The Republican journal., 1884-12-11
Generallties.
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AMY EissleF, tne famous dancer Is ueau
There was $50, 900 fire at Jacksonville, Fla,
Friday
Providence, R. L., gave majority of 1903 for
license.
A strange epidemic is spreading among swine
in the Mohawk Valley.
Friendly relations have been resumed be-
tween France and Morocco.
The semi-annual dividends, payable in Boston
IN December, foot up S39l25lO.
The last capstone on the Washington Monu
ment was lald at noon Saturday.
President-elect Cleveland will proceed to
Washington without ostentaton.
A driver for the Lehigh Valley Mine fell |
down shaft 800 feet and was killed.
A sixteen-year-old boy of Troy, n. H., while |
i'll a state of sonnambulism hanged himself.
Henry Ivison, a well-known publisher of
school books in New York City, died last week.
The Commissioner of the new Labor Bureau,
John fahrenbach, has received his commission.
President Arthur's friends, it is said, are
making vigorous efforts to secure his election to |
the Senate.
Asa B. Hutchinson, one of the original Hutch
inson family, died at Hutchinson. Minnesota. |
last week.
The boy preacher, Harrison. has announced |
his Intention of passing the remainder of his |
days in Chicago.
An earnest appeal is made to Massachusetts |
Grand Army posts not to press the IS Month |
Pension bill.
A revolt is feared in India. Foreign emissa-
ries are at work among the natives exciting |
them against England.
The puddlers Of the Susquehanna mill at
Columbia, Pa, have been notified of reduction |
in wages of 20 per cent.
The Mahd has from Is 900 to 20, 900 men en-
camped around khartoum. The British are |
advancing from Dongoia.
Hon. John D. Long is the only Republican
on the SUBJ Committee on Appropriations which |
has in charge the Naval bill.
Baltimore society is very much excited over
the report that the Pope is about to create |
new American cardinal.
The reported production of anthracite coal |
this year Is, in round numbers, - 900, 200 tons |
up 10 Saturday Nov. y.
The North Atlantic Squadron will be ordered |
To New Orleans curing the Exposition, which |
opens the 10th of December.
The Waltham Watch Factory has already |
notified 5l9 persons that their services will not |
be required after December 6.
The Swiss authorities are making war on the |
Mormon missionaries who have been working |
among the supplemented folk.
The Life Saving Service for the year ended |
June 30 saved the lives of 72S persons and |
saved property valued al S9lGl ,354.
The Emperor of Brazil has asked Captain
Eads for advice concerning important harbor |
improvements at Rio Grande de Sui. |
Prof. Virgins, the Canadian weather proph-
ct. has come out in new role. He has connec-
ted himself with the Salvation Army.
Robert j. Breckenridge, late Supreme Treas
urer of the Knights of Honor. is charged with |
being defaulter TO a sum of $160,000.
defauitins bank cashier was shot at Mon
mouth. H.. by man who had sustained hcav, |
losses through the failure of the bank.
1t is alleged that wealthy syndicate is |
>cheming to obtain control of 3000,0 900 acres of
Indian lands in the Yellowstone Valley.
After fifty years presidency of the New Eng |
land National bank of Boston, Mr.. Thomas |
Lamb, at the age of eighty, has resigned.
The Plenary Council at Baltimore strongly |
recommends the recognition of Thanksgiving |
Day hereafter in public and solemn way.
Gen. Grant and wife were among the first in
vited to the recent A>tor wedding, and it is said
were treated thereat like scons OF royalty.
1t is pretty we'll decided that ex-senator Nc
Donald is to be Attorney General. and that no |
Independent will be given Cabinet position.
It is believed that large amount of kentucky
whiskey now in bond in the United States will
shortly be shipped TO Canada to avoid the tax.
A, if American ladies We're not already >uff- |
ciently eXtravagaut, Worth, the great man
dres>maker, is coming over here to lecture on
dress.
The present Emperor of Russia in his earlier
days was noted for his feats of strength, and il
still one OF the strongest men in his Empire of
giants.
Governor Robinson. of Mass, pardoned on
Thanksgiving Day Edward Healy, 81 years old,
who was sentenced in 1869 for life for killing
his wife.
A mob of Prohibtionists at Bladensburg, o.,
on Sunday morning engaged in the pastme of
destroying a liquor saloon and numbering the
proprietor.
II is estimated that fully 100000 left Paris
during the continuance of the cholera epidemic
The people are now returning to their homes in
great numbers.
Cleyeand's plurality in New Jersey is 1852,
Blaine was beaten in New Jersey aS in New
York by the st. John men, who cast G,l55 votes
in New jersey.
There are 5000 persons in the employment
of the Government in Washington alone. OF
this number less than 5000 are protected by the
Civil Service act.
The efforts of the Colorado cattle syndicate
to obtain possession of a part of the Crow
reservation has aroused much feeling among
Montana settlers.
The gross earnings of the Eastern Railroad
for October were 1923 .56 against $780,
1854 for October, 1888, Il decrease of Sl6,-
IS, or ) per cent.
The annual report of the comptroller of the
currency shows that l91 banks with IA capital Of
4,042 .230 have been organized during the year
ending November 1st.
The New York World quotes Mr.. Kelly of
the pool selling firm of Kelly e. Bliss stating
that the losses of Jay Goud on election wager.
extend into the millions.
Over six thousand bottles of wine We're unex-
pectedly found in the cellars of the late Senator
Anthony, much of which had been presented
to him by admiring friends.
Mr.. Vanderbilt is alleged to have given, in a
roundabout way, something like one-half the
money which the Democratic National Commit
tee expended in the campaign.
The annual report of the Attorney General
points out mum Der of defects in existing laws,
and recommends a number of changes i'll the
interest of justice and economy.
Dakota, with a population of 420 900, stands
at the door of Congress and asks admission to
the Union. but the democratic party has hold of
the knob and will not open the door,
An abstract of the annual report of the See
retary of War is published. The expenditures
the present year We're $42 332 S76 q, or three
millions less than the appropriations.
The French Ambassador in London and the
Marques Tseng are conducting negotiations
through the British Foreig Secretary for the
settlement of the Franco Chinese dispute.
The astronomers are again puzzled to ace cunt
for the red sunsets. The volcanic dust theory
appears to be destroyed by the recurrence of
the phenomenon after an interval of several
months.
Mr.. John Roberts, M. P, owns about 800
acres Of the land on which Liverpool is built,
containing at present 1900 houses, with nopu-
lation of about 10000 No liquor saloons are
permitted on the property.
Barnum's large giraffe, which cost $1,000,
died recently at Bridgeport, Ct, of heart and
lung atfliction. 1t will be sent to Barnum's
museum of natural history at Tufts College, for
preservation. Barnum has cabled to his agent
at Singapore for three more for next season.
1t is asserted positively by those processing
an acquaintance with Cleveland's plans that
Bayard will be Secretary of State, and Senator
Garland of Arkansas is said to be named for "A
place among Cleveiands advisers, and Wm. q.
h bit,,ny r NnW nj Tan how a a ~ n