The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-03-09

management Of our city affairs ut this
| time, we cordially advise our friends to
support the ticket headed by Mr. Mar
shall, as for the best interests of the city.
DR.. Shurtletf, Ex-Mayor of Boston
at the solicitation of the city government,
has furnished the manuscript OF his "His-
torical and Typographical Description OF
Boston" for publication. 1t has been
printed at the city expense, for dlstribu-
ton. The work is one of great interest,
embodying the labors of painstaking
gatherer of facts during long period.
Folks over at Brunswick don't mind
getting into dangerous places. A sample
OF the way in which they get out is thus
related by the Telegraph
| Walter Ross while crossing the river to Tops
| ham side, on Monday. broke through, coming
| up where the ice was thin; coming up he felt
the ice over his head he broke through with
| his fists and telling Mr. Wilson, his companion,
not TO come to him, broke on until he came to
| firm ice and then threw himself out.
Since the Legislature adjourned,
| the iavorite recreation at Augusta is fish
ing through the ice for suckers On FRI
day, an old gentleman named Murphy,
while induloing in this gentle pastime
broke through and came near being
| drowned
Dr. Calvin Seavey, of Bangor, in Il
letter to the Democrat, asks by what right
the faculty of Bowdoin College admit a
foreign born negro to the medical lectures
free of charge, while all the white stu
dents are made to pay. The Doctor
thinks that charity begins at home.
We are happy to be able to say that
Lewiston continues to be Il Democratic
city. That sterling Democrat, Dr. Alon-
70 Garcelon, was on Monday elected May
or, by IS majority The Journal ac-
knoWlcd@es defeat, and trots out Il roost-
cr OF die most tororn aspect There was
no choice for Mayor in Auburn.
a young man with little brain power, free
from the eorruptions and damning influence of
rum-drnking, is a long way in advance, in the
matters Of practical life, of the brilliant young
man whose brain is becloudeu with the fumes
of wlllskey. tkennebec Journal.
VIII it he asking too much, if we in
quire from which position our neighbor
speaks?
The election of Samuel Byrant, Esq.
AS Mayor Of Rockland, by IS majority
places Il competent and worthy gentle
men and Il good Democrat in that posi-
ton. A Democratic Mayor of Rockland
Wen, the world does move.
MIR Blethen Of Dover was made
very sick by eating CLANS, and thinks he
kept hi. shel-iish too long 1t is thought
that the same treatment will spoil beef
steak. With daily communication with
Belfast, there is no excuse for bad clans.
"A Gardiner policeman, having dis
covered some prowling burglars in that
city, warns them, by a paragraph in the
Reporter, that they will be arrested if
they persist Wouldn't it he better to ar
rest them first, and tell of it afterwards
WIN Thompson, Esq, of Bangor
is suffering from paralysis OF the right
| side. Mr.. L. is proprietor of the eXten-
| sive printing establishment in that city,
and was formerly publisher of the Daily
! Times
---Capt circuit, of sch Georgia, of Bel
!
fast, was arrested in New Y DIRK last week,
for going into dock and discharging cargo
| without the usual examination by the
! health officer. She was from the West
| Indies.
-Ambrose Wilson, Esq, Of Brewer
well known to many of the people Of Bel
| fast, died on Tuesday morning last, of
rheumatic fever. He was a kind-hearted,
genial gentleman, whose loss is greatly
deplored.
| The editors of Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Massachusetts and Vermont, pro
pose to join in Il grand excursion to Lake
| George, Montreal and the White Noun
tains next summer
The Republican journal passes its eats
foot with the claws drawn in the bill o
| Sheriff Grose, for hanging Clifton Harris. Ma
! chias Republican.
Yes, we pass What viii become OF
the Republican when it is ''ordcrtd up
on 4 like occasion ?
In Portland, Kingsbury, Republi
can, is elected Mayor by 332 majority
Four of the seven wards are also repnbli
can.
---Dick Busted imprsons persons wh(
express contemp: forhis court in Alabama
If he persists, the whole country will have
to be locked up.
-Gardiner and Camden have liv,
grasshoppers, as well as Belfast. If this
thing goes on, the grasshoppers will be Z
burden, even in winter.
The Ellsworth American is tan
talizing us by telling of a party tina
caught 575 pounds Of trout in three days
Hon. Lot M. Morrill, has arrived a
Washington. in an improved state o
health.
Mr.. Hicks, Of Bennington, faste'
81 days to starvc out disease. He sue
ceeded, and was buried on Friday.
We are indebted to Warren John
son, State School Superintendent, for