National Republican., 1883-03-07
FORWARD, March !

| BASE BALL season is approaching
ST.. PATRIcK's DAY Saturday, March IL.
LUMBER is now manufactured from straw.
ONLY two months more of the oyster sea-
son.
The Hudson is open as far north as
Peekskill.
TENNESSEE has 10000 colored Baptists, with
150 churches.
This is the week of Wiggin's storm, begin
ming on Friday.
NASH COUNTY, North Carolina, has coll
ored boy feet high.
TEN of the twenty-four New York aldermen
sell liquor by the glass
MCsH-AND.MILK societies are the rage in
Dakota during the winter.
IoE has been cut at Chaumont bay this
winter "a inches in thickness.
Missouri appears to be getting immigrants.
There is to be IL new iall ut Cassyillc.
ARAnI BEY hos begnn studying English.
| We imagine the late war ought to nave given him
all the English he wanted.
STocKToN, Cal, is rearing brood of prom-
ising young politicians. They have u gambling
den in the steeplo Of Il church.
WE cannot recall man whose brief politi-
cal experience was attended with bigger crop Of
uooroty than Senator TaDor's.
REV. Mr.. LINDERSIAN, being prevented
| from officiating ut the Phonlx, Osweso county,
y. y, Baptist church, his wife pounded tho pulpit
| In his stead.
! A LAS VEGAS man recently advertised in
Kausns paper for q wife. He should have adver-
Used in New England, where the supply is greater
than the demand.
NANCY MoCoMB, an aged colored woman
who died recently in Mlledgsvlle, Gu, cooked
Gen. Loiayetes duner on his visit 10 that town
! y.eight years ugo.
"WHAT can do for you to induce you to
20 to bed now2" asked mamma OF her i've
ysar.old boy. "You can let me stay up a little
longer" was the youngsters response.
THE beamng rays of the sun have aroused
from their winters sleep the lightning rod men
and the pump veuders, who are pouring over the
country seeking whom they may devour
TIE condition of Bishop Peck, says an
eastern shore exchange, is how such that tho
gravest apprehensions felt, and most of his
friends have abandoned tho hope thai ho Will
over be better. II has been definitely settled that
Bishop Peck cannot preside at any of the spring
conferences
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Buffalo to erect
monument to the late President Milard Fill.
more. The orginators uf the scheme propose to
make II the twin Of the soldiers and sailors monu-
ment now being constructed there at a cost of
$4,000. 1t will probably be placed on Niagara
tquare fronting tho residence Of the late presi'
dent
A FEW evenings ago William Moore, rcsid-
ing few miles south OF Boonvle, MY, was driving
home from that village His horse got stuck in a
deep snow driil, and became exhausted in his
Efforts to extricate himself Afler Mr.. Moore,
with several nelghbors, had spent several hours
In vainly trying 10 get the horse out, they COW
cred him with boards and left him until morning.
A YOUNG lady in West Union, Iowa, had
the misfortune TO have her finger broken last
Saturday by gentleman friend while engaged in
II friendly game at cards. In the process of tho
game tho young lady suddenly made grab for
his cards when he threw up his hands. In doing
this their hands came together with such force ns
to break hor finger. 1t is said the engagement has
> been broken of.
BUFFALO BILL and DIR. Carver, the crack
shot are going to Europe together next year. Car
vor will give exhibitions of his skill with the rife
during the afternoon aud Bill and his company
win give evening performances. They are to take
with them, besides regular theatrical company.
u herd Of broncho horses and company OF cow
boys and Indians. They think they Gre bound TO
make bushel OF money.
THE latest fling in the way of fashionable
amusemeutis is to hire professional elocutlonlst
and have readings at home TO invited guests Last
summer at Newport it was practced and the
ridiculous part of 1t was that in some instances
the elocutionists could not bring themselves down
to the prose of making bargain but vase was
left outside the door, with big footman to
watch 1t, into which the guests dropped their
trbutlons.
AN Ottumwa Iowa, paper is authority for
the statement that a Fairfield minister recently
married two couples from ottumwa on Wapello
county license The newly welded parties i'm
medately took passage for Eldon, whittier the
! minister followed them and at the dead houro
midnight aroused them from their slumbers, eX
planned the situation, and proceeded to pronounct
the ceremony again-this time brides and groomi
aud spectators were all robed in white.
, THE steamship Queen, which brought twen-
ty-three animals Of various kinds across the
for Flrepaughs circus, was caught In the fearful
| storm OF the l3th. The keepers report that the
! donkeys acted with more sense than any OF the
other animals; one of the two ostrlches brought
over died rom fright, sen sickness, and broken
leg. Horses are knownto suffer agonles from sea
Sickness aud those that survived had TO have
their food forced down their throats during the
voyage.
( ANOTHER Iowa weather prophet has made
q his appearance, his location being ut Lemars, but
his name is not given to the public. According to
o Chicago Inter Ocean correspondent, he has never
i been known TO fail in his weather forecasts He
. claims that the movements ana conditions OF the
atmosphere arc subject TO certain fixed laws, and
| ne pIeulcts lNul spring Will open
, early; that March viii bo warm aud dry, April
genuine summer month"; and May and June cool
: and rainy. There will DO drouth In March and
= April in Kansas Nebraska, aud Dakota, and al
! most incessOnt rains in May and June.
s AMONG the celebrated cases in the Now
York courts is the Stokes will case. Old Stokes
was on the debateable ground between eccen-
trlci,y and insanity He died disposlug of large
fortune in o very queer way. Mr.. Stokess char
J. acter and habit are now undergoing investigation
r In New York. One son-in-law mournfully related
- that the family had spent five years trying to teach
= Mr. Stokes some style. 1t finally got down TO a
- struggle between Mr. Stokes and his family for tho
- aseendency; sometimes one was on top and some
- times the other But they utterly failed to impart
!, any style to the old gentleman, as every member
4 of his family testified.
IS JOHN MAXWELL, of Keoliuk, Iowa, had
quite an exciting adventure on the Des Moines
riyer ice near Meeks Grove on Thursday. Mr..
Maxwell and Orr Towne attempted to cross to tho
o Missouri Shore Mr.. Towne who weighs 200
b pounds, took the lead aud Mr.. Maxwell beiug
x lighter, tried to keep in his footsteps. When
about forty feet from the Iowa shore Mr Maxwell
broke h olgh, sinking to the arm-plts, He caught
Vt on the ace toward tho Iowa shore and succeeded
Ia in getting out. Both retrnCed their steps having