The Republican journal., 1881-06-02
GeneraI1tIes.

John Grlshom began As days fast in Chicago,
Saturday noon.
Rt Rev Bishop j. j. Clinton, of the African NJ.
Zion church, is dead.
Colonel Thomas A. Scott in the last year OF his
life gave away S250,O00.
Mrs Abraham Lincoln is not seriously ill she
sits up most OF the time andis in her usual health
sanstruck and taken to the hospital. Mercury 90
IN the shade.
IL many box factories the nails are now driven
by machinery, one machine doing the work of ten
or fifteen men.
1t is said that there are more cases of small pox
in New England to day than at any time since the
epidemic of 1873
Ireland is in an alarming condition. At Mitch
elstown county of Cork, Friday, mob resisted
the attempted evictions.
During the logging season just closed 6,279 $50,
900 feet Of lumber have been teled in Michigan,
Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The Grand Jury at W Washington is to have all the
testimony the government officers have gathered
on the Star Route business.
David Towner, the Boston book keeper who
shot himself on his mothers grave in Middletown,
Conn, turns out to be deiauter.
Johnny Raine. of Ottawa, ran mile in -four
minutes, twenty eight seconds, May 2ith, the
fastest time on record in America.
Efforts are being made i'll New Hampshire to
change the divorce laws, that divorces may be
made much more difficult of attainment.
Congressman O'Brien, of New York, who was
divorced on Friday, was married at Saratoga
Wednesday, and started at once for Europe.
The extensive works OF the Collier W hite Lead
and Oil Company at St. Louis, caught fire Saturday
night and were totally destroyed. Loss 500, 900
1t is expected by Treasury officials that the en-
tire series of per cents. not converted will be
covered by calls before the next meeting of Con
gress.
The statue of Farragut was presented to the city
of New \ DIRK May 18th Joseph Il Choate dehv-
cred the Grafton and Secretary II unit presented the
statue.
The New York Commissioners of Emigration
are investigating the charges OF bad treatment
made by immigrants against various steamship
companies.
The grain crop OF Nebraska for 1881 is estimated
at I05 600 900 bushels, increase OF 30 per cent
over 1880 The wheat crop is estimated at $1,000,
900 bushels.
The women day walking match at San Fran
cisco was won by the following score Howard
56l, Lachappelle 1913 Young 34l, Sherman 800
Financially the affair has been tzzle
An Havana letter of the DIST says the province
of Santiago de Cuba Is so disturbed that martial
law continues and the negroes i'll various parts OF
the Island show symptoms Of restlessness
The Woman's Suffrage Convention, Boston, ad-
opted resolutions declaring that the women should
be allowed to vote on the pending woman's suffrage
amendments III Oregon, Nebraska and Indiana.
There is very little yellow fever in Havana con
sidering the season. Physicians explain it by the
fact of the prevalence OF typhoid fever which
they say first attacks people pre- disposed to yellow
fever.
Admiral Farragut dashed to the rigging dur
ing the battle in Mobile Bay, Quartermaster
Knowles, Of Annapolis, Maryland, is willing to
make oath any day that he tied the Admiral in
with his own hands.
Six thousand miles of railroad were actually
constructed in the United States in lsSO-a nun
Der only exceeded in the year 1871 In addition
to these there are fourteen thousand other miles
of railroad projected.
Sojourner Truth, the venerable African, who is
now l06 years old, has received from England
gift Of Il silk gown, which, she declares, q! am
bound TO live to wear. | have started in for an
other hundred years, and want to live now, more
than ever"
Near Cochran Georgia, Thursday. Mrs. Tiny
Garrett and daughter quarrelled, and the daughter
seized a shot gun and shot off the top of bel
mothers head. The father came home and whipped
the girl nearly TO death. Mother and daughter are
reported dying.
The Denver Col, News says that W H. CAVITY
who was sentenced to be hanged at Colorado
Springs June 18th, for the murder at Buena Vista
last April, of Deputy Marshal Perkins, is a nephew
OF Ben Butler and that his right name is VIM
Salisbury, OF Salisbury, Mass.
From an English official report it seems tina,
last year 9}l cargoes OF cattle, sheep and swine
were landed in England from America OF tn,
animals originally shipped no less than l3 GIG were
thrown overheard in course of the voyage $40 were
landed dead and ;'S4 had to be killed at the place
Of landing.
The woman suffrage convention which was in
session IN Boston last week, ad journed Tuesday
evening after electing Mrs. Lucy Stone president
and number of vice presidents and other officers
Among the vice presidents are Hon Geo. f. H oar
James Freeman Clarke, Mary A Livermore anC
Louise Alcott.
Judge A. W. Tourgee, in his address on Ma
tlonal Education" proposes heroic treatment fol
the evils OF the present and the future. He be
IeVes that ignorance, even when honest, is al
dangerous as dishonesty when intelligent, and con
tends that, as measure of self -detence the gov
eminent must educate the people.
Commodore Geo. Washington Morrison Mutt die.
III New York May 18th He has been confined to
his room for eight weeks sick with Bright's dis
ease was 81 years old, and feet inches in height
He was born in Manchester n H. and in 1860
joined Barnum's Museum. The deceased was mar
ried about three years age and his wife survive,
him
VIM. IL. Vanderbilt, who arrived from Europe
Saturday, said TO a reporter: Conkling made a
grave mistake in resigning He left the Stat,
without representation and the Republicans in the
minority When the question shall be submitted
to the people whether to follow the party OF Conk
ling, the people will rally around the party Conk
ling will find himself alone.
The walk in New York ended Saturday nigh
with the following score: Vint 57s. Sullivan
500; Hughes, 552aa Fitzgerald 1867 Howard, 5lss
Donovan, 50Ob; Glow, 500; Hazale, 500; Little
wood, 1909; Dufrane, 1929 Curran, 4S0s Vlnt
the winner, and Sullivan beat all previous records
yet the show has been failure financially, as the
receipts estimated at less than So, 900 Forty
five per cent of this is to be divided between the
winners two ftths of it goi ng to Vint