The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-03-30

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Miss Lucy j. Henry received some fifty votes
and came near being elected one OF the s. ).
Committee of BrOoksyille at the last annual
meeting.
All the ladies of Cincinnati are saying 80,
my" oyer q female infant born in that city ON
Wednesday, and weighing precisely one and
hall pounds at its birth.
A Cincinnati paper tells of a charitable man
III that city who keeps pair of dogs chained to
his front door, that poor people who stop
'to get bite" can he accommodated without
taking the trouble to go into the house
The N. Y. Post tells the Republicans it Is the
duty of the party to settle the Southern difficult
ties, not 10 magnify them.
Sloop Manhattan has been condemned in
New York for smuggling. She had a coasting
license and would go beyond Sandy Hook, meet
British vessel take cargo of liquors, &c,
and return and discharge unsupported
Some years ago Il man bought piece of land
in Chicago, for SO aud a.mule. He sold 1t, and
is now not worth cent, while the land is worth
Sl,000,C00.
Hon. Samuel II. Blake of Bangor, whose
term a. railroad commissioner expires May =,
has been re-appointed for another term by the
governor and council
If you want to please Il new spaper man, learn
the art Of making long story short before cali
ing upon him,
The late war has proved fatal to many of the
cooperative societies in Germany which were
reported about a year ago TO be in such a pros
porous condition. Their losses have been ex-
ceedingly heavy, and not a few OF them are in
solvent
Boston papers tells Of Maine man, who
went into the wilderness, and took what he
supposed to be his compass, but found, when
he needed its guidance, he had taken his wife's
daguerreotype. 1t brought him out all right.
The Journal says that French woman in
Lewiston, who keeps fish market, received
some splendid pickerel, four FOUNDERS, the
other day. She lost all knowledge of the
English language, however, when she was
asked where they came from, and the only
answer inquirers received was NO speak
lnglis,"
The Albany Law Journal has this qup:
Why is grant of real estate more valid if made
on Sunday? Because the better the day, the
better the deed.
| Augusta Me, March %. The amusement
Hall at the National Military Asylum was
| burned this morning at about two O'Clock.
| The fire took about the stage. Loss about
| $4,000.
Grace Ross, daughter of Hugh Ross. Esq,
of Bangor, recently returned from Germany,
has been offered Il $4,000 engagement by the
Dresden German Opera Go.
| A deacon in Illinois objected to the organ
! purchased by his church, and when called upon
/ to close the service with PRAYER said "Call on
the machiue Fiji can sing the glory Of God it
can pray too Call on the machiue!"
A. f. Chamberlain, Of Keen, n. II. has in
| his possession the gun which, in the hands OF
| his great-grandfather, Joseph Chamberlain,
killed Paugus, the Indian chief
A saloon in Kansas city displays the follow
n. t.s..
moderately; pay on delivery; part peaceahly;
| all again often
Mr.. Squares, of kentucky, escorted girl TO Il
/ fair; the next day she began a $4,000 breach of
promise suit against him. lie makes the girls
sign paper releasing him from all responsible
/ ty before he takes them anywhere, now.
The Boston Post tell, Of "a man in Troy ''who
| left boarding house Just because a rat hit oil
bis ear. When people get that particular about
| tritles, they ought to quit boarding and go to
/ keeping house.
y Mobile paper is indignant at Il contempora-
| ry for Announcing that "MObe is the fourth
coffee pot IN the country" Investigation prov
cd cotton port was meant, bat the thing got
mixed.
| A beautiful little maiden in Nashville dis
couragei her lover until hp lost both legs by an
accident, when she married him without MUIR
mur. Wasn't that like Il woman;
Having lost the first wife by suicidal hanging.
Mr.. Jones Of NARROW y. H., married her sister.
and last week She followed in the footsteps Of
/ her predecessor Jones thinks hanging is
hereditary in that family, aud is counting i
| young woman in an adjoining county,
The government is about to erect new buid-
ing for custom house ut Mt,hias.
A rcpublicanin Quincy H., who heard the tu-
multuouS ircioieingS OF the democrats over their
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