The Republican journal., 1871-08-17
GeneraIities.

inc effects Of which he died. An Engllshman
named james Robinson, while intoxicated, fen
from the window Of boarding house on
Columbia street, and died from conclusion Of
the brain. On Monday, officer Pratt arrested u
man named Foley, for beating his wife, and
while in custody Foley drew knife across l,i.
own throat. INJECTING an ugly but not dangerous
wound. John Marsh, of BuckSport hung him.
self in his barn ON Saturday night He had
large family, was out of health, and destitute.
Mr.. T.. l.. Patterson, formerly of Searsport
residing at Queen City, Missouri, lost his barn
by fire, last month"; with gram, horses, COWS,
| hogs, wagons, &c-in all about $4,000. Suspi-
cion Of inccndiarics is entertained, and some
arrests have been made
Or. Robert A. Coney, a prominent citizen o.
Augusta, died suddenly in that city on sunday
afternoon
In Boston Il man named Dahonpy, To-. 4
couple Of barrels Of ale upon his team ant .-
ting down upon one of them, started To a rlt-
OF, when the lower head burst ont, sending thu
barrel AMI the man with great force into l.. afr.
| l)ahoney struck against lamp-pOIt ten feet
| distant, and broke his arm IN two places. He
| was taken to the Massachusetts General Hos
| pHl and attcrward to his home. His recovery
| is doubtful. He is ~ years Old, and has "A ftm-
| ~, Boston Herald.
| Some queer scenes enSue in Wyoming, where
| the women vote, serve on juries, etc. like their
/ lords ana masters. Recently six married ladie,
| and as many gentlemen were impanneed upon
| a murder case there, and it became necessary to
| lock them up all night. Three of the husband,
| SOrmcd and rayed at the Judge, and half dozen
| children made the court house ring with their
| cries, but the Judge was memorable, and put
| them under lock and key.
]
| tempted 10 punish his two year old sou for 4,
| lritlm@ mi,demcanor yesterday and thrust him
| into Il dark closet. In doing Eisenhardt
forced the child against broken pane of gas.
cutting him terribly on the left leg, severing an
artery and causing his death in few minutes.
The father who was almost crazed with grief
was arrested and taken to the police station
The telegraph wire between Mt. Desert and
the mainland has been removed from the pole,
ON the bridge and is now working under water.
The cable was laid under the direction Of Mi.
thas. +. Bliss, Manager of the Western Union
Telegraph Office III this city. Bangor Wing.
The war on poIygamy in Utah has rommenc-
ed in earnest. A woman, whose Mormon hu-
band has taken a second wife, brings "A charge
of adultery against the intruder, and the courts
are likely to have a nice time Of it before the
ease is finished.
Three heavy golden vases were lately foumd
in Pompcij, in the middle of street only Il few
!
carried by priests in procession TO prOpitiate
the gods, and that the bearers We're killed while
moving through the streets.
The dogs are making themselves useful in
Franklin county. The Chronicle says that one
'lay last week. Jesse Mclain, of New Sharon,
| was informed that they We're chasing his flock
He starA ont and found that out of flock OF
| thrty-ulnc, one was dead, seven had been badly
torn and bitten. and six could nowhere be found
An imitation of the grain of leather is now
produced by clcrtrotyping. An exact copy of
the skin desired j. produced, which is attached
, 10 mandril and passed over the leather, after
which process It c:n hardly he distinguished
from the original.
A Young lady died in Nashville. recently
leaving a pet mocklng bird While the bird
y was singing. q few days before she died the
/ lady said: ''Ilush, birdie. you annoy me ("
From thai time the bird ha- not uttered a sing IL
note.
There may be something in n name. for the
Very polite Boston journals call their Founding
, Asylum . Refuge for Anonymous Infants
while Chicago, with the most finished etiquette
announces u blanche for babies born on the
European pIIn."
A nam by the name of Fngar made pair of
c wings, and attempted to fly from the top of Z.
o four story building, ont in Indiana, the other
day, He is now trying TO sell his wings for Is
. new pair of legs.
t. The Commission Of Hon. Charles Fr4nct,
# \ dams rs Arbitrator On the part of the Unitrl
, STATES in the tribunal 10 meet At Geneva, under
y the treaty of Washington, ha, been signed hy
, | the President and Secretary OF state,
T. An old soldier who resides near LOUSY ,iir,
o. ! ha~ regularly recurring JuarrrIs with his Wlir.
4 NJ Nuch Times hc takes his tent, a frying pan
4 4d -on,r prali-ion-, md camps out until III
u | Wlio hunts hun up aud effects IL reconciliation,
one who pretend, to know, saws that 3.
the world under favorable conditions, may be-
II come 2rDlt-grtmrlIHther within twcnty-flur
IS | hours.
u ''IIow fast lhey build houses now" said Ii
> | ''ChoY hcgun that building hast week, and nov
l. they ar putting in the lights. Yes answered
hi, friend, and the ueNT week they viii put in
3. ths iiycrN,'
1t is said the hero of the exploit Of bringing
n | three Kegs of gunpoWder out Of q burning
[ grocery was lnborng under mistake-hr
ii Thought i W.l- brandy. THUS are our idnl-
| ~hiNcpd,
llrob Trim, ,eei - Years, committed ~ui-
eide ON Friday IN the woods near his rcsidtn u
in North Yarmouth, 10y shooting himself vita
q quo.
THE @unp-m'clng season Is now in iull
blast. We quite irnl-pule> still The tendency
d th' CANVASS uud clothes uc market Is b. AN
q advance in prices.
, Anna Dickinson made $4,000 last wear by
| lcciurthg on the ,lis'dN anta@cs of being wo-
= nstu- II She had only been { man She wauld
1 have been woll paid
Il 4 gentleman ol excellent ealrage--t harlr-
D.. Z. ktmhulI. He WIN undoubtedly carry -all be-
i fore him on the llth FrNlmp. Maine Demo
1 | crt.
The lal,p rthor anil Central Pacific Railroad
, tunnel will hr i've miles long, through -olii
o granite, II Ieet in height, ami II feet wtte,