The Republican journal., 1886-03-18
Generalities.


| Panama Canal.
The colleges of this country contain $1,000
| female students.
The wife of eX-Attorney General Brewster
died of pneumonia.
Nineteen of the Oregon anti-C Chnese rioters
are now i'll custody.
A nephew of Ole Bull is professor in the U nj
versity of Wisconsin.
Mr.. Cough is said to have spoken before
about 100000 people.
The 3S mills at Fall river represent COM
bmed capital of SIS, S,139,OO0
The Peruvian government is doing it's best
to suppress gambling in Lima.
Cotton touched the lowest point March 2
| that it has reached since 1855.
China has 563 books on behavior, 361 of which
refer directly to the ceremonial of dining.
Ex-Governors in Connecticut never die.
Eleven of them are tlourishing there now.
The railway war has reduced passenger rates
to $50 from San Francisco to New York
| Countcrfeits of Canadian bank and govern
ment notes said to be ailoat in New York
| The post Office appropriation bill aggregates
S34 100000 and is 100000 more than last year.
The public debt statement shows a decrease
IN the public debt during February of S6,252,-
| 1881.
There has been much sickness as well AS a
| great deal of extravaganza in Washington, this
winter.
The sem-annua dividends payable in Boston
| i'll March foot up over four and Il half millions
| of dollars.
|
muscular rheumatism. is reported from Berlin
| to be worse.
Two eases of alleged cure by faith are re-
ported by Presiding Elder Long from James
vile, Wis.
Sims Reeves, the English tenor continues to
| draw great houses, notwithstanding he is over
| 10 years Old.
John w. Oliver, the founder of the order of
Sons of Temperance, is now editor of the 1On-
| kers Statesman.
The House of Representatives has adopted
| the resolutions for an Investigation of the Pan
| Electric scandals.
| The Rev. May G. Jones Is pastor of the Bap-
| tist churches at Chehalis and Centralia, Wash
| ington Territory.
| Ex-senator jerome b. Chatfce, the Colorado
| millionaire, died suddenly at Purdy station,
| New York, March 8.
A syndicate with s20,000.000 capital, on
| paper, has secured monopoly in the manu-
| facture of cotton seed Oil.
| The Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, In
| default of reciprocity, urges powerful protec-
| ton of her fishing waters.
A despatch from Vienna says that the con-
| tinued war preparations i'll Greece are exciting
| fears in the European cabinets.
The wife of Senator Joseph r. Hawley of
| Connecticut, died in Washington, last week of
| pneumonia, after a short illness.
A Frenchman met death in Salem, Mass,
while striving to drink twenty glasses of
| whiskey in immediate succession.
Congressman PA Collins, of the Fourth
| district of Massachusetts, declines to be can
| ditlate for reelection to Congress.
Simon Cameron celebrated his S1th birthday
| March Sth. Mr.. Cameron first entered the
| United States Senate fl years ago.
Rev. Nj. ID. Shutter, popular Baptist clergy
man of Minneapolis, has resigned on account
| of a change in his religious views.
The results of recent elections in Iowa are
encouraging to the Republicans. The same in
New York, Maine and New Hampshire.
| A bill prohibiting the sale of tobacco in any
| form to persons under rs years of age has pass
ed both houses of the Massachusetts Legisla-
| ture
| The Excise Board of Boston has raised the
| price of liquor licenses for 1856 thirty-three and
one-hird per cent. Hotel licenses are now $500
each.
| Jem Smith the English pugist has consent
| ed to fight John l.. sullivan, but wants some
| thing to say about where the fight shall take
| place.
| The importation of French ship carpenters to
end a strike at Detroit has failed, and it is pro
| posed to prosecute the firm for importing con-
| tract labor.
| The report that an artesan flow of crude
| petroleum had been discovered i'll the southern
| part of Santa Fe county, New Mexico, has been
| confirmed.
| The Appropriation bill as agreed upon by the
| committee appropriaes for the maintenance of
| the army during the eXt fiscal year the sum of
| 81, ,SS1 ,5SS.
The Chinese Minister has received a cable
| from Canton stating that the populace in China
| threaten to retaliate for assaults upon Chinese
| i'll this country.
| The claim of Massachusetts for &27 ,074, grow
ing out of the suppression of draft riots in Bos-
| ton, July, 1863, has been disalowed by the Sec
ond Comptroller
| A boy of fourteen is before the Municipal
| Court of Boston upon his second charge of
| forgery, having served short term Of inn
| priSonment on the first.
Manchester, Va, has produced the largest
| diamond ever found in this country, weighing
| % 3-4 carats uncut, II 11-16 carats cut and
| formerly valued at $4,000.
| Rev. DR.. Ball of Buffalo has sued the New
York Evening Post for libel, growing cut Of
| charges made against that gentleman during
the last Presidential campaign.
| Nine. Patti having secured divorce from
| the Marquis de CauX, and Nicolini having pro-
cured a divorce from his wife, they are to be
married i'll due form III June next.
At the sale Of the art collection Of the late
| Mary }. Morgan, i'll New ork city, an ancient
japanese vase, eight inches high and three
inches in diameter, sold for $4,000.
| The death of Senator Miller, of California,
| leaves 4 vacancy in the Senate which will be
| filled by Il Democrat, thus cutting down the
narrow Republican majority two votes.
The picture of the electoral commission has
| been purchased by Congress for 81 800. Mrs.
| Jarrett, the artist, has offered the picture for
| several years, but has wanted $4,000 for it.
| The st. Louis Republican labors to prove
| that Samuel l.. Clemens and George W. Peck,
| by reason of their writings, are responsible for
the homicidal tendencies of the modern bad
| boy.
The small tract of land at IIallett's Point,
| New York, upon which the tower of Hell Gate
| electric light stands has been purchased by the
| L. 5. government from the IIalsey estate for
| $500.
Beaugrand was reelected mayor of Montreal
Monday by 1000 majority. This means that
| compulsory vaccination will be accepted there.
Decary, his opponent, was strongly opposed to
| vaccination.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company has
purchased the fast steamer Newport from Jas.
Z. Ward Il Co., of New York, to enable the
company to put on q weekly line to San Fran
| cisco, as it threatened to do.
The East Street Champion Reaper works at
| Springfield, Ohio, one of the largest establish
| ments of the kind in the world, has discharged
| all members of the Knights of Labor in their
employ, numbering about 300 men.
The President has sent a message to Con-
gress, directing attention to the duty of this
| government to recompense the Chinese for the
outrage> they have suffered in the West, par
ticuarly at Rock Springs in Idaho.
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