The Republican journal., 1885-09-24
Generalities.


in crowds
What appears to be Asiatic Cholera is preva-
lent at Transport, Nova Scotia.
General Logan received the Royal Arch de-
gree in Masonry in Chicago, Friday.
San Francisco has more Hebrews than any
American city other than New York.
Sixty thousand books and pamphlets have
been published by Congress since 1776.
The Boston Commercial Exchange has voted
to consolidate with the Produce Exchange.
A case of small pox has occurred at Tra,c.-
hill, Mass. Measures have been taken to pre-
vent the spread Of the disease.
The United States Treasurer is In receipt Of
requests from all parts of the country for So
and $40 notes in large quantities.
A fire in the mandatory of the South
American organ company of Boston Friday
night caused loss of about 100000.
United States Senator NJ. C. Butler, of South
Carolina, favors giving the President power to
suspend the coinage OF cartWheel dollars.
The opening of the first section of the Pana-
ma canal, from Colon to Tiger hill, II kiome-
tiers, is expected to take place in October
An exposition of the works Of living artists,
man capital from May until October 1856
Mr.. Albion w. Tourgee. is a candidate for
the Republican nomination for State Senator in
the Chautauqua district Of New York, where
he lives.
The Dakota constitutional convention has Sc
lected for the name of the coming State "Da-
kotah," and for its motto, Under God the Peo-
pie Rule"
70, 81
leading citizens there, have been placed under
bonds, charged with burglaries committed in
that town
The cholera has reappeared in Japan. The
United States steamer Ossipee, now at a Chin
ese port, reports deaths and Y cases Of cholera
on board.
p. r. Barnum has pensioned Mathew Scott,
the English keeper of the elephant, Jumbo,
who has had charge OF Jumbo since he was
three years old
Mormons threw quart pots filled with often
siye matter into the windows of United States
officers in Salt Lake City, Sunday, doing con-
siderable damage.
EXSpeaker Randall, in an interview at Pha
delphia, stated he could not be candidate for
the speakership of the House of Representatives
al the coming session.
In Wyoming the Knights of Labor have
taken a decided stand against the Chinese, and
their ultimate expulsion from the Territory is
regarded as probable.
New England veterans, on an excursion,
We're Hospitality received at Harrisonburg
Virginia, Friday. They decorated the graves
of the Confederate dead.
Moses A. Hopkins, of North Carolina, has
been appointed minister resident and consul
general to Liberia. He was born a slave in
Montgomery county, Va.
The secretary of the treasury has appointed
n. b. Bacon to be superintendent of the Gus
tom house at Toledo. O. Bacon Is a brother-in-
law of President Cleveland.
Riel was reprieved to october 18th. 1t has
been discovered that he was arrested in the
United States and President Cleyeland's atten-
ton has been called to the fact.
The cholera death rate in Spain has fallen
from over 1900 day to something like 600. AT
TouloE the plague is over, and at Marseies Its
proportions are no longer alarming.
Slowly but surely the English are gaining
commercial supremacy in Northern Mexico over
all other foreigners. They now control over p
800, 900 acres of land in Cohahuia alone.
The first Grant monument completed Is on
the State Fair Grounds, Peabody, Kan. 1t
consists of shaft forty feet high, built of ears
of corn, wrought into elaborate mOsalcs.
Recruiting for Mormondom seems to go on
quite as successfully in some parts of Europe
as it ever did Every month or two a fresh
batch of recruits Is landed in New York.
Paymaster- General smith was ordered to re-
convene Monday. 1t is assumed that the court
will he directed TO reconsider its findings.
The body of Thomas Moore was found,
Thursday in the pond in the Public Garden OF
Boston. He had been drinking heavily and had
stated that he intended to commit suicide.
Admiral David u. Porter who succeeded
Earranmt az head Of the Tinted States navv
although past seventy is still erect. Quick and
s',iri,a1 nd he attire is aixysys faultlass
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer
makes the excellent suggestion that forest cuti-
walton be made one of the subjects Of discus
sion at the agricultural fairs and farmers meet
ings.
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that owing to the large increase Of crime among
the Chinese in British Columbia 1t Will be
necessary to enlarge the penitentiares OF that
province.