The Republican journal., 1870-01-06
G 6 N E ALlTIE S.

ENERALITIES.
Notwithstanding the Imprisonment of Choate,
the Newburyp0rt tire-bue some brother bug still
keeps at work.
The Bangor, Ne, Theological Seminary viii
celebrate its Sem-eentennial next summer. Rev
EnOch Pond, D. D., the venerable senior Professor
! now IN his 18th year. win be relieved from the
! duties OF the office lie has long and faithfully
filled at the same
The Portsmouth Chronicle has been sued for
libel by lawyer of that city. 1t published "a card
from farmer stating that the lawyer had forged
his notes.
A state Temperance Convention is to be held at
Auburn, Jan. u.
Miss Jelf, Of Elizabeth, N. j., owns up to being
an od-maid. She has Just passed her 104th birth
day.
The town of Westbrook is trying to divide itself.
and cant make out. The fight will 90 to August,
this winter.
A London thief returned purloincd umbrella
with this note. This umbrellar has prade hon my
hohShcns ever since L stole HIM. W. r."
Mr.. James E, Simpson, the inventor and con
| Structor OF the dry docks in East Boston. New
York and Portland has contracted to build another
| at Wilmington, Delaware, to be $50 feet long, 90
wide and ld deep.
| Rhode Island has been exercised about human
skeleton found in box at Il railway station--but
4 young sawbones has claimed it ITS that of Il sub
iect'
A large Newfoundland dog in Buffalo. after
watching for some minutes Il fight between two lit
| tie suddenly caught up one of them bv the
neck and trotted Oft with it, keeping firm hold up
| on him until his angry passions had time to cool.
| The Postmaster General has stopped the delivery
of lette's TO swinding advertisers in New York,
| luIt no ,,n. .,
| Mrs. Stanton thinks Sckles should be sent to
prison for the rest Of his life and wants to know
what would have happened to his wife if She had
gone about shooting his mistrosscS.
Among patents recently issued arr the following
B, IL. Rogers, Jonesport, Nc, Ship pump. cha,.
FurbH,h, Bucksport, M, truss for vessels
There is great distress in New York, catl,cd nv
lack OF employ lnent for laboling men
woman in Cincinnati has sued miIiner for
hr lch oil promise III falling to have "A new bonnet
done at the appointed time. Damage, ten dollar~
street ear driver, in Cleveland, hu, been dis
covered TO be woman i'll male attire, which ,hs
had worn for seven years.
The GAINESVILLE tWis.l Gazette, .,ays There is 3,
woman Ill tins city who WAS married AT the :lge OF
u, her first child was born before she, wa, A. AMI
At the age of II she had four children. ant now ~
~ has seven children,
III Wheeling, young McNash was shot hy Mis-
Batsam, All because he declined to marry b,,
Womans rights
It public house in Mlnayunk the landlord ha,
painted mp outside his door. Good ale Sold Lrr
but don't take my word for t.
IN Hartford, MCGUIRE, who murdered hi. wife.
has cheated the gallow> by hanging himself in hiS
CELL
Richardson has been heard from in the spirit Iut
He torgl9eS Mcfarland.
Portland last year imported 10000 hos,hea,t, OF
moIasSes, and 900 hogsheads Of sugar
The Cape Cod ship canal is being seriously talk
ed Of.
Quite sensation was created in Pittsbnrg last
week ny Young lady leaving a line of bran along
tht sidewalks r she was enjoying her afternoon
promenade.
The Portland & Kcnnebcc Railroad has declared
a semi-annual dividend OF six per cent.
A Clncinnaan who recently had q stone fouu,-
non l;tld FOR house refused to pay ms worknen
A few nights since they assembled and silently
took down the walls, leaving not one stone upon
little event that recently happened to the editor
of the Gardiner Reporter. s thus modc,tly an
nounced in the columns IF that paper
IN this city, Dee 25th, by Rev. !. NJ Paine, Mr..
Giles o. Bailey to Miss Ella Emerson, both Of hi,
city.
Charles W. Qunt = boy unemployed in the Lincoln
>ii ut Lewiston, was killed last week, by getting
raught III an elevator
vast bed of sea clans, thicky planted over Il
space Two or three miles III extent. has been dis
Covered at Nantucket They sell or $40 per barrel
Is bait
the advertisements of good waters wanting
situations refer to any Of the Radical pace-hn
VII have done a great deal of waiting lately: y.
\. Leader.
EN-Gov Seymour was thrown from Il carriage
asst week. and had his shoulder dsIocated
\ tradesman in Portsmouth, n r., has ad>er-
ised IN every issue of paper of that city for the
Asst twenty-five years. He has grown rich.
An unknown man walked off the East Boston
Ferry boat during the storm of Sunday night. ant
was drowned.
Fields, the Pennsylvania murderer. took do>r
d vinegar and moiasscs to cure Il sore throat halt
M hour before he was hanged
Y. W. Buckhout. who is be ieved 10 be insane,
shot his wife and Charles Randall, and fatally
wounded the father Of Randall near Tarrytown,
n. Y.
rhe coored pussons throughout the country on
the LIST celebrated the anniversary of their fire. c,lom
some of them with nothing to eat.
-Four Pittshurg girl. tempted by the prize Ola
gold ring, Waltzed five hours on stretch and
were taken home Oh Il Stretchcr.
The Portland and Bangor papers are discussing
the question, which city has fraudulently cut down
its JaIuaton TO the greatest extent
farmer at Danbury Ct, butchered il hog the
other day which for several days previous to its
death would eat nothing. After its death needle
was diScoerved buried in its tongue which had rust
ed there, and which undoubtedly prevented its TAX
ing food.
The Spanish papers announce that the Cuban re-
belon, which has many lives a. Il eat, is again
! crushed.
colored gentleman went to sleep ina jersey
mt-kn and didnt wake up in time for breakfast
next morning.