The Republican journal., 1886-01-28
Generalities.

| The limit of the River and Harbor bill i
| fixed at eleven millions.
| There are 1923 persons in the service of TIN
| New ork fire department..
| CotopaNi is still in eruption and many shock
| of earthquake have been felt.
| There are three times many telephones il
| the United States as in all Europe.
| The pedestal for the Barrholdi statue will b.
ready for the goddess about April /.
| French and German syndicateS have been
| formed to construct railways in China.
There are 100000 tons of ice along the Hud
son River, left over from last season.
a recent fire in New York destroyed G0C
| bound copies of Gen. Grants memoirs.
An immense number of cattle in Texas an(
| Indian Territory have perished from cold.
| Frost and snow have injured the orang,
| groves in the vicinity of Monterey, Mexico.
| Ten thousand three hundred and cighty-hrc,
| marriage licenses We're issued in Chicago dur
| Ing last year.
The North German Lloyd now has three new
steel steamers under headWay at GoNan, neal
Glasgow.
The United States Supreme Court has dccidec
that tax on commercial travellers is unconsti
tutiOna.
The Fiiians have Just been celebrating the
jubilee of the introduction of Christianity into
the islands.
The Secretary of the Navy has directed that
a vessel of the Pacific station be sent to the
Samoen Islands.
The opinion of the Interior Department
Board which investigated the telephone matter
was unanimous.
\ valuable guano deposit, it is reported, has
been discovered ON the south coast Of the
island Of Cuba.
Salem will soon have free public library, Of
which the Athencum and Institute libraries
will form the nucleus.
Ohio now pays its governor only S4O0Oa year
but the Legislature has before it bill ncrcas-
Ing this sum TO Sl0ooo.
In Milwaukee, $4,000 have been subscribed
for base bali club if admission to the National
League can be secured.
The expenses for the funeral of Gen. Grant
were little over $4,000. The bill has been
paid by the Governments
General Sherman and Henry Ward Bccchcr
will deliver lectures iii st. Louis for the benefit
of the Grant Monument fund.
VIM. Henry lIurlhert, formerly editor of the
New York World. is to be the London CORE
spondcnt of the New York sun.
1t is said that the telephone syndicate formed
in Chicago to defend Prof Gray and prosecute
his ease ha~ capital Of Sl0,oOO,000.
Gen. sherman contradictS statements attribute
ed to him in regard to Gen. Grant. and speaks
of the deceased with much affection.
Cracks We're observed recently in the house
where Burns lived and died in DumfrieS. Scot
land, and the foundation is to be renewed.
\ disastrous tornado has passed over the
middle counties of England. Trees We're up
rooted. houses mroofcd, and two persons kill
ed.
Speaker Carlisle is said to believe in the
efficacy Of crossing himself with Il rabbit foot
as firmly as the most >uper>titou~ Kentucky
negro
\ recently married couple Of Niles, Mich,
start out with an active capital of % children
The husband contributed IA to the stock and
the wife IL.
There is more Wine sent from California to
New York City than is imported in that city
from Europe, and most of it is sold under a
foreign label.
\ cruiser that j. to steam among the waves
Of the at the amazing speed Of y knots an
hour is being built on the Clyde for the Span
i>h government.
Captain Williams, Of the oyster schooner
Eva. of Wilmington. Del. was sentenced TO
cYhtEey, Yr3rs }Dnr~"..n,', f,'i"hi"ti,',r f"tnl
The Washington Post, Democrat, denounces
The Ohio Democracy, and says: ''1he down
ward tendency i'll Ohio politics has recently
reached the zero point.
The German government states official y that
it has no intention Of annrXng the samoan
islands or of interfering with existing treaties
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Henry Lloyd has been nominated hy the
democrats to fill the uncXpircd term of Robert
McLane as Governor of MARYLAND, and Z. Cor
man to succeed himself as United States oena-
'or'
The Judicial Salary bin has passed the United
STATE, senate. If piyes ali District Court
Judges $4,000 wear. and prohibits them from
annoiutin~ their relatives TO ot1ice in their
rni,,t.
Secretary Lamar has sent 10 the attorney
General a communication EXPRESSING his opin-
ion that a suit should be brott.ht in the name
of thr -nitrd States TO FEST the Validity of Bells
ori~inaI trIe,.honr natrnt
tbat thr Northern Pacific. Railroad has no GRANT
of lands for IFS road between Columbia river
and PUGET SoIud An anneal will be taken TO
thr secretary of tbc interior.
Mr.. Stead, editor of the Pail Mall Gazette,
mnnth., in,,ilm,,,n.nt fnr his rnnnnrtion Win
thn EIiz, irmstrnnw .h,lurtion casp. was rr-
i,.,.I,d ii.- f.,,,, ,,;,., Wal
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The richest woman in the world is lady of
Chilli and her name is Dona I>idora CouSino.
She is widow. but refuses all offers, though