The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-26
GENERAL.
CooNs are very plenty in Virginia.

COOAN' oio '0ly PieuIy LII virginia.
The Chinaman is coming into vogue
as a lackey in some OF the monster
stores of Paris.
Two Senators and six Congressman
were found by the police in gambling
house raided at Washington, the other
night.
Mr.. SPENCER COCHRAN has lust been
married to Miss Bethany Hubbard in
Virginia. The groom is only ninety
two and the bride forty. The grand
daughter and great-granddaughter of
the groom ''stood up2 with the young
couple, and his son married them.
A HEARTLEss Montreal landlord
turned man, his wife, and seven chill
dren into the street the other day when
the thermometer was Is degrees below
zero. The victim was recently-arrived
Englishman, unable to get place and
robbed of his usual income by the fail
ure of creditor in England.
EDISON was 81 years of age on Feb.
IL. Ten years ago he went to New
York City from Boston, and had to walk
the streets all night, not having money
to hire bed. His associates say that
he will be the richest of all inventors vet
known to man. A few months ago his
London agent brought him out one
check for $4,000.
THE Mexican people are said to be
the best judges of cotton, linen, and silk
goods on the continent, as the Govern
ment impost regulations have been
based on the principle the finer the
g hr IL l.
induced German, English, and French
factories to send their best goods. The
Mexicans are like the negroes, however,
in preferring bright colors.
SOMEBODY in Boston has discovered,
and asserts very positively, after the
Boston manner, that in the house of the
future the bedroom will be dedic ated
to sleep, and the bed, with perhaps a
chair or two, will be the only furniture;
there will be no hangings, no papered
walls, no carpets, nothing to catch and
hold the dust, and the bed will stand in
the middle OF the room, where the air
can circulate freely around it.
THE late Vice-President Wilson was
always quite frank when speaking of the
depressing influences that surrounded
his early years. He used to say that
until he was twenty-one years old he
never had dollar in money to spend
for anything. During his whole APP
premiership his master never gave him
penny but once; then he gave him
three cents, and allowed him to spend
it at muster. Mr.. Wilson never had
but twelve months schooling, but even
in his youthful years he was an insatia-
bic reader.
MRs. MARY DRovER CowDRY, who
recently died at Passaic, N. j., was a
daughter of the Seventh New York Reg
iment until she married in 1864. Her
father, the regimental Adiutant, left her
an orphan OF four years in 1850, and the
command showed its respect for his
memory by assuming the support of his
child. Her formal ado ption when nine
years old was touching to all concerned,
and the regiment gave her up at her
marriage with present of $1,000.
THERE are in the United States, ac-
cording to the census reports, 25,520,-
5o2 males and "a ,632 1884 females. The
natives number 43,475, 500 and the for
eign-born 6,677, $50. There are As, 404,-
877 whites, 6,577, 151 colored, 105, 463
Chinese, and 255 other Asiatics. There
are 5,158 colored persons to each 10O,-
600 whites, against 14,52S in 1870; 49,
359 foreigners to each 100000 natives,
against 16,875 in 1870, and 96,519
females to every 100000 males, against
81 ,801 in 1870.
ONE of the villages of New Zealand is
built on a thin crust of soil roofing over
a vast boiler. Hot springs hiss and
seethe in every direction-some spout
ing upward and boiling with the great
est fury, Others merely of an agreeable
warmth. So thin is the crust on which
the people have built their little homes
that in most places, after merely thrust
ing walking-stick into the ground be-
meath ones feet steam instantly follows
its withdrawal; and the greatest care is
necessary in walking among the hot mud
holes and boiling springs.
"INDIAN JIM" or James Jacobs,
famous hunter of the Seneca tribe, was
found dead in the woods of Potter Coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, lately by party of
hunters. He was 80 years old, and it is
supposed he died of heart disease. Dur
ing his life Jim took great pride in
wearing the typical dress of the back
woods, and was always seen in beaded
moccasins, buckskin brooches, a doeskin
shirt, and velvet vest. He was known
far and wide, his trapping and hunting
territory extending from the headwaters
of the Lackawaxen River to the Susque-
hanna and Delaware, and embracing
nearly one hundred square miles of
wooded country.
ONE of the best attested cases of ex-
IRENE longevity is that of Mrs. Elizabeth
Treadwell Weston, of Peterboro', N. H q,
who celebrated her one hundred and
third birthday at Greenfield on Feb. 10.
1t has been maintained with much pains
and ingenuity that there is no proof that
any person in modern times has lived to
the age of 100 years; but most persons
believe that overwhelming evidence ex-
lists to upset this theory. In the case of
Mrs. Weston the family records are very
clear. According to these, she was
born Feb. Is, 1878, in Petersboro', and
marripd Abel Wastou in 17Q6 Eiva Of