The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-08-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK

in the public schools; now it costs
S13.55.
Another American custom. bao.
gage checking, is likely soon to hs
adopted in England. The London
and Northwestern Railroad sent an
emissary here specially to report on
our system. 1t Is asserted that az.
900 pieces of luggage were lost q,
stolen in England last year.
The number of new houses bult IN
London during 1879 was q ,5S9. and
4Ol new streets were opened. Street
accidents resulted in death to 10s
persons. and in lesser injuries to
1850. The grown persons reportsd
to the police as disappeared footed
up 3, 300, and the lost children, 95a9.
but only rs of the children and "A,
of the adults failed to turn up after.
ward in some shape. OF the admit,
81 were found to have cemmittod
suicide. OwDerless dogs Numbered
1869, and cabmen convicted of fav,
driving, 313.
The lightning has recently heOn
playing some curious freaks upon the
top of Mount Washington. A bolt
darted among the printers in the
Office of the newspaper located
"among the clouds.r in accordance
with its title, breaking every pane of
glass except one in the window, scat.
tered the contents of a case of type,
upset washhand basin and disap-
Deared. Another bolt entered the
signal station and seriously damaged
the valuable instruments in the
geodetic survey station on the top of
the tower.
A child only twenty months old,
in Vernon. Texas, ran away from
home and was lost one whole night
in the woods. 1t was found mile
away, but during its wanderings it
had become as wild as a hawk. 1t
knew no one, and bit and scratched
with all its little strength when any
one approached.
Three bicyclists rode on Monday
from Providence. r. l., to Cape Ann,
Mass, lightweight miles,. in nine
hours and fifty minutes.
1t is proposed in New Hampshire
to celebrate the one hundredth an
niversary of Daniel Webster's birth,
which falls on the 18th of January
next.
Kentucky is feeling one of the
effects of failing to punish desDes.
does. Her strongest inducements
fail to attract emigration from the
old World. The Germans. particu-
larly, have bad opinion Of the State.
The authorities of HobOkeu have
taken a decided step to prevent the
foreign steamships from infesting the
people with fleas, by dispOsing Of the
mattresses used by the Immigrant
passengers during the voyage. The
landing of mattresses is made crime
punishable by tineand imprisonment.
The Wisconsin Republican State
Convention meets at Madison on Sep
TENDER Dist to nominate full State
ticket to be supported in the Nevem-
Der election.
The laying down of the cables be.
tween Berlin and Slettin completes
the subterranean telegraph system
in the German empire. These cables
now cover 1920 miles, nearly all of
them having seven wires. They are
laid beneath all the principal rivers,
and establish direct Geographic COM
munication between 22l different
cities and towns Of the German EN-
pire. The first cable was laid four
years and eight months ago.
The Ch,Tchmdn, which claims to
utter the sentiments of the Episco-
paliah body, takes strong GROUNDS
against the recent report of the joint
committee Of clergy and laymen ap'
pointed by Bishop Potter in the case
of Rev. Edward Cowley, OF "rhe
Shepherds Fold" 1t makes the
point that the finding of that body
"places the church in the attitudeo OIL
shielding, by me Of her Officers,
man whom civil court has con-
demned. and whom no court of%
own has acquitted"
Colonel Samuel Colt, the inventd
of the pistol called after him. lel'
when he died, in 1862. an estate
valued at from two to three millions
Though he disposed of the estate by
will, he added so many conflicting
codicils, that they led to litigation
among the heirs, and one of thesulls
has just been decided. One OF the
coticils left five hundred shares Oh
the Colt Arms Manufacturing Com
many tn fur children of christopher