The Republican journal., 1881-09-15
9eneralitles .

Cocoanut growing is becoming an important in
dnstry in Florida
The Washington Star advocates making burglary
d capital offence
This years wheat crop will be about one million
Of bushels short Of that OF last year
There is large mortality from cholera at Annoy
and Shanghai, in China, and at Bankok, Siam
barring the shipping season of lSS0-Sl the United
states sent to England 800 barrels of apples
On account Of hot weather 325 900 bushels of
wheat have been spoiled in St Paul and in Galena
elevator.
Nine hundred Indians are on the war path in
Arizona. Gen Sherman says short work must be
made OF them.
1t has been ascertaned that Marvin the polyga-
mist. has served three years sentence in State
| Prison at Auburn, \. Y.
Judge Henry Hilton declines the request to re
| organize the worlds fair in New York as 1t would
be difficult to revive feeling there IN its favor
Mrs Andrews, aged a. wife of Wall Street
/ broker shot herself on the eth inst after QUAR-
rel with her husband and fell dying in the street
The New England Fair opened on Tuesday Sept
| at Worcester. DR.. Loring delivered the opening
| address. Gen. Sherman had reception Wednes
| day.
Stephen 5. Foster, prominent an agiator for
| anti slavery, temperance and woman rights died
at his farm in the suburbs of Worcester, Mass,
| Sept I, aged a.
| Michigan is dryiD up---that is. her crops The
| Saginaw valley is shrouded in smoke railroad
| tracks are stopped and the farms, houses barns
etc, greatly damaged by fire
Two women were sent to the insane asylum in
| Brooklyn, Friday, both imagining they were the
wife OF President Garfield, and desiring to be sent
10 Washington to nurse him.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court has decided
that the statutes OF that state do not proVde for
| the admission OF a woman to the bar Miss Leila
! }. Robinson was the petitioner.
The fifteenth wife of Marvin. or Morton. the
! torger and bgamlst, has reported The returns
are not yet all in, and it is supposed Morton s
| plurality will be about twenty.
| The jury OF inquest in the case of Jennie Cramer
find that she came to her death by poison and yio-
lence. and that James Maley Jr, of New Haven
Conn, is criminally responsible for her death
Extremes of heat in this country on Wednes-
| day, Sept I. At Washington l0l III the shade
! and in the Black Hills two feet of snow The
cool wave reached Maine at midnight of w ednes
day.
The distance from Washington to Long Branch
by the route taken by the President is 243 miles
| The Presidents train made the distance in six
and one half hours, making but two stops for coal
| and water.
1t turns out the reported massacre OF U. S cav
airy by Apache Indians in Arizona was not 80 seri-
GUS as first reported. One [. s. officer was killed
and seven privates wounded Reinforcements
| have been sent to Col Carr.
The combination of smoke and fog witnessed in
| Portland Sept u, observed also in Vermont
New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island,
and as far east as Bangor In ST. John a dense fog
prevailed, but without smoke
Articles of incorporation of the Mexican Pacific
Railway Company have been filed in the office of
New York Secretary of State. The railroad is to
run from Guaymas, State of Sonora, to points on
the Pacific coast The capital stock is sl0 900, 600
| There serious trouble among tomato growers
| in Maryland and Pennsylvania on account of the
rotting of the fruit The Acme variety is said to
be most affected. The disease is so widespread
that unless it is checked there may be corner in
canned tomatoes, on account Of the diminished
! supply.