The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-03-12
The WORLDS Fair Committee met

The worlds Fair Committee met
again in New York on Wednesday. |
with General Grant in the chair. No
steps were taken to carry out his sug
ges,ion of trying to get Central Park,
and the proposal was opposed in
committee.
The Kansas legislature "went the
whole hog in passing prohibitory
law. The latter makes no exception
in favor of druggists preparations,
cider and wine made in the State, or
wine for sacramental purposes. 1t is
thought the statute is so strict that it
will prove imperative.
Marry Kittel, handsome and
popular young lady of Leavenworth,
Kansas. who has been walking on
crutches since last October having
then fallen down stairs and Injured
her spine SO as to produce paralysis,
prayed for nine days for relief, and
is now as well as ever.
The counsel for Mrs. Kate Chase.
Sprauge gladly accepted the challenge
of Srague for trial. and are working
industriously, taking dispositions of
witnesses. Mrs. Sprague will have
more than twenty witnesses, some of
whom livein Washington, New York
city, Georgetown, D. c., and in Ohio
cities.
A bill has been introduced in the
Pennsylvania House Of Representa-
tiyes to punish wile-beaters by not
less than thirty lashes on the bare
back. The Judiciary Committee have
the matter under consideration.
A religious seaside resort is to be
established near Navesink Park. n
j. 1t is to be controlled by the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, and will
embrace 400 acres of land, which
have already been purchased by the
"Atlantic Highlands Association"
An old man giving the name of
William Morris was lately found in
a shanty at Fremont, Illinois, nearly
dead from exposure and starvation.
| In a belt worn around his body was
found near $4,000 in money. His
papers show that he was at Yale
College in 1858.
The whaling schooner L0ttie A.
Cook, of New Bedford, captured a
whale so feet long off Tybae, S. G.,
on Friday last, and the crew were
engaged the next day in cutting up
| the monster. Another whale had
been killed and left at sea until the
other had been disposed of.
Lizzie Suloway is a Providence
woman, who, after serving term in
prison for scallil g her mother. is now
charged with beating her and break
ing her collar bone The last offence
of the poor mother was that she had
married an old man during the i'm
prIsonnent Of the daughter.
Another asylum has achieved il bad
eminence. Superintendent Gruhbe
ana Mrs. Craig, the assistant matron
of the Allegheny City (Pa.) Aims
house, have been suspended tor i'm
proper conduct. and it is reported
that an inmate was so brutaIly treat
ed that she died. A tull investigation
will be made.
Elk Warden Pillsbury, of the Mas
sachusettS State pl ison, finds tiogging
an expensive luxury. When in Office
he caused two young women pris'
oners to be stripped and whipped by
the prison matron while they were
in his charge. The women sued him.
and he paid $3.50 to each, rather than
/ have the case come to trial.
Clement Skies, who several years
ago was acquitted at Lancaster, Pa,
of the murder of his grandfather,
was found on saturday night in hay
NOW rear Churcltown, and died
soon after, from a wound on his head
inflicted with iiard ball. The muir
derer has not been discovered. This
is the third violent death in the fam
lily since 1876.
The mammoth steamship Furnes.
! STA, the latest addition to the Anchor
Line fleet, arrived at New York
Wednesday, and was visited by a
large number of persons. She is the
largest merchant vessel afioat. and is
elegant in all her appointments. She
can accommodate 242 cabin and l 900
steerage passengers. She had rough
passage and stood ii very well.
Mrs. Mary A. f. Everett Crawford,
of Brooklyn, the wife of Henry g.
Crawford, a composition in the office of
the New York World, recently gave
birth to male child weighing
twenty-one and a quarter pounds.
The 2l.pounder has been hametl. out
of consideration of his size. George