The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-11

taKe on beard the other half. The
tests have been kept up all the time.
and the weather has been favorable
enabling the laying of more than
nine hundred miles of cable in less
time than was eyer before accomp.
lished.
John Reynolds, a wealthy droyer
of Andes. Delaware county, New
York, has eloped with the wife of
VIM. A. Gladstone, poor man. each
deserving a child about four years
old. Reynolds transferred all the
property he could not carry away to
other persons, leaving his wife and
child penniless, and the guilty wife
of Gladstone plundered him of his
savings.
The general government is threat.
ened with suit for $3.50, 200 damages,
all on account of Gen. Buffers open
ing the Dutch Gap Canal, which has
rendered valueless the wharf and
railway of the Br ght Hope Com
pany at Osborne's landing, on the
james river. In consequence of
Swallowing water at Osborn as Land
ing, the railway has to be extended
to Bermuda Hundreds.
Several years ago, Albert Mattison,
a convict, on his way to the California
state prison. leaped overheard from
ferry-boat, and being heavily loaded
with chains, was supposed to have
been drowned. Recently he has been
heard from in Arizona, and the man
ner OF his escape made known. The
water was low at the time, and he
crawled along the bottom, and finally
concealed himself in a boat from
which boy was collecting drift
wood. AT night he made the boy
take him to a blacksmith shop. where
he got rid of his irons and hurried
away.
Sir Anthony Musgrove, Governor
of Jamaica, now on a visit to New
York, expresses desire that num-
her of Americans should settle on the
island and become interested in plan
tations. Land is selling cheap by
the government, and Americans, by
becoming owners and introducing
improved agricultural implements,
would infect the ease-loving people
with the enterprise needed to improve
them. American goods are admitted
on the same foDting with English,
and there is fair field for COMPETE
ton.
A party of thirty-two colored men.
women and children, who arrived in
New York three weeks ago from
| Charleston, ). c., in order to 90 to
Liberia on the Colonization soei.srS
bark Liberia, have been reduced to
restitution by the postp0nement of
the day OF sailing. They made APP
plication for help to the Department
of Charities and Correction, and steps
have been taken to reclaim the money
they had paid to the Colonization
Society and send them back to their
former homes.
Wall street and the New York
merchants are excited over report
that the development of the New
Orleans barge route is to be attended
with a scheme for the colonization Of
Texas, by sending immigrants in the
steamships now going to New Or
leans in ballast. An English COM
pany has been formed for the pur-
chase of large tract of land in Texas,
upon which the immigrants are to be
settled. In this way the English
steamers bound to New Orleans to
lead with grain can make profit on
their voyage both ways, while the
barges on the Mississippi can be used
for the conveyance of immigrants.
Among the immigrant passengers
or the steamer Germanic on her last
trip to New York was Mrs. Margaret
Phillips, poor Welsh woman, who
was on her way to join her husband.
When but three days at sea sh' gave
birth to daughter. The saloon pas
sers, including VIM. H. Vanderbilt.
J. X. Vanderbilt and Captain J. Ii.
Vanderbilt, made up purse of $3.50
for the mother, and she was presented
by w. IL. Vanderbilt with letter to
the New York Hospital managers,
to see that the poor woman received
the best of care. The child was
christened Mary Germanic Wander
bilt Phillips. in honor of the steamer
and her generous benefactors.
During the ceremonies at the New
York Academy of Music on the even
ing of Decoration Day, Major General
Doubleday met Bishop Stevens, of
South Carolina. General Doubleday,
in hisspeech, stated that twenty years
ago he aimed the first gun fired in the
war at the Confederate cause-refer-
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