The Republican journal., 1886-04-29
Generalities.
The cholera is spreading in Italy.

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liam Sprague.
An epidemic of glanders is said to prevail il
Cambridge, Mass.
''Bridgeport,' the second baby elephant born
i'll captivity, is dead.
There are four weekly Chinese newspapers
printed in San Francisco.
More than four thousand appointments are
awaiting action by the Senate.
Congressman Randall has declared himself
opposed to MorrisonS tariff bill
Electricity was applied successfully recently
70 street cars at Montgomery, Ala.
Ten New York Aldermen were arrested re-
Gently, charged with accepting bribeS.
Rhode Island has appropriated $4,000 per
annum to care for the destitute veterans.
1t is reported that Secretary Lamar has gone
to Georgia to marry Mrs. Holt of Macon.
1t is expected that the California orange crop
will this season reach 100, 900, 900 of the fruit.
Governor Robinson of Massachusetts, APP
pointed Saturday, April oath, as Arbor day.
After May 1 the cable rates to Great Britain,
France or Germany will be y cents per word.
A strawberry plant has been on exhibition at
GAINESVILLE, Fla, which contained 149 berries.
John II. Moves, founder of the Oneida Com
munity, died at Niagara Falls, Canada, re-
Gently.
"Three little Imps from Sheol" is the title
OF song composed and sung by Harvard stu
| dents.
The President has signed the act authorizing
the erection of a building for the Congressional
library.
The damage caused by the floods in Montreal,
Quebec, is estimated ut from S3,000,OO0 to ST.
| O00000
Five acres of land in Kansas City, Mo-,
| bought eight years ago for $780, sold last week
for S66,250
Mrs. George B. Mcclellan is going to Europe
fora soourn of two years. accompanied by her
SON and daughter.
The great elephant Alice, from the 'Zoo" at
| London has arrived at New York in the steam
er Egyptian Monarch.
The April number of the Baby Pathfinder
contains all the latest changes. Only five
I cents. On all news stands.
The report that President Cleveland is eli
| gagged to be married is generally diSbclieved in
| Washington society.
Coal miners i'll the Cumberland Valley have
decided to suspend work in all mines that ship
coal to the Eastern markets.
Land Commissioner Sparks has been crushed
again. Secretary Lamar has reversed another
Of the Commissioners orders.
The Governor of Tennessee has appointed
Hon. We. Whitthornc to succeed Howell f..
jackson As United States Senator.
\ bill has been reported to the House of
| Representatives to terminate the reciprocity
treaty with the Hawaiian Islands.
\ young man who recently inheriteda fortune
of S2j0,00 has Squandcrcd it, and was punished
i'll Boston for passing worthless check.
In making changes in the tariff for the cur
rent year the Canadian government has pro-
liibted the importation of oeomargarine.
Agents of the railroad are blsily engaged in
| settling with money for the injuries inflicted by
| the recent disaster near Greentied Mass.
Mr.. Will L. Haskell, editor of The Mnnca-
| polls Tribune, is erecting palatial summer
residence on a lone island in Lake Minnctonka.
The Democratic leaders are nanfestng some
! opposition to the Education BILL and it is init
mated that if enacted the President will veto it.
The United States Treasury now holds S242-
| 4I6,0O0 in gold, and SlII.412 900 i'll silver. The
aggregate sum in the Treasury is nearly $780,
| 600 900.
y mob at Winnipeg attackeda party of Italian
| laborers engaged to work at low wages on the
Canadian Pacific road. Several persons were
| injured.
Fifty-four per cent. of the students attending
| the university at Columbia, 5. G., are the sons
of men entirely or partly engaged in agricultural
pursuits.
Sir Charles Dixie makes Il full and formal
denial of all the statements discriminating him
| in the confession made by Mrs. Crawford to
her husband.
The late Ann Jane Mercer, who died recently
| in Philadelphia, left a large sum to found and
maintain home for disabled PRESBYTERIAN
| clergyman.
The Old Morayian town of Salem, \. {. has
not permitted any liquor to enter the place for
| one hundred years. 1t is the banner temper
ancc town Of the country.
The sons of William II. Vanderbilt have given
S250,oo0 to the College of Physicians and Sur
| geons in New York city, for the erection OF a
building in honor of their father.
1t is understood that the Hawaiian Minister
has offered to cede to the United States forever
| the famous Pearl River IIarbor, provided the
new treaty with Hawaii is ratified.
The Cuban stamp law will be put in force on
the 10Th inst. Its provisions have been modified
i'll regard to cigars. Cigars of every size will
| be taxed uniformly 80 cents per 1000.
| The proposed increase of the rate of pensions
| for men who have suffered the amputation of
| limbs i'll the late war would increase the sum
now paid annually to such persons SGl5,204.
| From report of the treasury department
| sent to Congress it appears that individuals,
some of them with distinguished names, owe
| the United States over % millions of dollars.
| A company has been formed to drain a part
| OF Iularc lake, III California, into the San Joa-
| quin river. thereby rendering available MANY
| thousand w
| In Il fight between the Americans and McNi-
cans at Murphyvillc, Texas, recently, several
| We're killed on both sides. and the affair will
probably end i'll the expulsion of the Mcxicans
! from the region.
leslling the strikes Of their fathers and unclcs.
| have established Il sort of organized truancv in
| that city which argues badly for the discipline
maintained by the teachers.
Mr.. Powderly has decided in a Brockton con
troversy left to him to settle that members of the
La>tcrs, Union need not join the Knights of
| Labor IN order to maintain their places in
| knights of Labor shoe shops.
Word comes Of Il steamer lost off the coast of
New Zealand, twenty-line persons pershing,
| and of diSmastcd American schooner drifting
in the ocean, from which the crew were saved
after seventeen days of suffering.
| II II siit tIll liaHl EnSllSn I4lDcralS are ms
| heartened at the prospects of the home rule bill
| for a passage, and are wishing to substitute for
| it a resolution simply affirming the necessity of
establishing a legislature at Dublin.
Gentlemen interested in wool say that if the
| Tariff bill i'll its present shape We're to pass it
would cause Il panic in that industry Throughout
| the country, affecting the value of between five
and six hundred millions of dollars worth of
| property.
| Crop reports from Kansas indicate not more
| than onc-third an average yield for the state
| the outlook in Michigan for wheat is unfayor-
able but in Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee,
| Dakota and Nebraska the indications are for
| excellent crops.
| The taest man in Massachusetts il said to be
| Charles III. Holmes of 'ropsfield, who is feet
| inches in height. lie is son of the late Sena-
tor John Holmes of Maine, distinguished
| statesman during the administration Of Mon
| roe, Adams and Jackson.
| The governor of Pennsylvania has demanded
| the resignation of Rev. II. Il. Higbee, State
| superintendent of public instruction, and re-
| moved two inspectors as the result of an inycs-
| tiSation into the management of the Soldiers
| Orphans schools of the State. The children
have been abused.
The prayers of Chaplain NIilburn at the
opening of the National House continue to