The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-12-26
Generalities.

Reuben Pierce. of Boothbay, was lost over.
board and drowned from fishing schooner An.
ME Linw God, on the 18TH
The coach from Winterport to Bangor. Sun-
day, with passengers from the katahdn, was
hYe hours getting over the II miles, during the
storm.
There was SO deaths from smallpox, in Bos
| ton, last week.
Eleven divorces were decreed at the present
| term OF the court i'll Knox County.
The 5. j. Court of Knox County has adjourn
Ell TO the first Tuesday in February
The Hudson river is frozen at Poughkeepse.
ana navigation IS closed for the season.
Two doting fathers snapped babies at the
| paptlsmal font IN Dubuque. A girl and SO for
| a boy,
The Courler-Journal publishes list of Ken
| lucky towns which cannot boast of smallpox.
Inc following is the list in full: Stanford.
| Providence man lately came to life, while
| his relatives and friends were CARRYING on his
| iulefal' three days after his supposed death.
VIII hold postmnserS liable on their bonds for
losses Of registered letters traced To their offices
Stuffed birds are very popular lust now both
| for outside aud inside wear, and consist Of
hhlnnn@ birds for the head and turkies ion, the
stomach
NEW YORK, Dee. %. Rev DR.. Talmadge's
church, ut Brooklyn. was burned at o 30 Sun
day morning. The loss estimated at 500 600,
insured $40 900.
You can secure one faithful mourner at your
funeral by always lending your paper to your
hel@hbor. He will truly grieye when he bends
above your coffin.
George P. Putnam. the well known New
YORK publisher, died suddenly of ApopleXy
FRIDAY evening, At the age of Is. He was Il
native of Brunswick, Ne.
EeN = l.. b; Chase u Rockland. was cnned
at the Baptist Fair the other night 1t was :,
gold headed one, and he had three Times as
many votes as any other clergyman.
The Oracle says thai Capt. John Bradford of
Jefferson, 4 prominent citizen, died on the 9th
lhsI.; heart disease was the cause; fell forward
Whlle sitting IN his chair and expired mmed-
atey.
IN the upper Connecticut valley the winter
"Opens with i severity, ana the olde> inhabi-
tant never saw such weather SO early in De
remher," and still the wind blows and the snow
drifts.
Clifton Wman., an American, and one of the
Weil-hnoWn shp-buildng Wnans family, has
lu,( had 70 fork over 5000 in London for ling
a IAiy he would marry her, when he didn't in
tend to.
Between Jan. list and Nov. 1,t, 1872, the
south Marine Railway Of Rockland had 80 YES
sells on IFS ways for repair, nearly rebuilding
some OF them. 1t In, three ways and EMPLOYS
one hundred men.
The Augusta Standard says that in one town
four girls We're married at the same hour, about
eighteen months ago. Two of them have sep
arattd from their husbands, and the other two
~ fan
Burglars attempted to bore through the door
at the Lancaster post-0tlce, a few nights since,
but the clerk inside bored It hole with revolv-
rr 50 close To where they We're working that
they abandoned the JOB.
A father living in Ttusville, who has two or
three very rourtable girls, placed Il notice ON
ms front door the other night which read,
"Shu' down for thirty days. No stove in the
parlor, and but one lamp"
David Buttertied, 4 well-tO-,lo farmer OF
Frnrestown, n. H., while riding on a load of
hay recently, fell oft between the cattle and the
Seq passed over his chest, causing severe iniu-
rie~, which may prove fatal.
The inquest IN the matter of the murder OF
the old man named Aaron Wood, in Acton,
Mass, Was concluded Friday. No clue was Oh
tanned as to the guilty party, and the affair lr-
mains rs great L mystery Is ever.
=
oil Fire Island, last month, intends to make Il
test suit against the government for the loss of
his vessel, owing to the light on Fire Island
being ,Nin9Oished on the morning OF the or-
rurrencr, although at the time it was dark and
ioggy.
A Cincinnati editor thinks that war, pesti-
ience amt famine always follow one another.
We have had war, are now having pesttnce,
and, he thinks, Will soon have the famine. Like
Joseph, of EgYli he Is laying in an immense
supply OF corn; only he takes it in its fuld
form.
An un,tamped letter, dropped in the Spring
deid pu7t-offcc. was recently forwarded As
usual, by the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton, reached its destination. On being opened
it was found to contain the following: Sen Il
me another barrel OF that gin"
Kansas man dropped Il little note To neigh
bors wife, inviting her to meet him under the
pale SILVER moon. The husband got the note
first ami kept the appointment. Two doctors
haNe been At WOrh on the Kansas man in whom
they found a rich lead mine.
The trustees of the Maine Insane Hospital
call attention in their annual report to the
crowded condition of the institution and the
necessity Of Immediately providing for its re-
lief The recently erected chapel i not finish
ed, ana may not be, is il is proposed to change
its location and use. There have been 2O2 pa
tents admitted and - discharged during The
year. The per cent Of reroverits on the num-
ber admitted Is considerably greater than last
year, reaching nearly thirY-nine per cent, aud
above tnrtV-nne per cent. on the number dis
charged The ratio Of deaths j. considerably
less than one per cent In October, 1910, the
hospital was first opened for reception Of pa
tentS. Since then 1913 have been admitted and
3G22 DISCHARGED, Of whom 1926 recovered, G30
improved, 5@4 unlmproVed, and 70i have ,ilei.
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