The Republican journal., 1884-01-10

According to the Hebrew way Of counting
this Is the year 3G44
\ Governor Hale of New Hampshire. declines
to accept another nomination for that office.
Capt Eads is in England perfectng his esti-
mates and preparing models of his ship rail
road across Tile i>thmus.
! Willard, the railroad king, has failed. His
aS>ignees are VIM. Endirolt Jr, of Boston
and Horace White of New York.
a Grand Trunk conductor forgot train
Which he was 10 pass. and the consequence is
the death of thirty men ana the manning of
others.
The committee on admissions to the New
ork stock exchange have voted to re-admit
Edmund G. Steadman, who was suspended some
time ago.
The Chicago Tribune counts up 125 900 hu-
man lives lost by earthquakes, toruadoes. ship
wrecks, fires, marine disasters, and other acci-
dents in 1SS3.
General Eo>ecranS has made thorough
study of the Fiz John Porter case and now
thinks he was wrongfully condemned, having
changed his opinion.
Work is begun on the great canal that is to
Irrlgate the >An Luis Valley, in Southern Colo
RADIO. The canal is to be seven miles long. and
at the bottom 60 feet wide.
II is said that Tennyson is Il >hrewd tinancer,
who Jumps quickly at Il paying investment and
holds out TO the last for his pound of flesh lie
is worth 81 100000 to 81 100000.
Thomas Robinson is the name of l7-year-
ont giant now ON exhibition in san Francisco.
lie is seven feet high, weighs 200 pounds and
is reported to be still growing.
/ The London Athen;pum announces that a
new book has been written by Queen Victoria,
f Al I,a al ,f
Life in the Highlands from 1862 to 1892
| The Prince of Wales. in his official capacity
/ OF Gfant Master of treemaSOnS. has consented
to issue a warrant for total ab>taners' lodge
in London. He will not be an active member.
Citizens of san Francisco, CAL. are taking
meas ures to hold worlds fair in that city in
/ 1881. At meeting, Thursday evening, il was
decided to provide a guarantee fund of 81 ,0OO.-
600
/ The llaytien Consul at New York. has re-
! ceiVed authentic information that the city of
Jacnel has surrendered to the government all-
tho"jtie>. This virtually ends the rebellion in
4 liayti.
A legal question concerning the treasure
supposed to be i'll the British frigate lIussar,
wrecked near He'll Gate in 1880, has been sub
mltted to the law officer of the Treasury De
partment
Only nlne OF the thlrty-eght States have
sions of the Legislature this winter, namely.
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Iowa. Kentucky and
Mississippi.
I A heavy gale and cold wave swept over
the lake region Thursday. The thermometer
was 30 deg. below zero in Minnesota. A large
trestlc of the New York Central railroad was
blown down near Buffalo.
The French consul general has informed the
hhedive. if England is unwilling or unable to
defend Egypt against El Mahd. France is
willing and able to do so. The rebels are now
within 30 miles of khartoum.
/ The New York Legislature met Jan. 1st and
elected the Republican nominees of the caucus.
/ From the Governors Message il appears that
the State debt is six millions decrease Of
! four hundred thousand during the year.
! News from the Colorado mountains tells of
additional snow slide disasters. Several cabins
/ have been swept away and four men killed at
the Nirginius mine and two at Brooklyn Guch.
1 Two men are missing from San Juan.
The Mexican government has declared for
! felted the concession made to General Grant
for submarine cable connecting Mexico with
the United States and Central America, for
non-fulfment of the terms of the concession.
In Chicago Friday, the weather was colder
! than it has been for a years. Twenty car
1 loads of cattle were frozen to death on the
| Wabash road. On the Northern Pacific the
thermometer stood from 80 deg. to u deg be-
/ low zero.