The Republican journal., 1871-05-18
Generalities.

Prominent among the officers present at the
Meeting of the Army of the Potomac, in Bos-
on last week, were Gen. Chamberlain and Gen.
Charles W. Roberts of Maine.
In the case of John Daily, on trial in Lewis
on, charged with the murder Of John kenney,
he Jury, after an absence of twenty-seycn
hours, returned verdict of acquittal.
Steamer loads of Strawberries arc coming
lirect from Norfolk to Boston. The fruit re
ais at 20 cents per box.
The Kennebec journal mentions the following
fact, showing the change that may be brought |
about in few years in persons condition,
that among fine residents of that city who have |
a right to claim pensions for services in the |
war of 1872, are two persons OF entirely OPP |
posite clrcumstances-one being the wcalthieft |
and the other the poorest man in town. Both |
Of the individuals belonged to the same COM
pany, the poor man, who is now an occupant |
of the city almshouse, being sergeant, while |
The rich man, who counts his dollars by hun |
dreds OF thousands, was private in the ranks |
The other dav one of the s'High Joints. ? a. |
the commissioners are irreverentiy called by /
the Washington capital, said to a pretty girl !
s. Where are all your handsome men? The |
ladies are very well, but pom my soul, you
know, haven't seen q handsome man since
I've been here" "Ah," said the young lady
sweetly, 'but you have handsome men in Eng
land, presumed" ooh. yes! Of course, plenty
of themr' "Then why" she asked, "did not
the Queen send one iiere:'
A halfbreed hanged at Cheyenne for murder,
made u brief bEt expressive last speech: Me
no squaw; ne brave. You feel my leg; me no
shake; my nand no tremble needcr; me Cd
d-n good man."
A most terrible and singular accident oc-
cured at colonial town called Victoria, in
Solth Africa. A water-spout burst six miles
above the village, and the water rushing down
through q ravine in which the town was built
washed half the town away, and drowned over
one hundred of the citizens, men, women and
children.
The Gazette says that the people Of Dover
and Foxcrott appears be very generally stirred
up at the prospect of the extension of the
Piscataquis road to the upper country, and
evidently are not pleased with the idea at all.
There is very general feeling in favor of a road
from Dover and FoXcroft to Dexter.
The Dexter Gazette says that as the three
o'clock train, on Tuesday of last week, was
leaving Corinna, passenger named Manius
Copeland, attempted to leave the train while in
motion. For some reason, he fell, his head
lying within two inches Of the track, His hat
was crushed by the wheels, but luckily his head
was not touched.
Somebody, who processes to have made an in
dustrious investigation Of the subject, declares
that Boston girls, as a rule, are the most intel
lectual, New York girls the most stylish,
Brooklyn girls the most ''flirtatious," Philade-
phia girls the most ladylke, Baltimore girls the
prettiest, and Chicago girls the most extraya-
giant.
A man stepped into drug store in Corydon,
Ind.,) the other day and wanted to buy "a
thinkers violin, to cure n certain malady. He
said the doctor told him to get il. After vast
,t itDfIp nd
found that the man wanted tincture of iodine.
George T. Downing, the colored Head Centre
in the United States, says it is painfully evident
that there is Il lack of proper respect for coored
people in the Republican party.
Tie strong minded women of Chicago don t
tolerate any infringement on their rights. one
day last week spirited wife shot her husband
| through the arm because he promised to buy
her silk dress with a six foot trail, and didn't.
Mr. Short, Kentucky farmer, has beard Al
inches long, most of which he tucks into his
vest bosom. 1t has been growing thirteen years.
The ship City of Quebec, from London for
Quebec, was wrecked on Dead Island, off the
coast of Newfoundland, on the night Of the sth.
She is total loss, and all the crew were
drowned.
| Gen. Jubal Early has published card deny
| ing that the residence of Montgomery Blair
| was burned by his order. He says he is in no
| wise responsible for the incendiarsm, which
| he emphaticallY denOunccs rs an act of bar
| barity,
| The Camanche Indians are disguised with
| She employment of colored troops on the
| frontier, they are so difficult to scalp.
The Camden Herald says that Mr.. Dayit
| Knowlton is to erect in Camden substantial
| building, three stories in hight on Bay View
| street and two stories on Chestnut street. OF
| the lower street there is to be one store while
on the other there is to be two, the upper story
to be public hall the whole size of the lot.
| The Name Medical Association holds its au-
| nual session in Portland the second Tuesday II
| June.
George Harrington, of Waldohoro', has beer
| appointed As Il deputy sheriff for Lincoh
| County
The Wing says that the Bangor CITY Council
passed an order Thursday night appropriatin!
$500 in aid of the State Fair, which no lOuh
ensures it being held in that city the coming fall
Butterfly sets of Jewery are now in style
| Some of them cost over SO, 900, and are exceed
ngly appropriate for the butterflies who wea
| them.
The Lewiston journal says the town of Ain;
voted, on the 9th inst, to loan its credit to TIN
| amount of $4,000 to aid i'll construction of The
| Kennebec II Wiscasset K. X.
His pilgrimage u over az the druggist
widow said when she ordered an epitaph for BIZ
| tombstone.
A sarcastic young lady says she never wa, :,
much in love with n man that two rainy day
together in country house would not eiicctu
ally cure her.
Mary Cary says that if husbands general
knew what their wives thought them, suicide
would be a more common occurrence.
A camel was born to Ames' menagero, Il
Nashville, Tennessee. Its birth was welcome
by the band with "The Campbells are coming.
John fairfield, who died few days ago il
Troy, n. Y, is said to have been the first make
of lucfer matches in this country lie en-
them out one by one with his knife as long ag
as 1856, and prepared the chemical combuStihl
BY process then known only to himself.
The head of Vermont railroad shop was ap
piled to for permission to work on Fast na.
by Il couple of men who were noted for thel
| lazness. Permission was given " for" SAY
the chief, ''you can't either of you work har
enough to break the day"
Radical Idea of popular sel-government-
The extraordinary powers Of soYernmcn
which Congress has conferred upon Met
Grant. Hart. Times
The sweetest things in earrings is IN aquarium
of rock crystal, filled with water, in Whel
swim small whales Holsters and shrimpS,
The Augusta Journal says that Allen Spauld
ing was arrested in Hallowcll on Friday night
for an alleged rape upon Dora |. Thomas,
Spauding is "A years of age, married man
and belongs in Waterylle. The alleged victim
| is the daughter of William Thomas of iIalow
ell, and is only between fourteen and iilteel
years Old
Efforts are being made to start IL Demoer at
paper in Lowell. The party has been withon
Il paper in that city for ten years.
The Loss or THE MERRIMAC. A let
ter from Capt. j. N, Nichols, of Sears
port, Of the barque Merrimac, of Boston
which was run into and sunk by the Gu
nard steamship Alcppo, below Boston
gives the following particulars OF the dis
aster:
| On the Goth of April, when thirteen miles
| from Boston Light with the Mnot'S Rock
light bearing four miles distant, the MerrimaC
was run into by the Aleppo and sunk in jus
| thirteen minutes after the collision, in twenty
| three fathoms of water. All of the crew saved