The Republican journal., 1870-06-23
GEN ERALITIES.

One part Paris green and four parts flour, busted
on garden plants, will preserve them from bugs
The destroyers git up and git" at once.
The Indians from the Plains, after visiting New
York, have gone home.
The Times says that the new ferry boat for the
X. u l.. r. R.. was successfully launched from the
shipyard of Mr.. Frank Moses. Bath, Thursday af-
tcrnoon.
The Portland Argus relates that gentleman OF
the colored persuasion in that city took seidlitz
powder by dissolvng the acid and alka in separate
glasses, and swallowing each SUCCESSFULLY There
arose great commotion in the internal organs OF
the fifteenth amendment.
1t was regarded as strong case of circumstan-
tlal evidence in a Pttsburg court the other day,
when the plaintiff produced the skillet with which
his wife struck him, and showed the Jury how
nicely the three legs fitted into the holes in his
head.
! Universa|ism was introduced into this country a
hundred years ago, and the churches are generally
celebrating the event.
A quaint learned friend on being asked when a
chid's education begins, replied ''Three genera
tons before it Is born"
The Fox sisters, the original spiritual mediums
are giving seanGes in New York
iHc Niiip VI olIl pt8Seu out fecentiV, and they
burned his body on a pile of sandal wood.
A Providence undertaken, with unobtrusivc
thoTghtfulness, sends his card to all the sirk nor
Sons whose addresses he can learn
The enviou> Boston papers are saying that the
Beethoven Festival, in New York, was a failure
4 Nirginan went to New York, expressly to
see great fire, and knocked off the dock into
river ny fireman. for getting in the way.
While the residents in Il Fifth Avenue mansion
in New York, were taking breakfast, one morning
last week, the house tumbed down, and one of the
breakfast party can't be found. The builder ON the
next lot had dug too deep for his foundation
| 1t the schooner Susan Ross. of Brookljn
that the steamer Cambridge ran down last week
A torpedo, consisting of a hogshead with 500
pounds OF powder in it, was exploded under III,
wreck of the New lronsides at Philadelphia, break
ING her hull into fragments, so that its removal
will be easy. The explosion threw some of the i'm
mense iron plates sixty feet in the air
1t is said that Andrew Johnson is to run for Con-
gresS, and we shall pray that he may be elected 1t
would be an excellent dose to apply to Grant and
Ben Butler.
The extensive saw-mill and dry house of Going
flathorn, i'll Carmel, on the line of the Maine Cen
tral Raroad,iwere burned on Sunday morning at :
loss OF 100000 on which there was no insurance
Camden proposes to be patriotic this year. and
celebrate the glorious fourth
The Herald says that Carlton, Norwood 4 Co..
are building Il fine bark Of 1000 tons, under the
French l.loydS inspection, to be completed in Sep
TENDER.
The Republican caucus in the kennebec district
has nominated Hon. j. q. Blaine to fifth term ii
Congress.
Hon. John A. Peters has been rc-nominated fai
Congress by the republicans of the Fourth District
CopiouS showers have ended the drought in
France, and there are hopes Of saving Il portion o
The wheat crops.
And now they talk drumming Gov. Chamberlain
for Congress in the Cumberland district
| Having got through with the remains of Byron
| Mrs Stowe is going into the Macfartnd case