The Republican journal., 1872-06-06

Our CORES pondcnt says that Mr. g. b.
troWell of llallowel will pay one dollar per
thousand for Old postage stamps To send to the.
little girl i'll Belfast. kennehcc journal.
Mr.. Crowel had better keep his money.
There is no little girl here to whom stamps
are given, and we are much inclined to
believe that they ultimately 20 into the
hands of scanps who wash the ink ont
and use them again. The lady who re-
ceives and forwards them from this city.
does not know the parties to whom she
sends them, if we are correctly informed
NEW YORK. May 81. A Honolulu letter
states that Captain Meade, of the 4lnboat Mar
raganSett. ha'l made Il treaty with the kings and
chiefs of the Navigators' Islands, by which hose
islands are added TO the United States, and he
has formally taken possession IT the island of
lartulla As naval station of the United States
Thus 1t wilt been seen that the admins
t.laton, loiled in the San domingo bust
ness, has turned its attention TO the canni-
balls of the Pacific. Now if the officials to
be sent thither can only be Of the Grant
family, and the natives have good APP
petites
1t is positively unkind of the Portland
Press to say this
We learn from parties who have recently
travelled extensively in the Fifth DISH let that
there i no real opposition to Mr.. Hale in the
republican ranks outside OF "A few disappointed
otiice-seekers who imagine that the sole duty
OF Congressman is to see that they have com
Portable places at the public crib
1t is pretty evident that those who travel
extensively are not so we'll informed some
times as those who stay at home extern
sively.
The Bangor Wing having requested
the Commercial to copy some Of the hard
things which Horace Greeley has said of
| the Democracy, the Commercial makes
the following excellent reply
| ''We prefer the good things that he is now
saying. The things that Paul said after that re-
mafkable MONDAY vision are remembered and
| repeated by the whole Christian w rid, while
the things that Saul did before the vision of light
| are forgotten"
Portland, May 81. Judge Goddard, our
| Postmaster. is confined to his house He was
| opening a bottle of some etfervescent mixture
| the other day, when the cork struck him in one
of his eyes lnflicting severe injury.
All, Judge, those etfervescent mixtures
| have struck many man hard blows. But
only those with fat offices are in danger.
| When Horace gets to the White House
that sort Of amusement must stop.
-EX-M Mayor Wentworth, at Calais. recently
| obtained large quantity of honey out of a
| chimney in his house. The chimney had not
! been used, and in one flue the bees had made a
large deposit Of the sweets.
The prevailing tenants of chimneys in
this city are swallows, that have become
such nulsances that people are obliged to
put wire screens over the chimney tops
| The Democrats of the fifth Congress
sional district will notice in this paper the
call for convention at Bangor, immedi-
ately after the State Convention, to choose
two delegates and alternates to the Dem
ocratic National Convention. The Con-
vention for the choice Of u candidate for
Congress will be held within the district.
at later day
The Bangor Wing, that is certain
Greeley cannot be elected, remarks that
the British captured Washington in ls4I