The Republican journal., 1882-05-25
Generalities.

Peru refuses to accept ChiiS terms of peace.
The maple sugar season in Vermont has been
a poor one
Secretary Chandler is opposed to any more
Arctic expeditions
Nearly $50 900 people signed the petition for
Sergeant Mason's pardon.
Congress now appears TO favor the bill for
pen>ionin@ Mexican veterans.
one Chicago firm Kills and packs POO. 200 cat
tie and 5000 Oo0 hogs each wear
The number of fires and aggregate loss in this
! country in 1881 exceeded 1880 by 10 per cent.
The strike at Fail River is at an end The
demands OF the help Were partially acceded to.
The Pension Appropriation bill Just cpmplet-
edappropriates in round numbers, 800, 100000.
The receipts of apples nj the Boston market
between Jan. lst and May ID have amounted TO
Io6,014 bbls.
Friday, a furious gale ragged in Ontario. Can,
New \ DIRK and New foundIand.
James Wick. the well known scotsman Of
Rochester. n \ died on the 18th. aged "a wears
Advircs from Egypt announce that the solar
eclipse came off promptly and according to pro-
grammc.
No bid was made for the Sprague estate at
auction Thursday. and the sale was adjourned
without day.
Guiteau is much affected at the decision of the
court IN banc, and now says he relies on eXecu-
tive ciemcncy.
Numerous applications have been made to see
Guteau hung. The assassin begins to exhibit
symptoms Of physical weakness.
The Jennie Cramer murder trial at New Ha-
Ven, Conn.,. attracts more and more attention AS
/ il proceeds. It will last for some DAYS vet
The Irish police have not vet discovered the
assassin> of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr.
Burke, though they continue to make arrests
Lieutenant Danenhower and three comrades
Of the Jeanette expedition have embarked at
Cronstadt on the steamer Hidago for England
Extensive preparations are in state of for
Wardness for a reunion of the Army of the
Potomac in Detroit in the early part of next
month.
Ii is understood the grand jury has found a
true bills against Rerdell, Brady and j. W. Dor
sey. charged with frauds in connection with the
star route service.
President Arthur is announced to attend the
exercises of the Grand Army of the Republic
i'll New York at the Academy, Decoration Day.
Cen Grant presiding.
The truth III regard to the famous forged
Morcy letter is at last likely to be discovered
John L. Davenport is following the matter up.
and il is likely that one of the men who knew
| the particulars will make full confession. 1t
may be an unpleasant disclosure for certain
| prominent Democratic politicians.
| The leading marine underwriters Of Boston
| have signed a memorial to Congress. asking
| that the distribution of the Geneva award
money. now in the treasury. be left to q United
| States court, giving such court full jurisdiction
| to hear any and all claimants to said fund, and
| to decide who is legally entitled theretD-with
the right TO appeal to the supreme court.
| The rich Miss Burr, of New York lived in
! dirt and darkness, had no fire or lights except
| IN the kitchen where she lived, went to bed at
?. H., was most inordinate consumer of
plain food, and dying left $1,000 900 to charita-
! bic and religious institutions, in order to spite
| her relatives, who now fighting to make her
will imperative.
Mr.. ii. IL. Warner of Rochester. n. Y. has
| offered $500 for each discovery of new comet
| IN the United States, Canada, Great Britain or
| Ireland, during the year 1889; 800 for any me-
teorlc stone found in any of these countries con-
| tanning fossil remains of animal or vegetable
| life: and so for any mcteOrc stone seen to fall
| in the nited States.
The annual meeting of the American Tract
! Society was held in New York, MAY TO- with
| Prof. Barbour of Yale College in the chair
| The annual reports show that 292 POO volumes
We're issued during the year, and 900. go tracts
making total of 1914 ,46S pages of literature.
an increase of II 600 900 pages over the preced-
| ing year. The receipts during the year were
1919 ,22l.51; expenditures, 1914 ,O91. 30