The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-08-05

WHY lllC pitto NClN CpCHCet blldl VA
IN BRIEF. Commander in Chief Clark
son OF the Grand Army of the Republic.
has issued a general order from national
headquarters at Omaha in regard to the
arrangements for the great encampment
The commanders in chief escorted by the
department commander will leave Omaha
on saturday, August II, at 81 p. m., by
special train. National Headquarters at
Omaha will be closed on that date and
opened in Buffalo on Monday, August %.
The 31st national encampment of the G..
A. Il. will assemble in Music hail. Buffa-
10 on Thursday, August 20, at a. III. AS
there is much business to come before the
encampment, its sessions will be called to
order promptly at the hour named. The
annual parade of the Grand Army of the
Republic will take place ON Wednesday,
August 25.... Great Britain has consented
to join in a monetary conference to be
held i'll Washington next winter .. The
Nesuvius, which for several months past
has been engaged in patrolling the Florida
coast to guard against tilibustering ex-
peditionS, has sailed from Fort George,
Fla, for Boston, where she will undergo
some repairs. The Wilmington has taken
her place at jacksonville. The Canadian
Government has decided to impose a
royalty on all placer diggings in Yukon
in addition to Sl5 registration fee and
500 annual assessment. The royalty will
be 10 per cent. each on claims with out
put of $500 or less monthly, and 20 per
cent on every claim yielding above that
amount yearly. Beside this royalty it
has been decided in regard to all future
o1n sf,1-o
rivers that every alternate claim should
be reserved for public purposes and sold
or worked by the Government for the
benefit of the revenue of the dominion.
The Republican national committee is
maintaining its headquarters at Washing
ton during the summer and keeping a
force of employees at work getting out
documents for use in those States in which
the campaign next fall will be of national
character... Forty steamers were charter
ed July 30th to load cargoes of grain at
Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore and
Newport News for points in the United
Kingdom and Europe, making a day s
record, which, it is claimed, has never
been equalled To fill these vessels it
will require over 1900, 900 bushels of
grain 80. The British foreign office has
notified Ambassador Hay that Great Brit
ian has accepted the proposition of the
United States for an international confer
ence on the question of pelagic sealing in
the Behring Sea, to be held in Washing
ton during the coming autumn. Col.
Fred Grant has resigned from the board
of police commissioners of New York, be-
cause, as he says. he did not approve the
spy system in getting evidence against
disorderly houses. The resignation was
accepted by Mayor Grant. 80. Lieutenant
Governor Worthington of Kentucky has,
during the absence of Governor Bradley,
pardoned and restored to citizenship more
than two criminals day, and most of
these have been murderers.....J j ohm D.
(1a) Baptist College that he will give 50
for every dollar the college will raise
from other sources. .... The Rev. C. S.
Sanders, a missionary in Turkey, contra
diets in the Springfield Republican the
report that Edhem Pasha was responsible
for or approved of the Armenian mas
sacres. Mr.. Sanders compliments Edhem
Pasha highly, and says: ''He is about
the one Moslem official of high rank about
whom no Christian in these regions has
uttered, so far as | can ascertain, one sin
gle word other than praise. 300. Reports
received from the New England, Middle
and Western States by the Hay Trade
journal show the conditional average Of
the hay crop to be "a, that of the whole
country 92 1-2, with two per cent. in
| crease acreage, indicating the largest croI
grown in many years.