The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1870-04-21
4 western lecturer has chosen his theme,
nirt death and tho Devil. y

\ western lecturer has CHOSEN as MS tucmt
Dirt Death and the Devil"
only 80 Fren CHI soldiers now survive Waterloo
Eleven hundred i'm migrants landed at New Yor
Monday.
Buffalo has ghost, Il first wife. who comes an
tuchs up her children every night. The secon
wife is not very cordial to her.
The brig Gladiator, at ,IIavana, reports having
met at sea the schooner John Limeburner of Brook
VILE loaded with mOlasSes, on fire and abandoned
Tho schooner sunk shortly after the brig met her
The fate OF her crew Is unknown.
\ Connecticut man has worn the same hat t(
church for forty years, until recently 1t has beer
ia style three times during that period. He is
Democrat, and his new beaver is one Of the result
of the election.
Mrs. Lincoln still anticipates favorable action b!
r0ngresS on her Application for pension.
There were imported into Portland during thu
quarter ending April 9th, 4,S17 ,991 pounds of sugar
and l,11S,44G gallons of molasses. The sugar i'm
ortation was nearly four times that OF last year fo
the same period
A girl who played Little Eca at 4 Chicago theatre
q few years ago now weighs $50 pounds.
\ woman's life has two eyentful periods. Ono
70 hen she wonders whom she will have the other
Nh hen she wonders who will have her.
A New Orleans Young man has got a divorce
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ceth, false hair, bumpers calves and everything
lie said when she was undressed she didn't weigh
more than seventeen pounds.
Ehe hotels in Cedar Keys, Fla. that are raised
IN piles. have holes bored in the first floor at con-
7ement distances apart, to be used instead of spit
ioons. Generally there is hole bored in the lool
near each bedstead which is in The room.
Virginia planter whose sheep disappeared mys
lcriouSly, watched his tlocks by night with
,i,aI-
Mlck-shot out of the leg of one of the neghbOrs.
masked ball has been defined as a mcrcifu i'll
ttution for plain woman.
A New Orleans Joker ran a carvine-knifc into a
friends internal arrangements and shouted April
luul" The funeral was more generally attended
than that of any murdered man there for two weeks.
The proprietor of the nitro-glycerine establish
mrnI in Hackensack, n, j., which exploded the
ulhrr day was obliged to sink $4,000 worth of his
innocent goods in the river to appease the people.
Wisconsin lover caught his bride carrying in
back log that he himself could not lift; and he
-3ncluded not to marry in that family.
Among the packages bid of ut an auction of ex-
press packages in Hartford was lot of love-etters
written by young lady, who, having married, re-
qucSted her Old lover to return them, The pur-
chaser is heartlessly giving series of evening
readings from them at his boarding house.
4 viii preach from DAT portion of de scripture
tis evening" said n colOred dominic, ''Whar de
'poStle Paul plnts his 'pistle at de 'phesians."
Twelve hundred gallons of liquor were recently
urned into the street at Lewiston, the journal
saws.
1t is related that boy who applied for charity at
housein Portland, was subjected to an examination
by the ladies of the household. F'Where is your
mother?' they asked. 81 amt got none-never
had any, Never had q mother!-how is that
Why you see. my father played mean trick on
one of my aunts," At this point the examination
was suspended.
The expedition to Red River will number 10000
picked men including a steel battery and rocket
brigade as well as 2000 loyal Indians.
Mrs. Lincoln continues 10 poke up Grant about a
pension for herself
'aptain Charles Smith of the Bangor brig ID. r.
-tockwell, has been arrested for an outrage upon
little girl passenger, while on recent voyage from
MOnteVldeO 10 New Grk.
The journal il informed that in one ward in All-
gusta there are thirty families who are liable any
day to become city charge in consequence of the
drinking habits of the husbands and fathers.
HieG the prohibition law doesn't prevent pauper-
l-nI, Is has been claimed?
The affairs of the American Bank, liallowel. are
finally wound up. II pays - cents on a dollar
sch. Carrie NJ. Rich which Went ashore on the
beach at Indian River, Delaware. was lowed off
nut a heavy gale coming up She was sunk and the
crew barely escaped with their lives.
The Advertiser says Portland i, 10 have the
blondes. Can we procure an orchestra chair?
No more rum in Kockland say the Mayor and
Aldermen. The drought won't probably be very
severe
Wadobor0 continues 10 have the measles badly.
0f the members OF the bar of York County at the
time OF the n mission OF Maine into the Union in
$50 lty Yeas ago. only three survive, as foil oWS
Ether Shepley, of Portland, Edward r. Bourne, of
hennebunh, and Arthur Macarthur of Iimington.
50 says the Biddetord Democrat.
Am Apron Sale is advertised in the Portland
Argus. We can't see through it
Al a dinner party, the other night, senator Nyc
put his new silk tile carelessly upon the sofa. A
few minutes after the veteran philosopher Greeley
al down and crushed the hat feariully. oh it."
rohred Nye, 4 could have told you it wouldn't tit
hfiore you tried il on" Dom Pat.
The Portland Sunday Advertiser talks about
lhe apex of Liquor Legislation" 1t had better be
CAREFUL There is Il chap in this city who gets fear
tnlly mad when anybody talks about an apex
The Courts have taken So 900 from the Adams
Express Company, because il wasn't lively enough
III getting lot of peaches to market.
lady in Chare,town got a terrible insect called
the borer into her head from :. braid of false hair
Luther Bagley has been appointed Postmaster at
Troy Centre, in place of Glrcelon resigned. The
Post Office at Isle an 1Iaut has been discontinued
Al the charter election Just held in Cincinnati,
The majority against the use of the Bible in the
public schools was nearly 1000
The Boston Advertiser says that a man nance
Hc6'ilYery, from Maine, lost package containing
S4O,ooo worth of bonds in store in Boston last
week 1t was found and restored to him by a clerk
Ihe city government of Bangor has refused to re-
lea to the people the question of voting an addition
at loan of Sl25,00o to the Piscataquis Railroad.
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