The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-25

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

at Castle Garden, New York. last
week.
1t is estimated that seven hundred
delegates will be present at the Ma
tional Temperance Convention which
meets at Saratoga on Tuesday.
The money loaned by England to
foreign governments that are in de-
fault amounts to one thousand and
fifty million dollars.
DIR. Albert G.. Mackey, one of the
most prominent Masons in the world,
died at Fortress Monroe Monday,
aged IA years.
The wife of an English officer in
India, having embraced Buddhism,
has written to her husband that she,
in right of her new faith, has divorced
him.
At the base of the Santa Catalini
mountains, in Arizona, and about
six miles north of Camp Lowell. the
remains of an anciet town, covering
over sixty acres, haye been discover
ed.
The new California constitution
allows the property-owners to fix
their own assessments, their affidavits
guiding the assessor. In this way the
assessments have been reduced $780,
900, 900.
The members ofthe Divinity School
at Yale who have made speciality
of Hebrew have revised the prophecy
of Habakkuk, which they have pub
lished. Should their revision meet
with favor they propose to revise the
other Old Testament books, possibly
completing their work ahead of the
regular reviewers.
About two hundred Cinnamon at
tend the Sunday schools in Brooklyn,
and in going to and fro they march
in single-file, two rarely walking side
by side. They are exemplary in their
attendance, and are greatly attached
to their teachers, which they manifest
by little gifts sent them from China.
There has been a decided advance
in the cost of black walnut in the last
few months, on account of the limited
supply, and there is said to be gre at
alarm among manufacturers who
have large investments in the bust
ness. Among the woods in Central
America suggested as substitutes for
black walnut are, besides mahogany,
rosew God, cocobello Ia hard and
beautiful woody, ebony caray or
tortoise shell wood, guachtilin. a
handsomely variegated wood, and
several other varieties.
Mr.. John King, Jr., first vice
president, and Mr.. VIM. Keyser,
second yice-president of the Balti-
mere and Ohio Railroad Company,
have resigned. the first named on
account of failing health and the
latter to engage in other business.
On the spot where the late Emperor
of Russia fell the Russians are build
Ing an eXpiatory church, the cost OF
which is betrayed by subscription
throughout the empire. The subscrip-
tions received in st. Petersburg alone
amount to close upon S45, 900.
A chinaman who died in Boston
had Christian funeral, the services
being conducted in church by Meth.
odist clergyman, and interpreted te
the hundred or more Cinnamon
present by one of their countrymen.
The remains were not shipped to
| China.
The schooner Harriet Ross, now al
Toledo, was formerly Commodore
Perry's flagship the st. Lawrence
Her upper works have been several
times rebuilt, but her hull is as sound
as when she went into the battle o.
Lake Erie on the 10th of September
1918.
w. II. Williams and w. r. Brown
two wealthy cattle men, charged with
rObbing the United States mail neal
Gainesville, Texas. on June 3, have
been indicted In the United State,
District Court, and hail has been fixet
at $40. 900 each.
The Washington monument Tues
day reached the height of 200 feet
and when completed will be $50 fee
high-higher than any other mouu
ment in the world. Thirty-five, ant
possibly forty.five, feet will be added
before next winter. and 1t is ex pectet
that the structure will be com pleteC
in three years.
j. s. Crane, the defaulting post
master of London, Ohio, goes /,
prison for year to reflect upon tn,
folly of his dissipated life, which ha
reduced him from wealth to hecom,
the tenant of prison cell.
The one-hundred and fourth ami
yersary of the adoption of the Amer
. can flag was commemorated OF