The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-28

Saturday was great day for whale
shooting at Cane Cod. no fewer than
twenty five being peppered with
bomb lances and captured at Pro-
vincetown alone. With such sport
whale shooting excursions will in
time become fashionable.
Arthur Smith. boy of 10, the son
of Judge Fayette Smith, of Cincin-
natl, was found tied to the track of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, near
Derry Station, in an unconscious
state, on Wednesday night. He vas
laboring under the effects of narcotic,
and when aroused could not explain.
He could only remember going to bed
at home on Monday night.
A boy six years old, and his sister,
two years younger, were nearly
burned to death near Canton, Ohio,
on Monday. They had shut them.
selves up in a smoke-house, which
caught fire in some way. The neigh
borS had to break open the door in
order to rescue them.
During violent thunder storm At
Brooklyn about three O'Clock on
Sunday morning ball of fire (vari-
ously described as to dimensions)
burst in the air, and immediately il
appeared to the affrighted citizens as
if ten Thousand tons or scrap iron had
landed on ten acres of tin roofs, so
overpowering was thu crash that
followed. The city was spared from
any damage.
The subscriptions to the increased
capital of the Sibley Cotton Mills, in
Augusta, Ga, now amount to $780,
900. AS Boston capitalists has
stated that he intends to subscribe
$50, 1000, there is fair prospect that
the 100000 required will soon be
made up. The mill will have 1000
looms and 10000 spindes.
The hangnan who bungled the ex-
ecution of the NihiIists at st. Peters-
burg had primed himself for the task
by swallowing too much brandy. He
was in fact. drunk when he officiated
at the gibbet. He was heavily fogged
in payment for his service, but this
did not add any impresiveness to the
remembrance of 4 spectacle which
excited the horror of all who wit
messed it.
On Saturday last man who had
registered at hotel in Cheraw, S. c..
as Henry Darius, Denver, Col, COM
mitted suicide by cutting his throat.
His real name is believed to be w.
j. Powers, and he originally came
from Hyde county. N. c. In his
trunk he had $3.50; but there were no
papers to tell his real name. or
whether he had any relatives to be
interested i'm his fate.
AT StatesvilIe. N. c.. on Tues,isy,
man named John Brown, in order
to break little nephew of the habit
of eating dirt. took him out to a tree,
threatening to hang him. He tied
rope round his neck and swung him
up to the tree for the purpose of
frightening him, but on letting him
down found that he had carried his
experiment too far. The child died
the same evening from the effects of
the shock and injury.
The statistics of births, deaths and
marriages for 1879, in Paris, show
the increase in population to have
been only $4,000. The births were
500 400, and the deaths S39, 500.
The ilegitimate births throughout
France. compared with the legiti-
mate, are as u to a hundred, while
in Paris they rise to 80 to hundred.
These figures corroborate the general
impression that the French people
have almost ceased to multiply.
In downtown quarter of New
York is a dingy building occupied as
a One-cent restaurant. Its proprietor
known as Frenchy, though he is an
Italian-serves out coffee at cent a
cup, soup two cents, and various
other dishes ranging from two to five
cents. The latter is macaroni. There
are two wal ers and FIVE men in the
kitchen, superintendent by the pro-
prietor's wife. The proprietor is
doing brisk business and says he is
making money.
Among the puzzles the Londoners
are arguing ever with regard to Lord
BeaconsfieId is whether he died a
Christian or Jew. His baptism as
a Christian occurred when he was a
lad of thirteen either through the
interference of the poet Rog rs or a
Mrs. Ellis. There is no statement
that the lad was in the least consulted
as to his own wishes, and at the age
OF thirteen he could have had no the.