The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-02-26
GENERAL.


are estimated to have cost the Govern
ment $22, 6S0,000.
THE Secretary of the Interior i
known to the Indians as ''Old-Man-who
Sees-Through-Wind 4"
ONE man alone in Ireland owns on,
hundred and seventy thousand acres O
land, and there ARE three who own ont
hundred thousand apiece.
STATIONERY dealers are packing away
the diaries of last year and bringing ou
the old valentines. Valentines, like
Vermont maple sugar, are always fresh
THE messenger of the Maryland Elec.
toral College received from the Treas.
ury Department the smallest amount Of
mileage paid for the duty of conveying
the vote-it was only 5000. The Ore.
gon messenger received the largest
$963.75.
A SMALL boy at Thomaston, Itch
field County, Conn, while coasting the
other day, encountered railroad train
but with small boys luck, his sled passed
over the railroad track, between the
trucks of a moving freight-car, without
injuring him in the least.
THE people living in the vicinity of
Nickelsville, near Bristol, Va, were not
q little astonished and frightened the
other day by the fall of a shower of what
resembled blood-drops, and which lasted
about minute. The clothes of several
persons were stained as if with blood
drops. ......
A JUGGLER who had attained popu-
larity in Berlin by his feat of sword
swallowing, recently broke blade while
1T was sheathed in his throat. The throat
was opened at the side to permit of the
extraction of the part of the sword that
was broken off, and the operation was
performed successfully; but inhamma-
ton enSued and the man died
THAT great American litigant, Mrs.
Myra Clark Gaines, has been unusually
quiet for many months. 1t was but the
calm before the storm. She now APP
pears as plaintiff in suit to obtain pos
session of certain lands in the city of St.
Louis, which she claims represent thou
sands of dollars due her father from a
former owner.
DANIEL ALEXANDER, of Charlotte, N.
g., owned as slave Stephen Alexander,
colored, who recently died in his 102d
year. He was strong and vigorous even
IN his extreme old age, having chopped
wood and built fires on the day before
bis death. He did not pretend to know
George Washington, but when you
struck him on Andy Jackson he came
outvery strong.
THE President has granted Private
James Quinn certificate of merit for
bravery. Quinn was with Lieutenant
Schwatka and scout ssCapt. Jack" in
1876, on the Big Horn and Yellowston
expeditions, and displayed great per-
sonal bravery under fire and while
engaged in digging and building breast !.
works. He also took part, with twenty
i've men, in the charge upon an Indian
village. He has participated in six
definite engagements, and is now in the
service as Corporal.
AN act providing for minority repre-
sentation in corporation elections was
ratified by the people of New Hampshire
at the late election by vote of 22,5OO
TO 10,375. 1t allows stockholders in
public companies to give all the votes to
which they are entitled to one person in
electiDg officers, or to distribute them
among two or more persons, as they
prefer. In this way a minority of the
stockholders can insure themselves rep
resentation in proportion to their inter
est, by cumulating or piling their vote on
a small number of candidates.
THE poisonous wallpaper question
and some other cognate questions are
again made prominent by Mr.. George
l.. Angeles testimony at Washington be-
fore the House of Representative Com
mittee on Manufactures. Mr.. Angel
offered proofs that nearly one half the
Wallpapers sold-and not green papers
only-contain arsenic in dangerous
amounts. He says that glucose and ole
margarine products are likewise PERM
cious, and declares that there is peril in
using canned articles when they are put
up in tin. After Mr.. Angeles testimony
was heard the committee adopted Mr..
Beale's bill, which aims to prevent the
adulteration of articles of food and
drink, and there is thus the promise of
protection for the public in ways that
are much needed.