The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-05-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


fair in 1885. using as a nucleus the
grounds and buildings now being
prepared for the minor expositions
this fall.
On Monday passenger cars CON-
menced running on the Cambria'and
Somerset Railroad, between Johns
town and Somerset, Pa. This is
branch of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad.
The thirty millions of frances that
many papers reDorted had been car
ried off by DeLesseps' defaulting
cashier from Panama, has dwindled
down to fifteen thousand frances. and
even that has been recovered.
The increasing wealth of France is
shown by the augmentation of rail.
road receipts in 1880 over the preced-
ing year. The increase was one hunt
bred and fourteen million frances,
and the total receipts one thousand
and twenty-eight millions.
Allegheny county, Pa, has nearly
completed the payment of losses
caused by the railroad riots of 1877.
Thus far claims amounting to about
$3.50, 900 have been liquidated, and
bonds to the amount of S2,650,000
have been issued. 1t is thought that
$45, 900 will cover all the unsettled
claims.
The members o. the South Carolina
Press Association will have their
annual meeting at Beaufort this week.
They will be entertained by the citi
zens, enjoy a steamboat excursion to
Port Royal, and take part in a ball.
On Friday they embark for a trip to
Florida.
AT wedding in Muscatine. Ohio,
the bridegroom, Immediately after the
ceremony, put on his lat and oyer
coat, said "Good-by" to his wife, and
telling the guests that he had no in
tention of living with her, coolly
walked away.
Over twenty-three thousand dollars
was paid for a herd of jersey cattle,
consisting of six bulls, fifteen cows
and twenty-one helfers, sold in New
York on Thursday. The Alphea bull
Polonius brought alone four thousand
six hundred dollars.
The anniversey of the battle OF
Bunker Hill-the 18th of June-will
be celebrated this year by a parade of
the Charlestown Antique Associa-
ton, followed by the unwilling of the
Prescott statue, with an address by
the Hon. Robert G. Winthrop.
The proprietcrs of the three princi-
pal theatres of New Orleans have
entered into pooling arrangement,
by which the receipts fol the next
rslree years are to be divided at the
rate of forty per cent. each for the st.
Charles and Academy of Music, and
twenty per cent. to the Grand Opera
House.
William Baynard, the bigamist
who pleaded guilty in New York on
Wednesday, spoiled the future ma
trimOnial prospects of his first wife
by bidding her adieu with the words,
ut is worth ten years, madam, to
get away from you."
The celebrated trotters st. Julien,
Santa Claus, Oakland Maid and
Overman are on the way East from
California, in charge of Mr.. Owen A.
Hickok, the renowned driver of st
Julien, to engage in important con-
tests on the turf this season.
William Geisel died in Philadel-
phia on Monday from an injury re-
ceived in curious way. He got a
drink at saloon. and, in rushing out
to avoid paying for it, he ran against
the handle of push-cart, receiving
WOuHu tIidt tHucu III Hio ucdths
The consumption of opium is rap.
idly increasing in San Francisco.
There are four hundred places where
opium is sold, and each one of them
receives an income averaging $75 a
day from the traffic. The religious
and secular press are calling attention
to the matter.
Mr.. Rice, of Charleston, Iowa,
discovering that his wife had eloped.
examined his wallet, and finding it
as full, apparently, as when he had
last seen it, said that he felt no further
concern about the matter. His in.
terest was revived on discovering
that the money had been replaced
with scraps Of paper.
Five drivers of bob tailed line of
cars in New York have been arrested
for conniving with three men who
were always riding with them as
passengers. The latter had keys with
which they opened and robbed the
padlOcked boxes where the fares were
ri AnOsitpd The com many had haan