The Republican journal., 1883-02-15
GeneraIltieS.

| Edward P Roe, the novelist, has made an as
| signment
d. NJ. Sabin has been elected United States
| Senator from Minnesota.
Queen Victoria has twenty-five grandchildren
and will soon have twenty-four.
Several foreign steamship lines have reduced
| their steerage rates from Liverpool to New
York.
| Gen. Chas. +. Henderson, a brave soldier, has
been elected United States Senator from Ne
braska.
| State Treasurer Vincent of Alabama is de
faulter to the amount of quarter of a million.
He skipped.
large rubber factory at New Haven is to
stop work, and 900 persons are thrown out of
| employment
The committee in charge Of the Barholdi
statue TO be erected in New York harbor, have
| raised $50 600 thus far.
The Rev Charles f. Eaton says that the pull
pit, the press and the public school are the
modern trinity of power.
The Democrats in the National House have
begun tillibusterng to defeat tariff reform and
the wishes of the majority
Weaver. the Greenback leader in 1880. is try
ing to effect a demo-greenback alliance to elect
| himself Governor of Iowa.
The total coinage at the United States mints
in January was: Gold, S2.594 900; silver, So
| 3l6.000: nickel and cents. Sll2.5o0.
Ex-Gov. Cobb. of Alabama, i, credited with
granting 202 pardonS during his recent term of
office, or something over one week
II is rumored that Secretary Frenghuysen
| will resi- On on account of i'll heath, and that
| senator Window will he his successor
Henry Ward Beecher will resume work upon
! his Life of Christ in the spring. The first
! volume was published thirteen wears ago.
Thomas NJ. Bowen has been elected United
States senator for the long term from Colorado.
and II. A. W. Taber. for the short term.
The President SAYS that if the present Con-
gress does not pass tariff bill. ne can see no
alternative but to convene the next Congress.
Henry a. Bowen has been indicted on charge
of attempting to corrupt Foreman Dickson of
! the Star route Jury. on evidence Of Dickson and
| Driver.
A large immigration from Great Britain via
Canada. next season. is anticipated. The Do
minion has some active emigration agents in
| the field.
Under law recently passed in Maryland
making wife beating punishable at the whipping
post. il coored man in the Baltimore Jail has
received seven lashe>.
The Connecticut legislature will consider a
bill to permit savings banks to invest their sur
plus and profits in railroad bonds bearing not
less than tive per cent. interest.
At EIdorado, Kan, witness said that he
would be compelled to tell where he bought the
Whi>key, for two or three of the jury We're With
him. and he did not dare to lie about it.
The grand jurors of Jersey City \. j., have
! presented l. indictments against Boycc, rN-
president of the wrecked City Bank . against
| Shaw, cashier. and ) against Beach. book-keep-
| er.
The Medical Society of New York by vote
Of 1+1 to 60. has ratified the new rule in the code
which permits its members to "mett in consul
tation legally qualified practitioners of medi-
cine"
The Republican State committee of MaSSa-
chu>ett> organized " ttne>day, eIpcting Henry
Cabot Lodge chairman, 50 full an attendance
| of members of the committee has not been seen
for Years.
At Wolfville, y. 5. there are seventeen YES
sel> laden with potatoes frozen in, and nearly
one hundred at various points in the Bay with
potatoes which are not expected to get out
before spring.
Hon. Freeman II. Morse, who was a member
or the 2Sth congres>-1H43-45- and WHO, With
Hannibal IIamliu is the oldest eN-mcmher from
Maine, is now residing in Liverpool. Eng. at
which place he has resided Since thc expiration
of his term rs cou>ul at that plac, many years
ago.
We acknowledge the receipt Of Adam Fore
paugh'S annual mammoth lithograph. 1t is by
the famous artist. Matt Morgan. representing
Adam Forcpau@h's S20G,0Oo oriental pageant,
LaIla kookh'> departure from Delhi. During
the season of lSS} tile great FOrcpaugh show
Wlii visit New EnUI3OI New NoTi, and \tNE