The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1869-03-25
GENERALITIES.

| What prize they might find at the Repub-
lican office!
A western editor is sued for a libel by a
horse breaker, whom the wicked types make
a house breaker.
! The Gardiner Reporter reports knock downs
in that city, growing out of political discus
sions Can't they agree about the distribution
of the pap?
Joshua Nye, Ex-chief Constable, is ferocious
about the strangliug of the State Police BILL
and wants to run new party. The plumber
question, that's d fact.
''Cat suit has Just been decided III Balti-
more. The plaintiff sued out writ of replevin
for a favorite Maltese cat. The defendant
claimed $3.50 for boarding the cat 1872 days,
at ten cents day. Judgment for plaintiff,
with one cent and cost from defendant.
\, The State Tax this year win be sl lbs ,023-
37,or seven mills on the dollar, being an In
crease Of two mills over last year
Or. Mudd has received his pardon and got
home to F'My Maryland"
A San Francisco leather store owns and
shows a dressed oy-hde having d surface of
l45 square feet.
I Parties in New York are about to import
fresh beef from Texas, in steamship so con-
structed as to keep the meat frozen
small boat having II boxes of nitro glyce-
rine was discovered under a pier at the foot
of Whitehall street, New York-enough, 1t is
said, to blow the!lower portion of that city and
Brooklyn into atoms. The stuff was taken be-
You'd the city lines by the Harbor police
D,y WOW lrstrati +I,, oo,,a;+,r H. :,
sex to hold office, the Postmistress at jackson
Station, Pa, has been robbing the mail.
There is deficiency of $4,000 in the accounts
of the present treasurer of Gardiner The
city is secured.
! The United States squadron in the West In-
dies is being increased, aud is looking sharply
after affairs il Cuba.
The Pioneer believes Mr.. j. H. Folsom, of
Monticello, is entitled to the premium on hon
ey. He reports fourteen hundred pounds gath
cred by his bees last summer.
The city debt of Augusta is 1856, 900.
A nan in London, having married two wives,
survived for twenty years without letting either
into the secret of the others existence
Secretary Boutwell, is promising great re-
forms in the Treasury Department. The coun-
try will believe in him when it sees the fulfil
ment thereof
The female principal Of young lady 5 sem
mary in London cures the innumerabe cases
of "falling in love" that occur among her pu-
pills with close confinement and dose OF SIENNA
tea. She says the tea never fails.
woman in Chicago advertjses to give ttmiJ
young men instruction in the art of counting.
| A kentucky father, of the stern order, keeps
his daughter chained 20 a log to prevent her
marrying contrary to his wishes.
The Gardiner Home Journal has a way OF
freeing its mind i'll very Independent manner,
from time to time. 1t don't like the present
Legislature, although that body Is composed al
most entirely Of its party friends-so it opens
on it with grape and canister in this style
Glow far u State is compromised by the dis
grace of its legislature we cannot say; if to Il
| great extent it will certainly take long years
of repentance to wipe ont the ignomny Of
having elected this one. Ii the Republican
party can survive The disgrace of last year
work, it will never die-for having carried this
load, it can carry anything. ItshouId hoist as
| its motto Run, Stnu9gl0ti0n, dissection, and
| with the bottle, halter and scalpel as its en-
bems march to an eternity Of infamy"
I "A. u. hlCnurGSOn, one OF inc New ! DIX 1 RI
bune editors, who was shot by man for too
much familiarity with his wife, publishes card
saying that he intends to marry the woman
when she gets divorce and his wound is heal
ed-whIch is about tile fair thing to do.
Mr.. Prell, of Philadelphia, has died Of hydro
phoba, from the bite of i pet dog that showed,
no signs of madness
The Camden Herald says there has been seen
of late in the different localities around tie
mountains qneer specimen of an animal which
has excited the curiosity Of many and the fear
of all who have seen it. Whether it is an In
dian Devil" or some other monstrosity, they
cannot tell, and the hunters have NOT been able
to "bring him down"
Perhaps it is The White Mans Devil, much
more ferocious and troublesome animal
Maine has Ill persons employed in the yari-
Gus departments at Washington.
The radicals lost two voters in Mobile last
week. couple of negroes We're hanged for
murder,
Said very old man; ''Some folks always
complain about the weather, but | am very
thankful when [ wake up in the morning to
find any weather AZ all
The Lewiston Journal relates the following
story of the ''mIky way
As Mr.. Remission, well known to many of
our citizens as a milk dealer, was coming to
town Friday morning with 81 quarts of milk in
his pung, his horse broke through the crust
and fell on his side, overturnine the whole load
and splitting all the milk except about two
quarts.
A. d. Mccoy cut his throat IN Brunswick
and died
gang of conyicts in Sing Sing State Prison,
n. Y, rose on the morning of the 18th, dis
armed two keepers, tied and gagged them, and
escaped. One of the keepers died OF suifoca
ton. The convcts were all secured. Another
gang the same day, overpowered the guard,
took their rifles and went on board sloop at
the wharf-but several We're killed and the rest
secured.
In respect to the appointment Of y woman
Miss Van Lew-aS Post mistress at Richmond,
Va, it is stated that while besieging Rich
mond Gen. Grant frequently received from her
the most valuable Information, including maps
and diagrams, conveyed through Miss Van
Lewis slaves. OF course she lost her slaves,
and much of her other property.
The late term of the Court i'm Knox County,