The Republican journal., 1886-11-04
Generalities.

Registration in Boston is about 2O0O below
last year.
The United States steamer Shenandoah is to
be sold.
The latest use of boycott is by gamblers
against certain manufacturer of playing cards.
Col. Joseph B. Clark, a prominent citizen of
Manchester, n. H., committed suicide Oct. 22d.
Hon. S. S. Cox has accepted the nomina-
ton to Congress from the ninth New York
district.
A colored man has sued a Chicago restaurant
keeper for refusing to sell him food on account
of his color.
The democrats of the third Massachusetts
district have nominated Hon. Leopold Morse
for Congress.
W. A. Rowe, of Lynn, made mile in 2.29
40 on a bicycle at Springfield recently This is
the best time on record
The Univcrsalists in convention are agitating
change in their creed and have decided to com
mence foreign mission work.
The national convention of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union opened in Min
neapois, Oct. I'D, Miss Willard presiding.
The inequality of white and black labor at
the South is a problem which will agitate the
knights Of Labor conventions in the future.
Immense forest fires are burning i'm the Blue
Mountains, Pa. About 200 acres have been
burned over, destroying $50, 600 worth of tim
Der.
The Cerneau rite has been condemned bv the
Grand Lodge of Masons of Ohio, and adms-
sion is denied it in every lodge room in the jur-
isdiction.
General Sheridan has been elected command
er of the military order Loyal Legion, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of General
Hancock.
Sixteen hundred geese belonging to Boston
firm were packed too closely in a freight ear
while being shipped from New York and were
smothcred.
The Free MaSons of kentucky considered
the proposition of making the sale of rum as Il
beverage Masonic offence, but postponed ac.
ton for one year.
The Knights of Labor Convention voted to
make the salary of the Grand Master Work
man $1,000 and the General Secretary and Cen
cral Treasurer each $4,000 per Year.
1t is estimated at the treasury that the uti-
mate issue of the new one and two dollar >il-
Yer certificates may aggregate SJ0000 900, and
OF the 50 certificates 100000, 900.
A new ocean mail line has been established
DclNccll 4MtAlcO dlltl lIc l Hllcu states. l lie
steamers will probably sail from New ork on
the 4th 14th and 2lth days of each month.
Since September, 1855, 26 vessels belonging
to the Gloucester district, and valued at S164,
900, have been lost The loss of life has been
lo4, leaving % widows and 30 fatherless child
rcn.
Three large cracks i'll the earth have just been
discovered on top of Flat Top mountain, adja-
cent to the Pocahontas coal mines, in Tazwell
county, Va, evidently caused by the earth
quake
The comptroller of the currency has declared
a fourth ) per cent. dividend to the creditors
of the Pacific National Bank Of Boston, making
in all 20 per cent on claims proved, amounting
to S5,291 ,931.
Chief Justice Palmer Of the Prince Edward
Island Admiralty Court has decided that the
cargo Of the American fishing schooner High
land Light may be released ON payment of its
appraised value.
Minister Cox, before leaving ConStantinoplc
conSummated two treaties with Turkey, an
cNtraaition and IA naturalization treaty, Similar
to the one now existing between this country
and Great Britain
A go pound shell was accidentally expIo,l-
ed Thursday at the Government Proving
Grounds. Sandy Hook. First Lieutenant Med
caIfe and Private Joseph King We're killed and
several men injured.
The Philadelphia Manufacturers Association
has issued an edict which may close down
nearly all the textile mills in that city and Vi
cinty and deprive not less than 5000 opera
tivcS of employment.
Philadelphia mill owners threaten lockout
if the strike at Frankford is not settled by
November 3. 1t will close about one hundred
and sixty mills and throw some seventy thous-
and hands out of work.
The famous Comstock mine is abandoned
probably for all time. During thei last ten
years CalifOrnan> have seen S21O 900 900 worth
of property vanish into thin air as the result
of the ruin of the Com>tock.
Amariah Hitchcock, of -Amena Union. \. V,
probably the oldest postmaster i'll length of
service iii the ntcd States, died Oct. 22d, aged
10 years. lie was appointed in 1871 to the
office he held till his death.
The steamer City of Mexico at New Orleans,
from the Bay Islands. Central America, reports
shocks of earthquake at TruNio on September
18th and 29th, also at Utilia October Sth, accom-
panied by Il cyclone in which eighteen lives
We're lost.
The Volcano of Tunguragua, in Ecuador,
is continuously active. Lava pour> from it at
short interval, while clouds of dust and ashes
envelop the summit. The villagers in the
north and south have experienced a good deal
of suffering.
The Gar of Russia, it is rumored, has many
halucnations of imaginary dangers. 1t is said
that on seeing an adjutant walking rapidly to-
ward him recently he seized a revolver and
Shot the man dead. Other accounts say that
the a,ljutant attempted to kill him.
A band of anarchists in Chicago used IL Catho-
lie church for drill room at night, stored
bombs under the altar and hid arms and dy
Mantle i'll other parts of the building. \ Pole
revealed the plot, the deadly material was
found and seized, and a number of arrests have
been made.
Aside from the accidents to two men firing
saluteS in his honor, President Cleveland en-
joyed his Richmond trip exceedingly. He met
with Il royal welcome from the NirginianS and
was heartily cheercd at intervals during his
short speech. The party returned to Washing
ton Thursday.
James A. $. Whittier, the Boston lawyer,
who as trustee of the estate Of Miss Harriet
y. Reid, WAS charged with embeZZing $780,
600 worth of property, pleaded guilty to the
embcZZlement to the extent of $40, 900, and
was sentenced to four years and three months
in the State prison.
Total prohibition has begun in Atlanta at
last. The brewery delivery has been stopped
anu lHt HtSt quart lltcnSt HAS btell lbfitlltu,
1t is now impossible, for the first time in the
history of the city, to buy quart of liquor
under the law, The experiment is watched
with much interest.
The United States revenues 50 far this month
have averaged over 81 100000 Il day, and are
now about Sl2 900 900 in excess of the cXpcnd-
lures during the same period. The financial
situation is regarded at the Treasury depart
ment as favorable for another call for per
cent bonds, and it is probable that one will be
issued in few days.
A crowd of men and children We're fired in
to by Pinkerton guards at Chicago recently,
and an inotlensive citizen was mortally wound
ed. The guards We're on train and the crowd
hooted and threw stones at them. -Four of the
Pinkerton men admitted having fired and two
were identified by policeman, who saw them
shoot. All six were held, charged with muir
der.
Captain II. w. Grace, commodore of the
National line of steamers died at sea while Ell
route for New York from Liverpool OH the
10th. The remains were brought into port
Oct. 22d, on the America. He was 46 years old.
The remains will be sent back TO ENGLAND, A