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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-03-13
Catastrophe at Smyrna .

The Smyrna correspondent OF the Lee
want Herald, writing under date of the II th
ult., gives an account OF the melancholy
accident in that town, which was briefly
noticed in the cable dispatches day or
two later
On Sunday night, the Cafe Kivote, built
upon piles over the sea. broke down sud
denly during performance given by a
company of acrobats. The proprietor of
the cate says he only sold 1903 tickets, but
the people saved declare there were 200
persons present. Most of them were of
the poorer class, and there were not MANY
Turks there, or young men of respectable
families. At 10 o'clock a loud cracking
was heard, and within five minutes the
entire cafe had disappeared under water
A few of the persons near the entrance
contrived to effect their escape, and some
persons saved themselves by jumping
through the windows into the sea The
boatmen rowed up in numbers, but their
efforts to save life were in vain. Sureya
Pasha, the Governor General; Ibrahiln
Agna, Chief of Police, and Tahir Bey.
commander of the gendarmerie, who were
at once on the spot, exerted themselves
sttanuously, but frultlessly, with the same
| object. The profound silence which sue
ceeded the piercing cries OF despair told
| too plainly the terrible character of the
| disaster. The Catholic and Greek Arch
| bishops were on the spot early the fol-
| lowing morning. Yesterday afternoon
the workmen of the Quay Company were
actively engaged in removing the roof of
the submerged cafe The search after
the dead bodies was sad spectacle; the
acrobats were withdrawn from the water
in their snowy costumes of the previous
night; the limbs Of all the bodies were
| contracted with pain Two hearses were
| engaged the whole day in conveying the
remains discovered to the hospitals Of
the fifty bodies dep )sited at the Greek
hospital, twenty-eight were claimed up to
4 O'Clock yesterday afternoon and eleven
were claimed at the Catholic hospital.
Divers were busy at work all day, and
every minute a fresh body was brought
up. To-day they recommence their mel
| ancholy task at daybreak, and twenty
more bodies were found The total num-
Der of bodies found up to the present is
eighty, and it is supposed that there are
still fifty more in the water An English
captain, two Turkish merchants, a Young
man of good connections, an Italian cap
tain, telegraph clerk, and some com
mercial clerks are among the victims
The feeling of grief and CONSERVATION is
| general and the ball advertised to be held
in the Casino has been countermanded
The police have closed all the other cafes
| built upon the sea- One man saved has
been rendered dumb. The company of
acrobats consisted of seven persons, OF
whom three were women, and one of
| these later only survives. The Govern
ment will institute proceedings against
the proprietor of the cafe, who did not
pay heed to the warning of danger which
was given him in time
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-03-13

A Syracuse deacon cast a gloom over his
wife's mouth by pulling button hook from his
pocket marked Lizzie" His wife's name is
Mary and she never owned button hook.
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SPLENDID ILLUSTRATIONS

executed in the fautless and artistic STYLE and
portraying accurately and fully all leading events
within twenty-four hours after their occurrence.
Those who have made journalism study, and fully
appreciate the great enterprise manifested in the
collection and publication of news by the aid of the
telegraph, steam presses, and the development OF
journalistic talent, have been fond OF advancing the
theory that the next advance in that field would re
suit in newspaper furnishing in its regular issues
pictures of all current prominent events. That
theory is theory no longer; the newspaper of the
future is the newspaper OF to-day and that paper is
THE DAILY GRAPHIC. The processes which rem
der this marvellous achievement existing fact
the result of the most careful study and endless
variety of expo riments, gradually perfected during
the past twelve years, They depend upon improve
mens in photography and the application of the pho
tographic camera. BY their aid picture is engraved
and made ready to print in from twenty minutes to
two hours. Costly and elaborate plates, works of
art scenes OF interest are reproduced and pictured
forth with equal facility and the most scrupuous
fidelity. iilustral ions of leading events are engrav-
ed and prepared for the press even before the &C
companying written narrative or description leaves
the hands OF the compositOr.
For the proper practical working Of great an
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I'd
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-03-13
The Best and Cheapest Hotel ns
America"

