The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-04-02
The New York firm of Schultz &

Orr, their late bookkeeper, amounts
to S45.000 The property of Orr has
been attached.
Henry Slater, a Jersey City vag-
rant, found new lodging place in a
smallpox ambulance several nights
last week. He was, of course, un-
aware of the fact until he was arrest
ed and sent to the work house.
A political assassination is reported
from Arkansas. Frank Foster shot
and MORALLY wounded John Dixen,
near Toledo, on Wednesday last in
quarrel. Both were candidates for
the same county Office last fall, Fos-
ter running on the Greenback and
Dixon on the Democratic ticket, and
they have been enemies ever since.
Dixon, who was unmarried, was shot
twice by Foster.
A girl named Lizzie Barton plead
ed guilty, at Clinton. Illinois, on
Wednesday. of herse-stealing, and
was sent to the county Jail fer twen-
four hours, she being too young to go
to State prison on that charge. She
also pleaded guilty of arson, and on
this was sentenced to the penitentiary
at Joliet for one year.
The substitution of steamers for
sailing vessels in the sealing trade
has caused great decline in the
number of persons engaged in the
industry. Formerly 200 vessels and
10000 seamen were engaged, but at
the present time fifteen or twenty
steamers and sailing vessels, with
1000 men, catch as many seals as
when the sailing vessels had the
monopoly of the trade.
Peter Josephs, who was born in
1880, and is more then centenarian,
appeared recently in the United
States District Court at San Francisco
and made an affidavit preparatory to
an application for pension. He
served in the war of 1912, and for six
months in the Union army during
the Rebellion, having raised com
pany in Missouri. He never received
any pension or pay for his services
in the war of 1912. and is now ap-
plying for the pension to which he is
entitled.
A circular addressed to the fifteen
leading locomotive works in this
country as to how soon they could
deliver twelve locomotives, received
answers showing how far the orders
already on hand exceed the ability to
fill. Only two mentioned as early a
date as December next, four could
not possibly fill the order this year,
three replied February next, one
mentioned April. and another June
of next year. and the Others declined
the order or mentioned some time
next year.
Mr.. A. B. Stone, of New York,
may be credited with beautiful
charity. He has purchased for $780,
900 site at Bath, l.. l., called Bath
Park, for the Children's Aid socity.
1t contains four and a-quarter acres,
with many trees, several nice pavil.
lions. ninety bath houses and many
con veniences for the future home,
and has frontage on the sea of some
$50 feet. The bathing is peculiarly
safe. The new summer home will
be the resort of the poor children of
the tenement. houses during the rot
weather.
The beauty of lady. giving her
name as Clara Flarence Mcneil, got
her into trouble in New York on
Thu. sday. She was wanted for the
larceny of $50 worth of diamonds
in Chicago, and a detective, who had
been supplied with fine large por-
trait of the fair fugitive, found no
in recognizing her. She
was taken to Chicago yesterday.
The lady's name is Mrs. DIR. Ward,
who. while stopping at the Palmer
House in Chicago, succeeded in getting
from George Perkins diamond ring
worth 5000, under the pretence that
she could find purchaser. The
story as to the value of the diamonds
is exaggerated.
Last Monday evening in New York
three burglars breke ,'pen the apart
ments of Catharine Busch. dress
maker. and stole $500 worth of prop
erty. They were about leaveing
the house, when they encountered
hey, ana one of them, who shattered,
asked him to report if he saw any
policeman near by. The boy reported
that he did not, and the burglars left
with their plumber. The suffering
circumstance furnished a clue to the
detectives, and on Wednesday the
burglar with an impediment in his
speech was arrested, and part OF the