The Republican journal., 1885-08-13
Generalities.

/ simon cameron Is worth Sf,UjUUUU, auu Don
| Cameron 5000 900.
September !, 9 and IA are the dates arranged
| for the America Cup race.
Lie ut. Greelys leave of absence has been ex-
| tended on account of sickness.
! Tha San Francisco Bulletin notes a REVIVAL In
the mining industry in California.
OF the 1925 voters registered at Walla Walla,
| WASH, about 400 are women.
The use of natural gas for fuel is throwing
| many miners out of employment.
The Orkney Islands exported 1850, $50 eggs
last year, representing in MonuJ EfG,294.
There are over fifty ladies in Minneapolis
who pay taxes on 100000 worth of property
| The apple-crop along the Hudson has been
considerably damaged by the recent hot
weather.
1t is said that William d. HoweIs has become
much embarrassed by the failure of James r.
| Osgood Il Co.
The disestablishmrnt of the Church of Eng
land is being loudly agitated by the radical wing
in Parliament.
! Yellow fever is fast increasing in Vera Cruz,
Mexico Forty-siX deaths have occurred in the
last two weeks.
|
ohe-half of which he got out of featuring against
orthodox religion.
Eddie Belmont, circus performer, in doing
the elephant somersaults at Medina, n. Y,
| fell and was killed.
A Georgia man has killed 81 rattlesnakes on
a half acre of ground within a half mile of his
house since January l.
| DR.. Primes estate is estimated at $500 900,
most of which be is said to have made out of
the New York Observer.
The seventh annual Congress of the fedora
| ton of Trade and Labor Unions will be held in
Camden, N. j., August 18th.
| General Joe Shelby. who now resides in
Bates county, Missouri, mks As cows daily and
disposes of the cream TO the creamery.
hog disease prevails in the vicinity of
Newark, Del The animals are suddenly strick-
en- with the dstemper and very soon after die
in commissions.
A London despatch states that Austria has
| formally notified the United States government
that Mr.. Kelley is not acceptable AS American
minister to Austria.
Sir Moses Montefore's will was made in
1882. He bequeathed large sums of money to
| various chart able institutions, and left numer-
Gus legacies to faithful servants.
| colony of 80 families is on its way from the
region of the late Rie war to the Turtle Noun
talns, In Dakota, and 300 more are expected to
come from that region this fall.
Mrs. Sarah }. Lippincott (Grace Green
wood is about to return to Italy to assist her
daughter in her preparations for an extended
operate engagement in tina: country.
Mrs. Helen Hunt jackson, the wcll-known
authoress, is lying at the point of death in San
Francisco. Mrs. jackson was appointed special
Indian Commissioner by President Arthur.
OF the 26,62S ,931 pounds of hops produced
in this country in the last census year of the
State of New York, mainly Oneida and the adj
joining counties, produced 81 ,62S.931 pounds.
Secretary Whitney has declared the contract
of Mr.. Roach for the construction of the new
cruisers Boston, Atlanta and Chicago forfeit
ed, and has ordered an officer to take charge of
the unfinished hulls.
Josef koros the Director of the Bureau of
Statistics in Buda-Pesth, Hungary, discovers
that the rich class averages 81 years of age;
the middle class, 4G years and IL months, and
the poor class, Al years and months.
The World says the bills of Drs. Douglass
and Shrady for attendance upon Gen. Grant
were $4,000 each, and that they have been paid
from fund raised for that purpose by George
Jones, G. z. Huntington, Frank work and
others.
The civil service commission reports to the
President that from the testimony of twenty
witnesses 1t does not appear that Postmaster
Jones, of Indianapolis, Ind, has violated any
provisions of the civil service act or rules. OF
course!
OF the twenty-five pail bearers at Abraham
LincOln's funeral only seven are alive. The
seven are: Gen. Simon Cameron, Elihu b.
Washburne, Col. II. q. Worthington, the Rev.
Green Clay Smith, Alexander II. Cofroth,
Henry l.. Dawes and John CONFESS.
The Attorney General decides that whiskey
under bond for expectation must pay the do
nestle tax if it is not exported within the time
lion for the completion of the expectation.
That is to say, he holds that the laws must be
executed
demonstrated that rifle guns cannot safely be
used for protecting dynamite bombs, and as
consequence the old smOOth-bOre cannon Will
come into use again. Every advance step in
the science of warfare seems to have its accom-
panying drawback.
In favorable California counts its
honey crops by the thousand tons, and bee
keepers find good profit when extracted honey
commands no more than four or five cents per
pound, and comb honey seven and eight cents.
This year, however, the honey yield will be
light-towers are few and nectar scant.
Secretary Endicott has issued an order that
no officer shall fill any staff appointment or 9TH
er office which shall deach him from his regi-
ment, company or corps, until he has served
three years with his regiment or corps and no
officer shall remain detached more than four
years unless assigned to special duty by the
war department.
The Portland Argus refuses to explain the
mn infnl onf nf n u Ilun