National Republican., 1882-07-08


The two hundredth anniversary Of the landing
OF William Penn occurs October %.
Stephen Gibbs killed James Duffy In a saloon
row at Jacksonville, Ind, Tuesday.
The river counties In Iowa generally gave ma
jorities against the prohibition clause.
While shouting Glory" during q revival In
Louisville, Eliza Douglass dropped dead.
Old maids are the neglected opportunities that
men refuse TO embrace.-NetO York NetRs
Pelham, above the Harlem River, offers $40 re-
ward for every tramp found in Its vicinity.
number New York saloons dispensed free beer
during the hour set for Guiteau's execution.
Walter G. Jones, wealthy Engishman, has just
given S36O,O50 for Japan and China missions.
The prospects for tremendous " honey crop"
in southern California this season flattering
There is danger of a corner in the sardine mar
ket. For two years they have failed to appear of
the coast of Europe.
A smoking friend suggests, as q charitable
thought, home for poor cigars-Commectat Bal
tetn.
stockmen in Southwestern Texas report the
screw-worm as worse this season than for many
years.
Liberia exported over 800 900 pounds Of coffee last
States.
The striking workingmen in New York were
distinguished for their orderly department on the
Fourth.
Governor Tom Fletcher, of Missouri. saws:
Garfield was learned in books; Arthur is learned
in men,"
AT Geneva, Neb., one man was killed and sew
eral horribly wounded by the explosion of a can.
Lightning struck the Pixies Peak signal-station
last Saturday, slightly injuring Day and Boynton,
The papers of Western, Michigan favor the sub.
mission Of q prohibitory amendment TO popular
vote Of the State.
Henry Griffin, of Gilsam, N. H, was badly IN
jured firing q cannon Tuesday, and will lose both
eyes-perhaps die
Rev. Samuel scoville, of Stamford, says the Yale
yeii OF twenty 1--we years ago was more manly than
the weak yah Of the preseut.
New Yorks free college cost S1500OO last year to
graduate forty four pupils, and now the papers
are raising a breeze about 1t.
The average daily attendance of the New York
city schools the past school year 10000, being
5OO more than the previous year.
The man who will invent light cool roof that
pie every M day for @ the fest t Of his ife sun' 0 "'
During the month Of May there were ninety.
four railroad accidents, in which twenty four per-
sous were killed and eighty-six injured.
Kate Shelley, the Iowa girl who saved rail-
road ira II, has invested her money in land, and
will attend school five years. She is now 16.
| A few days ago notorious Mexican horse thief,
| Epifanca, was taken from the sheriff at Fort
| Thomas A. T., by thirty masked men and lynched.
The new Vest bound tariff per 100 pounds from
New York to Chicago is 81 cents first class AZ cents
second class, 3S cents third class, and % cents
| fourth class.
The population of Canada has increased only %
per cent; in the past deeadei her del debt has in
ton 1S2 per cent
IEsthetc Boston objects to the use of the word
"imposer" as applied to a female swindler, and
claims. that "impoStrix" Is the proper phrase.
Beans.-Erchdnge.
The nineteenth an niversary of the capture of
vicksburg fell into line with Its predecessors on
the glorious Fourth. Brave men defended and
brave men took 1t.
John L. Dutton, deaf for sixteen years. recovered
speech and hearing By being thrown from his
| berth, near Chattanooga, when the steamer Wilder
| struck snag lately.
Forty four thousand three hundred and ninety
pieces @ Of baggage were handled at the Indanapo-
lis Union Depot during June, large increase
| over June OF last year.
Cough tells story about a boy, who, on being
reproved for blowing his nose SO hard, said 1t was
the Fourth of July, and he would blow thunder
out oft ii he wanted to-"
A dozen large fire. crackers placed under a coun.
ter IN Pitss6urg demolished things generally
perpetrators on the glorious Fourth.
Go and see Aladdin" and envy the girls their
cool eqstumesIB .; Boston Post, If you want to see
Philadelphia Neics Yes, go on sonny day, how
ever.
