The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-12
GENERAL.


THE late A. H. Howard, Of Towns
bend, VT, left $4,000 to that town for
the support of the poor.
Two frogs put in an earthen jar with
q little water by Psychologist, who in
tended to use them for experimentation,
were overlooked for nine months, dur
ing which time they were without food.
Yet when found at last they were ''alive
and kicking"
In Nebraska at the last election
Winnebago Indian was refused the right
to vote. The Indian has put in claim
for Sc, 900 damages, and the State courts
will now have to determine whether I'M
der the Fourteenth Amendment Indians
have the right to vote or not.
AN incident absolutely without prece-
dent in the annals of universal suffrage
occurred in the Department of the Ande,
France, during the municipal elections.
The parish of Thezau, in the arrondisse-
ment of Narbonne, has population of
500 souls, but not an elector presented
himself at the poll on Sunday, Janu-
airy 9. .. CO.,.
Mr.. EyARTs has had prepared ma
hogany fac-similies in miniature Of the
desk upon which Thomas Jefferson
wrote the Declaration of Independence,
and which was presented to the country
last year by the descendants of Jeffer-
son. One of these miniature desks will
be sent to each of the gentlemen who,
in the House and Senate, made the
speeches of presentation and acceptance.
RUDALP CHAPMAN, little negro boy,
found box in vacant lot in Washing
ton the other day, and carried it home
to his father, who opened it and saw
that it contained valuable jewelry. The
Chapmans are very poor, there was not
much to eat in the house, and the chill
dren needed bread. But Mr.. Chapman
did what all white men would moi do.
lie sold some rags for twenty-five cents,
and with the money advertised the treas
ure in his possession. 1t proved to be
jewelry stolen from Col. Roger Jones,
of Pennsylvania Avenue, two days pre-
vious.
SENATOR HILL, of Georgia, speaking
the other day of letter which he had
just received from a colored Republican
about the writer's appointment as Post
master of Athens, Ca, said: II would
go on his bond for $4,000, and so
would almost any other white man who
knows him. He was my body servant
when | was o Confederate Senator, and
attended to all my private affairs. He
used to write for me at my dictation,
and did many of the things which a
private secretary would do. He carried
$4,000 of my money when the federal
guns could be heard in Richmond.
Mr.. JOHN BRIGHT, in acknowledge
ing the receipt of a letter sent to him by
n tenant farmer of Carnarvonshire,
England, on agricultural depression and
the relations between landlord or agent
and tenant, SAYS: "The conditions of
agriculture in this country are unfavor-
able for the farmer and for the public.
Misfortunes may change them, as they
may force the farmers to say something
and exert themselves. have preached
to farmers for nearly forty years with
but little result. American competition
may speak to them and to our landlord
class with more effect"
IT gives one vivid idea of the meal
culable loss to the country in material
wealth from the wanton or acct
dental destruction of our forests to read
that the damage from forest fires in
but three States, New York, Michigan
and Wisconsin, and in but single year,
1871, is estimated at the enormous sum
of S215, 100000. AS q consequence of
similar destruction, settlers in Minnesota
have been compelled this winter to burn
their furniture, farm implements, out
houses and even the floors of their dwell
ings to keep from freezing. Others have
paid from S17 to 500 a cord for firewood.
No wonder the Minnesota Foresters' As
ISOLATION is pressing so theoretically the
need of renewing their woodlands.
Mrs. PRUDENCE LAKIN, of Pease
Eddy, N. Y, has lived for 107 years in
Delaware County, and during that time
has seldom been outside of its borders.
She despises carpets, for the reason that
the dust they hold is injurious to the
lungs, and twice daily her rooms in con-
slant use are washed with cold water.
She delights in tales of the days when
the Indians made life burden in that
part of the State. Two summers ago
She killed a four-foot rattlesnake with a
stone shovel, and it's thirteen rattles are
preserved with pride by a great-grand.
daughter. Not long ago Mrs. Lakin had
an opportunity of reading her own obitu-
airy, which was written on the erroneous
announcement of her death.