The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-13

~ himself, which he sent to bis wife
or presentation to the warden.
Ex-Governor Shepherd, of the Dis.
.rict of Columbia, who made Wash.
ngton one of the most beautiful cities
IN the world, is doing so we'll In
Mexico that he soon expects to be-
able to pay his creditors in full, with
interest and have big margin left.
This will be good news to thousands
of Others besides his creditors.
The new steel works at Denver
Col, will be ready for werk in about
three weeks. The works cost over a
million dollars, and have already a
contract with the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad for thirty thousand
steel rails.
The actress who was engaged to
ride in circus procession as the most
beautiful woman in America has
been discharged, and she now threat
ems to sue the manager, not for the
$50 week which was to be hel actual
pay, but for the $4,000 prize which
in his advertisements he awardsJ
her.
There are said to be twenty-five
factories on the Washington county
coast of Maine, twO-thirds of them
being in the town of EastpOrt, where
herring are put up in imitation
French boxes, hearing French labels,
as sardines. They are preserved in
cOttOn-seed oil, which is asserted on
the boxes to be choice olive oil.
Mayor Besson, of H0boken, has
vetoed a resolution of the Common
Council granting a liquSr license to-
James Lannigan, a we'll known sa.
loon keeper in Newark street, on the
ground that in the state campaign
Lannigan charged candidate S. for
round of drinks when the proper
charge would not have exceeded 81.
The elaborate bronze balcony rail-
ing made tor the house OF William
H. Vandert lit, on Fifth avenue, is
now on exhibition in Philadelphia.
1t is wonderful piece of hand beaten
work, and, with other bronze railing
ordered f,r the house, will cost $780,
000 Each section is seventeen feet
long and two and a quarter feet high.
The friends of Isom and Peyton,
who are being tried at Perryville,
Ark, for assassination and highway
robbery, openly boast that they will
rescue them if committed by the
court. An armed guard of milith
protects Judge Harris house. The
outlaws swear they will take Harm
life as soon as the militia is with
drawn, and a terrible state of affairs
exists.
In Russia sfa man is Idle, a drunk- &,
ard, or nuisance IN any way ,o a
community, the authorities of his
district, meeting in council, decided
nav the cost of deporting him 10
Siberia, not as a prisoner. but asa
colonist for one of the objects Of the
Russian government is to deve"p
| the resources of that vast and thlnly
populated land. The numbers sent
have averaged of late years from III
5000 to 1000.
| The bones of n mastodOn have been
found by Geo. A. Thomas IN open
ing n ditch near Elizabethyll'e,
Boone county, Indiana. The bones
were found on land of which the sur
face soil was black swamp, six acres
in extent, and the party. surface was
fifteen inches deep, the subsoll being
a gray, ash colored plastic clay. They
were discovered five feet below Inc
surface, and the remains cor sist Of
rib thirty seven inches long, part OF
a tusk eight feet in length and elgh
teen inches IN circumference at Inc
base, and one Of the vertebra.
A woman named Coync. who llved
near Manchester. England, poured
parffine oil over her head. and when
ID hal run down upon and saturated
her clothing, she set fire to ii. the
injuries she sustained resulted in her
death in very few minutes. This
case has only cen equalled in recent
times by Gloucester gentleman
who huilt a funeral pyre in the yard
Of his house, and having set FIRE to
IL, mounted to the top and there
awaited his end, which soon came.
A turtle weighing 1000 pounds.
caught by fisherman off Absecem
Light, was brought into New YORK
Monday and sold for $3.50 to an
amateur Snowman. who rugged upa
tent on the pier just north of Fulton
ferry and charged 10 cents admission
The turtle il of a variety never seen
before in this market. II is seven
fa,,t lonU fonr foot three inches broad,