George S. Batcheller seven years a resident O.
Cairo, and one of the judges Of the Internationa
Tribunal in Egypt is passing his vacation I'm New
York. His sympathies appear to be with Arab
Pacha.
Laura NJ. Scott left her home in Licking, wen
to Cincinnati In boys clothes, smoke, drank ant
cursed with careless case, and was successfully
f clerk porter and street-car conductor before be-
ing found out.
1t is customary to grant first might passes in Chi
! nese theaters to applicants. failure to do thi
| recently at the Chinese theater in San Fl ancisc
resulted In the stonng of the stage and serious in
jury to several actors.
The State press does not take kindly to tn
= at the State convention last week. and 1T is con
: elusive that the question must before long b.
squarely met.-Chicdgo Neips
Senator Vests bitter attack upon the surgeon
who treated the late President during hi
Illness Tqs an exhibition Of bad taste worthy
0 surprlsing. Leader.
Q The Utica Observer heads a leader, "Wse Demo
i crat," and isn't satirieal in doing 1t either-jus
. the thing named has no existence. Osioe0o Time
u There Is no Pest-ige Of truth in the idea.
. Some comment has been made among cert III
! members Of the House OF Commons by the di.
g covery that a we'll known Irish member Is in th
habit of carrying at Westminster a walking site
7 which containsa dagger of extraordinary con
= strucuon.
The carriage of the Czarina Is the same tn,
Frederick the Great presented Elizabeth. 1t is
double throne on wheels, hung, not upon spring
but upon huge bands ofyelvet. 1t is drawn b
W light white horses in crimson velvet harnes
Of studded with gold and precious stones.
y Daniel Websers letter, written when Secretar
e Administration would regard 1t as cause for rS
"a moval II any employe Of the government paid E
:, that such assessments did not originate with th
:, Republican party.
re re Rose CoShlan wound up the season at Wallack
s with sensation. She wore the only live goldt
n beetle in the country, secured by-a golden ehai
- Between the screams of the ladies' as they saw Il
beetle crawl over her neck, and the ffantic q
tempts Of Harry Edwards to stick pin through
Miss Coghlan's last houls at Wallaek's wore N
roseate.
Oh First young lady: "We're going to start for Il
le beach Saturday. When are you going9" Secon,
n Were going next Wednesday, Third: "We'
,e not going uuIil week from Friday" First: 81
=, time, and no two Of us going the same day
J., he-he." Third: think it's Just TOO absurd
!" anything" Chorus, "Te- Te-he-he."-LotpeR Cifist
:, + The Bourbons have pretty strong grip upo
- South Carolina, but the Independents OF the Sta
K, are going 10 make q vigorous effort TO regain po
Mackey TO the Liberal ranks viii aid them cJ
siderably but the dissatisfaction caused by Il
course fihe legislature will contribute still mo
to the strength of the opposition in the popul
vote.-Pittsbarg Commercial Gdzette.
Chinese laundrymen have resolved to "bo
colt " the citizens Of Nevada City, CAL They vi
not wash for any white person, unless they a
| exempt from payment of $40 quarterly ncens
| Now Is the time for the Neyadalis TO boycott Il
Cinnamon and all who employ them. Th
when abundance OF white help could be had.
the Chinese win on this laundry fight the Ca
caslan may toss up the sponge and admit defei
because they would be equally successful in 9th
industrial contests involving little self-sacrif
on the part Of white men ana women
A. g. Holley, of Boise, Idah) Territory, whi
hunting on Squaw Creek Butte, encountered
cloud.bu torrent He heard he warming So
Il mighty wave OF water rolling down Ave feet
depth, and attempted TO escape. Before he cOu
get out Of the guleh the wall of water struck N
Took him down about mile, and finally thrt
him on some brush In an Unconscious conditiu
When he came TO 1t was dark. He got home ne
day In very demoraiizcd condition. A heayi
Butte, and, bursting, poured its accumu at
waters out. Mr. Holiey is the only man who ey