The Republican journal., 1885-02-05
Generallties.

The loss of stock in Montana from The cold
is about per cent.
The dividends payable in Boston in February
foot up 50, 164.454
Speaker Carlisle visited President-eecl Cleve
land at Albany Friday.
a prisoner in the Minnesota Jail committed
suicide by eating soap.
Fifty cows in Delaware have been inoculated
for peuro-pneumonia.
The Oklahoma settlers have come to terms
and will leave the territory.
Alarming authorizations in qunine are charged
against the New York druggists.
John L. Sullivan was fined 800 and costs in
Boston Friday for cruelty to horses.
A fire in the office of the Washington Even
ing Star Jan. %, did $4,000 damage.
A large number of persons were frozen to
death during the cold weather in Oregon.
II is reported in London that France has
decided officially to declare war against China.
Venezuela objects to some Of the awards of
the Mixed Claims Commission and has not paid
any.
Mrs. Mary Griffith. aged 92 a sister Of Gen.
Grants mother, died Jan. 29h at Batavia,
Ohio.
Secretary McCulloch calls upon Congress for
half million dollars to construct vaults for
silver.
There is a marked decrease in the number of
Englishmen and Germans coming to America
as emigrantS.
Gov Cleveland is pe>tered by people who
are seeking Cabinet portfolios for themselves
or their friends.
The British brewers last year paid $4,000 900
III taxes and exported more than 81 800 900
worth of beer.
An express train in New South Wales fell
through "A bridge into Il creek and fort, paSsen-
gers were killed.
Rochester reporter went TO jail rather than
reveal to a court the sources of his Information
in bribery case.
The Connecticut House of Representatives
has adopted IA resolution expressing adherence
at the dynamite outragcs.
A Boston skating rink treasurer was fined
SO for rejecting a negro who desired to pur-
chase an admission ticket.
Great anxiety is expressed in san Francisco
over the non-appearance of steamer san bio,
which has been out 40 days.
A lightning express train will begin to run
between Paris and st. Petersburg in April 1t
+ VIII make Inc UP III % hours.
/ The ice palace at Montreal was inaugurated
Wednesday evening, Jan. 2Sth, and was wit
messed by an immense multitude.
The North Connecticut regiment are about to
return flag which they captured from the
/ Fourth Mississippi during the war.
/ Thirty-nine horses were burned to death at
Philadelphia through livery stable taking fire.
several valuable trotters were among the num-
/ Der.
/ The production of gold in the mines of this
! country the past year was greater than in 1883
by 100000. The total amount was $50 01,-
| 1863.
The Canadian Parliament will probably take
| action at the present session looking to an eX-
/ tension of the applications of the eXtradition
| treaty
| There is IA great religious awakening in Cen
| tral Penn>y vania: Methodi>t>. Mennonite> and
salvation Army people are making hundreds of
| converts.
/ In q blizzard on the Newfoundland coast
! tweuty-three fishing boats Were driven to SEA
and sixty fishermen are supposed to have been
/ drowned.
The President has sent 4 message to the
| House recommending recognition Of official and
personal services to the Jtannette survivors
while in Siberia.
l. is stated auhoriativelv that the Swain
coury-mariiaI stands ) 10 in favor of the con-
vcion Of Swain. The report may moi be
made for several weeks.
President Arthur and eX-President Grant
have written letters of cpndolrnce to Mrs.
CnlfaX. President Grant tulugiIes the late
Vice president very warmly.
Mr.. :. 5. Conanl, editor of Harper, Weekly.
left his Office nearly two weeks ago presumably
intending to 90 home 10 dinner He has not
Since been seen or heard from
The storm of last week wa, Very severe
/ throughout Massachusetts and New Hamp-
/ Shire. All railroad train. We're delayed. At
u Dover, it was the most violent since 1876
I Elijah NJ. Haines Independent Democrat,
was elected permanent speaker of the Illinois
assembly on the second ballot Jan. % breaking
| the deadlock which has existed three weeks.
The Grand Jury has indicted several mem
/ beers OF corrupt ring in the city government of
4 Rochester, n. u, for bribery. one alderman
has plead guilt and been fined. 1t is very
/ bad mess.
| A woman living near Bristol Conn. LETT her
4 three children locked in her house; they began
/ Lighting matches; while the youngest wa burn
ing to death the elder children hid IN terror I'M
der the bedclothes.
of much trading and corruption exists in The
matter of the recent appointments by Mayor
Edison, of New York city. But nobody seems
to have been indicted.
The London Medical Times publishes the re-
suits of an elaborate inquiry recently instituted
/ by the editor into the merits of canned foods.
! Ii concludes that the evidence is overwhelming
| v in favor of the whoesomeness Of such foods
The River and Han Dor bill. a. reported, calls
1 for $4,000, 900. and of this sum the sixteen
states that compose the "Sod South" receive
S6.99O000, which leaves for the twenty-five
other States and the Territories only S5l1S, 900.
The democrats have had complete control of
all the departments of the Ohio State Govern
ment for year past, and the result is Il de-
ticiency of S1l4.6l6.3G. This in spite of the
fact that the appropriations We're unusually
large last year.
An effort is being made in Congress to enact
IA law providing for uniform commercial pa
per, such as promissory notes, bills of exchange.
etc. At present negotiable Instruments are
now governed by the laws of the States in
which they are made.
| 1t is said that a dozen bills have been intro
duced into the Kansas Legislature to change
\ the name of st. John county, which was named
for the late prohibitory candidate, and is OBJ
noXlous in consequence. Mr.. st. John is not
widely popular in Kansas
| Legate'S story confirms the story of the SO
600 81. John negotiations, but offers the prepo~-
ferrous explanation that the money was to be used
as campaign fund in Kansas. That Xplnnati0n is
absurd on the face of it, for Kansas was one OF
the States which were jus ly reckoned sure
for the republican candidates.
/ The Nicaragua treaty has failed of ratitiea-
ton by vote Of 81 in favor to % against. not
the necessary two-thrds. A motion to recon
slider made, that the question can be
called up again in the future. 1t is probable
tWo-thirds OF the Senate on its merits favor
able to the treaty. Considerable of the oppose
ton was the result of a feeling among the
Democrats that ratification of the treaty at this
time might prove embarrassing to the incoming
administration.
The story of the mutiny on the bark yelling
ton is told by the imprisoned sailors As follows ::
Capt. Armstrong got drunk and chased the
crew around the decks until they took refuge
in the rigging. He then began shooting indi~-
crminately at the men in the riggi g. and
severely wounded three of them. Then the
remainder of the crew returned to the deck,
surrounded the captain, beat him sense and
put him in irons. He died soon after the fight
The three sailors whom he shot are in a diving
condition.
FISH AND FISHING. At Augusta. JAN 30,
the Committee on Fisheries and Game gave Il
hearing on the petition for the repeal of SO
much of the lobster law a> relates to the close
time A. all know, who have watched the pro