The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1869-02-11
GENERALlTIEs.

The Oxford Democrat, a strong Maine Law
paper publishes slashing article on Judge
Davis letter, over the signature of Medic. The
author very neatly runs his dissecting knife
through the anatomy of the Portland PostmaS-
ter.
President Johnson by NO means comedies
that he is without political future He pur-
poses TO make it the business OF his life to
exterminate Brownlowism in Tennessee-in
which work we wish him all success.
The life of business advertising.
Holbrook the delegate from Idaho called
Ben Butler a liar, and was censured by vote
of the House--but the operation don't make
his words less true.
The New Workers say that the city is at the
mercy of ROB bers and assassins, and nothing
will relieve them but summary punishment in
ficted without recourse to law. This is
bad state of things
Weston, at last accounts, was wallowing
through the snow drifts of Vermont several
days behind time.
Mrs Kelley, of Black Brook, n T., is thirty
eight years Old, has been married twenty-one
years, and is now the mother of nineteen chill
dren, without ever having had twins, the young
est child being thirteen months old. There is
but ten months difference in the ages of her
first born and second born child
The schooner William Sutton arrived at Glou
cester last week with 10, 900 pounds of halibut.
This is the first arrival of the season from
Georges
A Chicago doctor cures hydrophoba by 10
dine.
An exchange says there 'are ten millions,
more or less, of women in the United States
and about five hundred of them want to vote.
Massachusetts, by reason of orders from the
South
trout was taken out OF Moosehead Lake
last week which was feet inches in length,
his largest girth about Is inches, and his weight
II l-2 pounds. 1t is said to be the largest ever
taken from that lake.
The latest device of rascals in New York is
to shoot people with air guns, that make no
noise.
| Somebody accuses Weston OF ''selling out"
his walking ,natch--that is his miles are not
square miles. N. Y. Leader.
4 remarkable electrical phenomenon occur
red during the thunder storm at Tyngsborough,
Mass. At about two O'Clock current OF cleo
tricity passed over large cross-cut saw and
a bar of iron lying in juxtapostion, and they
were so thoroughly fused by the heat that they
could not be separated by hand.
| Mayor S, B. Phinney has retired from the
Barnstable. Mass, Patriot, after an editorial
experience Of 40 years in its coumns-and
straight Democrat all the time.
Benjamin Fowle, one Of gang Of counter
feters who have been operating largely at
Bangor of late, has been arrested in that city.
He came from Lowell, Mass.
An Illinois editor, speaking of rogue who
lived in his vicinity, says: ''rhe rascal has
broken every bank, jail and Sabbath we have
had in this country for the last fifty years"
Two New York brokers INDUCED in q fight
in the gold room, the other day, in the course
of which there was some very pretty hitting
and a couple Of bloody noses.
DR.. Mudd has been pardoned. Every officer
and soldier of the Tortugas garrison petitioned
for it, from gratitude for the Doctors medical
!, services during the yellow fever season.
The Illinois Legislature is regulating the rate
of railroad fares.
The whole Kennebec region is running mad
about masked balls. Fish balls are cheaper and
more wholesome.
Sheriff Grose was at the State Prison on
Monday last, and read to Harris his death war
rant. He appeared to be unconcerned and in
different during the reading, and made no re.
ply whatever. [Rockland Patriot
: BoTToM UP.-A Horse Sleigh and two ladies
last week on Main St. Rockland Patriot
Only hear that! The ladies ought not to
permit the Patriot man to go into the street on
sleighing days, except with his eyes bandaged,
Hon. Thomas NJ. Hayes, prominent lawyer
OF Boston, formerly of Saco, died from an at.
tack of paralysis, on the first inst
The Journal is getting a wide circulation
We have a Subscriber at Gibraltar Shjpmas-
tors who may touch there, will find the Jour
nal on file with Mascarenhas & Halt