The Republican journal., 1884-07-31

Rear Admiral Emmons, U. S. n, is Cead.
A case of yellow fever is reported at New Or.
leans.
Forest fires in Michigan are doing good Zeal
of damage.
Florida grape growers count upon an income
of 800 per acre.
The dividends payable in Boston in August
aggregate s., ,759 ,399.
Nearly everybody in Washington either
boards or keeps boarders.
The Australian cricketers have been beaten
by the All England team.
The Suez Canal is to be widened, and a
second one will not be built.
Lulu Hurst, the Georgia wonder, has been
magnetizing the solid men of Boston.
The directors of the Panama Canal state that
the Canal will be open for traffic in 1888.
1t is officially announced that the cholera
epidemic at Marseilles and Toulon is decreas-
ing.
Ex-Governor Walter Hartman, aged G7, died
Friday at Concord, New Hampshire, of heart
disease.
1t is said that the Bennett -Mackay Cabl
Company will not be ready for business before
autumn.
John C. Eno the embezzler, has rented a
handsome house in Quebec, where he will re-
side with his wife and family.
VIM. Griswold of Pittsield, Mass, who ran
away with a fourteen years old girl, has been
sent to prison for three years.
A coored woman, aged 50, living in Clark
county, Ga, is the mother of 26 children, three
of whom were born this month.
The President has called for the resignation
Of General Longstreet as United States marshal
for the northern district of Georgia.
The production of copper in Arizona this
year is expected to be fifty per cent. greater
than last years yield, which was 100000
pounds.
The Boston barque Rambler. with valuable
cargo of sugar from the Philippine Islands, was
wrecked recently. Vessel and cargo valued at
Sl50,000.
An explosion of giant powder wrecked a
train passing through Black Canon in Colorado.
Three men We're killed and several badly
wounded.
Officers of the revenue cutter Corwin give an
account of visit to a recently upheaved
volcano in Alaska, which spous only steam
and ashes.
At the Grand Army reunion in Minneapolis
July %, 900 veterans formed in the process
siou. Besides these there were 1000 strangers
in the city.
The taxes levied in Cuba the present year
amount to $50 900, 600, while the value of the
sugar crop of the island for the same time is
only $24 900 900.
The prohbitionist party's national conven-
ton. Thursday afternoon, nominated John p.
st. John of Kansas for President, and William
Daniel of Maryland for Vice President.
Tom Green county. Texas, which is about
the size of Massachusetts, though it has no
towns, has an assessed valuation of 81, 900 600
and population of G50.000 sheep and cattle.
The Alabama Claims court has decided 6O6
cases i'll favor of claimants and 266 cases
against. The aggregate ofawards is 81, III .193.
and the treasury department is ready to pay
them.
Mr.. Thomas II. Dudley, who was Consul to
Liverpool during Lincon's administration. has
a model farm near Camden. n. j.. which he
occupies as a place of residence all the year
round.
A grand Irish demonstration is to be held in
Boston August 14th. Accommodations are
provided for $4,000 people. Messrs. Blaine,
Cleveland and Butler have been invited to be
present.
Mrs. Scovie now known as Mrs. Howe, the
sister of the late Charles Guteau, and living in
Chicago, sent her late husband a quantity of
her unused wedding stationery in view of his
marriage.
The President has received message of con-
graduation from Queen Victoria on the rescue
of Lieutenant Greely. The President replied.
The Queen for her congratulations and
for the gift of the Alert.
The Comptroller of Currency has declared
dividend of II per cent. in favor of the credit
ors of the Marine National Bank of New York
The Comptroller says he expects to be able to
make a second dividend in a short time.
The Treasury Department has decided that
the provisions of the Dngley shipping bill pre-
scribing the duties of shipping commissioners,
do not apply in cases of vessels of less than 30
tons burden engaged in the coasting trade.
An earthquake has occurred at Massowah in
Egypt on the Red Sea. Nearly all the houses
in the city We're destroyed and the ships in the
harbor were violently rocked. The inhabitants
were panic stricken and fled to the interior
A contest Of speed between carrier pigeons
took place last week over course between
New York city and East Orange. N. J. The
chief events We're between birds named respect
lvely Blaine and Cleveland, Logan and Hen
bricks, Tammany and Ben Butler. Blaine beat
Cleveland. Hendricks beat Logan and Tam
many beat Ben Butler.