
sprang from hiding place in the un-
derbrush and poured the contents Of
three pistols into him. Thirteen
bullet holes were found in the dead
mans body. His pistol lay at his
feet, but had not been discharged.
The murder grew out of teud en-.
gendered by Seerat's demonstrating
land which other parties wished to
enter.
The Staunton Valley Vir0iiidn
states that a lady who had been an
insane patient of the Western Lunatlc
Asylum for twenty one years, was
recently found to be in possession t
a fivedolIar gold piece and two
thOusand-dollar bond 0ffhe Rich
m0nd and Danville Railroad Conn
pany. She had carried them IN
small bag which -he wore about her
body, and the contents were never
known until one day she asked one
of the patients to take n cent out of
the bag to buy some tobsato. The
paper, supposed to lie worthless. was
torn i'm two, but was pasted together
again when its value WAS discovered.
A strange tramp, calling himself
Henry Miller. WAS arrested near
POttstown, Pa, last Wednesday, on
suspicion of being the murdererof
, Samuel Clugston. of Valley Forge,
hut there being no evidence against
him, he was released. 1t is now re-
garded as almost certain that the
Clugst0n murderer was the same
man who broke into dwelling ~
Malvern on the night after the MUIR
der and carried off lot of clothing
and q pair of shoes. 1t seems that IN
the mud near the scene of the NAL
= vern burglary was found pair OF
socks whfch are the exact mates ol
another pair found in the pocket OF
the overcnat left behind by the muir
dersr at Valley Forge.
A statement of the amount OF logs
secured for the sea~rn UP t" April
18th in the principal logging districts
of the Northwest was published IN
ChfragO Wednesday. The exhibit
shows in the Mississippi Valley,
Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, East
ern Michigan and Wolf River regions
a total of e,27;5, $4,000 logs. Tosr'
rive at the grand total there nrust ne
, added to- these figures the quantity
of logs that will he put in by summer
logging. and the ameunt That has
beer or will he Ohsxfned To supply
the mills along I hp different railways
These cannot fall much short OF
1856. O0O. 900 feet, which will raise
the total log stock to 7.429. 95O,oW
feet. The prOspects far n successful