The Republican journal., 1882-12-21
GeneraIitles.

Two American captains have died of cholera
at Manila.
Congress starts off as though It meant to at
tend to business this session.
Ben Butler ate some of the Presidential turk
ey, Dec. 9TH at Washington
For three wears in succession it has showed
on the night preceding Thanksgiving day
The thermometer in Nebraska ranged from
zero TO 20 below all over the State Thursday.
Investigation in England shows that lager
beer is one of the most brutalzing of all liquors.
Herr Won Flotow. well known composer
of operas, has become blind from cataract the
eyes.
It is estimated that there are over POO 900 tons
of ice housed on the Hudson from last years
crop.
The peanut crop is worth over s3,000,o00
year to the South The demand for it is constant
ly increasing.
Gen. Terry has written 4 letter to Gen. Grant
endorsing the latter's conclusion in the Fitz
John Porter ease.
Municipal elections occurred in Massachusetts
cities last week. Amaiority elected Republican
or citizens maYOrs.
The bankruptcy bill and the proposed invcsti-
cation ot the congressional committees We're mp
in the Senate, Friday
The movement to have list of pensioners
published was again defeated in the [. 5.
Senate, on the 9th inst
A second assessment of 500 per share has
been made on stockholders OF the dofunrt Pacific
national bank Of Boston.
\ .arifi' bin which embodie~ the tariff commits
sion report has been offered by Mr. Morrill, in
the Senate and referred.
The Governor of Louisiana has given GER
ttcate to Kellogg in accordance with the re-
turns from the third distr ct.
The supreme Court of the United States has
affirmed the Judgment which restores the Ar
lington estate to the Lee family.
1t is understood that a reduction Of force and
salaries in the civil service is contemplated by
the House committee on civil service.
John O'Grady, a Philadelphia lawyer, was
arrested in that city on a charge Of conspiring
with others to cheat the Legion of Honor.
Miss Bertha Won Hillern of Boston. the pc
destrian. now an artist. is at Washington. and
has two pictures on exhibition at the capitol.
Il Young man of a years married woman of
81 i'll Indiana Oh Thanksgiving eve 1t is said,
apparently in explanation, that the bride is rich.
The report of the Tariff Commission as to the
duties proposed on iron and steel is regarded.at
Pittsbur%. antagonStc to the latter interests.
Several Massachusetts cities voted mo license
on the 9TH, but a larger number voted free
rum" The country towns are generally for pro-
hibiton.
At Makanda, Illinois, during an amateur play,
James Peri shot his brother dead on the stage,
having forgotten to draw the bullet. \ coro-
ners Jury acquitted him.
Tobias Forbes of Clyde, New York. whose
father was cousin of Morgan, says the latter
was not murdered but went to Australia and
published paper there.
\ sensation was caused in Philadelphia, by
the arrest Of an organized gang of grave rob-
bers that has for nearly twenty years been des-
polling Lebanon Cemetery.
The nitrd States District Attorney at Rich
mond, Va, has caused the arrest Of several
Democratic officials on charges of forgery. con-
Spiracy and election frauds.
The system of asserting mails on the trains
| between Boston and New York has been re-
established, enabling them to be distributed
earlier in the New York office
The boot and shoe factories in Montreal are
nearly all idle. The manufacturers are about to
introduce machinery and employ girls in place
of the strikers, TO do the lasting.
The extensive emigration from the mountain
districts Of Hungary to America has caused the
Hungarian government to request Austria 10
stop emisrant> not provided with passports.
At meeting of the Board of Trade, of Proyi-
dCncc, r. l.. recommendations to the National
Board OF Trade were adopted having for their
object the encouragement Of additional ocean
mail service.
a Washington special says that the House
committee on foreign affairs have agreed TO re-
port fayOrably on the bill guaranteeing 10000
hon, to SttIlt
OF Nicaragua canal.
II is said that many cornellS in Kansas have
yielded from 80 to 100 bushels per acre. Farm
erS are paying otl mortgages and making I'M
proNcmcnts that indicate an unusually prosper
ou> year with them.
\ scientific writer asserts that the long cur
rent belief that the cOnccntrc rings of q tree are
q record of its age, each ring representing
year. growth, is 4 mistake. \ series of expert
ment> have shown its falSitV.
The Utah commission report that the law for
the suppression Uf peygamy has thus far work
ed successfully. They counsel extraordinary
measures if the legislative assembly fails to re-
spond TO the will of the nation.
The returns issued by the Board of Trade
show that during the month inst passed British
imports increased E632 600 a. compared with
that month last year. while The exports decreas-
ed 900 during the same period.
Clerk Mcpherson has computed that there
will be l9l Democrats l2l Republicans. Is Read
jllsterS. Independent Democrats and Indie
pendent Republicans in the next House. The
Democrats will have /. ma ority Of % over all. :.
The Denver Fire Insurance Company has
been wound up. i had Il nominal capital Of
one million and reported that over Onc-fOurth
of that sum had been paid in 1t transpires that
the company never had a dollar i'll he treasury
In the Star route jury bribery case Bowen
testified that he leNcr offered Dickson $4,000
for his vote, lleged by the latter. He was
not authorized Y the department of Justice to
make any proposition to Dickson, and had made
none.
Violent storms have occurred in China since
The 2Oth Of October doing the greatest damage
on the island Of LuZon. Several villages were
destroyed, and Manila and its suburbs are in
ruins. From twelve to twenty large ships are
aground.
The question of aboishing school recesses and
giving longer interval OF rest at noon is now
actively discussed II many cities. The expert
men is to be tried for four months in the public
schools Of Troy, and for two weeks in those of
Rochester,
A New York man has 800, 900 invested in the
gathering of stale bread from the hotels of that
city. grinding it into food for pigs and poultry.
He employs nine teams III the business. He pays
the Astor House. for instance, $500 a wear for
its st lie bread.
President Arthur sent check for $500, to be
distributed among the crew Of the United States
steamer Taapoosa on Thanksgiving Day. The
President was promoted to this action by court
estes conferred by the crew during his trip down
East the past summer.
The executive committee of the Massachusetts
Civil Service Reform League has sent a letter
to all the Massachusetts congressman asking
their direct and active support to the immediate
passage of such laws as shall bring about a
thorough reform of the government service.
We have received from the Nontuck Silk Co..
Florence, Mass. 4 neat little book of 60 pages.
telling how many pretty things can be made of
the Florence Knitting Silk and how to make
them 1t also tells all about the silk worm and
its method of spinning its cocoon The book
will be sent for TWO threc-cent stamps.
A Herald despatch says GOV. Dingley thinks
that the free ships proposition will be defeated,
and that the committee will simply recommend
that American shipbuders will be permitted
for five years to import free of duty in bond,
material to be used in the construction of vessels