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


-Porters of sleeping-cars in the East
get ten-cent pieces from passengers, as
a rule, and many travellers never give
anything, except for some special service.
In the West, q quarter is the common
fee, and the Chicago Times is authority
for the statement that the Pullman and
Wagner companies take the fees into
account in fixing wages. During sea-
sons when travel is lightest, the pay is
from $50 to $50 a month, but as traffic
increases the rate is lowered to So, and
some times to nothing at all. The places,
however, are eagerly sought. n
The ship Jerusalem, which sailed
recently from Gravesend for Melbourne,
had on board an invention in the shape
OF little boat four feet in length, built
on the principle of a life boat. 1t car
ries a sail on which is scripture text
executed in phosphorus The idea is
that when vessel is wrecked the fate
of the ship might be written down and
the record deposited in dispatch-box
on the deck of the little boat and the
craft committed to the mercy of the
waves. With moderate wind the boat
will travel four or five miles an hour.
The captain intended launching the boat
about three hundred miles off the Sicily
Isles. Il, .e.f. Lar &. .,f- ..t
Sophie Pieoffsky, one of the per-
sons arrested for completely in the as
sassination Of the Gear, is the daughter
of former Provincial Governor and the
niece of an officer of high rank in the
Russian army. She is woman of con-
siderable talent, and of education SUI
perior to most Russian women Ac-
cording to her confessions, it appears
that she was the chief spirit of the con-
spiracy to murder the Gear. Roussakoff
was q mere instrument and implicitly
obeyed her command. She had an idea
that the death of the Gear would result
in the establishment of Social Republic
in Rus ia. y sIA'.1LL
In 1877 Mrs. J. G. Best, of Glover
vile, N. Y, fell and injured her arm.
Her husband engaged DR.. A. M. We'd
der, OF Schenectady, to attend his wife.
Afterward it was claimed that through
the negligence Of Vedder the bones and
Joints of her arm were left SO as to be
useless to her. A suit for damages for
$4,000 was then begun. Pending this
action Vedder died. TIt was then moved
that action be continued against the
executors of the estate, but this was de.
. MED on the ground that the cause lapsed
with the death of the defendant, but
that the husband might sue the estate
for loss of service. This he did, and has
just recovered $4,000. This ends pc
culiar and interesting case. zoos
Dickens satirized the costs of the
English Court of Chancery, and, saws
the London Telegraph, it still "grinds
mems bones to make its bread" Anne
Richardson, a domestic servant, had
saved two hundred and forty pounds, to
which her master, Sir George Balfour,
added free gift of sixty pounds, lodg-
ing the whole with trustees, who were
TO pay her the interest. After a time.
Anne wanted to go to New Zealand, and
desired the possession of her capital.
The trustees had no objection, provided
they obtained the leave of the Master OF
che Rolls. For that purpose friendly
suit was instituted, and the leave OBJ.
tanned, but the costs amounted to two
hundred and sixteen pounds. Thus
merely to ask the formal assent of the
Court of Chancery to a change Of this
kind swallowed up more than two-thirds
of the sum in question. Lord Colerdge,
on hearing of the facts, which came in.
cidentally before him few DAYS ago,
apdy said, ''It appears as if Chancery,
TO prevent any one from, being hurt
sometimes takes care that nobody should
get any good" aaat anr> %, MOD 4 ?