The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-21

hnally compromised the DEBT ana
interest for 1925, 900.
Partial records of the live stock |
interests of Texas show yearly yield
of about four hundred thousand
head per annum. Eight dollars a
head is about the average price at
San Antonio.
Captain Sam Ludlow caught shad
in the. North river, off Hoboken.
which is 263 inches long and weighs
eight pounds. 1t is the largest and
finest shad caught this season in the
river.
The cable steamer Dacia has been
endeavoring to recover the broken
Key West cable near Havana. 1t
has been grappled four times. ard
each time broke Loose. so great is the
resistance owing to the strong cur
rents and the fact that it is deeply
imbedded in sand.
A New York physician of extern
sive practice has been effecting many
cures of his lady patients complain
ing of lame backs by prescribing
slippers and wooden stockings for a
week, TO be followed by wearing low,
broad heels to their shoes, in place of
the high French heels that had caus-
! ed their ailments.
On Thursday afternoon number
of Italian workmen were repairing
the track near the Manhattan Beach
Hotel, when few drops of rain fell,
attended with single flash of light
ming. The men at the time were
walking along with their shoyels
over their shoulders. AT the fash
the last one in the line fell dead, and
the one in advance shrieked with fear
and rolled over. He was scorched
and stunned, but not seriously hurt.
The spectators in Tennessee bonds
at Memphis haye filed an application
for an injunction to restrain the State
Funding Board from funding The
debt at par with three per cent. in
terest. 1t is thought they will not
succeed in getting permanent in
junction. as the sentiment of the peo'
pie is favorable TO the settlement.
The warm weather of the past
week has released about nine hundred
canal boats that had been fastened in
the ice along the Erie Canal all win
ter. The canal was opened for BUSH
ness five days sooner than the date
fixed by the superintendent. Over
three hundred boats waiting at West
Trey entered the anal on Thursday
bound West.
1t is said that Chinese tobacco is
being consumed largely in this coun-
try and in England. The supply is
large, and the leaf SO fine in color,
texture and fragrance. that merchants
are exporting it Westward to be
mixed with Hayanas. Under the
name Turkish tobacco it is used in
the manufacture of cigarettes. Eight
million pounds have been exported
from HanKow in foreign vessels with
in year.
Mr.. Christian Boos, the Norwegian
and Swedish consul at New York
confirms the report that steamship
line in Hull, England, has contracted
to bring to this country eighty thous-
and Scandinavian emigrants during
the summer. They are to he landed
at Hull in steamers from Norway and
Sweden, and then transferred te
Liverpool by rail, to there embark
on steamers for New York.
Michael Hackett, formerly police
man in the New York park. killed
his wife on Wednesday evening
while in drunken fury, by firing
three shots into her head and body
She was the mother of five children
and had for years been sufferer from
his brutality. He was DISCHARGED
from the force for beating his wife 8
year ago, and had been arrested
several times on similar charges.
Two patients in an Iowa insane
asylum, man and women, escaped
by means of rope ladder, one night
lately, saddled horses in the stable
rode twenty miles to a clergyman
and by him were married, nothing
in their manner at that time indicat'
ing that they were not sane. They
continued their journey until after
noon, when each became convinced
that the other was demente1 and ap
piled for protection.
Amid the present activity in all
that pertains to the iron trade, it is
strange to hear of the failure OF the
Georgia Iron Works at Atlanta
which started in October last with q
capital of S250,O00. The company
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