The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-09-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK..

representing an Investment OF S5,Q00,-
900.
The whisky product Of the United
States for last year was 100000 bar.
rels. By calculation that would give
81 drinks to every man, woman and
child of the population
A forest fire that has consumed
thousands of acres aear Atsion. N.
j., Was started by spark from q
locomotive last Thursday. The Ham.
monitor cranberry bog of several
hundred acres has been burned over.
VIM. Pickhardt is building the.
tallest Of private residences in New
York which is to cost 1920, 900. 1t will
be 50 feet front by 125 feet in depth,
with height of 120 feet above the
curb and 20 feet below it. There
will be six stories, besides base
ment, cellar and sub-cellar, making
in all nine stories.
The destroyed town of New Ulm.
Mimi, is being rapidly rebuilt, and
in few weeks few traces of the
torDado's path will be left. The cash
contributions have amounted to $751;
1873, and the new houses, built by
direction of the Relief Committee,
are now nearly all completed.
A sea cow from South America has.
been received in New York. 1t is
five feet long, and weighs about one
hundred pounds. Its nose is exactly
that of yearling calf, and it subsists.
entirely upon herbs. After filling
its nav with cabbage it ruminates
like cow. 1t lives in fresh water,
and the CrotOn is allowed to stand
three days in the sun before being
placed in his tank, to make it more
like his native element.
An eminent Indiana Judge, whose
name is not given, is reported as
having broken faro-bank at Indian
apolis, while INDUCING in debauch
that annually overcomes him in va
cation time.
Port Jervis, N, Y, was visited on
Thursday by curious phenomenon.
The sun was obscured all day by
haze, though no clouds were visible,
making it necessary to use gas in
rooms not well lighted. There are
no forest fires in the vicinity. and no
od0r of smoke could be detected.
For week past the atmosphere has
been more of less hazy.
A sexton and his enemy fought in
a churchyard al Millsboro', Del,
and the sexton was thrown into
Il freshly dug grave. The other
undertook TO bury him alive. and
had almost completed the Job when
| help came.
The Supreme Court of Pennsyl-
vania decides that person who has
paid part of the purchase money
on property, but who is not entitled
to the ownership until the entire
price is paid, has an miserable inter-
est IN the property to the extent of
his own interest therein. This ruling
applies to the purchase of pianos,
sewing machines or household fur
nfture on the installment plan.
A Bohemian farmer in Putnam
township, Iowa, was found dead in
a field on Saturday morning. He
had been attacked by Jersey bull,
which had almost torn his body into
shredS. His head was entirely de-
tached from his body, and one leg.
was hanging to the brute's horn.
The animal endangered the lives of
all who attempted to approach him,
and he had to be shot six times be-
| fore he fell.
Louis J. Braillard, prosperous
silk dyer in New York, committed
suicide on Saturday by hanging him
self in his dye-hOuse. He had been
married twelve years, and within
the last five or six years he has bur-
led seven children. His last child, a
by two years old, died on Staten
Island few weeks ago, and there is
no doubt that grief over the death of
his last pet overmastered his reason.
He is to be buried beside his children
in Staten Island.
Mr.. M. p. Key, of Memphis, Tenn.
has invented machine gun, which
Is described as consisting of NUM-
Der Ofbarrels placed horizontally, and
then encased in such manner as to
throw its balls eleven inches apart at
given distance. This case is then
placed on an artillery carriage, the
same as other guns. Two other cases,
similarly made, are then placed on
this one, and are made to open like
lady's fan. Its capacity will be more
than 5000 shots per minute, and
SWRan tho ON ~ M n no ~ r =.