The Republican journal., 1885-07-16
Generalities.

| Two Delaware towns shipped 416,000 quarts
| of Strawberries this season.
The settlements of Nances and Dolores, Col
| orado, are threatened by the Indians.
The Southern Methodist Church proposes to
raise S263,0oo for missions in 1885 and 1886.
The friends of Rel are making strenuous eff
| forts to raise subscriptions for his defence.
The cowboys appear to regard the Indians
| OF the Indian Territory rs "otfensiye partisans.'
1t is reported that thirty thousand people
have fled from Murcia, SPAIN during the recent
| cholera visitation
Twenty people were injured at Albany, n.
T., July 4th, by the premature explosion of
some fireworks.
Lord Randolph Churchill has been reelected
| to the British Parliament, defeating his oppo-
nent by 127 votes.
Great Britain and Ireland contain 80 900 900
| head of poultry, and Great Britain's annual egg
bill amounts to $31 900.
Big Bear was captured Friday near Carleton,
| n. w. T. His son and one of his councillors
were captured at the same time.
1t Is authoritatively stated that Governor
Robinson Will be the Republican standard bear
er in the next Massachusetts election.
The number of communicates in the United
| Presbyterian Church in 1889 is reported at
| SS,Sl1, being gain over last year of 1884.
Great Brtan's 2S4 lifeboat stations during
| the year saved 633 lives aud IS vessels launch
| ing llfeboats 232 times and not losing man.
| Mrs. Mary Jane Morgan, one of the wealth.
est women in the country, is dead. She had Il
mania for collecting paintings, brac-a-brac, etc.
The New Hampshire Senate has passed a bill
| for the relief of poor persons who have served
| In the army or navy and their dependent
| families.
EX-Congressman f. A. Stevenson of Illinois
| has been appointed successor to First Assistant
| Postmaster General Hay, who has rendered his
| resignation.
Friends of John Mccullough say that if all
| the money borrowed from him by actors and
| stage managers were returned he would be
| worth 500 900.
| The Canadian Senate has restored the wine
and beer exemption clause to the Scott act
amendment bill which was struck out in the
| House of Commons.
Arrangements have been made for a five
| mile race, with turn, between Edward Ilanan
and George TIoSmer, to be rowed on Casenova
| Lake, July 23d for $500
The yacht Puritan, built to compete for the
| Queens cup, sailed her first race July lst in
| the Eastern Yacht Club regatta, outstripping
| ali her competitors in every class.
Russian flour has been offered by sample in
| the New York market for St per barrel Moth
| Ing but the tariff keeps Russia from competing
| with our farmers on their own ground.
At Cleveland. o., 4th inst, Phallas won
| the $4,000 race with Maxty Cobb in three
| straight heats. Cobb never showed his nose in
| the front during the entire race Time 2.l4,
| 2.l54, 800.
The President hopes to get away for his Va
| cation in the AdirOndacks about the first of
August. He will be away about Il month. He
does not propose to make many appointments
| before he goes
| Charleston. s c.. i, to perpetuate the memo
| ry Of John &. Calhoun by a monument sixty
| feet high, the fund for which has been accunu-
| Iating since a period previous 10 the war.
Last year the British and Foreign Bible
| Society issued an edition OF the New Testa-
ment at two cents per copy, and nine hundred
and itty-tivc copies were sold in nine months.
| General ;. 5. Burdette, the newly elected
| commander-in-chief of the g. A. r. was ts-
corted through the principal streets and honor
| ed win Il reception upon his return to Wash
| ington.
Official reports of the cholera from all parts
| of Spain for Monday. show an aggregate of
| 1884 new cases and $40 deaths The heaviest
mortality was in the city and prov mce of
| Valencia.
Curled maple il only an accidental form of
sugar maple in which the grain is beautifully
contorted. This form is highly priced by
| cabinet makers and $1,000 has been given for Il
| single tree
Sheep die suddenly on Oregon ranges. The
| cattle men sow saltpetre over good pa,turage
| the close nibberS take it and turn up their toes
| The cattle, not biting so near to the ground
escape, and have the grass to themselves.
The Newfoundland government has advanced
materially the duties on Canadian Hour and
pork in retaliation for the Dominion govern
| ment action in imposing a duty ON NeWfound-
land fish and fish oils coming into Canada
South Carolina bees make honey of yellow
| jessamine nectar, which poisons negroes, and
| in the same state swarm attached itself re-
| Gently 10 a horses mane and then stung him
| to death because he objected to such familiar
| ity.
The we'll at White Plains, New, is down over
| twenty three hundred feet and can 20 no fur
ther until the water. hch is seventeen per
cent. salt ard so heavy that the rope and tools
float i'll it and the drill does not penetrate the
| rock, is Shut out,
Serious riots are taking place in Chicago IN
connection with the strike OF street car drivers
and conductors. An attempt TO run the cars
under protection of the police was frustrated,
policemen being Injured BY missiles and three
| ears badly wrecked
Certain Cincinnati di>iIlers have defrauded
| the Government out of large sums by putting
| two very thick staveS into Whi>key barrels the
one containing the bung and the one opposite,
| thus deceiving the gaugers to the extent of
about TWO gallons per barrel
News has been received from London. Eng,
that the Canadian per cent loan OF II 900 ,OO0,
| tenders for which were opened the 9th inst, and
| which has been negotiated by Sir Leonard
Tilley, was subscribed for three times over, and
that it has been taken up at about l0l 2-3
| The supreme court of California, with only
| one dissenting voice, hats rendered decision in
the notorious Sharon divorce case, which yir-
| tuay puts an end to the hopes that the counsel
of Sarah Althea Hill have entertained of getting
| fat fees out of the silver senator's vast estate.
1t Is understood that Mr.. Kelley, recently
| appointed Minister to Austria will not be re-
called but he will 60 to Vienna, and should the
| Austrian government refuse to receive him. it
| is intimated the United States government will
| remain unrepresented at the Vienna Court.
| In the I. 5. circuit court at Baltimore, July
:. Judge Bond affirmed the decree OF the dis
trict court awarding three coiored Women
| damages of $1,000 each for having been eN-
cludcd from first class sleeping apartments on
| u steamer, after they had purchased first class