The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-07-16

recently been discovered ON the Can,
adian border. A number of women
have been in the habit of carrying
children across the line and wheeling
them back in carriages purchased on
the Canadian side, which are thus
brought over without the payment
of duty.
The whole of the stock of the Char
lesion Manufacturing Company, be-
ing half million of dollars, has
bee,. subscribed and the books closed.
More than three-fifths of the whole
stock are held in Charleston, and the
prospects for profitable investment
are cheering. Since the purchase of
the site for the building the property
in its vicinity has increased in value,
There sin Bethlehem, Pa, a young
lady who has lost her health by hard
labor for the M0rayian Church, and
has been for years unable to leave her
room. The church has expressed its
gratitude for her labors by putting
ND telephone from the pulpit to her
bedside, a distance of three squares,
and now the helpless invalid can
heal the services with as much dis
tinctness and pleasure as if in the
house of God.
The Potter Press Company have q
mill at plainfeld, New Jersey, whicA
is always idle on Saturdays, the own
ers being Seventh day Baptists.
During the rest of the week, includ.
ing Sundays, the mill is in operation
night and day, being lit by electric
lights at night. There are two sets
Of hands, for day and night, and
those who object to working on Sum-
days are allowed to work eleven
hours day, so as to make up for
their enforced idleness on Saturdays.
The wOrkmen are all paid by the
hour.
A correspondent of the PhiIadel-
Dhia Press suggests plan for accu-
rately determining the location of
the ball in President Garfield's body.
1t is TO take Guiteau, place him in
the same relative position, and with
the same weapon caaSe bal, tOstrike
him in the same place then, by
means of vivisection, find its place
in Guiteau. The writer volunteers
to do the shooting himself.
Charley Lee, a boy seven years old,
the son of John Lee, of Bayonne
City, N. j., was accidently shot in
the head Oh Sunday morning by
man who was cleaning his pistol
The ball entered about an inch above
the right eye, and passed clean
through the brain and bedded itself
in the ocripital bone. The child was
still alive on Saturday, had recovered
consciousness, talked intelligently,
complained of no pain and showed
Indications of speedy recoveyt, ZHe"
case is attracting wide aheMNANM
among physicians.
At a Fourth of July picnic in Lou
isiana the game of throwing rubber
balls at the head of negro as 1t was
thrust through a hole in canvas
attracted attention through the Won
derful lodging of the living target
Nobody had yet hit him, and he had
Il, lnnr 81 Al
en- fellow offered FIVE dollars for five
throws with stone. The bargain
was made, and the crowd eagerly
watched the dangerous sport. Three
times the negro lodged the missile,
but on the fourth it hit him squarely
in the forehead, fracturing his skull.
The house in which Chief Justice
John Marshall was married in Rich
mond, Va, is still standing. II is
an old fashioned story and-a-half
house, with a Dutch roof, and stands
next to st. James EPISCOPAL Church.
1t is probably the oldest structure i'll
that section of the city. His tomb
in Shockoe Hill Cemetery consists OF
a marble slab, held by four upright
columns. Upon the slab is the simple
Inscription of the age and time OF
death of one of the most distinguish.
ed men that Virginia has given birth
to. He died on the 4th of June, 1888,
forty-siX years ago.
The wife of John Platte, a mouder
of Louisville. KY, on April "a last
was discovered sitting in chair un-
conscious, with the side of her face
resting against hot stove. All the
flesh on the LETT side of her facerthe
ear and the scalp to the top of her
head was cooked into a crisp and was
ready at the least touch to drop of.
She rema ned unconscious until the
next day, when she rallied, but was
delirious for nearly week. In two
or three weeks all the burned flesh
became loose from the bones, and was