The Republican journal., 1886-03-04
Generalities.

| May, is said to look much older.
| Bland's bill for the free coinage of silver was
adversely reported to the House.
The South made much more of St. Valen-
| tines day than did the North this year.
A skilful counterfeit of the silver dollar is
| reported in circulation at La Crosse, Wis.
| The case of supposed eprosy in Waterbury,
| Conn.,, turns out to be blood poisoning only.
| There have been ~ executions in Fort Smith,
| Ark. for capital offences within the past 10
| wears.
| \ sleeping woman in Chicago has Just been
| reused from nap lasting 1872 hours without
| break.
Mormon elders are very successful in max
ing converts among the poor whites of the
South.
The oyster beds off Greenwich, Conn, have
been damaged by deep draught vessels and
barges.
A woman addicted to drink was caught in
the act Of attempting to murder her two child
rem at Chicago.
The Nova Scotia mines produced about $780,
600 i'll gold last wear, or 1000 ounces more than
the yield OF 1881.
j. b. ManniX, an attorney of Cincinnati, Is
charged with embezzling 100000 belonging to
Senator Allison. who is tifty-seven, looks
forty-tve. Senator Edmunds, who is fifty
eight, looks the other way.
The value of Caforna's crop Of dried fruit
rasins, pruneS. nuts and honey for 1885 is
estimated at $500 900.
1t is reported that majority of the House
Committee on Commerce will report in favor
OF the EadS Ship Canal bill.
ItiseNpcctcd that another call for $40, 900 900
in per cent. bonds will be issued about the end
of the month, to mature April lSt.
1t is reported that 50 sheep herlcrs in fight
with Apaches i'll New Mexico near the Arizona
line, have been maSSacred to man.
cargo of California wheat was sold in the
Mcr>ey last week for 81 shilling> pence per
quarter. the lowest price on record
Edwin Booths earnings last year are said to
have been between S60000 and $4,000, al
though he played but sixteen weeks.
Senator Hoar has introduced bill appro-
priating S25o, 900 to erect a monument in Wash
in@ton to the memory of Gen. Grant.
a sale Of pine lands amounting to 81 100000
was made at Minneapolis, Mimi. the other day,
to Il syndicate of Michigan capitalists.
France, it is reported, insists that England
shall withdraw her troops from Egypt and
An American life boat has proved great
success in series of trials at kiel. The Ger
man government will probably adopt it,
The supreme court of New Jersey has
decided that the law enacted in 1854 in that
State taxing railways is unconstitutional.
The indianapolis journal apprehend> that
the day is coming when riots will result from
| the parade of "portraits' in newspapers.
The House of Representatives has passed
bill reducing from eight to five cents the charge
for money orders not exceeding five dollars.
Mexico is said to desire peace with the Unit
ed States and will punish all the wrong doers
in connection with the killing of Captain Craw-
ford.
When William l.. Scott. the richest member
of the present House of Representatives, was
Il page there when Daniel Webster was iii his
prime.
The revenue cutter Richard Rush, has arriv-
ed at san Francisco from Arctic waters. hay
in@ found no traces OF the whaler Amethyst or
her crew.
The nominations of MesSr> Pillsbury and
Chase have been adversely reported in the eX-
| rcutiNe session of the Senate, by the finance
| committee.
The National Agricultural and Dairy Asso-
citation denounced the manufacturers Of oeo-
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wnl,l,I nrnhahI, hn rmimnd far :, minister if he
should become an heir to great property. iic
was AFRAID Wealth would upset MN.
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