The Republican journal., 1886-04-08
Generalities.

a new oil field has been discovered in Upper
Egypt.
a religious revival has hcen inaugurated in
Harvard University.
The spring cattle drive from Texas is expect
ed to exceed 300 900 head.
The Dominion budget for 1SSG shows a re-
trcnchment of $4,000, 900.
On the 2oth of March there We're u ,2o2 800
silver dollars in circulation.
The scmi-annual dividends payable in Boston
on April foot up SG,A99,-43.
The trial of Alderman Jachnc. of New York
city, has been fixed for April 18th.
1t is believed that there are not less than
10000 invalid tourists in California.
Rumors prevail that another Northwest in
>urrection will take place in the spring.
Proceedings have begun at Cleveland. o., to
test the validity of the Bell Telephone patent
Still another explosion, with damage. is re-
ported from the natural Gas region of Pcnn>yl-
Nanla.
The Massachusetts Civil Service Commission
has determined to test the con~titutionality of
the law.
The brig Georgina, of Liverpool. y. :. with
a crew of eight men, is reported rs lost with all
Oh board.
The trial of Par>on Downs, of Boston, for
adultery, has been postponed until the civil
| suits are settled.
| Both branches of Congress have passed the
| bill granting a pension of $1,000 to General
| IIancock'> widow.
Testimony is accommodating to the effect that
| Captain Crawford was Intentionally a>Sa>snat-
| ed by the MrNicanS.
| A fresh outbreak in Madagascar is reported.
| The lIovas have routed the French troops, the
| latter losing heavily.
1t is understood that President Cleveland h,,
| expressed the belief that the Blair Educational
| bill is unconstitutional.
sam Small having left off the tobacco habits,
| efforts are being made by ccr@ymen of Chicago
| to reform sam Jones.
| The leading manufacturers of knit goods in
| this country have decided to at once advance
| the price of their products.
The Chinese are taking advantage of the low
| railroad rates, and are coming east from san
| Francisco i'll large numbers.
The President has not purchased house at
| Woods IIoll, Mass. He will spend much of the
| summer at the soldiers Home.
The Connecticut House has defeated by 40 10
| lO3 bill requiring the products of convict Ia
| Dor to be branded ''pri>on made"
| 1t is believed that Congressman Aliens bill to
| give all railways the right of way through the
Indian Territory will become law.
The Post Office Appropriation bill calls for
| s54 ,326,5>S or a little over S60O,00o more than
| was required for the current year.
Governor Stoncman, of California, has al,-
| pointed George Hurst to be United States Sen
ator TO succeed the late Senator Miller
In the Canadian House at Ottawa, Ont.
| resolutions cenSuring the government for hay
ing executed Rel We're defeated 100 to y.
Abraham A. Schwab of New York il under
arrest in that city on the charge of lefrauding
Jordan, Marsh \ Go. out of Sl6,55S.
Mrs. Garfield has decided to leave Cleveland
/ and make her home at Mentor hereafter. Her
residence at Cleveland will be rented.
The total net expenditures for maintaining
| BoSton'S public schools the past Year. including
two new school houses, was $l,929,9i3.1S.
Advices from Bucnos lAyres state that two
| hundred business houses are affected by the
burning of the Custom house at CatalinT.
| The strikers at the Barnaby MILL Fall River,
| have been obliged to Succumb and resume
| work on the terms offered by the mill owners.
The funeral of senator John ii. Miller Sun
| day at san Francisco, one Of the most
| largely attended that ever occurred in Cali
| fornia.
| The Supreme Court of Indiana decides that
| the telephone IS common carrier, and cannot
| refuse service to any one who complies with
| the law.
| 1t is proposed to hold "A national meeting of
| manufacturers and business men this month
| to devise some means of defence against organ
| ized labor.
| The Longfcllow Association has only $4,000
of the $3O,OO0 needed to place seated statue of
the poet upon suitably decorated grounds in
Cambridge.
| The barque Koto and the schooner Charles
| f. Paige are both reported to be missing. The
| vessels carried one crew of ten, and the other
! of seven men.
| The secretary of the interior has restored to
| the public domain 2,45l 200 acres of land
wrongfully held by the Atlantic and Pacific
| Railroad company.
bill has been favorably reported to the
| New York Legislature providing for the settle
ment of disputes between railway companies in
that State and their employees
Falawee, a young Indian of Deep Fork, /.
| T., desiring to die like Il warrior, armed HIM
| SELF mounted his horse and, after Staying inn
| aginary foes, shot himself dead
The Secretary of the Interior has made a land
| decision adverse to the Atlantic and Pacific
Railway Company, which restores to the public
domain nearly two and half millions of acres
| series of terrible murders have been COM
| mitted at Arboledas, in the State of Santander
| in Mexico An entire family, consisting of the
| father, mother and six children We're killed.
Samuel c. Villas, uncle of the postmaster
general, died recently in the Grand Union
depot in New York Of bronchitis pneumonia.
He was on his way home to Plattsburg, N. y,
from Florida.
Montana mine owners have prepared tes-
timonial of their regard for Senator Beck, in
the form of silver paper weight weighing
pound avoirdupois. 1t should be inscribed,
ssGOOd for L Bland dollars or 13 gold dollars,n