The Republican journal., 1888-02-02

| There is deficit in the Manitoba treasury of
| over half a million dollars.
| Archibald Forbes, the famous war correspon-
dent, is living in Washington and is in very poor
health.
| The postpone Home Market Club dinner In
Boston will be held Feb. 8. Senator Sherman
will speak.
There is a quarrel over the distribution Of
the funds rails I'll for the families of the eXecut-
ed anarchists.
The st. Paul ice palace is 200 feet square and
200 feet high and 60 600 900 pounds of ice were
used in building it.
Hon. Joseph Chamberlain says the report
that he is to be appointed governor general of
Canada, is unfOunded.
The defeat Of Flower fer a position on the
New York State democratic committee. is a Sc
we're defeat for Gov. Hill.
Cyrus Wakefield, the manufacturer of the eel
| ebrated Wakefield rattan furniture. died sud-
denly of heart disease last week.
In seven days 231 houses and stores have been
robbed. saves blown open, men sand baggcd
and women assaulted in Chicago.
On Sunday there We're twelve murders, one
suicide, eight highway robberies and four stab
bing aiiray>, in Havana and Cardenas.
Mrs. Augusta Evans (Wilson), the novelist,
has geranium collection that some botanists
are said to have declared the finest in eXisen
An experiment at Chester, Pa, of heating
furnace by powdered coal sprayed into the fire
chamber showed Il saving in fuel of from forty
to fifty per cent.
President Corbin refuses to arbitrate in the
miners and ralroaders' troubles. Galleries Mt
shamokin and Shenandoah are again in trouble
with their crews.
The Dakota farmers who have survived the
blizzard are happy in the thought that the
moisture from the heavy snow fall will give the
early wheat a good start.
The Tariff Association, which includes most
OF the fire Insurance companies. has indefinite
" suspended It's rules and rates, thus leaving
the business open 10 competition.
>o-caed fashionable trade is not always de-
sirahlc. \ New York tailor, who has been in
business forty years, has been obliged to sus-
pend because his fashionable customers failed
to pay UP.
Saeelariio. the new sweetening product, is
produced from tOluene. a substance obtained
from cokeng coal. A ton of coal yields nine
tenths of pound of toluene. Saccharinc is
said to be 80 times sweeter than sugar.
Isaac n. Stanley. ex-paying teller of the Ma
tional Bank of Commerce. Cleveland. Ohio,
who embczzled $1,000 in 1856 and lost it in
wheat speculation. was sentenced at Cleveland
to state Prison for five Years.
David Witner. the last one of the three ''wt-
nesse> to the truth" of the book of Mormon,
aged eighty-three years, is dying at Richmond,
Mo. where he has long resided, having left tile
Mormon Church when it allowed polygamy.
The Chicago Tines estimates the broom crop
raised in 1851 in the United States at -, 900 tons.
about hafan average crop. Kansas is credited
with one fifth of the crop. or 5000 tons. T.
lno> heads the list with 5000 tons, Kansas be-
ing second.
President and Mrs. Cleveland gave a receJ.
ton last Thursday evening to the members of
Congress and the Justices of the District and
nied States courts. Mrs. Cleveland was as
si:tedby Mrs. Fairchild, Mrs. Whitney and Mrs. |
Don NJ. Dickinson.
The Reading knights of Labor have asked
the attorney general of Pennsy lvania that
warrant be issued against the company with
view to the forfeiture of its charter. They
claim that the company has violated tie con-
stitutlon bV mining coal.
The vanilla bean. which is the costliest bean
known. fiouri>hes in Mexico. where it grows
wild Just aS they come from the forest the
beans sell at SO and SD per 1000 After being
dried they are worth from s. to So per pound
They are used by druggists and confectioners.