The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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We have received from the Treas
ury Department at Washington a
copy of "Notes of an interview be.
tween the Finance Committee of the
Senate and the Seer etary of the Treas
ury, the Comptroller of the Currency
and the Treasurer of the United
es,Ntes, with regard to the bill to
| facilitate the refunding Of the Ma
tional debt" The Secretary will
please accept our thanks.
Secretary Sherman's recent letter
on the sugar tariff has raised Cain
amongst the merchants engaged in
the sugar trade in Baltimore. A
meeting has been held to protest
against what they call Mr.. Sherman's
imputatians. and a committee was
appointed to urge a modification of
the law.
The City Council of Baltimore has
passed ordinances appropriating
sl5,500 for improvements at the City
Jail, and providing for Court House
Governor Black burn. of Kentucky,
who tried to kill the Northern peO-
pie with yellow fever and small pox
during the war, issued $50 pardons
to Kentucky criminals on Monday.
Illinois produces one fifth of all
the corn raised in the United States.
Judge d. r. Magruder, who was
recently appointed Chief Judge of
seventh judicial circuit, has taken
the oath of Office, and now occupies
seat OIL ithe Bench of the Court of
Appeals.
A most singular accident occurred
at Littleton, w. Va, where little
girl, eight years old, was burned to
death 10y her clothing being ignited
by a spark from a passing locomotive.
Quite ripple of excitement was
created in Baltimore last week when
charge of offering to take bribe
was preferred by Mr.. Geo. w. Graft
Hin, against DR.. j. d. Fisk, mem
Der of the City Council from the First
Ward. OF course DIR. Fisk denies
the charge.
A coal famine exists in the city of
Reading, Pa, in the midst of the
great Schuylkill coal region, caused
by the difficulty of transportation.
The dealers refuse to sell more than
a ton of coal to their customers at one
time, in order to make their supplies
hold out. During the past week the
residents of Shenandoah, within the
border of which are seven Galleries,
were in actual need of coal.
One of the greatest trials to General
Garfield is the importantly of woman
visitors. They call by the score to
advise him as to the course he should
pursue on questions of temperance,
woman suffrage and social reforms.
One of them can bull dOZe him more
In an hour than twenty men in u
week, and he finds that he cannot
slip away from them AS he can from
the sterner sex.
Mr.. Robert Coleman, a young mil.
lionaire. living near Lebanon, Pa,
since his bride died about q year ago,
has devoted his entire time to ma
chinery and engineering. He had a
building erected containing single
large room. A circular roadway,
with a double line OF steel tracks, ex-
tends around the room. Patent safety
switches, electrict crossing signals,
safety frogs ana tie latest method of
fastening rails are in use on this play
house railway. Three miniature
locomotives are employed. Every
piece of mechanism-every rod, bolt,
screw, lever, spring, tire, cock, pipe
and pump is on these locomotives.
The locomotives are fired up and set
in motion. Around the tracks they
20 while the millionaire owner
watches the movements of the min
iature machinery. Hours are thus
passed. all sorts of experiments are
tried, and high speed and low speed
are compared to determine the COM
parative effect of friction.