The Republican journal., 1870-09-22
G E N E r ALITIE S.
PERCIE

The friends of i steam-tug captain, recently blown
up in New York harbor, were surprised to find
two wives attending the funeral.
Plugged waermeons, with tartar emetic in them.
are distressing the youth of Michigan beyond
measure. There isn't half so much fun stea ling
them as the other kind.
Mr.. Harding Snow, of Hamden, who was in the
habit ofcarrying pistol, was last week shot in the
bowels by its accidental discharge. and died
Prussia has very small navy compared with
that Of France, but it has one Ship W llich France
seems TO lark--gcneralShp
A young man in Gardiner has got rd Of four
yards of tape worm, and feels better
Many of the Prussian soldiers wear underneath
their shirts piece of sole leather about ten inches
square which is hard enough to turn Il bullet
unless struck perpendiculary, and is good de
fence against the lance or sabre.
Schooner First Trial last week arrived at Port
land leaky, having been stabbed by sword fish.
The census i'll Indiana reveals the fact that in 81
majority of where twins are returned the
husband is younger than the wife.
The mission to England, which has been passing
around very lively. rests with Judge Orth, Of
Indiana, ut last accounts.
The American fishing vessels j. n. Nickerson,
A. Y. WATSON, Lizzie A. Farr, kinnie, S. q.
Marshall and Wompobuck have been siezed by IL
Canadian police schooner for violation Of the fish
cry laws, and are now held subject to adjudication
by the Courts. The estimated value of the seizures
amounts to 100000.
Grant has found another brothcl-in-aw, and
made him minister to Copenhagen,
The repeat ofthe law requiring stamps on re-
ceipts and on notes for less than one hundred dol
lars takes effect October first
II, min hnc kanu
from which any quantity of ley can he made.
There's one in the Prog. Age office, in thi. city,
which will discount it.
| From accurate estimates it is asceraned that
each man, woman and child of the Indian popula-
ton of the United States costs the Government TjU
per annum
| A liquor law, after the pattern of that of Maine
las lust gone into effect in New Hampshire. The
state will be Democratic next year.
Grant writes to Il political friend in South Caro-
| lima, showing great wrath at the men who 0ppOS
ed our armies and sought to defeat the Union.
Such language can hardly be deemed to be any
thing less than personally offensive to Gen. Long
street, Grants Naval Officer at New Orleans, As
well as Attorney-G General Akerman-bOth Of whom
were in the rebel army. bet. Free Press.
In Stoughton. Mass. Il desperate named Moral
shot and killed constable Packard. who was ar
| resting nm, anu INC stlllc Gay l'tHlllS ilHtN
chopped his wife to death with an axe.
Will somebody explain how woman can usurl
positions as postmasters without ''robbing III,
males: y. o. Times.
| "Un,!cr the Solemn stars" was the title of
poem sent to a western paper. The last word was
printed ''stars' The poet wants to imhruc hi
hands in the blood of the eomposor who set it.
John f. Lawrence, who murdered Mrs. Atwood
in Bangor last january, was last week sentenced
to death by Judge Cutting.
Young Hurl, who was bitten at Kittery las
Friday by Il dog belonging to Caleb Spnncy ha,
the lockaw and died.
People who think themselves weatherwise arr
already predicting an unusually cold winter
Syracuse ladies who belong to the Sorosis ar
accused of keeping their infants on steady diet o
paregorc until it becomes monotonous, and then
the little cheruhs spirits fit away into the here
after.
A favorite amusement with Indianapolis boys il
to touch match to a load of hay and then Civ
vent to unseemy mlrth ut the aIacrity with win Ct
the driver dismOunts.
The New York Herald, 0nd) says: ''The Dem
ocratic State Central Committee have called
State Convention to be held in the city OF tochestt
on the 21st Of September. This Convention WlI
have very little to do. 1t will nominate Governor
Hoffman for reelection, and he will be reelected
probably by seventy thousand majority 1hat Il
a safe prediction
l, the line gale coming? Bangor Wing
The line has come without its gale, this year.
We learn from the Herald that Captain JOIN
Green Of Camden, has been appointed keeper o
/ II, m Neck Light. on Green's Island, Ninahtyem
| MutA on the Houlton Branch Railway is beim4
RAPIDLY pushed forward. The grading is nov
nearly completed the whole length of the line
and two miles Of the rails laid from the il ction Il
Blanchards The laying Of the rails ON the lloul-
ton end was commenced Wednesday, and mile
am, half will be laid this week. The road prob
ably will be completed and the cars running oven
! ii within month"; says the Times.
That portion of the continent which is interested
in boating has gone crazy the last week over
rowing match on the st. Lawrence between the
celebrated st. Johns crew. and and from the TYNE
England The EngIiahmen won by only thirty
| seconds, and there j. mourning At st. John.
There ~ great alarm in New York for fear that
yellow fever may reign in the city. II has been
introduced from quarantine.
Elder Durham, at Bryant's Pond, has raised a
SQUASH that girtS eight feet and weighs 200 pounds
The attendance at the Skowhegan Sc hutzenits
was not large. and the affair not Success the
Lewiston Journal says.
| The corpses of the Confederaey should keep quiet
in their collins philadelphia Press.
| preeisely-t looks very unbecoming for Grants
ex-rehrI Attorney-( General to he down III Georges
making Radical speeches. Detroit Free Press.
| Alderman is reported to be sick in Georgia.
| Having swallowed radicalism, his stomach ought
! to be strong enough for anything.
! Another gentle radical is a defaulcr to Il big
amotnt-hs time the Deputy Collector at Balti
more.
| What the deusc is the Big Horn expedition, SO
persistently teegraphed about2 Where is the
| Horn? -how big is t?-and how many cXpedi-
tionists Will be required to get outside of it?
| A pretty Indiana girl is studying for the minis
| try. Boston Post.
! Isn't it the minister she wants, after all?
| The Portland Transcript speaks of "a young man
in whose breast the milk of human Kindness is just
gathering into cream" Does il come of too much
gazing at the Milky Way these fine nights:
John Wyman, who left Skowhegan for fishing
excursion to the lakes, found drowned after
his absence had caused alarm.
Sarah Harrington, n Lewiston factory girl, al
tempted to drown herself ON Monday. She WAS
charged with theft, which was proved TO he ground
less.
A disciple of Old Nick. has been detected in
Massachusetts, for making nickel cents outside the