The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-11-28

Just become engaged to Il worthy though poor
young man and was OH the eye of returning to
Boston to be married, when her fortune took to
land. The news reached her by cable-and the
next day her lover received by the same abrupt
medium his dismissal. History is vet too Young
to tell us whether the gentleman accepts, or flies
on the wings Of Il screw steamer to the feet OF
his conscientious but unlucky mistress. JAY.
The Lewiston journal is hoasting of
the smart girls and women it has over
there. 1t says
There is Young miss of fourteen wears in
this city who does the cooking eXceIlcntlv well
700, Tor family of five persons. Isn't she The
Coming Gill?
She will be the going girl as soon as her
fate comes, in the shape of the man who
can appreciate her. The Journal pro-
ceeds to give a smart woman's account Of
her weeks occupation, as follows
Mondays. wash, in the evening attend the
Auburn Musical rehearsals; TUESDAYS | iron.
tuesday evenings | go to prayer meeting
Nc"nesdaVs there Is committee meeting and
Welghty matters to be attended to: THURSDAYS
L do my sewing for the week, Thursday eve
nlng go to q Praise meeting; Friday sweep
and dust and in the afternoon 90 to Il PRAYER
meeting; Friday evening | generally devote to
anothef committee meeting: Saturday bake
beans for Sunday, Saturday evening tatteR, and
Sunday School lesson; Sunday the best of the
wardrobe comes out, and there are two sermons
TO hear, Sunday School to attend, three meals
TO eat and Il prayer meeting to attend In The
evening.
And this lady wants to know what she
will do when she gets all her rights. I'm
doubtedly attend caucuses make speeches.
and try to get to Congress.
The Boston Coliseum building has
been sold for $40, 800 to Hon. Theophilus
Gushing, of Winterport, who will take it
down and dispose OF the three million and
q half feet Of lumber which it contains.
Colley Cibber informs the world that
"rhe aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian
dome
Outliyes i'll fame the pious soul that reared it =
And so, now that the crush and vCcaliz-
ing and tiddling Of the occasion arc over,
the man who levels the Coliseum bids fair
to be longer remembered than the musi-
cal souls that built it, Financially it was
q failure, down east has remorseessly
seized upon its remains at good bargain
and Gushing goes up to Il high niche in
the temple of fame.
A terrible accident happened on the
Western Extension Railroad in New
Brunswick, a portion of the European and
North American, on Saturday. A gravel
and freight train ran into each other, as
they rounded q curve, by which both
engines We're smashed, and the engineer
and fireman of the freight train killed.
-ENCoURAGING. A Washington de-
spatch says that the President recently
remarked, in private conversation with u
shipbuilder that he would in his forth
coming annual message recommend that
Congress take action with Il view to re-
store the commerce of the country to the
condition it was before the late civil war.
Who can explain why the great Boston fire
followed in the teeth of the wind. Portland
State.
That's hard question: but we venture
the suggestion that it was trying to get
the city in the jaws OF destruction.
Portland complains of It's gas Bel
fast is more than satisfied. There is no
place that We visit that produces illumi-
mating gas OF so excellent quality as we
find at home.
The question, "Does modesty require the LEGS
of piano to be Pantaletted?" is being discussed
by a Belfast debating society. Bangor Com
mercial.
A mistake. 1t was proposed, but the
chair stated that in Bangor it had already
been discussed, and decided that two of
the legs should wear pantalettes and two
OF them pantaoons.
--Scoundrels are trying to throw the
Maine Central trains from the track, near
Farmingdale. DISTINCTIONS We're placed
upon the track on Monday and Thursday,
which came near throwing off the trains
Hanging is too good for the scoundrcl
A paper in Tennessee keeps this an
nouncement at its head
FOR PRESIDENT,
HORACE GREELEY.
When the people Of the United suites ie-
come SUFFICIENTLY citHi%ed II oppreci0te $uch
q man.
The Portland Press Of Saturday pre-
sented its readers with u hall-sheet sup
plement the first instance Of the kind that
we remember among Maine daiIies.
Can newspapers worn as bustes properly
be called back numbers? Portland Argus.
Not unless they are full in the local de-
partment
Mr.. Damphool continues to ride Il
velocipede in Portland
Wall street, New York, is excited over stock
Transactions in which prominent brokers have
been trying to cheat each others eye teeth out.
The sharpest kind of games have been put in
practice, and millions have changed hands. The
principal actors are Gould and Drew the well
ter they had agreed to ''bull'' the market on
Erie, Gould event back" on the arrangements,
and sold through brokers his entire stock to
Drew, leaving to him the heavy load of carry
ing all the stock offered. Stock of the North
western came into the operation incidentally,
and through it Drew lost two and Il halt mil
lions, it is said. As sort of side-show to the
whole, Gould has been arrested on a charge o.!
embezzling over nine millions of Erie stock,
while President of the company. And the end
The man who was lost from steamer
Katahdin is now known to be f. A.
Smith, of Kenduskeag, who was on his
way home from Massachusetts. His bag
,rL boy hoe "A f,.J