The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-04-16

StOppeu 10 Teau III, ana was cdptuTeu.
Another instance of the power and
usefulness of the press.
The proprietor of the laundry at
Belleville, N. j.. has concluded to
dispense with "cheap Chinee labor"
convinced that white labor is cheaper
in the long run. The 200 Cinnamon
he employed ST. uck work few days
ago, and he refused to re.employ
them.
A charter was granted by the state
Of Florida Oh Tuesday to company
to build ship canal to connect the
Atlantic Ocean with the Gulf of
Mexico. The Philadelphia company
recently formed to drain the Ever
glades, and the canal company are
virtually the same enterprise.
A woman writes to a Cincinnati
paper that she doesn't like the Rus
sian bath, because she can't see the
fun of being laid on a marble slab
and scrubbed, kneaded, slapped and
dented from head to foot by a woman
SO stalwart that one can't quite get
rid of the suspicion that she is a man
in disguise.
Attorney General Field, of Vir-
GINA, has entered suit in the Circuit
Court at Richmond for the common
wealth against James M. Tyler. late
sergeant of Richmond, for money
alleged to have been oYerdrawn by
him during his term. The bill of
particulars fosts up S2,026.50 ; dam
ages $4,000.
The Northwestern Railway Com
pany has spent over S300,00 in the
fight against the snow since October
last. Thirty four immensesnOw plows
have had plenty of work, and these
have been backed up tremendously
by from two to six locomotives each.
Nine thousand men have been en-
ployed from time to time during the
winter as shOvellers.
A lady in Calhoun county, Ill.
although 70 years old, has recently
married her sixth husband. Her last
deceased husband was named Race,
and the man she has Just married is
named Farris. A romantic feature
of her last matrimonial venture is the
fact that Mr.. Farris was her first love
She plants all her husbands in 8
graveyard on her farm.
The California newspapers are call
Ing for Eastern capital to build mill.
and otherwise develop industries or
the Pacific coast, which is looked up
on as singular, considering the grea
number of reputed millionaries il
that section. The suspicion is be
coming general that the wealth ol
the bonanza kings has been immense
ly exaggerated.
On Wednesday last, in New York
Maurice J. Mariga, pilot, was ar
rested for being drunk. On the way
to the police court, on Thursday. M
showed signs of great exhaustion
and begged for a little whiskey, say
. ing that he had been drinking stead
ily for three weeks. His request was
+ refused, and on reaching the court
room he fell in fit, and died in {
few minutes.
There is considerable doubt as t.
whether the Jim Currie killed at Lo'
Vegas recently was the man who
murdered Porter, the actor. There
were two Jim Curries, both of then
desperate characters, but it is gener
ally believed that the man who wa
shot at Los Vegas was not the Texa
ruffian. The latter is said to hav'
killed man since his acquittal on TIN
charge of numbering Porter.
The palaces on Fifth avenue. New
York, are to be increased by six resi-
, dences near Sixty-seventh street, tn
cost of which is estimated at one mil
lien and a-half of dollars. One O
these, for Mr.. Robert l.. Stewart. will
cost $3.50, 900, and one for Mr.. H. O
G.. Armour about quarter of a mil
lion, Mr.. Eugene Kelly. the banker
is about to put up a ten-story edific
at the corner of Be"kman and Nassau
street, occupying lot one hundred
feet square, the cost of which will b
$500, 900. The Nassau Bank viii
occupy portion of the first floor.
A young pig under training to be
come a learned hog at dime museum
in the Bowery, N. Y, on MOnda.
last approached quite close to tn
performing bear and greatly incense'
him by snorting and grunting. Bruin
as he had often done before, made
t spring at the offender, but this tim
} the chain broke, and before assistance
could be given the pig was torn linn
n