The Republican journal., 1882-07-13
Generalitles.


| lay two additional ocean cables.
Crop advices received at the Agricultural
Department are very encouraging.
1t estimated that the peach crop in Delaware
VIII amount to nearly 10000 baskets
The Senate has postponed consideration of
the Bankrupt bill until December next.
Col. Noah Orr, the Ohio giant is dead He
was eight feet high and weighed $40 pounds.
\ vital error has been discovered in the Knit
Goods bill passed by the House to correct an
error III The Revised Statutes.
Its reported that new and important eN idence
has been secured against Brady. of Star Route
not0ricty. and prominent politician.
The report of the subcommittee of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee on Interoccanic Com
munication will favor the Nicaragua route.
Guteau'> cadavcr was boiled Thursday, at
the medical museum, and the bones are being
prepared to be arranged in the form OF skele
ton
\ severe hail storm swept over Columbus.
Ohio, July 9TH. Six persons were severely injur-
ed. and crops and buildings damaged to Il large
amount.
Or. Loring is organizing corps of stati>-
ticians. 10 consist of one in each State, who
shall collect and report the agricultural statistics
! Of that State.
Another Chinaman has become AmericanZcu,
cut Oft his cue and married one of the bellies of
Augusta. Ga. where he is a prosperous and
church-goinS merchant.
Chilli is about TO withdraw her troops and re-
lihqu>h her military occupation of the larger
part Of Peru, rescrNing some portion Of the ter
ritory of both Peru and Bolivia.
The National House has authorized Il two per
cent. government bond. TO the amount of two
hundred millions, and many good financial
authorities think it can he easily tioattd.
1t i reported that a difference of opinion
exists among the doctors who are inspecting
Guitcau'> brain regarding his sanity, and two
of the number have withdrawn from the inyes-
ti@atOn.
One-third of the famous Dalrymple farm in
North Dakota has been sold to a PENNSYLVANIA
oil prince for $4,000. The purchase includes
The bare land subject to an incumbrance making
the purchase price about $40 per acre.
y flower known a. the Ratiesia Arnold
which is over Il yard in diameter and weighs
about fourteen pounds, is now on exhibition at
Berlin. 1t Is the largest flower in the world
and is found only in Java and Sumatra.
Under the Hayes Administration, breakfast
was served at the White House at 80, lunch at
and dinnerat6. President Garfield had break
fast at 30, dinner at and tea at !. Now
the times forthc first two meals are exceedingly
variable. but dinner is regularly served at : p. NJ.
Mr.. j. {, Bancroft Davis has resigned his po-
stlon aS assistant secretary of State, it is under
stood. because the duties of the office We're too
9neruus. He Will probably resume his place on
fhc court of claims bench. His successor, Mr..
John Davis, is a cultured, accomplished Young
man.
EfN W flns two hIln .1,.l IpI,fr
Is being constructed from the Indian Territory
west across the Texas Panhandle and thirty
five miles into New Mexico. Its course will
br in the line Of the Canadian river. and its
purpose is to stop the drift of the Northern
cattle.
The neurology of both Harvard and Yale
this year is of interest as showing the tendency
to longevity among educated men. OF the -
dead in the ale list for the year 81 We're 70
years or over. the average being over IS. OF
the II dead i'll the Harvard list % We're over 20.
the average being over Z. years. In each list
the extreme age reached was 9G years.
1t has been stated that the Christiancy divorce
case WAS to end with reconciliation, but the
report appears to have been unfounded. Mrs.
Chri>tancy says that her husband wrote her
a note saving that he was going away and
would like to say good bye to her. While she
was writing reply he appeared, and she met
him on the door steps. They converscd together
III the entry for 10 minutes, but there was no
mention of reconciliation. and she adds that
when they said good bye it was forever.
The temperance gatherings which have come
to form conspicuous feature of the Fourth of
July in and about Boston We're attended very
largely this year. At Lake Walden, Concord.
an assemblage of nearly, if not quite, fifteen
thousand listened to Mrs. Mary A. Lvermore,
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and other speakers
al Silver Lake. Plympton. Neal Dow of Maine
and Rev DIR Miner delivered oh sti adj
dresses, and on Boston Common the ladies of the
Christian Temperance Union conducted an all
day tent meeting and also fed the bodies of the
! multitude.