The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-07-11
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The New York post Office cost about
E,0O0,000 the Philadelphia public
building has cost thus far about s15,-
OOo,OO0, the city hall of Boston
cost $780, 900, the capital at Washing
ton cost about $14, 900, 900, and the I'M
finished capitol at Albany has cost thus
far S2l ,46S, 336.30.
The legislature of Tennessee has
passed bill to enable the city of Chat
tanooga to issue bonds to the amount
OF 100000 to any railroad company
thas will locate its principal. shops
there, and employ at least 1000 men.
Before this can be done, it must be APP
proved by vote of the people.
"A 'wildman," who for the last TWEEN
ty years has been living in cave Sono-
ma county, Cal, was taken to the insane
asylum recently. For some reason or
other he made vow more than twenty
years ago that he would never sleep in
a house again, and he is particularly
incensed that the authorities, in taking
him from his miserable den, in order to
save his life, have caused him to break
this vow.
When the proposition was first
made to substitute the locomotive en-
CINE for horses on the old Columbia
railroad in Pennsylvania it was siren
uously opposed upon the ground that
1t would bring down the price of
horses and endanger neighboring
structures because of the sparks. Even
the chief engineer of the line opposed
the change of motive power There
were only three locomotives in use on
the road in 1885, but two years later
there were forty, and practically no
other motive power was used.
The battle of Fair Oaks, or Seven
Pines, the first bloody and important
contest of the campaign" in the penin-
sula, began on May 81, 1862. On the
following morning, June l, the battle
was renewed, and ended will, success
OF the union troops and the reestab-
lishment of the lines lost the previous
day. About sunset on May 81, Gen. ).
E. Johnston, commander in chief of the
confederate army, who had been shortly
before wounded by a bullet in the
shoulder was struck from his horse by
a she'll and severely injured and carried
from the field.
--"Dixie," words and music, was
composed in the north in 1859 by Dan"
d. Emmett, for Bryan's minstrels, and
was sung first in that negro minstrel
band by that unique delineator of ne
gro character of delightful memory,
"Eph" Horn. 1t became exceedingly
popular, and it's rollicking tune was
adapted to several southern compost
tions, the only one of which worthy of
preservation was by Gen. Albert Pike.
This famous soldier and mason was
born in Massachusetts, but migrated
to Arkansas, and became one of the
most bitter opponents of the union.
The case OF the horse seems mourn
full enough now. for the bicycle has
invaded the turf and captured the turf
men. The presiding judge of the San
Francisco Racing association took to
the wheel month or so since, and now
practically all the race track officials
and several of the horse owners are
cycle devotees, while large and
almost daily increasing number of the
patrons of the turf ride to and from
the track on their wheels One man
who owns a stable of fast trotters and
has some of his horses on the track
almost every day has lately taken to
the bicycle, and now regularly rides 20
the track on his wheel instead of be-
hind his horses.