The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-07

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Lights, which have appeared unusu-
ally brilliant in England ofIate, make
any noise. Some persons assert that
they have heard rustling sound i'm
the sky when the aHroral curtains
were shaken In the North. Others
maintain that the supposed rustling
is fanciful. and that 1T is physically
impossible that any such noise should
be heard.
The largest steamship cylinder in
the world was successfully cast on
Thursday at the Morgan iron Works
in New York. The casting was a
complete success, and nearly lo0, 900
pounds of iron were used. The
cylinder is nine feet two inches in
diameter and fourteen feet stroke.
and is tor the new iron steamer now
being built for the Old Colony Steam.
boat Company. The two main shafts
for the engine will be the largest
foreigns in the world. Each will be
forty feet long and twenty-seven
inches in diameter, and will weigh
$4,000 pounds.
The American Institute of Mining
Engineers, which asseI bles at Staun
ton. Va, on the Both OF May. will
attract thither some of the most dis.
tinguished engineers and iron manu-
facturers of the day. A week or more
will be spent in business meetings,
interSpersed with excursions to the
iron and coal regions in that neigh
bOrhood. The Valley VirQinian urges
the citizens of Stanton to start a
movement for rolling mill, with a
capital Of half million, and show
an earnestness on their part by sub
scribing literally. SO as to induce the
visiting capitalists to join the enter
prise.
The miners of the anthracite region
of Pennsylvania are much in terested
in competition between the Empire
shaft of the Wilkesbarre Coal Com
pany and the Nottingham shaft at
Plymouth, as to which should hoist
the largest number Of cars in a day.
The Plymouth had raised 1,102 cars
in nine and a.haIf hours, but the
Empire employees exceeded that num-
Der on Monday last by hosting l,l37
cars in eight hours and a half. The
miners of Schuylkill county think
they can beat Luzprne county, and
will soon enter the contest.
The rocks are now being blasted on
the south side of Eifty-hiuth stree.
bet ween Sixth and Seventh avenues,
| New York. to make way for new
apartment house, which will he
known az The Hawthorne" 1t will
cost Sl25 900, and the three lots wer.
purchased 10 S63,00O by the Haw
li.orne A partment Association. The
| fourteen stock holders will live in The
house, and there will remain six AL
ditional apartments to be rented. The
structure will he eight stories in
height, with a frontage of seventy
five feet ami a depth of ninety feet.
1t will probably be ready for USE late
in the fall.
A New York broker. standing in
! Wall street, New York. few days
ago, saw JAY Gould trying to cross
the street. Gould seemed abstracted,
and did not notice that a stage WAS
almost upon him. When the broker
saw his dilemma, he told a reporter,
Il spread out my overcoat and made
up my mind that if he was knocked
! down and run oyer | would dart out.
throw my OvercOat around his head
so that nobody could see who he was,
then drag him into back basement
Office, jump in and sell all of his sto' ks.
short Ivy the thousand shares" For.
tunately, some one saw G0uld's peril
and drew him back just in time to-
save him from being run over.
In the northern part of Pike cOun-
ty, Arkansas, there is one OF the
greatest of natural curiositles. giving
its name to Wall mountain. On the
! top of the mountain is natural wall.
half a mile long, ten feet thick, and
from thirty to forty feet high. as
regularly built as was ever construct
ed bv experienced masOns. Most of
the stones are about the size of bale
of cotton, but some are five times
that size. On each side of the wall
the ground is as smooth as floor
and there is not a loose rock except
at one end. where few rocks are
lying about as if left there when the
wall was completed. The people in
the neighbOrhood believe the wall to
have been built by some race of men
occupying that country before Amer
lea was discovered.
There is a young married woman
named Melinda Jaggers living in
Philadelphia. who was bitten when
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