The Republican journal., 1885-11-05
Generalities.

| 0ouhty, ~ L
Boston's registration this year |. about 1000.
| In 1884 1t was 65,574.
Commissioner Thoman, chief of the Civil
Service Commission, has resigned.
Gov. Robinson has appointed Thursday. Nov.
Goth, as Thanksgiving Day In Massachusetts.
Three telephone companies are endeavorng
to secure the cancellation of the Bell patent.
Louis Kossuth yet wears hat like the one he
| made so famous during his visit to the United
States.
One hundred thousand francs are offered and
| sixty thousand are bid for a Stradivarus in
Brussels.
A New Haven man has sent a check for S25OO
| to ID. l.. Moody, to be used In his work as an
evangelist.
Near Erie, Pa, father shot his own son in a
| famlly quarrel about the sons wife, intlicting
| fatal wound
"MaXwe," the supposed murderer of Prel-
| Ter at st. Louis, has been identified as Hugh
| Nathan Brooks Of England
John and Matt Williams, twin brothers. were
| killed in a sewer excavation by a caving in of
| the walls at South Bend, Ind
Canadians have left Montreal to obtain employ
ment in the New Enga States.
| Mr.. Spurgeon declares that he has been prac-
| tfsing vegetarianism for the past eight months,
and is "not only living, but lively"
A mass meeting of citizens at Stockton, Cal,
| adopted resolutions demanding the removal OF
Chinese dwellings from the city limits.
Heavy gales have been prevailing on Lake
| Superior and several vessels are missing. 1t is
| believed that many lives have been lost.
No 7
| tinues on the increase and the preparation of
furnaces for blast is heard of nearly every
| day.
There are said to be four hundred applica-
| tions on file at the State Department in Wash
| ington for the position of Consul General at
Paris
The stock of postal cards is very low, owing
| to the change in the plate, and the Department
authorities say the work is not as good as they
desire
New Jersey temperance women In convention
at Trenton propose to procure a law forbdding
| the licensing of liquor sellers within mile of a
school.
At Hartford, Conn, an Old lady of seventy
| three has obtained absolute divorce from
| her husband, who had deserted her for another
| woman.
la about TWO weeks time the two ends of
| tut SdHduldH racine T1iTOau VIII De united.
| This will be the fourth through line to the
| Pacific coast.
From Lowell. Mass, shocking case of youth
| fu depravity is reported, five girls under thir-
| teen having been arrested for drunkenness and
| disorderly conduct.
AT San Francisco sixty Chinese cigarmakers
| struck work because their employers refused to
| discharge about ninety white Workmen employ
| ed in the same factory.
Mr. George Augusta. Sala writes that he has
| made a pot of money from lectures in Southern
Australia; He is now earning more in Tas-
mania and New Zealand.
Bo.ton's 21S mail carriers collected IA ,595,-
| l9l pieces of mail for the year ending June 80,
50 al a cost of $99229 carrier OF Two and
| four tenths mills each piece.
The total valuation of the property in New
Hampshire for 1880, reported by the State
| board of equalization is $l14 4219 SOL and the
| taxes assessed are S2,601 $40.
In Denmark antsgonism between the King
and the Parliament has become so bitter. as it
| is charged, owing TO arbitrary royal action,
| that there are fears of a revolution.
Lieutenant Derby famous for hi. work in
| the He'll Gate explosion, is a son of John
Ph@niX," the humorist. He has made even
more n oise in the world than his father.
|
| progress to establish free trade between the
United States and Mexico are contradicted by
| Minister Romero and Secretary Bayard.
Thomas H. Benton was the only man who
reached thirty consecutive years of service in
| either branch of Congress. Senator Anthony
would have reached that limit had he lived.
1t is said the value OF timber illegally taken
| from the public domain by the Northern Pacific
| Railway Company and the Montana Improve
| ment Company Is about a million dollars.
The depreciation of silver has become so
| serious a matter to the commerce OF India that
| 1t would not be surprising to John BuIl as
sumo new attitude toward the silver dollar.
At a very stormy meeting Of the Bowdoin
| Square Baptist church of Boston, recently it
was decided by a vote of l Is to 50 to request
| the resignation of the pastor, Rev. W. W.
| Downs
The new mail service between San Francis
| co and Australia and New Zealand, to replace
the Pacific mail service, will begin on Noyem-
| Der 2lst, and Il steamer will sail every four
weeks thereafter.
The canvass of the official vote for the head
of the Ohio Stale ticket, as returned to the sec
| retary 0f state, shows Foraker's plurality to be
! l6,329. Leonard's vote was 2o,034, and the to-
| tai vote was rs $50
The New York Yacht Club met recently,
| and anpOntpd "A committee 10 .rlrt.f n niece. OF
| silver 10 be presented TO the owners or fhe Pur-
ltai as a testiIhohi7l oi appteciaIloh loF thelr
Ae"' III tiie t''enoe VI tho A'il7r'c"n cup
| Israel Greene who was annointed Indian
| Agent at Mitchell. Dakota. is me Iiput Greene
| of the Marines VINO struck down John Hrown
at Harner,s Ferry. md who. il WIS rrnorfed Al
the time. struck him several times after he was
"0"h'
| Karl Gerbart tha Hartford .culntor has
been engaged to furnish iesions for the Grant
monument IN Chicago. He has informed the
| committee that ,he sum raised. $50 00o Is not
| large enough 10 hnild such ! monument 4, they
desire,
|
that the President is in favor of the most
striuccn nj auti-uoIyramy legislation and of the
vigorous enforcement ofthe F(lmunds law. The
Commissioners win soon submit thei. renort TO
the President
In the search for other bones Of the masto-
don. whose teeth and few fragments OF bone
Or. Raymenton lately came across a human
skull on the same level and only a few feet
distant from the SPOT where the mastodon's
head Law.
"A y-discharged clerk in one OF the
bureaus of the treasury department wrote the
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