The Republican journal., 1883-05-17
General1tleS.

General1tles.
New York city uses y ,200o0opostage stamps
month.
United States people use 100000 pounds Of
tea year.
The international chess tournament in Lon
don is progressing.
America supplies the world with gossamer
waterproof garments.
Thousands of sheep have been drowned by
floods in North Carolina.
The Iowa Republican State Convention meets
at Des Moines, June y.
The letter carrier system goes into effect at
Gloucester, Mass, June lst.
Queen Victoria has abandoned her intention
to open the fishery exhibition.
4 project is on foot for building another
canal across the Isthmus of Suez.
The total receipts of the internal revenue
since June 80, 1882, was 1921 ,25S. 1873.
The total coinage of all the mnts of the
United States in April was $4615, 900.
The work of laying stone on the Washington
monument will be resumed next Monday.
The bill reducing piIotage fees in New York
harbor was killed in the New York Senate.
The shipments of flour from san Francisco
for April were the smallest for three years.
The debt statement shows the decrease in
the tublic debt during April to he s. ,S5l ,402 65.
Dickey Brothers, the largest shipbuilders on
the Pacific coast. have failed Liabilities $780,
900
President Arthur has made proclamation of
the supplementary eXtraditon treaty with
Spain.
II is said that legal obstacle exists to the
proposed lease of the Eastern to the Boston and
Maine.
The examination of the dynamite conspira-
tors arrested i'll Cork has been commenced in
Liverpool,
The steamer Grapple was recently burned on
Puget Sound and 60 persons drowned. mostly
Chinese passengers
Myra Clark Gaines has won her suit against
the city of New Orleans, the court giving iudg-
mcnt for near two million.
At the annual meeting Of the New York
Civil Service Reform association George Will
lam Curtis was elected president
The Vanccboro clothespin factory is in full
ing out two hundred boxes a day.
The Delaware peach crop was not injured by
'hc frosts Of the latter part of April The trees
are healthy and in general bloom.
One firm in Florida has shipped North the
present season 34,032 quarts of strawberries.
and there are many more to come.
Freeman, the POcasset murderer. has been
arTaigned on an indictment for murder, and
placed in iail to await further action.
The original subscribers whose money paid
for the big organ at Boston are now in Court to
prevent il removal from Music Hall.
The New York Congressional apportionmcnt
bill gives the Democrats twenty districts, Rep
ublicans ten and leaves three doubtful.
Congressman Phil B. Thompson on meeting
the destroyer of his wife, one Davis, on 4 train
at llarrodsburg junction, Ky, shot him dead.
The Cunarier Catalonia landed 1870 passen-
gers at East Boston April Both, being tho largest
number ever brought into the port by a single
steamer.
Miss Fanny kellogg was married recently in
Boston to Max Rochert. The ceremony took
place at the Hotel Brunswick. Rev. Robert
CoIyer officiating.
The monthly crop report for Nav will be
completed and issued by the department of
agriculture at the usual time, late in the after
noon Of the 10th inst.
A sensation was created in a Dublin court
May md by two of the men implicated in the
Phoenix Park assassination pleading guilty.
Both We're sentenced to death.
Secretary Chandler says that no complaints
have been made to him by the relatives of the
late Jerome Collins, of unfair treatment before
the JeHnnctte board of inquiry.
The divorce suit brought by Agnes Robertson
BOucicault against her husband, Dion Bouci-
cault, has been settled and discontinued bv
mutual consent of the parties.
The President has selected Boston, Atlanta
and Chicago as the names for the three new
steel cruisers of the Navy. The new despatch
boat will be named either Eagle or IIiawatha.
Since January 1st the immigration into
Oregon and Washington Territory has agsre-
gated 19.14S which is entirely unprecedented
i'll any like period in the history of that sec
ton
George p. Lathrop and Mrs. Rose Hawthorne
Lathrop 60 abroad again early this summer
and "The Wayside" at Concord Mr.. Haw-
thorne's old home, where they have been living,
is for sale.
A jewelry broker Of Brooklyn killed his wife
and child and then shot himself. There is no
clear motive for the crime. although there are
insutficiently explained theories Of jealousy and
genteel poverty.
The forthcoming annual volume of '.Diplo-
matc Correspondence" shows that the propo-
Sition for Il peace Congress sent out bv this
government met with the cordial approve. al of
the other Powers.
1t is understood that the Inman Steamship
Line is willing to sell its steamers and good will
if a customer can be found The Guion and
Anchor Lines have been negotiating for the
purchase, but have not yet succeeded.
The London Times suggests the trial BY
Judges of the persons accused of the Phoenix
Park murders in the event Of the iuries in the
cases continuing to disagree. Michael Pagan
has been convicted Of the murder of Mr.
Burke
William II. Vanderbilt has retired from the
presidency of the Vanderbilt system of rail
roads. His sons William X. and Cornelius also
have retired from the vice presdencies but
have been made chairmcn of the boards of
directors.
Gen. Raum, who has resigned the office of
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, states thar
of the collections of internal revenue by his de-
partment. amounting to $S30,000, 900 in the past
seven years, not one cent has been lost by short
ages or defalc atoms.
one of the principal creditors of Elizabeth,
n. j., having obtained a mandamus requiring
the city government to levy a tax to satisfy
Judgment of SS00000, he threatens to serve it on
May 10. The effect would be to raise the tax
rate of the city to thirteen or fourteen per
cent.
London laments the loss of the Masonic Tenn
pie, i'll Queen street, which was burned Thurs
day night. All the Masonic insignia, together
with the furniture and paintings. We're DESTROY
a., Among q a
past grand masters. The loss is mostly irrep-
arabic.
Mr. John Burns, Chairman of the Cunard
company, says that he is not in favor of swift
steamships, built to carry passengers only, but
his company was satisfied with the results
attained by the Serva, and would soon add to
the Cunard line another fast steamship, the
Auranta.
Several attempts having been made to burn
the Hotel Glendnn, in Boston, a close watch
was kept, and as a result, Hattie Thornton,
aged II years, daughter Of one of the occu-
pants of the hotel, was discovered as the
person who has been setting the fires. She