The Republican journal., 1884-04-24
GeneralitieS.


big one.
The beet sugar industry is TO be revived in
England.
No more Chinese are to be allowed to land In
British Columbia.
4 woman in Illinois to frighten her husband
burned herself to death.
A portion of the Acheen coast has been
blockaded by the Dutch authorities.
Canada, debt at the end of the year will be
2+,.000 900. 1t is constantly increasing.
One-half of Mandelay. city of 10000 people,
and the capital of Burmah, has been destroyed
by fire.
New York City has 1926 butchers. bakers
and gr0cers. where there are 10000 liquor
dealers.
\ riot has taken place at kidderminster,
England. directed against the employment OF
female labor.
The Nova Scotia legislature has extended
franchise III municipal elections to widows and
single women.
y wife in Philadelphia sues another woman
for Sloo.eoo for depriying her of her husband
and hi> fortune.
II i proposed that when Washington Terri
tory i admitted to the Union the name be
changed to ta>cddld.
The situation in Cuba is growing worse daily.
Aguero'> band i being reinforced rapidly and
now number, 5000 men
April returns of winter wheat and rye show
a largely increased area planted and better
average in condition than in 1883.
During the past nine years property TO the
value Of .>,642.:}5e has been destroyed by fire
in the nitod States and Canada.
The British government has sent positive
orders to General Gordon to withdraw from
hharioum with the garrison soon a> posi-
be
British imports increased Il .400. 900. while
the export increased only f3,3OO during March.
British granurie> are heavily over>tocked with
grain.
Tie central Pacific Railroad is now running
a ta>t mail train from Ogden. west. This will
save twenty hours between New York and san
Francisco
Five nation>-ihe Italian, American. French
German and Eng>h-are demanding indemni-
~ from llayti for damages sustained in the re-
cent rebellion.
The CoIone and Lieutenant Colonel of the
Fourth OHIO Regiment are to be court-martial-
"d Oh the charge of di>obedience during the
Cincinnati riot.
Tie result of the Cincinnati riot has been 10
Ai the amusement business for the present
strangers Will not visit the city and ladies' are
afraid to be out at night.
The House has passed the agricultural appro-
pria'ion bill, reducing the amount 81 800
below the estimates. The appropriation for
>4e'!- wa increased BY $4,000.
\ novel feature in the dning-room of hotel
lt Niagara Fans i a colossal mirror, in which
the falls are reflected in such manner that the
guests may admire while they eat.
steamships which ply between Boston and
Norfolk always take il supply Of milk for a
round trip. a no supply can be depended upon
IN Norfolk. 1t keeps sweet and fresh.
The British Museum contain, 100000 vol
uine~. arranged ON 100 miles Of shelves. and
There are about % miles more to be filled.
ABOUT q ton OF literature i received daily.
\ curious little romance comes from Castle
Garden. New York. of Young German who
married girl to whom he had been Detrothed
IN childhood and whom he had never seen.
The New York Chamber of Commerce Coin
age tOmmttee ha> perfected its plans for
urging tAt passage Of the bill before Congre,.
su>pending the Silver dollar coinage for two
years.
wonderful rapdty in all the southern cities
and me competition which they have excited
Drawl,
\ meeting in aid Of establishing home in
Richmond. Virginia. for disabled tX-C Confrtirr-
4te soldiers was he'd in Cooper Institute, New
ork. April Hth, Fifteen hundred people were
Inc EeY. J.. NJ. Ferris. Baptist minister at
iiNoli. \. y, ha> been found guilty BY Il trial
committee oi engaging himself to be married to
several young ladies at the same time in differ
III localities.
company la, been incor6orated Tbe lines of
the company will run from New York 10
Albany thence TO California. FLORIDA. Wash
ington and Maine.
The physicians who examined Samon, the