The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1869-04-08
GENERALiTIES.

The rush to the new White Pine silver min
ing regions, in Navada, is beyond all precedent
Zen thousand persons are already there, amid
the discomforts and perils of a new country.
Incredible stories a~e told of the wealth of the
mines.
Dunn. the motasses colored Lieut.. Governor
of louisiana, has had long private conference
with Grant. He wants to fill Federal office
down there
+ A Georgia minister has discovered that the
fruit that Eve gave Adam was tobacco.
lle should now further enlighten the world
by stating whether it was natural leaf OF fine
/ cut.
! \ cutlery hrm &. Sheffield England, have sent
eX -Secretary Seward an elegant penknife with
star for each State of the Union in gold up
on the ivory handle.
/ Parties are tearing down the old army earth
works in Virginia to get the lead and Old iron
they contain.
Polish exile who has supported his family
OF eight for tdree years by saving wood in the
streets of Dubuque, Iowa, has Just gone to
Europe TO claim fortune of 81 900, 900 leIl
him Ivy uncle
While NJ. Chaillu was travelling in Africa
chief as mark of particular favor present.
ed him with Sj3 wives, all at once!
Gen. Grant, on being demonstrated with for
giving Massachusetts many offices, says he
VIII make the appointments inst as he d IN
pleases Let Us have peace
| The Augusta folks are blue about Sprague'5
speeches. They think that with such an oplu-
ION Of the country he is not likely to build many
| factories
Here IS epitaph written on stone on the
banks of the Sweetwater river 'IIere lies the
! body OF jeems Hambrick, who was killed by
an Oh fashioned brass mounted pistol with no
stopper for the cock to rest upon, and of such
i the Kingdom Of heaven"
4 sea gull has been caught in Kentucky 1t
wa, probably lured to that whskey region by
| misunderstanding the report that there is a
waste OF water in that State. Boston Ad-
vertiser.
1t is more probable that it appeared Simulta-
neously with the fifteenth amendment in order
to make a pair of them.
The Biddelord Journal, in course OF L ius-
! ate at Ex-President Johnson, says '.Hc raked
| up with deyilish nalgnity the smoderina ashes
ot the rebellion II the radicals don't like
yha, they are pretty sure TO go At last where
, "deYiiiSh luuiiGuity' won't rake mp the IRE at
au.
ADoNt Two years since James Collins, a res
! den- eft Great Fails, n. II was bitten by dog
! That was either hi fit or rabid condition MI
! Collins experienced no particular trouble from
| he wound Inflicted until Tuesday, when he ex-
hiblted evident symptoms OF hydrophobia, and
rapidly became worse and almost unmanagea-
Ole, and IN The evening turiousiy attacked and
| severely tit u ueighb0r who WAS called in to
assist IN taking care Of him. 1t is feared that
JAe case will result fatally. 3iddeford Jour.
nal
While Mr.. Bean, OF Sutton, n. H., WAS shoot
ing at Il target, the breech-pin of his gun blew
out and entered his forehead. He il still alive.
II recent election in Vineland, n j. The
women voted in separate box. They cast
! la9 votes paper published at Ninelan
mentions as al incident of the day that while
one OF these women at the polls voting
her husband was at home doing the family
ironing.
one Of The latest New York mysteries is the
finding Of thc corpse of an unknown man
aaoat i'm tine harhor with kuile sticking IN his
heart.
The average yield of rye in this State for
1865 was l. bushels per acre; yield of corn In
the same year 90 bushels, and Of wheat ia
bushels per acre.
longstreet is 4 relative of Mrs. Grant, which
accounts for the milk IN that cocoa-nul
Mayor Fox, of Philadelphia, he, given no
tlce TO the citizens that one thousand sparrows
have been imported from Europe and let loose
in the public squares TO destroy the worms
and other Insects, aud h. asks that they lie
protected.
The longest frame building IN the world Is
thar bJiit over the track of the Union Pacific
Iiai,r' ad through tile mountains. to Keep the
snow ot Il ~ " miles long
Pierre Soole, the brilliant Frenrhman, once
senator from Louisiana. is bopelessly insane
, There are twenty two vessels at Portland
aoont ready ~ starr for the Bank fishery.
Iatnartinr was asked by friend If he did
not spend too much money in advertising
ono, was his reply, advertisements are al
>olGtey necessary. Even divine worship needs
to he advertised Else what Is the meaning OF
church hclls?"
Brownlow opposed Lon4~tr.et's conaem4-
tion
Grant has appointed ,olorcd individual
Postmaster At Charleston, and another to ).
revenue assessorShlp in louisiana Guess he
has secured "de suffrage of their friends
4 hunpbacked man lately deceased in
France, has left annuities Of forty dollars To-
eight humpbacks of his town.
San Francisco had 4 shock of an earthdu4kq
April first, and there was no foolIng about It
either,
traveller registered himself As ~C. Van
rift ut n ~