The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-19

Committee of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church held their annual
meeting in New York. The total
net assets of the New York and Gin
cinnati concerns and their deposi.
tories were reported at S1,355, 068.
The sales of books and periodicals
during the past year amounted to
81, $40, 261 .28-an increase of SIG, 128
over the previous year. On Satur-
day night last, in st. Bernard parish,
La, four men entered the grocery of
Fritz Gruna, and after drinking, cut
his throat from ear to ear. His cries
aroused his wife, but he was unable
to speak. She gave him pencil and
paper, and he scrawled upon it,
"Mattee cut me-" before he expired.
The full name of the murderer is
Matthew Girard, who is supposed to
be in New Orleans. The Postoffice
authorities have arrested Elisha
Courtney and RouscO p. Griffith,
road agents, who confess to having
robbed the mail from Alexandria to
Opelousas, La, on the Sd instant.
The officers recovered 1925, which
has been stolen from registered let
tiers. Major Ilges who has con-
Quoted the warfare against Sitting
Bull, announces that the campaign
is ended, and that NO further attem pts
will be made at present to capture
! the great Sioux chief or the small
remnant of his band that has not sur
rendered. The trustees of Will
/ lians College met in New York and
elected Professor Franklin Carter, of
| Yale, president of Williams College,
| to succeed Paul A. Chadbourne. re-
signed. Professor Carter graduated
at Williams College in 1862. Hon.
John Eaton, of Washington, United
States Commissioner of Education,
delivered an address on Museum
Illustration OF Education" before the
/ National Education Association, in
session at New York. Il he Canada
Building Society has seized the trust
/ funds of the Episcopal Diocese of
Montreal as security for debt. The
case of Trinity Church, over which
the Bishop is trustee, will be con-
tested in court. SMALLPOX prevails
in Jersey City to an alarming extent.
In one house there are eight cases,
and in another there are three or four
cases. Both houses are situated in the
most densely populated portion of
the city. The Macon and Augusta
Railroad bridge over the Ocmulgee
river at Macon was washed away on
Wednesday. This makes the second
time this bridge has been washed
away within thirty days. The bark
Magnat, Captain Berry, was ashore
in a dangerous position at Swansea,
and has received extensive damage.
Five of her crew were killed. -Clar
ence III. Clark, of Philadelphia pur-
chased the Atlantic, Mississippi and
Ohio Railroad at Richmond for So
Cos, 900. "A despatch from Orange,
Texas, says the steamer Vicksburg is
reported wrecked off Sabine Pass
during the storm on Saturday. The
snow fall at Winnipeg. Man., for the
week ending "Wednesday night was
33 Is 100 inces. 1t is estimated
that $4,000 cattle have been lost by
the floods in the province of Seville,
Spain. -HeEry w. Oliver and
Galusha A. Grow, representing the
Cameron and anti Cameron factions
in the Pennsylvania senatorial con-
test, withdrew from the fight. after
| twenty-one unsuccessful ballots had
been taken by the Legislature. The
factions were still unable to agree on
a candidate, and James A. Beaver
and Thomas M. Bayne will continue
the struggle. The United States
Circuit Court at Richmond, Va, de-
MED General Mahone's application
for postponement of the sale of the
Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Rail-
road, and the road was sold, accord
| ing to the terms of the decree OF the
| court. "A collision occurred on the
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, near
OWaneko, Ills, on Tuesesday even
ing, by which three laborers were
killed, and a number of railroad men
were injured. The killed were Allen
Jones, w, w. Tollock and H. Nc
Pherson. Hon j, p. Wickersham,
state superintendent of public iu-
struction of Pennsylvania, delivered
an address on "Weak plans in our
system of public instruction" before
the National Education Association,
in session at New York. In War
rem, r. l., on Tuesday night, Chris
tepher Mckenzie was drawing Alice
Coyle, aged sixteen, on a sled on the
river, when both broke through the
ice. The Young man was taken out
and resuscitated, but the girl was
| Il A oAYoo M ica x.yo offao.