The Republican journal., 1884-12-25
9enerallties.

Egypts cotton crop is one of the largest ever
raised there.
St. Paul, Minn., Is to have Masonic Temple
costing $150,0O0.
The English Conservatives dislike the Nicara-
qua canal scheme.
Thurman, it is said, will be offered place in
Cleveland's cabinet.
An international exhibition is to be held in
London next spring.
Secretary McCuloch was confirmed bv the
Senate, on Thursday.
The Senate discussed THURSDAY, a National
Railroad Commission.
Robert c. Winthrop's condition was unchang-
ed at midnight, Thursday.
Only 1898 tons of shipping was built in and
near Boston the past year.
The House has voted to adjourn from the Goth
inst. to the 9th of January.
Paris Figaro states that there are 1880 work
men in Paris out of employment.
The Baltimore base ball club has been drop
ped from the Union Association.
The break iii the Mackay- Bennett cable has
been repaired and is working satisfactorily.
The Spanish loan of five million dollars has
Mrs. Catherine Gabel, of Gabelsyle Pa.
has celebrated hel one hundredth birthday.
The Reagan substitute for the Interstate
Commerce bill was adopted by the House l42 to
9S.
The United States Senate has passed bin
making inauguration day Il legal holiday in the
District.
Congressman Morrison of Illinois will make
active efforts to secure election to the United
States Senate
Encke's comet has made its reappearance
having been found by Professor Young Of
Princeton.
Swiss criminal, pardonpd on condition that
he would 90 to the United States, will be arrest
ed and sent back.
The programme of services forthe dedication
OF the Washington Monument and the order Of
procession Is announced.
The coal companies h2ve decided to restrict
next years production m order to obtain high
er prices from consumers
BARLEY Campbell in five years has made a
profit of $3.50 900 out of hi, plays. He began
life as newspaper reporter
General Swain, in his testimony before the
court martial, makes il appear that he was bad
ly treated by Banker Bateman.
The statue of Garfield at tine foot of Capitol
Hill, w ashington, will directly face the Hall Of
the House of Representatives.
The anthracite coal interests of New York and
Philadelphia have established an allotment plan
of production for the coming Year
The 100 divorce suits pending in Philadelphia
indicate that the Quaker city isn't wholly given
over to peace and the domestic Virtues.
The National Tanners Convention hu, tlecid-
ed to restrict the production of leather 33a per
cent. for thirty days, beginning Dec. -.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is reported to be much
annoyed by a rumor current i'll New OrIean,
that she is the sister of Henry ard Beecher.
Illinois has produced more corn less
acreage than for several years: the yield in
money to the farmers is the smallest since 1873
1t is said that Phillip Armour, the Chicago
pork packer, has one of the best private libra
rie> IN the country, and read, several languages.
A proposition is seriously considered to build
narrow gauge railroad from Readsboro to
North Adams Mass, through the Hoosac Tun-
mel.
The Illinois Railway Commissioners have
met to consider reduction of excessive rail-
way freights in View Of the small return to pro-
ducers.
ApowerfuI Anglo-Dut company ha, signed
Il contract for cutting 10,OO0OOO metres OF the
Panama canal, the work to be finished within
TWO years.
1t is charged that England has committed a
breach of the neutrality laws in selling British
merchant vessels to France to carry troops to
| Tonquin.
Mr. Heaey's portrait of Longfeow-one of
the only three paintings OF the poet in existence
N hr .rtu q tDIuh
Club, Boston,
The International Monetary Commission at
Rome mas concluded lis slttlngS. lhe proposal
of America to suspend the coinage of silver was
not discussed.
Coz. Carroll D. Wright is in Washington to
urge The passage of the bill opay States taking
a census every i've years hall the cost of the
enumeration.
about two-thirds the cost being paid by Con
gres>ional appropriation. The monument
weighs 81, ,12O tons.
The National Sugar Growers Association and
the representatives of the IRON mines in the Lake
Superior region protest against the ratification
Of the Spanish treaty.
Josh Billings says that humorous writing is
played out. and the funny book business has
been overdone. The funny lecturng business
still succeeds, however.
The Comptroller of the Currency has recon-
mended that Congress appropriate the money
necessary to pay the claims of the depositors
against the Freedman's Bank.
The rumor that Germany has anne xed the
Admiralty Islands, the Islands of New Britain
and New Ireland and portions of New Guinea,
has di>quietng effect in England.
A London dispatch says: The court has