The Republican journal., 1882-10-12

senator PendletOn's new home in Washington
| has large gilded >untiowers ut the top of the
lightning rods.
The public debt statement issued Oct I'd
shows 4 decrease Of debt during September of
: l4.SL5,9iS.S3
The new cotton mills started at the South since
Jan. |, 1881, Will run 100000 spndles and con.
STAN" 10000 bales Of cotton yearly when COM
lletcd.
The $4,000 monument to Cakes Ames on the
Union Pacific railroad, near Salt Lake. has been
completed. 1t is of red granite and stands sixty
feet above Il high hill.
Chief Justice Coleridge of England saws that
foul-ffths OF the crime that comes into court
results from drink, for which Brtishers pay
over S10o,0OO,000 year.
The khedive will give medals to the entire
British army engaged in the Egyptian campaign.
| Those for soldiers will be made of copper and
those for the officers of silver.
The rain fall in September was TO- 93 inches,
the largest precipitation in that month for at
least ten years: the nearest approach to it was
| III 1872. when the amount was 1868 inches.
locomotive 80 feet long and l58 feet high to
the top of the smoke stack, with drive wheels
six feet i'll diameter and cylinders IS by "a inch
es has recently been built for the Grand Trunk
road.
The Massabesic regatta was fiasco. Neither
llanlan Plaisted, Conley, Hamm or Elliot We're
present. Hosmer won the single scul race, and
the West Ends the four-oared race Courtney
gave an exhibition of rowing.
Entries for the six DAYS go-as-vou-please
walking match in New York closed with the
following entries Charles Rowell. George Haz-
ael, Patrick Fitzgerald, George d. Noremac,
John Hughs. Daniel Herty and Frank H. Hart
1 Me-,
October %.
Behind President Hayes sat Peter Cooper be-
fore the Tariff Commission in New York city
the other day-listenng to remarks of the diff
crent witnesses. Mr. Cooper also addressed the
commission saying the country wanted per-
manent and staple tariff and one that would not
be broken up every ten years.
Frank James surrendered to Gov. Crittenden
at jefferson City Mo. Oct. 4th. When brought
before the governor he handed him his pistols
and stated that he (governOr) was the only man
except himself who had touched them for 20
years. Many prominent citizens sought OPP
portunty to shake hands with him.
The last will of Gen. Judson Fitzpatrick, exc
cutcd III Santiago. Chill, short time before his
death, beque aths all his property to his wife.
gives his battle flag, presented to him by his
regiment, to the State of New Jersey, and be-
queaths to the War Department, at Washington
his Damascus sword and scabbard of silver, pre-
sented to him by the troops under his command
at Gettysburg. He requests his executors to
publish for the benefit of his family, the five
lectures which he wrote and delivered through
out the country.
The Atlanta (Ga) Constitution records the
following singular matrimonial coincidence
"Dr. X. w. Lovett lives in Screven county and
Judge Thomas NJ. Merriwether lives in Newton.
They were schoolmates. They first married
two twin sisters, daughters of Bishop Andrew.
Their wives died and they then married two
other sisters, also daughters of bishop, Bishop
Price. These wives died and they then married
third pair of sisters, not daughters of bishop,
Smith of Greene county. With these last sisters
they are living happily