The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-19
GENERAL.


EXCESSIVE cigarette smoking has
killed youn:y idiot at Gowanda, N. Y.
DIR. WILD, of Canada, predicts fifty
three years of war after 1882, and am
nounces the millennium to begin in
1885.
A FISHERMAN from Kingston, Can
ada, is said to have found 800 gold
piece in a pike which he caught in the
Bay of Quinte.
The last two members of family
we're burned to death in Dorchester.
Mass. one day recently. Their brother
was killed before Vicksburyh, their
father was drowned, and their only sis
ter was burned to death some months
ago.
DR.. CARSON, of Leechburg, Penn.
while attending severe case of diph-
liberia, is said to have received some of
the virus on sore spot on his hand, and
to have died day or two afterward in
consequence. The bad effects were felt
within two hours of the incubation.
KING KALAKAUA, the Hawaiian, has
the civilized good taste to dress simply.
to wear no jewelry and no decorations.
He is a remarkably handsome man.
more than six feet in height. His car
riage is erect, his beard, moustache and
eyes are black, and his expression is
amiable.
Mr.. AARON BURR HAYS, of New
York, who died the other day, was re-
markable for two things. He was the
oldest bank cashier in the world and til.
only man in America named after
Aaron Burr. His name was thorn in
his side, and he never signed his name
other than ga. B. Hays
As an illustration of what frost viii do,
it is stated that section of rail On the
Chicago & Alton Road, less than two
feet in length, was found crumbled into
seventy-six pieces, and another section,
on the Chicago & Northwestern, six
feet in length, was broken into 10
pieces.
ANNIE FLAGG declined James
Druggs's offer of marriage, at Front
Royal, Va, and when he pressed her
for the reason she said that she was in
love with Noah Benford. This was I'M
true, and she regretted saying it, for
Drugs vowed vengeance upon his
supposed rival. She feared the threat
would be executed, and sent letter OF
caution to Benford; but it arrived too
late, for he was found murdered, pre-
sumably by Drugs.
RUGBY, Tenn, has present popula-
ton of two hundred, of whom fifty are
English and the rest Americans. "Tom
Browns" company has already spent
some $4,000 on the place, S14 900 of
which went to build good road to the
Cincinnati Southern Depot. There are
only eight or ten houses yet finished,
however, as the solitary saw-mill is
months behind its orders, compelling
several families to winter in canvas
tents.
AT Kincardine, Ont, recently, while a
merchant was weighing out tea he came
across fourteen coins strung on piece
of Irvine, which had evidently been
dropped by Chinese workman engaged
in packing the chest. The coins, some
made of copper and others of brass, are
considerably worn. Each coin has a
square hole in the center; and from their
appearance they had been cast, and not
stamped as our coins are.
IT has just come to light that syndi-
cate exists in Philadelphia for the pur-
pose of buying up all the opium in the
country, and specializing in it. Opium
was selling at $3.50 pound, but the
SPECTATORS forced it up to 81 a pound.
1t has since declined to about Sc, at
which it is now selling. 1t is understood
that the stock in the hands of the syndi-
cate amounts to 800 cases of opium, of
200 pounds each, the whole being val
ued at S1,500,000. The stock outside of
this in the hands of legitimate dealers is
very small, and as the consumption in
the United States is from thirty to fifty
cases per week it is feared the prices
may be forced still higher, particularly
as the new crop will not arrive for six
months yet.