The Republican journal., 1869-09-02
A drove of Texas cattle got stampeded in the

| 4 drove of Texas cattle got stampeded in the
streets of Buffalo, and ran over the people, tram
ping and goring them. Several persons were kill
. ed.
At a stable near ST. Louis there is young pony
colt of the Shetland breed, three weeks old and
weighing rs IA pounds. The Lilliputian animal is
only twenty inches in height, and jumps through a
fence like a cat 1t is great pet in the ncghbor
hood.
| Ocean navigaors, of both sailing ships and steam
ers call for a steam fog whistle at Cape Race.
Nova Scotia road traverses the scene of Evan
ge!ne," and the locomotives are to be named Ca
briei," "Gasparoau,' "Eyangeline," "Hiawatha,'
and ''Minnehaha."
| More frauds in Custom Houses" is the heading
of recent dispatch. Is it possible, among such
+ honest officials as the country is blest WITH
/ Upon recent occasion in which there
rie-match between the Scotch and English yonn-
teers, the crack rleman Of the English missed fire
and lost the day by the fact Of fly lighting inoppor-
/ timely on his nose.
y Jealous woman who went to Boston in search
of her truant husband finding him living with
another woman, took dose of poison with the View
OF trying her luck in ansther world. The doctors
pumped her out, and she continues TO abide here.
\ fool is to attempt the feat of walking backwards
! from Portland to Boston, on Wager-thuS imitat
ing the annual exhibition of the democratic party.
/ Watcryille Mail.
! We never before heard that the Democratic party
annually walk backward to Boston, but it is Ger
tain that the radicals walking forwardto much
warmer place.
An exciting political campaign is going in
California; the passage or defeat of the 18th amend
rnen by the next Legislature being the great object
in the contest.
A prominent Republican official of New York is
reported to be in trouble all about visits to another
mans wife, and children that don't resemble the re-
spectcd head of the family.
The Oxford Democrat says that man in Byron
lost eight young cattle week before last, under the
following circumStances-They We're in a pasture
about mile and half from his house, and on go
ING to them last Sunday to give them salt, he found
them all dead and no water in the pasture.
The Democrats of Slgalahoc County have NOM
mated Col. Samuel d. Bailey, Of Bath for Senator;
VIM. A. Potter of Woolwich, for County Commits
Sioner; and Charles H. Southari of Richmond for
County Treasurer.
The Democrats of Brooks, at their caucus
Saturday last, nominated Alonzo Roberts as cand
date tor Representative to the Legislature in the
class composed of Brooks, Belmont Morrill,, Knox.
and Waldo.
Il see that the Progressive Age has come ont for
john said Republican he met another.
John who:" asked the other "Why, Demiiohn."
said the wag, as he passed on
The liminution Of the Cuba sugar crop in conse-
quencc Of the instruction this year, is placed at
over seventy thousand hogshcads.
\ man in Salisbury. n H.. has discovered that
the common bareback can be used in tanning
leather as a substitute for suInac.
IN Bangor n man fell down flight of stairs and
mjurins himself severely. He had been '.recuper-
ating and repairing" with the receipt of the Prog
Age.
Andrew Johnsons last job of tailoring was to
''sew up the Tennessee carpet-baggers. His next
will be to haste the Radical Senators in Wash
ington. Cincinnati Enquirer.
4 correspondent of the New York Herald wants
the truth OF the Byron scandal to be settled by sum-
moning the spirits Of both Lord and Lady Byron
from the summer land" and procure their tesi-
m0nY.
A raiser of poultry in Louisiana has dug a we'll
at the entrance OF his hen-house, and placed tilt
ing cover on it, His catch averages negro
night.
Gen. Sherman was passenger on the City of
Richmond from Portland to Bangor on Tuesday.
lie is on tour of inspection among the fortitca-
tons of the State. He was the guest at Bangor of
Hannibal IIamln.
The election OF Packer, in Pnnsyvannia, is adj
mitted by persons who are in the confidence OF
Forney