The Republican journal., 1885-05-21
GeneraIlties.

Mr.. Belt, the Baltimore merchant, has filed
an answer IN the suit for divorce instituted by
Mrs. Belt.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett says she has
been cured of nervous prostration by the Boston
"mind cure"
Wendell Phlipss estate foots up only little
over $4,000. The phianthropst made many bad
investments.
The State debt of New Hampshire is about
three million dollars. 1t was reduced the past
year $4,000.
Of the Az specie. of trees found in the United
States there are sixteen species whose perfectly
dry wood will sink in water
Eben f. Pillsbury entered on the duties of his
Revenue office in Boston, Thursday, and APP
pointed his son to a position as deputy.
The Canadian government is endeavoring to
refund the floating debt of the Dominion so as
to effect saving of $3.50, 900 in interest.
Twenty-seven wagons, each containing two
or three boomers, have moved into Indian Ter
ritory again on their way to Oklahoma.
Norman c. Munson, railroad contractor
Well-known throughout New England, died in
Boston Saturday afternoon OF heart disease.
The Lincoln Monument Association has been
incorporated at Springfield, Ill.,, for the purpose
of preserving the tomb of Abraham Lincoln.
James G. Fair is reported to have sold his
interest in the Nevada Bank at San Francisco
to Messrs. Flood and Mackay for S3,000,000.
James Garfield, the oldest son of the late
President, is tall, blonde and athletic. Harry
his brother, is short and dark compleXioned
The combined area of the Pacific, Atlantic,
Indian, Antartic and Arctic oceans Is one
hundred and forty-seven million square miles.
The Bank of Montreal, it is reported will lose
$4,000 by the alleged forgeries of James Rob-
inson. a merchant of st. John. n. B., who has
fled.
Two Minneapoli, flour mills. with combined
capacity of two thousand barrels daily, have
shut down, and others are expected to follow
suit.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts decides
that member of the Common Council i. not a
competent juror i'll q ease in which the city Is a
party.
The roller skating races in New York have
not proved good drawing card, and the pros
poets are that the managers will be out Of
pocket.
An important decision has been rendered in
the United States Circuit Court at Des Mones
adverse to the Washburn 4 Moen barbed wire
patent
Daniel +. Stanton, accused of numbering his
young friend, Frederick p. Nash in Philade-
phia, surrendered himself at the Mayors office
in that city.
Representatives of rag importers are at
Washington endeavoring to secure a revocation
OF the order providing fora proper disenfection
of foreign rags
1t is clsimed that under the microscope parti-
cles of genuine butter always assume the per-
nj a pInbnlp " ia IiStj Y
marked ST. Andrews cross.
over 80 families in Plymouth Penn, are
now receiving aid, and money is still badly
needed, as there are many hundreds of widows
and orphans who must be provided for
Mark Twain told the vassar College students
that his usual price for reading $500, but
that there he was quite satisfied to take fifty
cents and get the other S499.50 in looking at
the girls
Mr.. Lowell is not coming home Just yet. nor
Is he going to undertake professorship at Ok
ford. He is simply going to stay in London
for the present and do the honors toward his
successor.
The officers of the British man-of-war Garnet
are being court marlialcd at Halifax, n. S., for
allowing B0ynton to escape after placing his
dummy torpedo under the Garnet while in New
York harbor.
] he count of moneys and securities in the
United States treasury has been completed.
Everything was found in Il satisfactory cond-
tion. Even the missing two cents We're found
on the floor.
Three Italians under arrest in Chicago have
confessed the murder of the lemon peddler
Caru>o. whose body was found at Pittsburg in
trunk. Their motive was to secure three or
four hundred dollars.
Among the fifteen war ships in existence
which the New York Herald says can lie out
side of Coney Island and send shells into New
York city, are two Chinese ironclads. the
Ting 1uen and the Chen Yuen.
One of the things learned by inquisitiye visit
ors to the Russian war ship Strelok. now in
New York harbor, is that the Russian tar earns
no more in a year than the sailor on an Ameri-
can war ship earns in a month.
The Department of Agriculture is about to
make an exhaustive inquiry into all matters re-
latlng to irrigation. The special object in view
is to ascertain the best means for the improve
ment Of the arid land region of the continent.
5. f. Shelton a prominent merchant at Roll
eny Fork. Miss, was killed in a duel Saturday
by W. Il. McLduren, a well known LAWYER of
the same place, The trouble between them
grew out of heated political canvasses two Years
ago.
George Bancroft the historian, is busily en-
gagged writing his protest against the legal ten
der decision of the United States supreme court
He saws be has but a brief period of life vet
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Thursday one of the heaviest deals in canned
goods ever made in Baltimore was perfected
one house sold in a lump 40 900 cases tomatoes
and 10000 cases corn Price paid for the for
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Butternut wood is largely used for making
shoes to wear in breweries and other damp
places. Butternut is beautiful wood for
other uses, especially for interior cabinet work.
III hrowr
The authorities of lIayti have refused to de-
liver up Mr.. &. A. Nanbokkeen, a native of
the United States, and formerly consul for
lIayti at New York, although this government
fro, l nri.om '"' A0V' i'4''''' i0' n''
Eight hundred pounds of ntro-glvcerne and
5000 pounds of dynamite exploded at the Som
erset chemical works one mile east of the town
of Somerset, Pa Thursday One man was
blown to atoms and nine buildings were total
=
The evangelical churches in and around Bos-
ton are making active efforts already to secure
accommodations for about four thousand visit
ors next October, who will be attracted to
Boston by the meetings of the American Board
of Foreign Missions.
The will of J.no Holmes of pittshuroh Pa