The Republican journal., 1872-10-03
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and her establishment was genseel, but
terribly wicked. Solomon tells about
such in his wholesome proverbs. Well
Kate was recently called to another local
itY by summons that would take no de-
NAL. The tleshless knuckles of death
knocked at her palatial door, and she de-
parted hence. She left a hundred thou
sand dollars well invested, and now her
relatives, who disowned her while living,
are quarrelng over the possession of the
wages of sin. What a world this is
The Waterville Mail, abiding to the
charge by Democratic papers that men
were bribed to vote the radical ticket
says-"Why don't you have men so firm
in principle that they can't be bought ?"
AS . general thing we do, but there is
always a certain per cent. of frailty in q
given number of men, and this is always
the point Of attack. When Washington
was deceived in his Generals, and the
Saviour in his disciples. it is no reproach
to the Democratic party that it was also
betrayed.
A band Of eleven English cricket
| players are narrowing up the souls of
players on this side of the Atlantic, by
challenging any twenty-five and then WHIP
ing them out. This cricket isn't the little
chap that chlrps in the grass on these
autumnal days, nor the thing on which
you put your feet at church; but bat
and ball game in which YOU have to be
lively, with smart chances of getting your
shlns barked and nose hattened.
VIM Kendall, of this village, is 30 wears
| Old, has voted every election, State and Nation
| al, since he was twenty-one, has always been II
| Democrat, and proposes voting for Greeley in
November Fairfield Chronicle
Good for William We should like to
take that youth by the hand Such lite
rs that ought to admit him to the best seat
in the mansions of the hereafter unchal-
| lenged and unquestoned
Emily Faithful is coming to America
She il is OF whom we have read as being
SO good to poor and fallen girls in Eng
| land many of whom will not stay reform
ed. A. result she is frequently Faith
tul among the faithless found" Columbia
welcomes you, Emily.
| The Southern papers are complaining
OF drought. We would have been willing
to take half their trouble up here any
time Between the dripping clouds and
| Eaton Shaw's temperance rum agency at
| Portland, the State has been atloat and
| half seas over large part ct the time.
| who saw fifteen snakes in Il bucket of
water drawn from his well. Perhaps if
he had been better acquainted with that
| beverage the snakes wouldn't have APP
peared. Those reptiles frequently obtrude
on the spiritually minded.
| The Jameson Guards, of Bangor, have
| presented q splendid silver ice pitcher
10 MIR. George j. Wight, steward of the
steamer Cambridge, in acknowledgement
Of the courtesies received by the company
on their excursion last June. Mr. Wight
| is a model officer, and deservcdly popu-
lar with the public.
Waldo L. Pierce of Bangor has a trot-
! ting horse on which he bestows the name
of Little Fraud He should change the
| title to Big Fraud, and make of the animal
an offering at the White House Next to
being the Presidents wife's cousin, there's
nothing like giving him horse appropri-
ately named.
Gov. Seymour Of New York, in arecent
speech on the treasury detalcation and
concealments, touched Il tender spot when
he said ''show US the books" That's the
talk. If there have been no frauds, why
not let the books be seen? But it won't
be done
There is great stringency in the
money market, and failures are occurring.
The Vermont Central Railroad has allowed
its notes to 60 to protest, and Oh Saturday
the large banking house of Spencer, Villa
& Co, failed. The times look squaly.
A large meeting Of women was held IN Bos-
ton, Wednesday, which adopted an address en-
dorslng Grant and Wilson. Harriet Beecher
Stowe. Mrs. Livermore, Mrs Child, Miss
Phelps, Miss Alcott and others participated.
That's what the dispatches say Now
Mrs. Woodruff
When some papers send us half
sheet instead OF q whole one we don't care
but it is aggravating when the Cape Ann
Advertiser does it. If the practice IS con
tinued, n poor catch of mackerel will
surely be the rctribution
This is the season in which boys shoot
each other while hunting; but Mr.. Mitch
| ellis SON. at Canton, unmndtul of the
autumnal fashions, broke himself all to
pieces by pulling a cart-body over and
getting caught under it,
Girls, those fearful towers of hair and
bralds which you pile upon your devoted
heads, are going to be more expensive.
Cyclones in Eastern Bengal have done
great damage to the lutte crop.
Poor little Harry French who was so
terribly injured by the explosion at Ban
gor, is dead His father, who fastened
from Washington, arrived only to look
upon the face OF his dead boy.
The Humane Society o! New York
has complmentel Hon. Challes kimball
by giving his name to one of their beau
titul yachts which cruise off New York
for the relief OF distressed vessels,
When the Legislature enacted the
cider law il should have repe aled the
statute forbidding ''profane curslng and
swearing lei utterly impossible to OBJ
serve both enactments at once
This time it was Mr. Greenleaf-very
green. He was travelling on the European
railroad, and the pistol was breech