The Republican journal., 1882-05-04
Generalities.

his eightythird year, $4,000 to kiss his hired girl
| Pacific coast men threaten to boycott Eastern
merchants who signed petitions against the
| Chinese bill.
| Not single suspect who has the slightest
claim to American citizenship now remains in
any Irish prison.
! Mr.. Oscar Wilde has made SO 900 out Of his
lectures. He points to it when inquired of as to
the utility of beauty.
! Gardiner A. Fuller,of bark Western Sea noto-
riety. is now lying in the Charles Street. Boston,
Jail in dying condition.
| Miss Clara Louise Kellogg will make her fare
We'll appearance May 26th. The date Of her
| marriage is not yet fixed.
Charles Robert Darwin. f. r. s, the tlistin-
gushed English scientist, died Thursday aged
Il wears, of heart disease.
Gen Hancock will be present at the reunion
of the Army of the Tennessee at st. Louis, and
| probably Gen. Grant, also.
The President has approved the Joint rcsolu-
ton providing for the erection of monument
over the grave of Thomas jefferson.
The President has sent message to Congress
submitting the question of proposed congress
| of American republics to the action of that
body.
| The trial Of the Malley brothers and Blanche
| Douglass, charged with the murder of Jennie
! Cramer, was begun at New Haven. Conn. last
| week.
Gen. Howard criticiseS Gen. Doubleday's his
| tory of the charlottesville and Gettysburg cam
paigrs, and Gen Doubleday sharply replies to
| Howard.
| There are over 20 900 men and 100 900 horses
and mules employed in railroad building in
| Texas. About 2000 miles of road are under
contract.
Since the 1st of January nine hundred houses.
/ which for the purpose Of taxation are valued at
ten million dollars. have been erected within the
municipal limits
The Providence Press believes that the impu-
dence with which Shipherd has treated the
House committee on foreign affairs calls for
| some punishment
The House has adopted the majority report of
the committee in the Utah contested election
case. declaring neither Campbell nor Cannon
entitled TO the seat.
The cabinet Friday considered a new petition
from Fitz John Porter for relief from the SEN
| tencc OF the court martial. The petition re-
| ferred to the secretary of war.
| The President has sent Il mes sage to Congress
| recommending an appropriation of S3.020 900
Tor carrying out the recommendations of the
! MISSISSIPPI River Commission
| Representative Dingley. chairman of the sub
committee in charge of the silver ertiticae bill
mas made report taking strong ground for the
| dlscontinuance of the certificates.
Judge Wylie has denied the motion of counsel
| for the Star Route thieves. to compel the pro-
secution to furnish full bill of particulars As
! to acts charged in the indictments.
The temperance people of New Hampshire
propose to hold convention and unitedly eN
press an opinion in favor of more vigorous
enforcement of the pfohibitory law.
The death of Mr.. Allen, democratic member
| from the second congressional district of Mis-
| souri,, gives Il reasonable opportunity for the
| Republicans to choose his successor.
Benz. PerIcy PoOrcs life of General Burnside,
| which has just been issued. is likely to provoke
| some military discussions as acrimonious as
those following Blaine's eulogy on Garfield.
News has been received that the steamer
| Rodgers. sent in search of the ,Ieannptte, has
| been burned and sunk. The officers and crew
are safe near Cape Scribe on the Siberian coast
President Gartield's grave on every pleasant
Sunday is visited by thousands of quiet people.
The scntinelS still pace about the vault, the
! bronze doors of which are thrown back, rev cal-
ing the coffin.
The Bible on which oath> have been admins
tered i'll the I. ). Senate during the past fifty
three years, has been stolen. The veteran door
| keeper, Mr.. Ba>sctt who had charge of it, is
greatly distressed.
Information is received of intense suffering
| on the Labrador coast. Several people have
died of starvation. Indians from the woods
| having no means of subsistence, have sW Warmed
down upon the settlers.
Mrs }. W, Mackay has warned off titled
| fortlne-hunters with the statement that her
young daughter will get no dowry on her mar
riage. She will have nothing until after the
death OF father and mother.
The wife of Lieut.. Governor II. A. W Tabor
of Colorado, has brought suit for separate
maintenance. She asks for a house valued at
| Sl5O,000 and $50 900 per annum. The Lieut..
| Governor is worth $1,000 600
About 5000 persons have been converted in
| Cincinnati, during the past three months. IN
connection with the revival meetings, held in
many of the churches. This looks as if the rum
cursed cities were beginning to cast out devils.
y contract will be signed in few days for
| the erection Of the Garfield Christian church, at
! Washington. While it is being built the present
| frame structure in which the martyr President
worshipped will be moved and occupied by the
| congregation.
The New York Tribune prints a sworn state
ment by Rudolph Rain, formerly Mormon,
| that George Q. Cannon in 1853. urged him to
murder Alvin w. Babbitt, territorial secretary.
Next year Babbitt was killed, as Rain believes
at Cannon's instgaton.
Congressman Hardenbergh, the Democratic
member for Jersey City, says that the action of
| his party i'll refusing to allow Mr.. Crapo's bill
| to provide for the reorganization of national
banks to be specially considered will cost his
party forty votes i'll the next House.
The Massachusetts Senate has passed to be
! pnproSSrI the hill rpstrictinu thn Of Ii
cen>es for the sale Of liquors anywhere i'll the
| State except the city of Boston, to one fOreVcry
| 900 inhabitants. For the city of Boston the
proportion is fixed at one for every 800.
The old salts at the Navy Department feel
confident that belongs party must have perish
ed on the coast Of Siberia. If they had been
| found up to Feb. 25 the news would have reach
| ed us ere this. 1t is expected that their remains
will be found i'll some abandoned hut used by
| the natives in summer.
The President is described as a rapid talkcr
but who, when all is done, leaves his listener as
| wise as at the start Il sat up with him till
| two o'clock in the morning. said senator the
other day. with just suggestion of sadness in
| his tone, talking abou. that matter. He learn
ed lots, but | did't find out Il thing
A special from Washington says James g.
| Blaine, Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, and Senator
| Davis, of West Virginia. have formed a SNndi-
cate to purchase the Washington & Ohio Rail
road, which will be short line between WASH
ington and Cincinnati. The railroad will open
extensive coal beds owned by the syndicate in
| Virginia. The track has already been laid to
within forty miles of Washington.
| The President has sent the following nomina-
| tionS to the Senate: Alphonso Taft Ohio, Min
lister Plenipotentiary of the United States to
| Austria; w. l.. Dayton, New Jersey, Minister
| Resident Of the United States to the Neither
lands; Nicholas Fish, New Iork, Minister Res
| idcnt to Belgium; Jno. NJ. Francis, New York
| Charge dAtfairs to Portugal; Adam Badeau,
| New York, Consul General at Havana.
| At Lcndon, April 10Th, the Grand Jury re-
turned a true bill for high treason against Mae
Lean, the Queens assailant. He plead not guilty
and the trial was commenced. Evidence for the
prosecution went simply to prove that MacLean
fired the shot. The witnesses Were not cross
examined. Montague Williams opening for
the prisoner, made insanity the grounds of de-
fence. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty
on the ground of insanity
The Chinese bill which passed the House a
day or two ago was identical with the vetoed
hill pyrppf that if prohihtS immiUrotinn far