The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1869-02-04


was knocked down and killed by boys sliding
down hill Somebody will be killed in this city,
if the practice of sliding down the principal
streets is not checked
An old minister the other day asked a wo-
man what could be done to induce her husband
to attend church.
II don't know" she replied, ''unless YOU
were to put pipe and jug of whisky in the
pew"
During the Temperance Convention in Au-
gusta, the only strictly temperance hotel in the
place did not have Il single member of the
body as Il guest There is vast deal of hum
bug among these rabid prohibitionists.
The Camden Iferald asserts that the billiard
table from which the cast iron eagles were TAX
en-, was never iu the Knox Mansion, but form
ed part OF the furnishing of plebian saloon
at Ihomaston. We had the story from q
smooth-tonsued official of Uncle Samuels, To-
Gated at Camden If he is guilty of imposing
upon our inuoceuce, he deserves General
Knocks ana particular fits
Those who have not yet subscribed for the
Herald, should do so at once, in order to pre-
| serve files unbroken for future reference. In
few years they will be interesting to their
NhliuItu, NJ INFORM lneln Wnat tnelr fathers
dld before them. Camden Herald.
Ii we are not mistaken there are some citi-
zens OF that lively town who are not partcu-
lary anxious that their children should be fully
posted on that subject.
Ihe reports of Legislative proceedings notes
the exhibition before that body of patent ven
tllalinS apparatus, with proposition for APP
plying VI to the State House We hope he
may be allowed to do it, There is no concern
anywhere for which it is so much needed And
let the gentljat on go back far enough to in
clnde the paper credits
They continue to ageravute the editor of the
kenntbec Journal with dead horses on the ice
He has got spike team now
The North Penobscot Agricultural and Hor-
. tlcultura Society have voted to give no more
prizes for trottng
! We see no present use, and we can see no
prospective use ofaresuIar army of forty five
thousand men, costing furty-three millions OF
dollars per annum. N Y Times.
Camden has got large force pump, worked
by water power, which, with a hose attached,
can be carried anywhere in the village, and
makes squirt OF tremendous power
The Helocipede has got to Bangor.
The burnt district i'll Bangor is about to be
rebuilt
Three prisoners escaped from the W iscasset
jail ana are still ut large. They knocked down
the keeper while he was visiting their cells
Twitchell, the Philadelphia murderer, has
been convicted and sente need to death His
wife was not tried the au authorities holding her
innocent,
1t is understood that Gen. Grant has prepar-
ed his resignation as General of the army, and
will send Vt to President johnson the next day
after the electoral vote IS declared, which will
be week after next.
The old gun boat Harriet Lane, captured by
the rebels at Galveston, Texas, has been fitted
up as barque at Gbsous wharf, East Boston
and Is bound for the Pacific coast Of South
America
loratio Washburu and John T. Stephens,
two youu- men who stole horse and sleigh
from livery stable in BIZ, wcr, have been ar
rested in New Sharon, and lodged In Bangor
Iiail
member Of the Bangor City Government,
who had recently committed matrimony, invit-
ed his associates to an oyster supper, as we
learn from the Wing, The whole crowd at
the feast, vented their wit on one or two for
lorn bachelors who still live in single blessed
ness.
The ice dealers Of Gardiner have 80, 900 tons
of the article in store.
The Maine Farmer says there are two estab-
liShments IL the state for fish breeding, one In
Augusta, owned by Mr.. Charles q. Atkins, and
the other i'll Alma, belonging to Daniel c. Pot
tie. The latter gentleman expects to take out
about 23OO fish next year as his first crop.
The figures Of the amount recovered in the
Lewiston breach of promise case are 81 225,
without costs
They are building wrought iron chimneys for
factories in San Francisco, to withstand the
earthquakes.
The Portsmouth Journal has subscriber
who has appeared in that office nearly every
Friday afternoon for SO years, with his coppers
to pay for the paper. The journal estimates
that the coppers would weigh 100 pounds, and
would make column of over so feet in height
If piled one upon the other.
1t is said that the judiciary Committee of this
State will report bill aboshing capital pun
lshment, except in certain extreme cases.