The Republican journal., 1869-01-07


efsat Reporter.
OMv that much longer in office, but on the
roll OF honesty and courageous patriotism
through al coming time.
James GouA and Gideon Harding, of De-
troit, are requested to call at this office, and
adjust little matter of business.
| Forty thousand copas of the Congressional
eulogies upon Thad Stevens. at the expense of
the public treasury, have been ordered to be
printed.
over thirteen millions worth of new build
ings have been erected in Boston the past year
The can-can, that was danced with so much
applause in Boston, is forbidden by the author
tiles in virtuous Washington!
A lille mechanic has invented shoot
| ing machine, which he calls the "Poyfer,"
which will destroy regiment of soldiers, dis
| tant mile and a half, in four minutes.
| Boston has opened her public soup house for
the winter, where the forlorn and hungry may
get something satisfying. Fish chowder was
the lirst bill of fare.
| Ia Cincinnati, VIM. Ashbark, jealous of his
wife, killed her with Ratchet and shot him
self through the head.
| A Yankee has set up 4 steam grlst mill at
! Jerusalem, near the Mount of Olives, and grinds
out grists at fair toll.
! An incendiary is trying hard to burn the city
Of &oWhuryport. At favorable times, when
the wind is high, some combustbe building Is
lrlI by an lngeniously arranged box with
lighted candle within it. The latest attempt
was by firing Il barn containing Il large quaint
/
ious to get hold Of the fellow.
| There is 4 man in Chicago who places cap
on his head ana let's Capt. Travis put Il plsto
bali through il at twelve PAGES, the bullet go
ng within IN inch Vi his skull.
Mr.. Wing, OF Bangor, who had an apoplectic
tit at Lewiston, is dead. He was on his we'd
ding tour.
During dance at Fort Sullivan, PASSPORT,
on Christmas eve, two soldiers broke open
Sargent Crowley trunk, stole $24OO in bonds,
and deserted. They We're captured, and are
now in Jail.
The contested win case in Bath. in which its
Sullicicncy was contested because it was made
under spiritual influence, has been decided in
favor of the executors, ;hus sustaining the will.
/ WOlsE THAN CROToN OIL. A woman in
| Switzerland, a nurse, has been detected in pol
sonug people with beladonna. She had sent
nine victims to the grave.
! The schooner Laurel, of Hancock from Bal
timore for Ellsworth, with corn, dragged ashore
at Provincetown, in the late gale. She will
come off without damage it is thought
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commenced the issue of a morning as we'll as
on evening edition. The Advertiser is a very
enterprising, spright,y aud interesting sheet.
A farmer in Michigan, inding that his sheep
were disappearing mysteriously recently, plac-
ed Il wolf trap in the field A few days after
wards he found it sprung, and now one of his
Ineighbors is laid up with spraned ankle.
We understand that the Hon. John A. Peters
construction of the Presidents Amnesty proc
lamaton has reached This city by due course
of mail According to his Interpretation, its
provisions are not sweeping and universal
as we had supposed. He declares that 1t does
include in the pardon "Gorham l.. Boynton,
Marcclus Emery, Dudley F. Leavitt, and old
10. Chase Bangor Democrat
4 man in Acton, Mass, whose boy had been
whipped, carried the punishment back to the
Schoo-house and deposited it with the master,
where il remained at last accounts.
A new suspension bridge across the Niagara
river, has just been opened II has the long
est span on the continent.
g Down with the traitor, " is the motto of the
boys in blue. From the proceedings at the ban
quet in Chicago, last week, it is evident that
most of them consider champagne traitor
Just previously to the big fire, the great ex
citemcnt at Bangor was 4 skating rink, fenced
in on tie icy bosom of the Penobscot, and
scraped clear of snow.
American corn-cobs are sold in London as
''patent tire-ighters.'
A sky rocket took of mans leg in Rich
llnOnd Christmas eve, and killed him.
Congressman Lynch is very busy in trying
to give IN honest explanation of the use of his
frank to put tons of printed matter through
the mail
| The Bangor Wing says that the corporators
of the Winterport Railroad Co. have elected
N. r. Hubbard, +. F. Littleteld, Job Lord, T.
w Vose, r. Cushing, Samuel Dillany, r. H.
Cushing. Directors for 1869. The Directors
made choice OF N. H. Hubbard, Esq, President.
ana Job Lord, CLERK and Treasurer
| Flour ana dried Goldfish in good state OF
preservation, are dug from the ruins of the
late fire in Bangor.
| A very loyal collector Of internal revenue in
Virginia is i'll Trouble about S95, 900 that he
cant account for.
| The men arrested for murder of the Maiden
Natchman have been discharged
\ New York must BE charming place to live
in. is y man there was clearing the snow
from his sidewalk i'll the morning, ruf1an al
tempted to rob him and being resisted, mflct-
ed mortal atlbs and fed.
| The first and second mates of the ship Santee
have been tried in San Francisco for the abuse
of apprentice boys, and sentenced to State
| llSon for two years. They were cruelty
beaten, aud forced to drink salt water by the
gallon.
| The officials continue to find Illicit distier-
les in New DIRK and Brooklyn but there are
| hundreds that no official owe hos Saan