The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1870-05-19
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All IllulandpOllS city editor collects news on
horseback and the other editors who go foot call
him bloated bondholder.
The industrious City Marshal of Bangor recently
captured a quart of ale. Elder Weaver don't live
in Bangor now
A Tennessee lady sought to reclaim faithless
lover by shooting him, but brought down a neigh
boris COW.
The fund for the children of Capt. Williams. in
Boston, has reached $4,000
A Fond du Lac child recently fell down, and
when picked up was found to lack tongue, having
bit it Off. 1t then bled to death.
A great fruit crop this year is predicted.
A passenger on a Kentucky railroad woke I'D
the natives along the line by firing his revolver in
to each house he passed.
A new minister at New Bedford took a stroll
before breakfast on the first Sunday he was there
and after walking dozen blocks was accosted by
snabby-lookng citizen, who had been watching
him, with, You needn't look any further there
amt Il ID saloon open.'
Large amounts have been forwarded from the
north for the relief of the Richmond sufferers.
On the arrival of the steamer Katahdin at Ban
COR on Wednesday. afternoon, two barrels. each con-
tanning 40 gallons of whiskey, and one barrel con-
tanning 40 gallons of gin were seized by the police
All the barrels We're marked IS. D. Prescott Town
Agent, Exeter, Me-" but they came from Bos-
ton instead Of the State Agency At Portland they
were cOntiScated.
The eensns-takers get two cents for every name
taken, ten cents for every farm fifteen cents for
every productive establishment of industry, two
cents for every deceased person, and two per cent
of the whole amount for names enumerated for
social satisfies, and ten cents per mile for travel.
The Senate is opposed TO giving pension to Mrs
Lincoln.
Ben Fleming, the last of Pcrry's heroes of Lake
Erie, ninety-twO years of age. is begging in the
streets of Erie. Pa, almost ready to die pauper in
the land he defended.
Private letters from Americans in Cuba represent
the cause of the rebellion AS hopeless. Indeed
commercial men have never believed it had a
chance of success, unless by foreign aid, whcl, it
has not received.
Sturgeon defines gentleman as Zone who can
serve his God, and at the same time paddle his own
canoe.
The Cardiff giant is IN Portland.
The Portland Advertiser styles the present as
peet of party affairs in Maine tlie political wilder
ness" IT might have called it Il bowling wilder
| ness.
The Portland Advertiser continues to discourse
onthe Rainefiamlin gambit with variations. H0vle
Is no longer authority.
The japanese have been trying to a~>;,ssinae the
United States consul at Yedlo.
The Lewiston journal gives the recipe for cheap
and efficient bitter for regulating the system in the
spring
Take OF. Extract of Dandelion; on. Tartarc
Acid; lbs. granulated sugar Dissolve the
sugar in two quarts of boiling water and while hot,
mix the ingredients. When lukewarm beat in two
in ~ Ia1n A sIUn Crl. filIl
one, two or three times day, will keep the head
clear and the whole system in order,
If any apology is needed for the publication of
the anecdote that follows, will state that it is
clipped from the Portland Transcript, and is there
fore endorsed by that paper
| A good old lady who improved every opportlni-
ty to teach by precept and example, remarked
at prayer meeting-'My friends. as came along
saw COW a-switching of her tail; in this wicked
world of strife she was peaceful and contented
a-switchng of her tail, and | said TO myself-Go
thou and do likewise"
Among the lost on the Ship Sunbeam was James
II. Wilson, ID officer of Ellsworth
| Troy young ladies carry little bottles of cayeunp
iii their pockets, and when rude fellows of the
baSer sort. being strangers, accoSt them on the
streets. make their eyes smart for it.
| The Dominion authorities are pushing ahead the
Red River expeditions and seem TO mean business
At st. Malo, France, a superstition has existed
for hundred years that deaths only occurred dur
| ing the fall of the tide. The French Academy
gravely sent a committee to investigate the fact.
when the parish register found to reveal As
many deaths during the flow the cbb of the tide.
A woman in West Troy recently sliced man
AMI before he could secure assistance, hrutallv
married him.
The great yacht race oil the English coast result
ed in triumph for the American yacht sappho,
A Connecticut paper tells of 'rhree West India
men" unloading nj wharf
Merchants and others who advertised specie pay
ments about month ago are not in the specie
business as much rs they We're. 1t was a poor ad-
/ NertlScment.
Anew public hall is being erected in Sedgwick
! 1t is TO be two stories high with z French roof in
which will he the Masonic Hall.
1--WE been member of this church now nigh on
/ to forty years said pinched up libel on Chris
tianity, land it hasn't cost me six and quarter
cents God bless your poor economical, Withpr-
ed up old soul" said crVent brother in the cor
ncV.
| Elder Peek is busy in the city politics of Wash
I ington, where he holds small office. The Nation
al Republican calls him ''a worthless Cead-heat
which is pretty much the truth concerning HIM
and has been for time out of mind. He makes Il
pretty fair radical official, though
A New Hampshire man carries what money he
has in "A pockct-book which his father bought in
l1.6, and which has been in constant uSc by the two
since that day.
| The radical papers of Maine are now discussing
the cheating that pervades their State Conventions.
! 1t is an almost ineXhaustible subject
The theatre at Pompeii. after AN interval of lSN0
wears, has been reopened with The Child Of the
| Regiment
One Of the trustees of the Female High school III
Quincy, Ill.,, gave permission TO a young coorcd
lady to enter the institution AS a scholar, where
upon thrty-Seven young ladies' left. A meeting Of
trustees was held the colored girl was expelled
and the white ones came back
Friday afternoon some boys in Portland, Conn,
were playing with an old musket when John Tan
non c;rclessy pointed it at Patrick Curtin pulled
the trigger, and the gun went off, blowing off the
top of Curtin's head. He lived in an unconscious
state two hours. Tannon troubled at the
river and drowned himself Friday night
The fort, in Portland harbor have cost The Gov
eminent so far the SUM OF 5 80, 0N.
We want to hear from George r. Shuman late of
ST. George
John b. Elwell, late Of Brooks and John T.
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