The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-08-01
Generalities.

wharf. were burned on Friday night Loss
100000. Several tiremen We're injured bv the
falling of a ladder.
Gen. John T. Averil has been re.nominated
for Congress in Minnesota. Gen. Averi is q
native of Montville.
We learn from the Ellsworth American that
on last sunday afternoon Mr.. George F. Dunn
formerly well known matchmaker of Bangor,
was drowned at Bar Harhor near the Porcupine
Islands. He with another gentleman was out
salilng at the time. and losing the rudder hv an
accident Mr.. Dunn took the to steer with
which obliged him to stand up when sudden
Squall heeled the boat and threw Mr.. Dunn with
Their only oar into the water. The gentleman
LETT IN the boat had no means of steering her and
could not assist Mr.. Dunn who must have
drowned quickly not being able to SWIM The
boat drifted until the next morning when she
touched shore. enabling the occupant to get the
means of controlling her. and reached Bar Har-
Dor Monday noon.
Rev. X. III. Campbell, pastor of the Baptist
church at Dedham, Mass, is badly mixed up
with Il bastardy case in that town. the victim
beng a Young lady of his congregation. He
has been placed under 800 bonds to appear be-
fore the superior court in September and answer
TO the charge. Mr.. Campbell is only a years
old,the husband of beautiful wife and a talent t.
ed and successful preacher 1t is stated by his
| friends that the best people of the town st ill
does not bear a good reputation
DIR. Livingstone writes an interesting letter
from Uilii, on the Tanganvika. East Africa.
under date of November, 1871, TO James Cor
don Bennett. jr.. thanking him for his kindness
in sending Mr.. Stanley to ascertain the where
abouts OF the Doctor. He relates his sutferings
| and priNatiOns, his misadvenureS aud expert
enccs, III a manner peculiarly entertaining. and
| gives expression to his great JOY at meeting
stanley who brought him news from England
and the United States that seemed to the man
| long buried in the wildS of Africa, like fairy
| tale.
stage coach on its way from Ammonoosuc
| Station to the Crawford House was struck by
| lightning during Il heavy shower Wednesday,
| the horses being thrown down but not killed,
and two passengers sitting on the top of the
vehicle were somewhat injured. Their clothes
were burned, their gold watches and watch
chains melted in their pockets. and one of the
men burnt upon he breast the electric
fluid also completely encrcling his body.
Frvc's two-story wooden block on Main street
| RockIand, took fire on Thursday night in the
| upper part, ard the roof partially burned
out and the building otherwise damaged. The
| occupants OF the stores below, w. II. Priest,
| tailor. j. f. Foger, clothing, and w. II. keenc,
fancy goods etc, removed their goods, the lat
| ter suffering the heaviest damage TO stock.
Losses of owners and tenants covered by inSur
| ance.
Anna Dickinson, Frederick Douglass and
| Rev. w. H. II. Murray have been engaged To
speak in the next seasons course of lectures
| before the kockland Literary Association and
! negotiations are in progress for securing the
services of several others who are among the
| most eminent speakers in the country.
A Long Branch beauty was recently weigh
| ed i'll her promenade costume and turned the
| scales at one hundred and ski y-tive pounds
In her bathing dress she weighs one hundred
and six pounds.
Young ladies who aspire to he the equals of
your big brothers and go to fires. don't wear
YOUR paDer bustes on those lively occasions
An Oshkosh young lady did so, and it blazed
up and caught her new long curl and her best
braid and She Is $50 poorer than she was.
The fifth anniversary of the Fifth Name Reg
iment Association was celebrated Friday eve
nmg by literary exercises at the Army and Ma
w Union Hall in Portland. An address was
delivered by W 4. Stevens Esq, of the Boston
journal, and poem by Moses owen of Bath.
The peacock has been put 10 practical use
in Wisconsin, where it has been discovered that
this omthoogical idiot will actually eat potato
bugs.
Neither ''ceni, uidi tici." nor Eve have me
the enemy and be is ours" can make the tears
mbidden start like this Texas dispatch to a man
who had advertised lost mare "Mare here.
Come get her. Thief hung"
The last chimney belonging to the Gen. Knox
mansion III Thomast0n. has lately been toppled
10 the ground, the brick being wanted for other
purposes. Soon all vestiges of this once fine
residence will be removed.
A smart lad in San Antonio, Tex, recently
took his stand by the side of blind organ
grinder, and hat in hand solicited alps. When
his tile was nearly filed by the sympathetic
passer>-by he walked OFT, leaving the organist
orindiuo AWAY utterly ignorant of fhe whole |
transaction.
Base ball is of much greater antiquity than
supposed. 1t was played in the Ark when the |
dove was ''put out on a fly n. O. Times.
A certain doctor named Industry has got up
Il neVcr-faiing remedy for hard times. 1t con
sists of ten hours labor. well worked in. There
is no quachery about this.
Seth Green's experiment of planting young
Shad IN the Genessee river has proved success
full. as specimens of the fish grown to the size of
six or seven inches in length have been taken in
Seines at the mouth of the river this season.
II is estimated soothing syrlps kill $50 900
children annually, which must be anything but
a soothing statement to the mothers who put
their children to sleep by its use.
Mrs. Annie Felon fell into the hands of the
law on Friday in Newark, on charge of arson.
1t Is alleged that she set fire to her own house
tor the purpose of recovering the insurance.
A young and lovely female, acting as a sew
ing machine agent in Ohio, has forged note
ami swindled a national bank out of $500.
Currant worms may be entirely destroyed or
driven from the bushes, by liberal application
of buckwheat flour.
A deer ran into a bayou to escape a party of
Georgia hunters, when he and the two hounds
that followed him had desperate fight with
two aliigaors, who finally gobbled up the hole
lot and slid away from the CORY waters with the
best meal they had captured for many day.
Oshkosh, Wis, was excited the other day,
by woman running through the streets,
screaming, and with her hustle all on fire. 1t
burned very rapidly, but the presence of mind
of one of the spectators saved her from serious
injury.
Mrs. Mckinney, a young woman who shot
| William Cummings dead at Petaluma for SIAN
dering her, has been admitted to bail IN $40. 900.
Camping out is now at its height on the New
England coast. Many islands and beaches are
dotted with the tents of families who spend a
week at the seaside in this primitive manner.
A clerk in the New London, Conn, Post
Office. named Burdck, has been arrested for
mail robberies extending over some time.
A Keokuk woman never heard Il piano in her
life and is us happy as the average of her sex.
f. Wilder Farley of Newcastle has presented
to Bowdon College an oak armchair which
was brought from England in 1888.
Old gent to boy: "Did YOU ever fight in the
wrong = Boy-"Ohen." Gent-"Dear me,
why - Boy" Didn't know until | got the
worst of it that | had got hold of the wrong
fellow -
The city authorities of Paducah KY, have,
after long deliberaton, concluded to put female
prisoners on the chain gang to daily work on
the streets.
IIallowell is to have gas-light company.
Sufficient stock has been subscribed tor the
Enlistment of gas-works in that city.
Lieut.. Gushing, whose exploit in the destruc-
ton of the Albemare during the war is well
remembered, has been awarded $ls0,a00 prize
money.
lump Of pure gold, weighing half pound,
was recently found by Il negro woman on Il
plantation in Union county, N. G. The woman
was hoeing cotton and knocked the lump over
with her hoe.
VIM. n. Hodges, of Vassalboro', committed
suicide at Detroit on the Goth inst. bv cutting