The Republican journal., 1869-04-15

vi siilpS llat sail the skies.
At sea are masts that rise
Like spectres from the deep
ON shore are the ghosts of drowning cries
That cross the waves of sleep.
At sea are wrecks ahead;
On shore arc shells that
Old anchors buried in barren sand,
Sel-IniSt and dreams alone.
The Springfield Republican is unkind enough
to say this Of Senator Sprague-
He is one of the men best qualified to say
not only what capital can do in manufacturing
iron and cloth and yarn, but in manufacturing
Governors and Senators.
The New England Fair and the Maine State
Fair will be held simultaneously in Portland
next fill, A grand occasion is predicted.
The Machias Union says business is quite
active on the river. few foreign cargoes
have been shipped.
Rumor having connected Gen. Blair with
project to assist tha Clbans, he takes occasion
to deny it.
society for the prevention Of cruelty to
animals is being organized in Bangor.
! Spain is coming to New York to buy ships
/ Of war.
Albert NJ. starbird, printer, of Portland
killed himself with pistol last week.
Twitchell. the Philadelphia murderer, cheat
ed the gallows. The night before the execU-
ton was to take place, he took poison and was
/ found dead
/ ''Monticello'" the former residence of Thorn
as Jefers on is to be sold at pnblic sale on the
18th day of May.
/ \ good many fires have occurred in Bidde-
ford and Saco of late. The Journal thinks
] =
them.
/ On the night Of the Goth the store of Richard
/ r. Buck / Co., % South street. New York, was
entered and robbed by burglars, who broke
/ open the safe and robbed it of $ 900 in secu-
rifles, and $500 in cash. Of the securities on
y 5000 i'll L. S. $40 bonds are available. The
burglars escaped with their booty.
/ The chaplain OF the Senate prayed the other
day for the success of the rebellion in Cuba.
Couldn't he help it more by shoulderng mus
/ ket?
The Chicago Butchers society offer silver
belt with buckle OF solid gold to the butcher
who can Kill and dress OK in the shortest
time.
The Pittsbnrg Gazette says that the health
of eN-Secretary Stanton is precarious as to
Justify the deepest solicitude of his frieuds
That is equivalent to saying that the devil
is about to (orcclose his mortgaee-for if he
don't eventually get Stanton, there is no use
ii having devil.
city paper reports cockfeht under the
head Of Somtholosical discussion"
The Portland Press newspaper and establish
meGt has been purchased by Representative
Lynch Major ROBBIE, Mr.. Talbot and others.
Mr.. Damphool thinks he can cross the con
tinent on q velocipede, and is going to try II,
All his relatives are partial to that go-cart
In Pennington. hanging lamp exploded in
the store OF Rev. w. Wyman, seriously wound
ing Mr.. w. in the forehead and setting his
goods on fire. The latter were extinguished
without very great loss and at last accounts
the wounded man was doing well.
William \. Cromwell, Special Inspector OF
Customs for the Pcn0bscot District. has been
dismissed from mis- position, the Office having
been abolish ed.
The woman who exhibits herself riding the
velocipede astraddle, has got as far at Augusta
The Wife of Joseph w. Libby, of Dexter,
committed suicide, Friday night, by drowning
She was about 20 years of age Cause tenn
porary insanity.
In the last Illness of the witty George Col.
man, the doctor being later than the time ap-
pointed, apologized to his patient, saying that
he had called in to a man who had fallen
down well. 9tDd he kick the bucket doc
| tOr?' groaned Colman.
| f. c. Bailey, the retiring editor of the Bos
ton Herald, has gone to Europe intending 10
be absent year.
The Salt Lake papers are making merry over
a fight in the household of Mormon bishop,
in which the saint got teartully thrashed by
several enraged wives.
The Bangor correspondent of the Augusta
Standard says that the Winterport Railroad
has failed, and that the charter has been sold
to It's adyersaries.
/ Carlos Manuel Cespedes, leader of the Cuban
rebellion, is forty-seyen years old, and prom
/ inent lawyer. He has great control over the
insurgents, who have every confidence in his
success.
A pretty girl in Washington, daughter of one
of the radical city Councllmen, has put In prac-
tce her fathers crazy teachings and eloped
with negro.
A man dropped his pocket book in Chatham
street, New York, April first, AMI found Il In
the same place ten minutes later, The passers-
by, being afraid OF an April-foo Joke did not
pick it up.
The last Belfast journal is pretty plentfully
speed with extracts from the Wing, the good
taste displayed in the selection of which its
readers will duly appreciate Bangor Wing
We think they will, IN the table which is
weekly spread, we endeavor to have q variety,
ana TO show what an attractive dish can be
made from such unpromisng materials az the
politics of the Wing, when property sptced
Sheridan is furnishing the Indians on the
Plains terribly This is supposed to be mainly
ON account Of their refusing to take the scalps
ofnegro soldicrs-thus showing their contempt
for American citizens. 1t can't be allowed
IIelmbol1 advertises IN $500 of the 1880
newspapers published in the United States
In a recent breach of promise case in New
York. all the evidence of an engagement was
The breaking of a wish bone between the pair
at the request Of the ladies'!
Alter the snow banks are gone, let us have
peas kennebcc Journal.
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