The Republican journal., 1885-12-03
Generalities.

The Servians have been victorious over the
! Bulgarians in recent battles.
| George W. Cable, the novelist is native OF
| Virginia and 80 years of age.
France finds that her schemes in Tonquin
and Madagascar are too expensive to continue.
| it is said that both Germany and Austria
| have decided not to recognize our naturalization
| laws.
/ The Southern California Railroad has been
completed 1t Is an important link In the Atch-
| ison system.
| From the annual report it appears that the
| army of the United States numbers 21j4 officers
and a, 1Gj men.
| The health Of the unfortunate Empress Car
lolita Is failing rapidly, aid she is not likely TO
| outlast the winter.
The Bowdoin Square Baptist church of Bos-
| ton has passed resolutions dismissing the pas
tor. ". W. Downs.
| Ex-senator J. H. Mitchell was elected United
| States Senator from Oregon Nov. Is. Seven
| leen Democrats voted for him.
| Mr.. Robert II. Newell. the humorist, better
known AS "Orpheus {. Kerr" is still living at a
| ripe old age at Jersey City, \. j.
Mr.. Bane's old Washington house, now
| owned by Wm. X. Trayer., was damaged to the
amount of $1,000 by a recent fire.
| bio Lewis says that wearing large. thick
heavy boots and blue hand knit stockings, will
| improve woman's complexion.
Small poX is on the increase in Prince Ed
| ward Island. and il is feared that the disease
| cannot long be kept out Of Halifax.
Hon. Gau,ha A. Grow and Hon. A. Gil
more are the only surviving Pennsylvania men,
| bcfs OF The thirty second Congress.
| The application of the Connecticut Insurance
| Commissioner for Il receiver for the Charter
| OAK Lie insurance was withdrawn
Common Councilman Francis l.. White. of
| Boston, has been arrested on charge of forging
| a bill of sale to he amount of s. 0J3.
| In his annual report Gen. Sheridan expresses
the utmost confidence in Gen. Crooks ability
| to eventually eXterminale the A Apaches.
Boston and New York parties have recently
| been swlndlcd by forged bills of fading purport-
| ing to be drawn by hay exporters of ST. johns,
P.Q.
| Parnell has issued manifesto to the Irish
| voters of Great Britain. lie urges them to
vote with the Conservatives in The coming cleo
| ton.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has million in dia-
monds and seldom wears any. She owns four
Spain.
A woman lays claim to s. 100000 worth of
land in San Francisco, which she alleges was
decided 10 her lathel by the Mexican Govern
ment.
An autopsy of John Mccullough confirms the
medical opinion that the actors death was caus-
ed by distractions in the blood vessels of The
brain.
y family of eleven persons In Boston We're
poisoned by arsenic placed in the flour barrel.
A cook, discharged a few weeks ago. has been
arrested.
The opponents of the Bell Telephone Com
pany profess TO be very confident thai the de-
cl~ion Of the Interior Department will be in
their favor.
Commissioner Sparks, OF the Land Office,
has decided that the commutaton of home
stead IS turning of 1.-THE entry into a pre-cmp-
ton and is illegal.
The viii of David Dickson. the wealthy Geor-
gan planter who left the bulk of his estate to a
eo!orcd woman in trust for her two muatto
children, has been sustained by jury.
Mr.. D. Machines, member of the Canadian
Parliament, says that Hiel'S execution was en-
| tirely justified and that Sir John Macdonald
could not have acted otherwise than he did.
At a conference at Pittsburg, Pa Nov Is, a
compromise was effected between the coal op-
orators aud miners, and the long strike of 5000
miners, which began five months ago, Is at an
end.
The Republican Senators in Washington
claim that he election of Mitchell in Oregon
makes it certain that they will retain the con-
lol of the Senate during Cleveand's admnistra-
ton.
The Chinese merchants OF New York have
sent a letter to President Cleveland thanking
him for his action against the wicked men ho
have prosecuted the Chinese laborers In the far
West.
Natural gas has wrought a great change in
the value OF property near Pttsburg. Good
coal land Is selling low as $50 per acre.
while gas privileges alone have brought as high
as $4,000 an acre.
NJ. lie Brassa. the African explorer, arrived
al Paii, Nov. 10Th and received an ovation. In
an interview he said that the commerce of the
Congo region required the building of rail
way for its accommodation.
An efficient female clerk in the Patent Office.
a soldiers widow from Illinois, has been sum
marily removed from office. Her ''otfrnsive
parti>anshp" consisted in exposing a photo
graph of Gen. Logan on her desk.
Consul Murray, at St. John, n. b.. reports to
the Department of State that during the year
port with cargoes aggregating in value SS43.000,
or about u per cent. of the total export.
First Comptroller Durham has made a de-
cision that the Secretary of the Treasury has
no legal authority TO pay for coupons which
have been detached from an interest bearing
bond which may have been lost or defaced.
G. j. Floyd King, of Louisiana, says G. B.
Jones appointed consul to Callao. is one of the
assassihs of Gen. LiddeI and fed the country
on that account. Jones says bis accusers are
''ars, towards, poltroons and scoundrels."
The Standard Oil Co. is waging bitter war
against the old dealers of New York city with
the avowcd intention of crushing them out Of
existence unless they agree TO purchase their
oil from no other company than the Standard.
An additional article has been added to the
commercial treaty of January, 1888, between
the United States and Mexico, by which the
time for the approval of the necessary law to
carry the treaty into effect is extended TO May
90, 1886.
At Wallingford, Conn, fathers anxiety for
the success of his daughter, who was singing
for the first time in the choir of the Episcopal
church there. was so great that while she was
rendering solo he fell in an apoplectic fit and
expired shortly afterward.
1t is an exploded theory that one ring grows
upon a tree every year. The Agricultural De-
paftment at washington linus lDdt trees OF SIX
years showed u rings; of II, q /; of s. IL and
of "a, 20; the trees being respectively locust,
hickory, crab apple and oak.
William Heath. New York banker. has been
sent to Ludlow Street Jail on suit of Morosin
to recover $4S0,000, which he says he intrusted
to Heath to purchase railway securities with.
and for which no return was made. Heath
lived in Boston about twenty years ago.
The Assistant Secretary of State at Washing
ton declares that there Is not the slightest
the German Government in regard TO our
naturalization laws. the inference being that
recent reports to the contrary were sensational
and unreliable.
General SherIuan recommends that each
Indian family be given and located on 320 acres
of land All the balance of each reservation
should then be sold to the government at 81 %
per acre, this sum invested in Government
bonds, to be held in trust by the Interior Depart
ment, only giving to the Indians each year the
interest on the bonds for their support.
1t is stated at Calcutta, India, that the Chi
nese government has ordered the troops on the
frontier to prevent King Thehaw, of Burmah,
from taking refuge in Chinese Territory. Eng
land and China are in complete accord on the
Burmah question. Relations between France
and China are still strained The Chinese gov
ernment is delaying the completion OF IA COM
mercial treaty with France.