The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1869-02-25
GENERALITIES.

The steamers Russia and City Of Paris, re-
Gently raced across the Atlantic. They sailed
together on the 10TH and reached Queenstown
on the 18th, both together. They were not out
of sight of each other by day during the pas
age.
The Lake Village a. H. Times mentions
man who sent twenty five cents for ga splen-
did steel engraving of Andrew Jackson" and
cot postage stamp.
Judge Harrison fought duel near Bladens-
burg, last week, with an ex confederate officer,
in which 'the Court" badly wounded Its an
tagonst.
Ben. Butler has proposition for reducing
the army and turning adrilt some Of the off,
GERS who are past active service The Spring
field Republican neatly touches Benjamin on
the raw, thus
Gen Butler, having harvested ga good thing"
out of the army, proposes that there shall be
no more wastes, no more sWindlings, no more
sinecures even, in that department. He is a
trfle rough, perhaps, on officers who have
grown old and kept poor i'll their country's ser
Vice; but his zeal for economy and honesty is
most commendable. We can hardly have too
much Of it from that quarter And as for the
poor old officers whom he proposes to turn
adrlf., they should have known enough to have
improved their opportunities and made hay
while the shone.
Mrs. Gen. Grant is cross-eyed.
The colored people at Washington will have
an Inauguration ball Of their own, and in order
not to be exclusive, will invite Gen. Grant.
The Gardiner Gas Co. divides three per cent
A in
Is followed by this notice "No cards No
cake!! No toiae!!!"
The storm of last week was severe on the
trees In the Kennebec region, covering them
with ice and breaking off limbs Some Or
chards were ruined.
Capt. Deering, of steamer Lewiston, was
visited at his home-Clif Cottage-Cape Eliz-
abeth, Wednesday evening by party of friends
who presented him with silver pitcher, sal
yer aud goblet Portland Adv.
We used to hear u great deal of the mlldness
OF the climate in the western States and have
experienced something of it. But of late there
seems to have been an exchange with New
England in this particular Western paper
says
The recent snow blockade in Wisconsin is
SAID to have been the worst since 1864 The
Rlpon Railroad was showed under for a week
ana the SheboySan train came through on Sat
urday four days behind time. Some of the
drifts on this road were fifteen feet deep.
At Manchester, N. H, Mr.. Hurlbert, station
agent, fell from the cars and had his foot cut of
The United States Admiral on the West In
dia Station has instructions to be especially Wig
To-, -,
the Cuban troubles.
firm in Rochester, n. y, one Of whose
clerks Was making large Investments on a sal
airy Of 5000, looked into the matter and found
that he had been siyly robbng them for eight
years. He restored over $4,000.
The executioner who hung Whalen, the muir
derer Of MCGEE, In Canada is thus described
The executioner was clad in 8 blue Jacket
aud panLaloons, with striped red and white
cap lie was young, 1.-the aud active. HIS
face was closely Swathed with black crane
His hands and feet and features so far as dis
linguishable through the Grape, were delicate
as those Of q woman, and Il woman many take
this exeCqtioner to have been
Lorilard, the tobacco man of New York, is
cruising on the Southern coast in a luxurious
y something
for him.
In Evansville, Wisconsin, the people voted
for two days on the question of the postmus
tership, the Congressman from that district
having agreed to nominate the person who re.
&c ived the largest number Of votes A Miss
Angie King received majority of forty two
NJ. DuChaillu nee dined with an African
chief, and made Sc lections from the following
bill Of fare
''Boiled elephant; snake, boiled with banan-
as; crocodile broth; roast leopard roast mon
key; buffalo mess; roast gorilla; little boil
ed chimpanzee, wild boar, SC"
Trichinoss, or worms i'll the flesh, from eat
ing raw pork, has appeared again In New York.
Twenty-four colored people OF Portland
have applied to the Colonization Society for
passage to Liberia the coming spring.
Harperz Magazine for March Is published.
1t contains very interesting Illustrated arti-
Gle, The Policemen of the Sea-" treating of
Lighthouses, Lite Boats, Revenue Cutters,
Smuggling, &C, SC. The article on "Soulh-
Coast Saunterings's is continued. 1.-THE Lands
of the Earthquakes likewise finely alustrat-
ed, besides being very interesting in text.
There IS also large amount of other inter
esting literature, Editors table, Editors draw
er, &c.
A catnip wedding is the latest novelty. 1t
takes place at the end OF the first wear after
marriage.
boy named Hammond was killed ut Paris
while sliding, by running against a stake.
which perced his body
The amount OF slaves shipped from the Or
land Mills is 200 900 Instead Of 222 900, as
enormously stated last week.
In Cincinnati one of the yeloeipede foo Is rode
his wooden donkey through hatchway, and
fell down four stories. lie won't ride any more
in this world.
Cigars struggled into New Orleans IN
barrels of peanuts.
Some of the papers say the account of the
discovery OF the Burdell murderer is hum
bus-out it reads well.
A mourntully suggestive objsct stood In front
OF a trunk store on eth street yesterday in the
shape OF newly covered trunk of medium
size, freshly marked A. johnson, Tennessee