The Republican journal., 1885-12-31
Generalities.

The sale Of Bibles Is forbidden In Rio ia
metro.
There are 94s 900 more women than men i,
Great Britain
American exports fell off nearly one million
dollars in November.
Typhus fever and small pox are raoine
among the Servian troops.
Mr.. Gladstone's autograph sells in Paris fo,
~ francs, Bsmarck's for 30
Judge McCay sustains the constitutionalt,
of the Georgia Prohibition law.
The personal estate of the late Robert Treat
Palne Is appraised at $33T ,967.S2.
London Truth is to send TOYS to II 200 Door
children from its Christmas fund.
Secretary Bayard is in favor of increasing
the salaries of diplomatic officials
The Chinese take about $4,000 900 yea1
| out OF California and send it home.
1t is proposed to increase the freight rates be-
| tween England and the United States.
Garfield's memorial window at Williams Col.
| ege has been finished at a cost of S3645.
The State of Texas has bought large plan.
tation on which it will employ convicts.
Jacob Hash of Colorado recently subscribed
S5O,00O to the Methodist University of Denver
Cen Sheridan, it Is said, will write an ac-
count OF his campaign in the Shenandoah Val
| ley.
one county in California (Fresno) is larger
by 800 square miles than the whole of New
| Jersey.
| Cleveland temperance men defeated an or,li-
| nance permitting saloons to remain open on
| Sunday.
Hon. John W. Daniel has been elected Unit
ed States Senator from Virginia to succeed
Gen. Mohone.
Samuel Dyer, one of the anti-Slavery pio-
| neer>, died at South Abingdon, Mass, recently.
in his 18th year
An effort will be made in the Washington
territorial legislature now in session. to repeal
the woman suffrage law.
-Four men are under arrest in San Francisco
| charged with plotting to assaSsiuate a number
Of prominent capitalists.
The Rev. q. {. johnson, of Twigcs county.
| Ga, Is 70 years Of age, and is the father of Is
children, y Of whom are living.
An 1900 foot toboggan slide, TO be LIGHTED br
! electricity, is now building at the Buffalo Driv-
| me Park, and toboggan clubs are being formed.
Mrs. Leland Stanforl's collection of works of
| art Will be presented to the city of san Fran
cisco, and placed in a building in Golden Gate
| Park.
Frauds on the government in the importa-
| tlon of potato starch at Chicago have been
discovered through the New York Custom
| House.
| Of the IS Unted States senators ten are called
john, nine are called james. five William. four
Joseph, three Thomas, four Henry and three
! Charles.
Preliminary steps We're taken Friday by the
| New York Aldermen to make Gen. Grants
| place of Sepulturc permanent beyond all per-
| adventure.
The President has sent to the Senate a COM
| munication embodying an additional provision
to the treaty with Mexico in relation to the
boundary line.
The recent decision Of the United States SUI
preme Court that the title to the land grants is
still III the Government has created conStcrnl-
tion in Dakota.
Eight Cinnamon at FL Paso. TeX took out
| naturalization papers Friday. and it is expect
ed that a couple of hundred Celestial> there
will follow suit.
The Secretary of the New York Yacht club
has received a challenge for the possession of
the Americas cup from the owner Of the Eng
li>h yacht Galatea.
New England Day was observed by banquets
i'll st. Louis Philadelphia. New Orleans and
New York. Hon. 7. B. Reed was among the
speakers at New York.
As many as 5000 meteors We're counted by
the professional star-gaZers at Greenwich.
Eng, on the recent night when the earth rolled
across the track of Bierla's comet.
The United States Supreme Court has affirm
ed the judgment of the Supreme Court of tab
against eX-Deegate Cannon for unlawful CO.
hal, of will tba,,
On and after January l>t, the fees charged
on international money orders will be reduced
from one and one-half per cent. of the sum
sent, as is now charged. to one per cent
4 disagreement has arisen between the Eng
liSh and Russisn members of the AfghaniStan
boundary commission, and the matter has been
referred to their respective governments.
Sea Isle City, n j.. has the longest continu-
Gus sea wall to be found along the coast, it hay
ing now been completed to point above the
new lighthouse, making Total length of 1000
feet.
The reorganization of the Boston Post is
now completed. New presses will be put in
and the form and size of the paper changed.
Among other new features will be an evening
edition.
The new British Man-of-war Camperdown.
built of steel at a cost of S2,314 900 is the
heaviest ship ever launched from the royal
slips in England. 1t will be three years before
she is ready for sea.
The President and his cabinet did something
last week, that has never been done before in
the history of the government. They went in
body after the cabinet meeting and had their
photographs taken i'll a group.
The extent of the system of differentiation
in silks imported at New York may be in
ferred from the statement that twentv-two
firms have i'll one year endcavored to cheat the
customs service out of 81 100000.
As soon as her engines are set up the monitor
Puritan, which is now at Roach'S shipyard,
Chester, will he sent to League Island to be
prepared for sea. This will furnish about 800
men with employment for several months.
The Baltimore half million per cent water
loan payable at pleasure after July l, 1894, was
taken last week by Blake Brothers & Co., of
Boston at 1890 and accrued interest Bids
We're received for ten times the amount.