The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-04-09
Alta Land League meeting at Duh

nounced as a amounting to 1889, all
but 9100 being from America. Mr..
Dillon stated that The organization
was spreading rapidly. and that there
was new larger number of strikes
against the payment of rent than at
any previous time.
On Tuesday last. Edward Thode. N
wealthy citizen Of Galena, Illinois.
died suddenly of apeplexy. The next
day his niece died. A week Drevi-
ously, a sister Of Mr.. Thode and
mother of his niece, was carried to-
the grave. and another sister who
had come to Galena to attend the.
funeral, was recalled to her home At
Omaha by Geographic message an
nouncing that her husband had met
with dangerous accident.
VIM. Cullen and Ann Collins, Of
Brooklyn, wanted to get married,
but were too poor TO set up house.
keeping so they cencOcted scheme
TO steal two children, and get the re.
ward which would probably be offer
ed for their recovery. A part Of their
plan miscarried. They stole two.
little girls, but before they could
secrete them were arrested and locked
up.
The great astromical event of the.
present month is the twenty-year
conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn on
the morning Of the 22d. The planets.
will be too close to the sun to be.
visible to the naked eye. Around
this conjunction the astrOlogers haye
clustered their werst prophesies but
the astron Omers, however, take a
purely mathematical pleasure in the
conjunction.
Ralph Gibbons. 3S years old, a
mining boss at Centralia. Columbia
county, Pa, died at the PennsyIva.
MIA Hospital. last Tuesday, from
Injuries which he claimed were in
flicted, with hemicidal intent, by Il
band of coal miners, who waylaid
him one night last August, and, after
beating him, threw him down the
shaft of a coal pit. Thinking to finish
their work, they tiendishly fred a
number of revolver shots after him.
The matter will be Investigated.
Mrs. Polly Haskins, accused of
poisoning her husband. was acquitted
at Delhi, N. Y, on Wednesday, it.
being in evidence that he was a per.
jurer. fOrger and a suicide. When
the verdict was rendered the prisoner
burst into tears. and threw her arms
around her little daughter sitting by
her side and kissed her. Her counsel
shook her hand in c0ngratulation,
and her sisters embraced her, while
the tears ran down their cheeNs-
Many of the audience also wept.
Several Months ago, a Newark gen.
tleman boughta pair of prairie dogs in
Colorado, and last December decided
to give them their customary winter
sleep under ground. He had a deep
hole excdvated, and, placing the dogs,
therein in box, he shovelled in the
earth until the box was buried several
feet. On Tuesday last, the box was
dug up, and the dogs were found close
together in sound sleep. They
were taken into the house. quickly
regaining consciousness, ard frisked
about like kittens.
A one hundred-year old negress
died suddenly. to all appearances, in
Pointe Ceupee parish, La. short
while ago. but in the midst Of prepa.
ratiOns for her burial she revived
again and seemed AS well as ever
This circunsta has created Il
frenzy of excitement among all the
negroes Of the district who firmly
believe that the old woman was re-
ally dead and has come to lite again,
and that she can, in consequence,
cure the lame, sick and blind and
perform all kinds of miracles.
A woman named Mrs. Stephen
Cantine. who recently lived at Mack
ey's Corners. Sch0harie county, New
York, recently related to a reporter
of tine New York San the story Of an
outrage perpetrated upon herself and
husband by gang Of masked men.
On the night of the 9th instant they
were taken from bed and stripped and
tarred and feathered, lit is understood
because of report that Mrs. Cantine
has another husband living. Seven
parties were arrested, and four con-
victed and fined $40 each.
A man lying on the floor in q
filthy basement in Monroe street,
New York. in the last stages of deli
rum tremens, surrounded by three
furnishing children, was the sight
which met the gaze Of a policeman
on Thursday night. The man was
sent to the hOsnital IN die. and the