The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1869-01-14
GENERALlTiEs.


his present residence, that he is obliged to III
his feet pretty often.
The jailor at Bangor has got an unruly fam
lily. They have been caressing him with
stick of wood, and settin, their beds on fire.
Shun whiskey fast women aud tho United
States, was the dying exhortatlon If sns-
pended Canadian.
Jerad C. Brown, of Somers, Conn having
lost five sheep by foxes, poisoned one of the
carcGSses with strychnine, and on the follow
ing morning found four foxes lying beside the
dead sheep.
The Skowhegan stage broke through the ice
At Arson, aud came out very damp, passengers
and all
Preparations for the Inauguration bali are
going on at Washington 1t is not true that
Butler and Grsnt are to dance the Highland
Fling together.
Anna Dickinson and Susan B. Anthony are
accomplished velocipedists and insist on wo
mans right to ride astride if she likes.
Machlas is having course Of home lectures
this winter.
A Frenchman recently inquired at Collins
vile, VT store for " diapers" What he real
" wanted was dried apples.
The Democratic Mayor OF Portsmouth gave
his last years salary to the High School fol
the benefit of its libraly
The Rockland Gazette says that Mr. Phil
brook. Of Owls Head, cut his throat in conse-
quenee of domestic trouble Or. Estabrook
sewed up the wound
7 Two litigants in Iowa went to law about the
ownership Of twenty-five cent bag of -four.
The costs at latest accounts had reached the
sum of three hundred dollars. and the case was
far from being settled.
At the fire III Bangor, augustus Morse, fore
man of the hose company froze his feet, and
in the excitement did not discover it until the
Gres were over.
The light from the great fire in Bangor, on
Friday evening, was distinctly seen in this vii
lage. Some Of oar citizens thought there must
be q fire up TO the Falls, and actually started
to 90 up thcre. Ellsworth American.
U. S. Revenue Cutter Sunnyside, which has
been On duty in the Waldoboro Collection Dis
trict, is to be- sold by order Of the Treasury De
partmeut.
The radical Office holders at the South are
free -andeasy chaps. The Collector having
occasion TO suspend one TiSdale, a deputy at
/ Alexandria, received the following reply by
telegraph; ''Go to h Il. | don't know You.
II you want TO suspend mo, come here and DO
it" Probably, If he went, he would find his
subordinate with negro guard prepared to
4 resist.
The trouble with negro juries i'll Florida is
that they can't be kept awake. Frequent adj
tournaments, to give the jury 4 good nap, have
no effect They are asleep in two minutes after
( entering The box.
Mr. Charles Rogers, who was recently mur-
dered in New YORK in broad day, was formerly
one Of the proprietors Of the Tontine House in
Brunswick, ana was tie father Of Mrs. 5 q.
/ Marston Of W1tefville.
Thirty years ago Mr. Rogers kept the AmeIi-
can House, in this city, and IL well remembered
by oar older citizens.
GOV. Chamberlain is in poor health, and went
home Immediately after inauguration.
An exhibitor OF wild beasts III Paris depos its
The daily receipts OF his exhibition in the cage
OF the most teroCous of his animals, every
night, and he las never lost so much as IL sou.
The Postmaster at Salem, Mass, has alb
seconded leaving an unfinished account with the
government OF some &c. 900. Hc Is loyal"
n A singular accident occurred 1T Ii Chris tmls
/ party at Nashville, where two weddings were
celebrated. Owing to too much egg-nog, each
bridegroom found his way into the others
chamber, and discovered his mistake only by
daylight.
/ Deacon Washburn, of Worcester, Mass, re
Gently deceased, has given $40 900 TO the Ban
9or Theological Seminary, on condition that
similar sums be raised by its friends within two
years.
4 minister i'll Boston has been before the
Police Court for stealing books from various
book stores Four hundred stolen volumes
were found in his possession
The pccunary loss by the recent earthquake
ut san Francisco viii, IT Is said exceed three
millions Of dollars.
The bear on Boston common became danger
Gus, and has been killed.
The house of the French Minister at Wash
inston was robbed recently, and Il day or two
afterwards his two coored servants were muir
dered, probably because they suspected the
guilty parties.
tiske, who sues Bowles for libel, EMPLOYS
Ben. Butler for counsel.
A veterinary surgeon at W ashington recently
took bali as large as Il ten FOUNDER from a
horses stomach. 1t was formed of plaster of
paris that had been used to coor his ground
feed.
Sickness and poverty caused veteran sol
der, Edward Stowell, to poison himself at
Worcester He VIII have no more bondbold-
ers taxes to pay
Gen. Lowell II. Rosseau died at New Orleans
on the !th lie was a soldier of the Mexican
war, and fought all through the rebellion on the
Union side. He was an ardent Democrat, and
being expelled from Congress in 1865 for Gaming
an lnsolent political priest, was Immediately
Reelected. He then resigned and was ap-
pointed Brigadier General in the regular army.
Inc present winter in Florida is the coolest
for 80 years
Portland Is in trouble about her harbor.
The steamers drawing Sc feet of water. can't