The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1870-09-01
GEN En- kIiTiEs

Grant talks vi sending Horace Greeley is Mint.
ter to England. The old white coat would naI,
a sensation at court.
Mrs Williams, late Mrs Senator Douglas, h,.
commenced an actlOn against the executors of tb,
Douglas estate, alleging fraud in the manaecmcn,
she seeks to recover SlJ0,O00 WrOngtuIly held.
Gen. Mcclellan returns an income of S3Oooo
and is about well OFF ~ though he were Pre-.
dent. But the country isn't
In digging cellar in B,Ston, a diamond rme
was found bearing the name and date of Il rc>blrui
of the threc-hill city, who became dust Il hundr-a
and forty years ago.
1t is said that on the day of his arrival in Chcagl
Gen. Grant received letters from three hundr4l
AMI nlnety-seven shySters of that city, each oierng
to procure him divorce and take it out in ExerJl-
tive patronage. Lou. Courier-Jour.
In New York, where they steal everything, four
snakes were recently taken from a vessels hold d
night
a graveyard inscription in kennebunk Me-
reads thus Poor ,Joi his head is level now if ID
never was bcturo :"
The Gardiner Reporter has seen An insect from
ady's chignon. and believes in EN-.
Two men masked and disguised entered the t. s.
Express of the Missouri Pacific train at scott
station, seven miles west of Jefferson CITY, AMI
made a furious onslaught on the messenger, John
Cleveland, beat HIM severely, bound and gagged
him, then robbed the safe of $40, 500 in money! ai
as the train approached Jefferson City jumped on
and escaped.
Previous 10 the assembling of the Democrat
Convention at Bangor, the police seized all th.
liquors at the Bangor House, and other hotel.
The tonN adopted resolution against prl-
hbiton. Ilouton Times.
When the radical state Convention met At 49,
gll>tu, the liquor seizures were made by the mrui-
beers thereof by the glas~fu. The managers of TIA,
affair got very drunk, anil resolved for prohibition
The learned men ana philosophers of Portl4n
devoted mitch time last week to the investigation
Of "a remarkable atmospheric disturbance" il
was found to he I huge li>h-horn, blown by steam,
to warn vessels in i fog. But the local interest III
science still continues.
A modest music dealer was recently nonplus.pd
by lady rs stout a. Parcpa-RoSt, who inquired
Have you, PUT Me in My Little Bed ~
The Republican County Convention, in Aroo,.
took has resolved against railroad consolidation
An enthusiastic German editor of New Y1la
sent Il copy of his last paper addressed to KIM
William OF Prussia, at the Tuileries, Paris, wit
directions to the postmaster to keep the newspaper
in the Office if the party addressed has not yrl
arrived, I, he will soon be there.
The Reporter says that the water is so low in Ill
river that the Shops on the south side At Skowhegau
can hardly works the paper mill will only r'W
nights.
An Old couple in Cambridge. Mass, quarreIle,l.
and the man took Il watch he gave his wife at their
mafiIsc, aud sol If in Boston. She then stole
his false teeth Whit he Slept AMI sept them tin h..
brought the watch back
\ Boston man las, wcel, found 5000 bank note,
which he laid away twenty years ago. aud had tol-
gotten Tie bank redeemed it,
The Chinese III California are rapidly acquiring
the qualities necessary for citizenship. Some oi
the best burglars i'll san Francisco Cclestiai>.
A circus tent was struck by lightning, a.
Rondout, n. J.. and i've persons killed
The Bangor Wing say Young man named
Edward Prenti-S, employed in Giman'> mill 1T
Neale, in some manner fell upon circular
in rapid motion, Thursday afternoon, and Wp>
horribly mutilatcd, his thigh being gashed so that
hand could he laid in the wound, one bone of hi
right forearm sawed off, and the flesh torn in %
shocking manner.
A California paper tells Il terrible story about
man who WAS frozen to death near OroVlllu
When the body WA, raised, 1t cracked like un
lcicle broken i'll two in the centre, and one OF tho
arms snapped of 1T the shoulder Joint lnlortu-
natelN for the story the mans name WAS Adam
SeIr
IN the E,t number Of the National Standard
Wendell Phillips give, ont rs his opinion that tom
peranre and the Struggle between capital rml
lt'bl " lil t'l.i'A ltlIl we ilt~l~ t woe o.
Htical PARTIES
y bachelor had the blues and applied to a doctor
for some medicine. The doctor inquired into hi-
case, ana wrote prescription in Latin. which thr
bachelor took t. u drug store Translated, the pre-
ScriptiOn read, "ScVcntecn wards of silk with &
woman in it,
\ California paper finds it necessary to explain
that the peculiar taste of the water in an Alameda
well was caused by the presence Of six dead eat -
It's medical virtues had previously been highly
praised
A woman lately carried 4 child To a London hos,
phal-a child III 4 nearly dying state and tho
doctor elected from her that She had been admin
sterlng spiders to it ~ ; cure for Whooping-cougu
The cem>tl,-taker Of Monroe County. Mississippi
has found sixty pairs of twins less than twelve
months Old, and one township Yet TO hear from
The Maine Central Railroad hit, voted Ia extend
its track from pu'illr TO Portland, 50 as to he. ua
lonser dependent on ta, ',rlul Trunk.
The Bath Times SLY, that M cxcavuing e barr,yy
PIT on Goose ~uri, III the ~brep,eot river Il ir,,
day sine, u skeleton WAS unearthcd ten on twelve
feet heLoW the surface iii sitting position II WAS
ronpletell cnvelopcd in birch bark, and the r,.
mains Indicate that they belonged to {, poison ul
gigantic size-n all probability an Indian.
Portland is troubled by ghost
A paper called The Magnolia Flower blossom. in
Arkansas but the editor complain. that il docs not
make Il scent,
The Massachusetts Democratic State Convention
meet, at Fitchburg, oct. 18TH
The Republicans Of New York will probably
nominate Greeley for Governor, and Horace has
got Il new hat in anticipation oil the went.
Ship American l'uton from London. ~,ur,lt,
spoke French man-otN u "n IN" 2oth oh Nat
tucket.
The ship WHIT Rover, ur Boston. 1859 tons. h,,
h,.au 4