The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1870-01-13
G EN- Err ALITIES

The IN iddes at Annapolis have been raising the
deuce, and are to be Court Martha led
Henry Straub, conductor on the Ho usatonc
Railroad, has confessed to appropriatng $4,000 OF
the Company's funds for his own use.
The girl Botllam who shot McNash, at Wheeling,
was married to him as he lay on his dcath-bed and
is now widow in an interesting tuation.
The Augusta journal says that George Barker of
NorridgeWock, while reaching into wood stove in
which fire had just been kindled, caught his hand
and before help could reach him to eXricae it, was
burned so that he may lose the use of his hand.
The writer of ..Washington Sketches in the New
York Tribune regards Butler as the Titan of the
House. Whether in debate or not the writer says
he abSorbs the scene. Exchange.
If there should happen to be any spoons within
reach, Ben would absorb them likewise.
A cotemporary suggests solution to the female
suffrage question, which is, to grant the ballot to
all women over forty years old.
New York has an American Annexation League,
that is interfering in the Winnepeg affair.
wicked wretch says the Cardiff giant must be
of the female persuasion, for it is damse.
The monitor Miontonomah on her way to Port
land, when off Gay Head, ran into the tug Maria,
which accompanied her, and sunk the latter
ia greenish hue, embellished with Chase's photo
graphs, cheerfully taken in payment for stock
Gardiner is to be enivened by masquerade ball.
We see it stated that John Bull is now luxuriat-
ing upon Kangaroo sauages. Is this only the better
to enable him to 'jump' the Alabama claimss ~.
Y. Com. Adv
Kansas still bleeds. A negro i'll Atchison shot
Mr.. Cox, and the same night mob took the negro
from jail and hung him. Where's the ghost of John
Brown?
The Chicago Times considers it a notable fact that
the only swords Butler took during the war are
those now being sued for under the claim that they
Were stolen.
Prince Arthur is coming from Canada to call on
Ulysses at the White House.
1t is reported that the British Cable Company and
the Western Union Telegraph Company have join
y, or separately purchased the French cable prop
erty and all right title and control thereto or are
are about to do so, for the sum of $1000000 in gold
package containing 100000 was recently stolen
from the Adams Express Company, in Washington.
A mother at South Boylston wrapped her babe
so closely while walking in the open air, the other
day, that she smOthered it.
A. 7. Stewart sold last year twenty $4,000 shawls,
and one for $500.
peg on which to hang the annexation of British
America to the United Sates-Wi Winnipeg. [Chcaeo
Times.
AT a late marriage ceremony in a Rhode Island
town, the groom became impatient during the
tended prayer, and interrupted the clergyman with
-" Elder, amt that 'beout enough?'
To prevent msapprehension, we make haste to
say that the article on ''bundlng" on the last page
of this paper, is copied from the Portland Tran
script Without this explanation, it, might be sls-
pected of a tendency to '' smut"
Poetry is defined as g any expression of thought
so arranged as to make man fight or cry
letter from Deer Isle, with no signature. and
containing Il sum of money in payment tor the
Journal reached this office last week. Will the
sender write again, giving his name? We can't tell
to whom the money should be credited.
The boy Lewis Buchanan. OF Rockland. who
saved the schooner Commonwealth, in q recent
gale has been presented with 800, by Mr.. Buld, of
st. Louis.
The telegraph operators of the Western Union
lines are on strike in the principal cities all over
the country, to resist an attempt to cut down their
salaries. The operators in Maine do not Join it,
lady without any trimming on her dress at
trared general attention the streets YESTERDAY
kennebec journal.
lady without any dress on her trimmings
would doubtless have attracted great deal more
Rev. Mr. Cook, of the West 9TH street Methodist
church, n. Y. has run off with fascinating Young
lady teacher in his Sunday school, leaving a wife
and two children. They We're badly mixed for
some time prior to the event. Such is life.
A man was knocked scnseless on Portland bridge
and robbed of $2lG
In New York the girls practice at putting their
feet over their heads. One of them, disocated her
hip in the performance the other day.
A clerk in the Brooklyn post-offce cot Il 'sdea.l
sure thing on a contract by stealing all the other
DDS as they came to the office.
Nominate your family disturbances, is the
(icksburg style of asking "what you will take to
drink ??
A letter from Hartford correspondent will
appear next week.
Gen: Grants policy seems to be to reduce to beg
gary the only child of George Washington. the
father OF his country. Prentice.
Our thanks due Hon. T. H. Cushing for Leg
islative documents.
bonnet that cost $500. The State has records
showing why it cost so much. Argus.
Was she in the pap er credit business
Inc 1flDune announces that expensive parties
are going out Of fashion. How about the Radical
party IN. Y. Leader.
The manager of ballet troupe at Kansas City
has been indicted for "immoray exhibiting too
much bea uty unadorned."
Hickman, the Illinois wife murderer, is thou ght
to have killed no less than six consecutive ribs"
The logging teams in the woods are discouraged
Ihere Is no snow, the teams out of hay, and the
lakes and sire ans are open.