There great many hotels in this country
whose propretors, with sense of confidence,
that is truly touching, will believe that the
above heading refers to their particular hotel,
and no other If these proprietors were all
assembled in a body at a certain time and place,
and a trumpet was to sound the above quota
ton, wouldn't each and every proprietor there
cry out as if with one voice ''That's my
housed" We say, "Now But our "trayelling
correspondent" whose perambuatlons extend
through every quarter of the globe, say, it is
ALAS, too true!" and we submit to his superior
judgment.
We mean, however, to speak of New York
Hotels. There is one hotel on Broadway, that
certainly is the largest, best and cheapest first
class hotel in that city.
We wish to say, ana experience will bear US
out, that when a guest receives an elegantly
furnished room, with meals, at his command
from early breakfast every hour till midnight
with perfect parlor on ,oheels for an elevator,
to carry him from one floor to another, and fol
$500 per day, We think the proprietor of that
hotel may come forward and claim the above
title for his house. The Grand Central Hotel
on Broadway, upon which has been lavshed
nearly two millions $4,000, 000) of dollars, is
that hotel. Its proprietor, II. l.. Powers
judiciousiy dscrminates between the upper
and lower floors, fixing the prices at $500
$500 and $500 per day. The Grand Contra
is the only hotel we know of that does business
on this system.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-03-13
From the Portsmouth Times.

The NEWBURYPORT GHOST Quite a
number OF cautious and not over-cred-
ulous men of this city have visited the city
OF NeWburyport and otherwise taken
measures to ascertain the exact value of
the stories told in regard to the strange
manifestations in the school house in that
city. They tell US that the people of that
city are about equally divided in regard
to the real state of the case. Those who
do not know anything about the facts and
those who will not believe anything not
in accordance with their religious notions,
are bitter and ugly. They swear it is all
humbug and the work of mischievous
boys. On the other hand, the other half,
and really the most sensible half, admit
nonsense and that there is really some
thing that cannot be explained. A dis
patch from NewburYport, Feb. 18th, says
The believers in the supernatural are
holding high carnival here to- day. Not
withstanding the volumnious report of the
two thirds committee, the SO ghost of
Charles street school house" very obsti-
nately refuses to be quiet, and Thursday
afternoon the spectral manifestations were
more demonstrative than ever, and ''by
| many witnesses are all these things estab-
lished."
This noon your reporter visited the
school, and learned from many of the
scholars some account of the proceedings
yesterday and to-day. f. f. Laughlands,
| thirteen years old, James Christopher,
twelve years, Abram Lydston and many
| others, gave the following account: Soon
after SC hool commenced, rumbling noises,
rappings and voices were heard. proceed
ing from the entry and overhead in the
school room. Some of the boys went tC
the closet in the entry, where the brooms
were kept, and on opening the door the
brooms came out, hitting them in the face
The brooms were hung up and at once
came down again. The manifestations
apparently reached their height about the
middle of the afternoon, when ''the hand
was seen at the entry window. The
teacher went toward the window, and in
the corner of the entry was seen dis
tinctly the head and shoulders of boy
with light hair and having a dark clott
over his shoulders. The scholars saw the
| figure for minute or two and some o
| the older ones saw it vanish. This wa;
in the corner Of the entry opposite the
| staircase. These boys in conversation al
appear intelligent and reliable, and eacf
confirmed the ether statements. TIN:
| forenoon a voice has been heard at times
singing, and the noises overhead have
been continued, although the door leading
to the attic is securely locked. Certain i
is that there is something in the wind. anC
one of the School Committee says to-day
at is OF no use to attempt to brow-bea
this matter down. It won't do, there i
| Somathinr in If
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-03-13
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The Great Achievement of the
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The DAILY GRAPHIC is the title OF a newspaper,
published in New York which is achieving the
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AS newspaper The DAILY GRAPHIC stands in
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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-03-13

