The Republican journal., 1870-08-04
GEN ERAlIrlE S.


lost $4,000 on the race, and is much depressed.
Horato Ames, has brought suit in Washington
against Ben. Butler TO compel him to refund
bride of 5000 for getting claim through Con-
gfrss.
nice, piouS young lady has been travelling il
New York state procuring sums of money from
The brethren. Her good looks had more to do with
their liberality than her piety.
Two hundred and eighty Mormons arrived from
England last week, and started for Salt Lake.
The Chinese are said to be working well on the
southern plantations.
"As a soldier" says Chicago letter, Gen. Sheri.
ian has no MATCH Then let him do as he did
hundreds of times in the Shenandoah Valley--use
chunk of fire. Lou. Cour Jour.
correspondent of the Boston Post describes ''a
warm tropical creature" who is staying at Swami
colt She is not a fifteenth amendment either
hUt Gentle Anna Dickinson herself!
samson was an eminent tragedian in his day
and In the last act brought down the house. n. 0.
Times.
a Concord woman found negro burglar under
her bed, and the police captured him.
Philadelphia has just found out that a fascinating
Young chambermaid of that city, who stole lady.
Jewels is man.
Vermont fresh water clam has yielded "A pear
worth $500.
The radicals levYing office-hoiders fol
money to pay election expenses. They say The
Democrats mean business this year.
The whole country complains of plague of
grasshoppers
The lightning recently struck the powder maya
zine Of Santa Sprito, at Venice. where 100000
pounds Of that material are slowed away. The
conductor received the electric discharge, and its
top literally melted away, and the whole length
twisted, but no further damage was done.
beet-root sugar factory is among the latest Cali
tornia enterprises.
A lady in Pennsylvania had her eye sight restor-
ed last week by operation, having been blind for
several years. The first thing she did, after objects
became visible, Was to sit down and read number
OF letters, which she presumed had been sent to
her husband by ladies during her blindness. The
feelings Of the poor woman can be better imagined
than described when she found her jealousy had
been occasioned by number of coal and washing
bills,
Belfast, Ne, is happy in the possession of the
iasssgsssawaukeag Base Ball Club. When they
20 to match they take an extra stage coach to
bring along the name. Rochester Union.
The Bangor Wing says that 60, 900 bushels of
charcoal used yearly in that city. We would
suggest that as the Democratic vote is increasing
there, the future demand will not be so large.
The cost of collecting the income tax will, it is
believed, be nearly equal to the receipts under the
amended law.
Gen Seige, who went through the war without
5 scratch, WAS nearly killed by an omnibus in New
York last week
A German musician In Chicago drank iftv glasses
OF lager beer, within an hour, the other day. The
cOroners name was JONES'
In Gardiner, where the Maine law abdeth, the
Reporter complains of much drunkenness on circus
day.
Horace Greeley has been invited to deliver the
address before the Maine Agricultural Society this
year.
A. friend In the upper portion of the county tells
Us good story OF "a clergyman there, who in the
kindness of his heart invited footman to get into
his wagon and ride The clerical gentleman asked
his companion ''if he was prepared to diew' where
upon he laaped from the wagon and fed to a place
OF safety, doubtless considering the question sy-
nonymous with your money or your life" [Caais
Aiv.
la Courtiandyille, N. va woman was tarred
and teathered by some ru fiians, because it was
charged that the wife of citizen went crazy
ahrough her husbands attentions to the woman.
The Lewiston journal says the hay crop of Maine
will be scarcely sixty per cent of last years yield
in bulk, but its quality and richness will make up
tor large part OF this deficiency The price is al
ready going up, and must remain high during the
year.
Carleton, Norwood Il Co., pay the highest tax in
Camden 81, l99. Horstio Alden and David Talbot
each pay u little over $400.
Some horse-railroad conductors have been arrest
ed In Boston for selling counterfeit passage tickets.
They might have made good thing out of it, but
rushed them Off fast to cause great falling off
in the receipts.
The travel over the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth
X. T. Ia very large at present and the popular con-
ductors of the road have unusually big families
each way on the route. The public find every facil-
~ at their disposal that excellent management can
produce, and Superintendent Francis Chase is ever
watching the interest of the company and of the
public. Portland Argus.
The above is every word true. The road is one
ot the best managed in the country and travel over
it real pleasure.
Lew. Barker writes to the Gospel Banner that
the author of an article in that paper is "a loath-
some moral leper." Now let us have the leper's
opinion of Lew
The Portland s. kennebec Railroad Compapy,s
bridge near South Gardiner was entirely DESTROYED
by fire Thursday afternoon This is the sixth
bridge this company has los. by fire and food with
IN seven months.
uo temperance Advocate prlckS up Its ears
and predicts State Police law next winter.
AThe Bath Times has poet who thus dis
courseth-
met q little fair haired maid,
With r0guish eye and dimpied spot,
No zephyrs with her riRglets played
She murmured 80 It's awful hot I"
1t is matter admitting of some Doubt whether
tue maid, the roguish eye, the dimpled spot the
zephyrs, or the ringets, intended to be descrb-
ed as awful hot" But perhaps an application of
kennebec Ice might help the difficulty.
Some workmen in tearing down an old house in
Jay county, Ind, discovered hidden coin-gold and
silver-amounting to $1270.
An order to purchase so 900 tons of hay for the
French army was received Saturday by st. Louis
firm.
Horace Greeley is at the White Mountains.
Lady Franklin Is in New York, the guest of
Henry Grinnell.
There are ten breweries in Roxbury, Mass, and
their product for the present month will be about
sixty thousand barrels.
While Portland is rejoicing over the Sebago wa
ter it is likewise astonshed at finding cells two feet
long in the pipes.
party of Lewiston gentlemen in Quaker bon
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