The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-26

Yale College began comforting de.
grees In 1902, and since that time has
given them to II ,639 individuals, ex.
elusive of 923 honorary degrees.
Mr.. Enech Foster and wife, of
NewburypOrt, Mass. celebrated their
golden wedding on the 9th inst. In
all the fifty years there has been but
one death in their family.
In jam on Broadway, N. Y, last
Monday, a coupe containing two
ladies, mother and daughter was
wrecked. Fortunately. the occupants
escaped without injury.
No trains have passed over q por-
ton OF the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul Railroad since October 18th,
the tracks having been blockaded
with snow ever since.
4 The public debt of the United
States Is $6S per head of Spain.
$54; or France, $l36; of England,
Sll7; Of Holland, STA; Of Canada.
s2s F.; of Mexico, 500; Of Switzerland,
50.
Duluth, "the zenith city of the UNI
sailed sea-" has collapsed into a
mere village by initiating the bad
example set by Memphis. in an at
tempt to wipe out her bonded indebt-
ed ess.
The second days sale Of the Wilson
collection of paintings in Paris was
devoted IT, the old masters. There
were twenty-four pictures portraits
nf Scriverius and his wife,. not more
than six inches long, were sold for
80, 900 francs. Franz Halls was the
painter.
Two large sugar refineries In Phil.
adelphia are about tn be enlarged so
as to increase their combined capacity
to four thousand barrels per day
Last year these refineries consumed
1861 hogsheads of raw sugar i'm.
ported from the West Indies.
A row has been raised at Danville,
Va, because negro. girl has eloped
with white loafer of no account.
The novelty about the row was that
it was raised by the father of the
girl, who objected to a worthless
white husband for his worthy black
daughter.
The splendid chandelier of rock
crystal, in the room where the wed
ding breakfast of the Prince of
Prussia, or rather supper, took place
in Berlin the Other day, is the iden-
tical one under which Luther stood
at the Diet of Worms. The late
King bought it for $4,000.
Henry w. Mason, young mer.
chant engaged IN business at Wineus.
XII, VT, has disappeared, with liabil.
tiles amounting to 100000. The
Merchants Bank of Burlington has
$50, 900 of forged paper discounted for
him. His mother, sister and other
relatives have also been victimized.
Mason is known to be in Montreal.
A New York bank not long since
received from gentleman OF Boston
the sum of $4,000, being the princi-
pal and interest Of note that was
protested during the great panic of
1887. The note bore the endorsement
of the Boston gentleman who has
paid the debt which had long been
outlawed, and for which the bank
had no legal claim.
A Bible student inquiries of the
Bible translatorS and reviewers. upon
whom the terrible curse pronounced
in Revelations upon any one who
shall add to or take away from the
words of that Book, shall fall. He
says evidently the curse must fall
upon either the revisers or King
James translators, or both, unless
the revisers think that the words of
the curse are "mere sound and fury.
signifying nothing"
Some time age the miners employ
ed in the Shenandoah City cOlliery,
in Pennsylvania, became convinced
that fire was burning in some of
the old workings, from the TACT that
the water flowing into the shafts
where they were working had be-
come heated. The experts insisted
they were wrong. but the fire on
Tuesday made its appearance in the
abandoned workings where years ago
a hosting engine was used.
John Schreever. a teamster. got
drunk at Rome. N. Y, last Monday,
and meeting his wife. with whom he
had not lived for some time. in the
Market Place. drew pistol and shat
her through the neck. He then
turned the muzzle Of the pistol to-
wards his avn head and blew his
worthless brains out. Mrs. Schreever
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