The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-05-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

City, Michigan, sold her kisses at one
dollar each, and contributed $l32 to
a charity from the proceeds.
The coroner's inquest upon the
three sisters. Mrs. Watson, Mrs.
Smith and Mrs. Winsmore, who died
in Philadelphia within twenty min
utes of each other, concluded the in
vestigation by verdict that their
deaths were caused by apoplexy Of
the lungs.
A Louisville merchant took tray.
eler off the road and tried advertis-
ing. While the traveller cost him
$4,000 year, 81 900 worth of adver.
ing brought him one. fourth more
trade. But it didn't help the pretty
gin Is in the country towns to kill time
nearly so pleasantly.
Parties from Ohio have lately leased
large tracts of land from farmers, be-
tween Erie and Edinboro', Pa. 1t
has now TRANSFERRED that the object of
the speculation is to work rich veins
of anthracite coal, which the parties
claim to nave discovered, the pres
enee of which had never been sus-
pected.
The cotton crop of the South yields
two pounds of seed for every single
pound of lint cotton, so that last year
there were three million tons of seed.
every ton of which would yield thir.
ty-tive gallons of oil. The product
of oil, therefore. amounted to one
hundred millions of gallons.
Missionaries are wanted in the
Italian quarter of New York, where
several thousand immigrants from
sunny Italy have packed themselves
in the houses that were over crowded
before their arrival. These people
are not only in the depths of squalid
poverty, but they are as irreligious
as they are poor.
A mob attacked a Chinese house
at Martinez, CAL, Wednesday even
ing, throwing the inmates from the
second story window. Three Chinese
are badly hurt. and two will prob.
ably die. Several others are severely
injured. The mob are unidentified
at present, but the citizens denounce
the attack as a shameful outrage.
A party of Italians are negotiating
for the purchase of the old wooden
house at Clifton, Staten Island, for
merly occupied by General Garibaldi.
The building is at present occupied
by Mr.. Muccie, who was General
GaribaIdi's partner in the candle
manufacturing business at Clifton. 1t
has been standing over 100 years.
Captain Bloomer. a veteran ofthe
war of 1872, died at Harrisburg. Pa.
Thursday of last week. There is an
insurance of 100000 on his life by
graveyard insurance spectators who
have paid oyer $1,000 in assessments,
and who will receive no return on
account of the companies having re-
Gently been closed by Attorney Gen.
eral Palmer.
The death of Henry Coy, an eccen-
trio man, who resided for several
years at Palmyra, N. j., has allowed
the interment of three bodies of his
children, which he would not allow
to be buried while he was living.
One Of the children died twenty years
ago, and the other two year latei.
He had their remains sealed up in
bronze caskets and stored away in a
room of his house. He carried the
baskets with him in his changes of
residence and would set tor hours in
the room with his dead, and seem to
take pleasure in being near them.
A new kind of bomb has been in
vented at the Krupp cannon foundry.
The explosion of these new missiles,
it is said, owing to their mechanical
arrangements and the materials
which they contain, will be equal to
torpedoes. At the same works new
common has been tested. It is mount
ed upon a pivot provided with ma.
chinery which absolutely does away
with the rebound or "kicking." The
canson. moreover, is so fashioned
that, Notwithstanding its heavy cali
bre, it can be mounted upon the
smallest gunboats.
The engineer of train approach.
ing trestle bridge near Norwich.
CT, on Tuesday evening, whistled
for down brakes on discovering man
with a bag on his back on the track.
A cloud Of dust enveioped the loco
motive as it rushed over the bridge,
sparing the engineer the pain of see
ing fellow mortal cut in pieces. AS
soon as the train stopped several
brakemen and number of horror
loving passengers went back to pick
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