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

front Of his establishment "Hotel de Horse.
Dea. Henry Clark, of fremont, who has pc
| titioned for charter Tor telegraph line from
S. W. Harbor to Ellsworth, Is getting the poles
for the wire scattered along the track. Ellis
worth American.
The editor of the Portland Transcript caught
a severe cold while in Augusta recently-he
suspects from the influence of the cold water
convention. We once knew person who ex-
perienced similar nfction from reading DR..
Kanes Arctic Voyage.
The Memphis sun says I'VE predict that
Andrew johnson, like John Quincy Adams, OF
ex-Presidents, will die in office, and that he
will soon lead in the fercest political conflict
ever known in the annals of Tennessee.
Attention is called to the advertisement OF
the Eastern State Normal School, at Castne.
1t affords excellent facilities, especially for
those intending to become teachers.
Linn's wooden factory at Hartland uses an
nuay one hundred and forty thousand pounds
Of wool in manufactur ing shawls and Scotch
tweeds. The value of these goods manufactur
ed annually amounts to one hundred and TWEEN
ty-ive thousand dollars.
A writer in one of the dailies is in favor of
putting packet on the route from Portland to
Hancock. BY this packet goods could be de-
Franklin, Sullivan, West Gouldsbo and Han
cock, eleven months of the year, Our city has
done nobly in the past in opening the Eastern
trade and we trust they will give ills move
ment all the attention it merits. Portland
| Transcript.
Rev. Mr.. Kelly OF Machias baptized six per
sons last week by immersion. The weather
Was very cold and the ice required much cut
ting to secure space of open water sufficient
for the work.
The counterfeit twenty-five cent scrip, 1t is
said, can be detected by observing hat ''Fes-
sender eye has more black around it than the
genuine" 1t can't be SO black eye Nor
rill got at Augusta the other day
The Spanish authorities at Havana sent
peace commissioner to the insurgents in the
interior. They sent MIN back, saying that they
meant fight and independence. Poor old Spain
Mr.. W lillian Brown, proprietor of the Eagle
Hotel, at llaverhill, has kept that house over
fifty years, and can remember when Washing
too stopped there, aud also an ovation given
by Thomas Jefferson in one of the parlors.
II. c. Dorsey, an eccentric gentleman OF
Pawtucket, X. l., sent to Warden Rice the funds
to give all the convcts in the State Prison
good turkey dinner.
Our Minister at Brussels recently gave
dinner at which every dish was imported from
America.
man in Missouri insane on religion, re-
Gently offered his daughter "a sacrifice to
Christ"-that is he stranglcd her and cut her
body in pieces.
The Wing relates that selectman and con
stable Of a neighboring town ielI among the
wicked in Bangor, got very drunk and was put
in the watch-house. He was likewise beaten
during the evening. AID robbed of watch and
) money. Does the Maine Law extend as far as
Bangor!
REpRIEN OF HARRIS. In accordance wtsa
resolution of the House of Representative
the Governor has reprieyed Harris for thirty
days. 1t is said That he has made another con
fession in which he insists that Verrl is guilty
! The Bar Association of Cumberland County
recently partook of supper at the United
States Hotel, in Portland The Advertiser az
gravate~ the profession elsewhere by publish
ing the bill OF fare.
u The following strange story is told in Geor-
gia paper: "A few days ago there were found
in the woods, near this place, two hogs, with
double Oarrelled guns-saiu guns having been
discharged-aud not many steps distant were
two colored men, quite dead, who had been,
fired upon by the hogs, while in the act of run
ming away"
They are oyerhaulng the divorce laws at
Augusta. bill has been reported which pro
vides that where divorce for adultery Is grant.
ed the party i'll fault shall not be permitted to
marry again at once. But after going iu
alone for thee years the Court may give leave
to try he yoke again.
The woman in New Jersey who sued gay
youth Of 50 for breach Of promise, got $4,000
The ndisereet chap should have had one of our
qut-claim blanks
New Workers who 70 out after dark do not
display any jeweTy fearing that gold chain
ora diamond pin may attract the attention Of
the highway men and desperadoes that infest
the city.
barber in Pittsburg, Pa. shot and killed
little boy who persisted in looking in at his
window, after being ordered away.
The President has issued IN order directing
that the remains Of Mrs Surrat be delivered
to her family for decent burial.
An engaged couple" in Hartford have been
making love for thirty Years, but haven't dared
to marry for fear ot TWO awful mothers in law
in prospective.
1t costs $40 for a white man to go to tb G III.
auguration bali at Washington. No quot atoms
for coored persons.
Our Camden correspondent writes tnsr quite
number OF young m n from that town are
about to leave tor California
Mr.. Hooper, from The Committee on WAYS
: and Means, has reported in Congress very i'm
portant bill, which torbids the increase of the
public debt 1t ought to pass.
At the recent term OF the Supreme Judicial
Court held at Bangor, seventeen divorces were
decreed
Mr.. Soule, Postmaster az Someryille writes
to US that the fncts concerning n recent fire In
that town have been misrepresented The sta
BILE that WAS burned on the night of the goth,
belonged to a. w Erskine, of Palermo and
was occupied By A. L. Soule and Warren
! Glidden- They lost property worth $500
each, in the hre. Mr. Soule was badly burned
in trying to- save the property. The building
was fully insured.