The Republican journal., 1888-06-28
Generalities.

a rumor was started in Paris that Mr.. Henry
NJ. Stanley had died in Africa.
The average yearly pay of female school
teachers i'll Iowa is but S2l2.45.
NJ de LessepS still insists his Panama Canal
Will be open to navigation in two years.
The Emperor of China is having the grounds
Of his pal ace at Pekin lighted by electricity.
DR.. Edgar l.. Carr. of PittstieId. was nomin-
ated for Governor by the prohibitionists of New
Hampshire.
There are about 5000 locomotives in use in
the State of New York and about 10000 in the
United States.
Detroit society is agitated over the determn-
alton OF Il well known wealthy widow to mar
ry her coachman.
Eighty men who We're escaping from burn
ing German steamer We're drowned bv the cap
sizing of large boat.
The House am ended the naval appropriation
bill by providing $4,000 for the armament OF the
new cruiser. Yes uyius.
Cable from Shanghai reports an alarming
rebellion among the people made destitute by
the floods in 1ouan and Ilartung.
Mrs. Warren, the Colorado cattle queen.
who is said to be worth $40, 900 600, is the wife
of Bishop Warren of the Methodist church.
Chancellor Douglass of the Knights Of Pyth-
las, has been sustained by the Supreme Lodge
in his suspension of the Grand Lodge of Penn
sylvaria.
the shortage in the amounts of Gen. Ewing,
late disbursng clerk in the department of jus
tice, is 80. 40. 20. The bondsmen will be held
responsible.
The officers of the National Fishery Associa-
ton and American Fishery Union have passed
resolutions commenting the action of the Senate
in the fishery treaty.
The largest private library in this country is
owned by II. II. Bancroft, the historian. and is
in his san Francisco home. 1t conist- of 60 900
volumes and is valued at S20O,000.
Lawyer John r. Dunn. of New York, for
completely in the robbery of the Manhattan
Bank was sentenced to nine years and eight
months Imprisonment at hard labor.
Eugene Town. a well-to-do farmer Of Water
bury. VT, has mysteriously disappeared. He
left IA wife and child. He is about 10 years old.
small sized. good looking and blonde.
James T.. Ward X Co.. agents of the New
York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company, have
purchased the steamships and all business of
the Alexandra line, long in operation between
New York. Havana and Mexican ports.
The Pan-Eectric scandal was revived in the
House last week. when an unsuccessful attempt
special Government counsel from $4,000 to
100000 1t was shown that Senator Thurman
had received $1,000 for his services rs counsel.
Mrs. Jennie Kimball has purchased from III.
r. Jacobs Il half interest in his Buffalo Grand
Opera House. and il is now settled that the the
atrc will he known as the Corinne Lyceum.
Mrs. kmball will purchase residence in Buff
falo and make that city the home of Corinne and
herself.
Mrs. Henry Ward Bcecher is reported to
have identified herself with the opposition to
Rev. Dr Lyman Abbott, the new pastor Of
Plymouth church. She thinks Dr. Abbott did
not, is editor of the Christian nion, e>pouse
Beecher's cause in the IiItonq quarrel a> heartily
as he should have done
1t was freely asserted and never denied
during the Louisiana campaign that GOV.
Nc Emery had the promise OF an appointment
on the supreme Bench as the price Of the sup
port which he gave GOV. Nichols This ap
pointment has now been made, which shows
that the bargain was a reality.
At his Fourth of July celebration in Wood
stock, Conn, Editor Bowen of the New York
independent will have among the speakers
Senator Frye of Maine on the "Protective Tar
iff:" Prof. Goodwin Smith of Canada, on Com
mercial Union" and Gen. Clinton b. Fisk, on
the New Declaration Of independence"
America is asked to unite with England in
| raising the funds for the memorial to Dinah
Muuck Craik which is to be placed in Tewkes-
bury Abbey. \ marble medallion is proposed,
and 81 has been llNed as the maximum of in
dividual subscriptions in this country. J. W.
Harper of Harper Il Bros will receive subscrip-
| tonS.
1t is reported that Jonathan Bourne Of Port
land, Or, son of Hon. Jonathan Bourne of
New Bedford, has recently purchased gold
mining property in the eastern part Of Oregon
,lt,,,r Ia
veloping it sold ii to a syndicate OF Si. Louis
capitalists for 81 100000 in cash and about S.,
| 100000 in stock.
Mrs. Garfield has an income of SO 900. $4,000
| Of which comes from the government in the
shape of a pension General Gariied'S estate
nettcd the widow about $4,000 and in addition
| she received S25,00O insurance on his life. Con-
| gress cave her $4,000, and the popular sub
scription raised just after Gartield's death
| amounted to S3l2,O0