The Republican journal., 1870-09-15
GEN Err ALITIE S.

y big flight of wild pigeons passed over Ports
mouth, n. H., last Friday, at the rate of 43 fock
an hour. Sixty were killed at shot.
Two valuable trotters came in collision at thu
New England Fair. Lucius S. Peck, Of Cornth, VT.
was killed and Lexington of Claremont, n. II.
badly injured.
John Macarthur, well known citizen of Au-
gusta, formerly of Brooks, died last week.
! The proprietors of the Holman House, in New
York, called upon to account for S50 900 in gold
which 4 wealthy East Indian lost ut their house.
The Riverside Echo, in searching for the cause of
Prussas success, finds tina. it was because France
did not keep the Sabbath,
Thurlow Tresselman is the name of the latest
ministerial scamp. He lived in Anetia, New York,
whence he departed, taking one of the sisters with
him, and leaving several others in an anxious con-
dtion concerning the census items
Within the last seventy-fye wears, France has
been three times republic three times an Imper-
al monarchy under the Bonapartes, tire e times a
Bourbon Kingdom, once Constitutional monarchy
under Louis Philippe, and once 4 military Dcta-
torship under Cavaignac.
The city of Ragusa, the miniature ship from Eng
land, arrived at Boston on Friday, hay ing left
Liverpool June ID. She is twenty feet long and
hidNN TWO lctl VI Nde1. 11Bf OlllcpTS anu crew,
consisting Of two men, Were we'll, bul the dog .'ed
three weeks before arrival.
schuyler Collal says he is going out of po' cpl
litc. The baby is doing nicely.
A widower was recently rejected by a lamsel
who didn't want affect ions that had been wv" med
over"
A serious accident happened on the new rH''"oad
bridge al Augusta. A staging gave way by the
Of.
worknen on the staging at the time of the accident,
the whole number jumping into the water II zee of
whom were badly injured, End one, Mr. Mo " :.
Buck, was instantly ''eu.
Mr.. O'Neal, of Louisiana, held four aces and the
KING IN a recent soci? game of loker, nd when
Mr. Tally called him on iye aces. he very properly
Shot BIN dead
White hearSes arc considered the most stylish IN
san Francisco.
California outlaw. Just dead, was once Il
wealthy Londoner. HIS sri iilt .. him md he
went TO the bad.
Napoleon has been shaved. He hadlis Impc. .a
taken Off by the French people. Lowell Courier.
A Baltimore laborer dug up a box contair'ng
1000 gold coins, out of the foundations of the ola
Fountain Hotel
Dr. Parkcs, of London, has been experiment ng
it'll the effects of brandy upon healthy sol1ier.'
He makes out II riblc record of the . celera on
of the action of the hcart but ''e soldier IA 'Aer
liked ii.
''Father, was reading today about '''um3rated
manuscripts; what are they light ID v thu" "With
he light of other days, my SON.
The barque Sarah A. Staples, of Stool. N, which
arrived at Boston, on Sunday from Antwerp p, c" ne
in under charge of the fl mate, who repol led
that Captain Staples, her lat commander was lost
overheard in severe gale on the 4th inst The
via ,ft Jo 81 an
etloi to save him.
The Saco Independent has a poet that IS shin
ing in borrowed plumcs. The poem tied
Young Widows" contributed to that paper as
origin" was published in the journal ye"rs a~o.