The Republican journal., 1888-05-24
Generalities.

| Prof. Leone Levi. F. S. A., the well-known
economic writer. is dead.
| Lord Stanley, of Preston, is gazetted as Gov
| ernor General of Canada.
Roscoe Conkling's will contains sev4ntv-three
words, including the signature.
| Mrs Robert Milgan. of Wheeling. W. Va,
has given birth to her twenty fifth child.
| Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt of New York j.
said to have p carriages for her own use.
4 Nebraska farmer was caught stealing the
roof from over a sleeping neghbor's head.
Gen. Fitz John Porter has been appointed
New York fire commissioner by Mayor Hewitt.
1t has been reported that there was pro-
posed Il consolidation of all the New England
| railroads.
Mrs. Garrett Anderson, the leading female
doctor in England, has an income Of $4,000 a
year from her practice.
The faculty OF Cornell University has made
some new rules that are calculated to restrict the
alleged fun of students.
Walter Besant, the English author, has brok-
en- down in health and gone to the South of
Europe for recuperation.
Rev. Lyman Abbott has been formally called
n,
Brooklyn, and will accept
A casting weighing 124 tons, said to be the
largest ever attempted in America. was made
at Bethlehem, Pa, recently.
The steamer Eureka, which was in collision
with the steamer RcnSOn, sank at sea. but the
officers and crew all escaped.
p. Il. Wiley, while exhibiting a window
cleaning patent in Boston, fell from fifth sto-
ry and received fatal injuries.
James w. Ewing, Iisbursing clerk of the de-
partmcnt of Justice. is said to be short from
$4,000 to $4,000 in his accounts.
The Chinese Government has decided to erect
monuments to Gen. Gordon on scenes of his
victories over the TAPPING rebels.
The State pensions grantedby south Carolina
Legislature will probably cease. rs the State
treasury cannot stand the drain.
The President has sent to the Senate the
namc Of Robert b. Roosevelt Of New York.
to be Minister to the Netherlands.
Mr.. Henry Shirk. of Baltimore. has given
real estate to the value of S6S,000 for the use of
the new woman's college Of that city.
New York gentlemen are taking steps to
form general yacht racing association or one
embracing the clubs of the Atlantic coast.
HC ucSEtc Ol DOCTOR Oh lnll0SOpnN mas been
conferred by the University of Zurich upon
Miss Frances II. Mitchell Of PHILADELPHIA.
Ross r. Winans, who has given much offence
by his sporting monopolieS, is to give up hi
26O 900 acres of deer preserves in Scotland
The English government is i.luii lg into til,
alleged practice of attaching large numbers of
native women to white regiments in India.
BY a preliminary decision in contested
will case at Chicago the Legitimacy of children
born to slaves. though in wedlock, is denied.
The recently performed operation in Phila-
dclphia of transpanting the cornea from rab-
bits eye to that Of a woman has proved a sue
cess.
Survivors of the Massachusetts Legislature
of 1881. which elected Charles Sumner TO the
United States Senate, recently held reunion
in Boston.
The house in which Gen. Grant was born has
been leased and will be on exhibition for one
hundred days at the approaching centennial en-
position in Cincinnati.
Patrick Gray, of Aurora. \. y. intcrferei
to stop tight when john Snook. one Of the
"ranger>. struck him on the head with a
spade, inilictin@ fatal wound.
Ex-senator Fair has just been paid 10y his
bonanza partners in the Nevada Bank OF san
Francisco Sa.00o,0O0. for his advances to tide
over the pinch after the wheat deal.
Robert &. IngerSolI delivered \ culogy on
Roscoe C0nkling at the Academy Of Music in
Albany May 9th. 1t was an eloquent Grafton
and was listened to by $500 people.
The heavy stone bulkhead constructed by
the government in the Mississippi River. at
Rock Island, and costing 800, 900, was carried
away by the relentless current last week.
John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia. has dis
trihuted Si0,2Sl among his employers. as a part
of the past years profits of the concern. 1t
was an average of nearly $50 to each one.
Burglars entered the National Bank OF Port
land. Conn. May 10Th, made an un>uc-
cc>Stul attempt to open the vault with giant
powder and stole one dollars worth of postage
stamps.
Sixteen of Quantrell'S Old band of gueria>
held reunion at Blue Springs, Mo. recently.
Among them was TIE famous Frank James.
They told of their crimes with apparent un-
concern.
The calico printing works of the American
Company. at Fail River, Mass, have suspended
operations owing to the high price Of cloths.
Their usual output is 25,oOO to 10000 pieces
per week.
President Garnctt. Of the American Medical
Associations. proposes that the number of medi-
cal schools be le>sened, medical education i'm
proved. and other means taken to improve the
profession.
The supreme court of Illinois has affirmed
the decision of the lower courts in the county
boodlers' cases, and the defendants will have
| to serve their terms of sentence in the State
penitentiary.
The Senate has removed the injunction of
secrecy from the reports of the committee on
foreign relations upon the fisheries treaty. and
both the majority and minority reports have
been made public.
William I. Coleman 4 Co. of San Francisco,
| doing business of S14,000,0 600 year, have sus-
pended. The failure has been preciptated by
the proposition in the Mills Tariff bill to place
boraN on the free list
Gen. 1lorato King and Gen. George II.
Sharpe, are in Richmond, Va, consulting with
committee representing the army of Northern
Nlrgina regarding the grand reunion at Get
| tysburg, July l. , and 5.
! A settlement has been effected of the suit,
| brought by Nine. .Janallschek. in which she
| was awarded $4,000 for injuries received bN
| falling down stairs in Providence hotel. She
got considerably less by the settlement
| Bishop Hood. of the African Methodist
| Episcopal Zion Church, has been reported as
| saying that Southern planters should have been
| palu Tor their slaves, and the cOlOred men de-
lnand to know what the Bishop meant by it.
The Republicans will soon present a tariff
bill to the House which will cut off about 6;
millions. 1t cuts off the tax en- tobacco. except
| cigars and cigarettes and on alcohol used in
| the arts, and reduces at least half the duty
| on sugar.
| The Senate judiciary committee has received
documents charging Mr.. Fuller who has been
| appointed Chief Justice, with being hostile to-
ward the government during the war. In con.
| sequence consideration of his nomination was
postponed for a week.
| The Government has already purchased un.
der the circular of April 11th. bonds 10 the
amount of SlS.OSS 900. costing the Government
including premiums. &21 665,10o. Seven mil.
lions We're purchased Friday at higher rates
than heretofore. 4 per cents. selling Sl21 aud
1 II per cents. S10S.
senator Blair has introduced Il joint resolution
! to amend the Constitution as to allow the
| District of Columbia representation in both
| houses of Congress. He mentioned the facts
| that the population of the District exceeded
| that of Oregon, Delaware and Nevada, and
| that its valuation exceeded 800 ,000,0
| In Plymouth, n. H., all proprictors of liquor
| saloons, beer shops, drug stores and hotels
| supposed to have dealt out malt or spirituoi,>
! liquors, up to date, have been served with
wrts in response to the petition for the en-
| forccment of the nuisance law. They conse-
| quently closed. Liquor on prescriptions even
| cannot be had in town.
Il 1 Al.