Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-29
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

lH6 NEWS IN BRltF.
Horse races are in progress at Na>hyiIl,
and New Orleans.
Herr Most, the Socialist leader is to be
arrested in New York for using inrendidry
and revolutionary language.
Several persons were bitten by a mad dog
at Pullman. ILL.,. and subscription has
been started Ia send them Ia Pa>trur. in
/ Paris.
/ Eighty-three trotting horses were sold al
/ Lexington, Ky, for Sl9.17O. the highest
/ price being Sl.O25 for the bay tilly Carrie
Wilkes. :.
Oregon republicans. in convention as
Semhled. denounce Villas for his economy.
shown in depriviug their state of proper
mail facilities.
The republican state committee will meet
in Columbus May ). at 30 p. M. 10 de
termine the time and place of holding the
state convention.
In the superior court of Cincinnati. Judge
Huston 0verruled the demurrrrs and motion
10 quash the indictments against the city
iniirmary directors.
William f. WitherS. who is called a
''Scab' Switchman, was assaulted al St
Louis and shot one of his aSSailamt>. named
Gibbons, killing him.
Judge Fitzgerald. of the Cincinnati Police
Court. declares that hereafter he will send
every minor who gets drunk to the work
house or house of refuge.
The discovery of new comet is an
nOunced, but il is a large dim. nehuluu>
object, without head or tail, and can only
be seen through powerful telescope.
The Milwaukee socialists tried 10 form
an alliance with the knights of Labor, but
their advances We're rejected, and it is now
reported that they are ordering musketS.
Three shares of stock in the New York
Tribune Association. par value 81 900 a
share. were sold at $4,000 a share. White
law Reid is understood to be the purchaser
At Dayton. O.. forty girls. employed in
the Cooper cotton factory. asked for ad-
Nanced pay, which was granted. The boys
struck for better wages and they We're dis
charged.
A mass meeting of business men at
Washington expressed sympathy for Glad
stone in his efforts Ia give a parliament To
Ireland. Ii was addressed by Randall,
Mckinley and Others.
Jefferson Davis is laying the corner stone
of monument To the late Gen. Robert +.
Lee. at Montgomery, Alabama, and is
cheered in his work by the presence of
thousands of enthusiastic eN-cunfederateS.
Base Ball, Wednesday Baltimore. Bal
timore :, Athletics :; New York. Nets ).
Brooklyn 4; St Louis, St Louis :. Cincin-
matt 3; Louisville, Louisville ;, PittSburg
|; Philadelphia, Philadelphia Il, Buffalo 4:
Jersey City. Boston I. Jersey City 3: New
ark. New York > Newark
Congress-.
SENATE-April -. The day was spent
discussing the poStoffice appropriation bill.
Some debate arose on the amendment pro
posed by the senate committee apprupriat-
ing $50. 900 for carrying South and Central
American. Chinese and Australian mails
and authorizing the postmaster general To
make, after due advertisement. contracts
for five years with American steamships, al
a rate not Ia exceed for each outward trip
81 per nautical mile Of distance BY the most
direct and feasible course between termi-
nal points.
Mr.. Plumb supported the amendment
He would have all products used in Amer
lea made in this country
HOT SE.-Mr- Hatch mo. from the com
mlttee on agriculture, reported a bill de-
filming butter and imposing a tax upon and
regulating the manufacture. sale. eNpurta-
ton and importation of uleomargarine. Re
ferred 10 committee of the whole.
\ bill was passed granting to the Ohio
Central Railroad company the right Ia Law
its track through the United States lock
and dam property in the Great kanawha
valley, West Virginia
The House went into committee of the
whole on the river and harbur bill and
afterward adjourned.
Ohio Legislature.
HoUsE-April 2s.- Resolutions offered:
To investigate emisapprOpriati0ns of none,
on Walhondlng canal: asking congress to
defeat the Morrison tariff bill iadoptedD:
for 1000 railroad maps of Ono. Senate
bills passed: Prohibiting sale of liquor
within 20 feet of normal school. Bill in .
troduced: for registration of physicians.
Mr.. WaShburn moved upon the stat,
printer, and his bill amending section :I2l
was passed. Ii provides that in case OF neg .
Iect on the part of the contractor for public /.
printing new contract NAV be entered
into.
SENATE-Senate passed House bill pro-
vlding for fine and Imprisonment of hotel |
and clearinghouse beats. and il is now a
law; also bill amending section 1884 So that
Lif NtdI" sIIdlI pay the cost m criminal exc
'utions: also bill re-enacting section 20. pro
'idlng for the distribution of public do.,l-
mentH. House joint resolution by Mr.. Van
'leat, providing for binding 1000 COPIES in
'l"lh of the report of the state forestry
commission, was adopted Several bills .
We're put on their passage. lost aud recon-
,idertd.
Eggs, before their Use at Easter w.,e
b 'aOred in Pagan times Ia the rite, nj
6acchus tkISSnsl com>ecrated egg was AN
'mblem of one of their mysteries. Thr,,.
'iteS were celebrated fifteen centuries before.
he Christian era. The Drulds bore An egg
Is an emblem of their order The IIindoo
myths celebrate their mundane egg A. of a
Golden color. The JAPANESE egg is of
'oliShed brass. In China, at certain of
heir sacred festivals, dyed and ornamrnted
'ggS are used 10 this day as religions SYM
'ols. The Use of cnnSerrated eggs is traced
d the most anrient times of Egypt. In
germany 1t was AT one period the practice.