The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-04-30

be very drunk when fire broke out |
in her house in Brooklyn on Thurs
day afternoon. and was burned to
death. Her children were rescued
with much difficulty.
A man named Thomas L. Fox con-
ceived the singular notion that ne
was the husband of the widow OF
Commodore Vanderbilt. and called
to see her in New York on Wedns-
day. He was an escaped lunatic, Of
course.
A six-pound brook tr,Iut WIS caught
with pin-hook near Morristown, N.
j., the other day. The Jersey and
Pennsylvania brooks are said to be
full of the sly beauties, but within
few weeks the fishermen will doubt
less, outnumber the trout.
A young woman named Mary
Werner, failing to get satisfaction
from the Kings county, N. Y, court,
on Thursdays, for heralIeged betrayal
by Louis Weber, fell upon him. and,
with the aid of a stalwart sister, gave
hlm sound beating after the trial
was over.
At the continuation of the sale Of
the late Rev. DR.. Chapin's library, in
New York. on Thursday, the highest
price obtained was S46.5O for Mack
avs "Rambles Among the Ruins"
"Mr. Briggs and His Doings Fishing
brought s36, and Richard Lovelace's
"Lucasta," 5000.
A stock company has been formed
for publishing Republican paper. at
Dallas, Texas. 1t is to be called the
Gazette, and will be edited by w. j.
Grant. cousin of General Grant. J..
G. Jones, formerly connected with
the Cincinnati Times, will be the bus
mess manager.
A mortgage for 81 100000 was filed
in the Registers office of Kings
county. N Y, Wednesday, by the
New York and Atlantic Avenue
Railroad Company. 1t is executed
to the Crntral Trust Company Of New
York to secure the payment of six
per cent. bonds, to run for thirty years.
Brooklyn is moving for rapid tram
sit by elevated railroads. A meeting
of capitalists was held at the Mayors
Office on Wednesday. when it was
resolved to build trunk line with
branches from Fulton Ferry, the
terminus of the East river suspension
bridge, to the intersection of Flatbush
and Atlantic avenues.
Abe Buzzard. the father of the
notorious Welsh Mountain gang of
thieves in Pennsylvania. has heen
sentenced to thirteen years. impris
0nment for the different r0bberies of
which he was convicted. Jos. Buzz
Yard, his son, a youth of twenty. and
Deter Clark. belonging to the gang,
escaped with four years each.
Rev. Emory j. Haynes recently
seeded from the Methodist Church
and was appointed pastor of the
Washington Avenue Baptist Church.
Brooklyn. On Saturday $50 members
of the church announced their inten-
ton of severing their connection
with it, because Mr.. Haynes style of
preaching was "feathery, not solid,
and not doctrinal."
The New York police on Saturday
night made raid on number oil
low dens, in which fifty persons, mep
and women, were arrested. AT one
place there was trap door in the
middle of the room, through which
! visitors, after being made drunk and
being robbed, were dropped into a
room below and then carried out into
the street and deposited in the gutter
Gyumbere, the Hungarian, who
has spent sixty.five days in sleeping
trance in the Lehigh County Aims
house in Pennsylvania, gave signs o.
rea Weakening on Saturday. He open
ed his eyes. and when an attendant
sportiveIy shook his fist at his nose
he smiled. Subsequently he was
walked about the yard. and appeared
to enjoy bath.
The new steamship, the British
King arrived at Philadelphia on
Thursday with $40 passengers in all ,
and with one case OF smallpox on
board "a little girl ten years old, be
longing to Polish family on board.
The vessel was anchored in the
stream, and at night all the passen.
pers were vaceinated, preliminary
to their discharge yesterday. Tine
patient, with her family. was sent to
the smallpox hospital.
Joel NJ. Vanarsdalen. recently ar.
rested at Montreal for forging the
will of the Philadelphia millionaire,
Whitaker, was trying to raise the
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