MRS. ABIGAIL d. Cook, whose death will be
found recorded under the appropriate heading,
was the oldest person IN Newburyport. She
died in the same room where she was married,
on the seventy-third anniversary of the day
Mrs. Cook was born at Boothbay, Maine, when
that territory was a province of Massachusetts,
and her father, Hon. Isreal Davis, was a cap
tain in the army, during the Revolution. The
Continental Congress was poor and the prov
inces not much better off. and the soldiers often
found 1t difficult to obtain their pay. Captain
Davis, who was a man of some property, adj
vanccd the money and himself paid off his COM
pany several times, and this was not refunded
until about fifteen years ago, when Mrs Cook
received S11 900 on her fathers account She
was the mother of nine children, of whom two
only survive her, Moody D. Cook, Esq, of this
city, and Fuller &. Cook, of Rockland, Maine.
At the time of her death. Mrs. Cook had been a
member of the Old South Church for sixty-fiye
years. and was woman of strict piety, liber-
aity TO the distressed and needy, and integrity.
She was one of the choir which sang at the
welcome to Washington on his visit to Newbury-
port land she was also member ofthe choir which
sang at the commemorative services at the Old
South on the occasion OF Washington's death,
The only member of that choir now surviving
is Mrs. Pike, widow of the late Richard Pike,
Esq. Mrs. Cook is said to have been very
handsome woman, and to the day of her death
she retained sprightliness remarkable in one
SO aged, and her mind seemed not to be at all
impaired. Newburyport Herald, Feb. 10.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-03-13

A DOUBTFUL TRANSACTION The Bos-
ton Herald says that Harvey & Co. of
Lowell Mass, two years ago. sent to a
Mr.. Booth in Bucksport, seven cases of
materials for APO pairs of slippers, which
the Maine man agreed to complete and
return as soon as convenient. After wait
ing some months and receiving no satisfac-
tory reply as to the slippers, Harvey & Co.
demanded the return of the goods, but up
to this neither goods nor their equivalent
nave been received. A short time since it
was ascertained that the Maine man had
consigned 100 pairs to A. N. Saunders &
Co. OF Boston, where they were put up at
auction and MIR. Harvey, receiving infor-
nation OF this was present at the sale,
when he bid in the whole lot and forward
ed them to Lowell, where he had made
arrangements for their seizure as embez-
zled goods In this way the Lowell firm
are likely to recover portion, at least, of
their property
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Up Stairs Over Garlic & Morison's Hardware Store,
tt34 Belfast. Me.
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Returning will leave Machiasport every Monday
morning at s O'Clock, touching at the above named
landings.
For further particulars inquire of Ross & Sturdi-
want, l79 Commercial Street, or
CYRUS STURDIVANT, General Agent.
Portland, March Sth, 1873, tf36
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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-03-13
LINCOLNVILLE
I sIl


The snow blockade still continues to be an
lmpediment TO public travel and local business
n the town. For the lack OF that "fath like a
grain of mustard seed" which could remove
mountains" in olden time, people have put their
falth more in shovels and triangles to remove
The mountains of snow. Faith without works
dead" especially in making roads through
-now banks.
Mr.. Philip Rschhff, the oldest person in town,
lied on the 9th inst, aged SO years II can he
truly said of him that an 'unspotted life is old
age."
At the annual town meeting held on the 10th
INST, VIM. Ii. Hodges was chosen Moderator
Mathews, Clerk; VIM. H. Hodges, Seth Ii
Wyman and Fl. Leadbetter, Seectmen; ID. L.
frohock, Collector of taxes; VIM. l.. Howe,
treasurer; Joseph Miller, Town Agent. II
Lesdbetter VIM. H. Hodges, S. s. Committee
A. Drake, D. l.. Frohock, Constables.
Voted to dispense with the article in the
warrant i'll relation to taking stock or loaning
the credit of the town In aid of the Penobscot
Bay River Railroad
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In this town of 1879 inhabitants, there are
iprty widows and only eight widowers.
some i've weeks ago one Octayia Douglass
anne to this town to visit her relatives, and in
short time was taken sick with the small box
Proper measures were taken TO prevent its
-preading. Her mother Il widow nearly 50
ears Old and her sister Martha, maiden lady,
look the disorder and both died. Octayia is now
nearly well. There have been no other cases,
and no tlrthes danger felt
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-11-10
THE New York Journal of Commerce

THE New York Journal of Commerce
prints an interesting tabular statement,
showing the movement in the leading
articles Of produce at that port during the
last month. The deliveries have been
liberal on the whole, and of some articles
largely in excess Of previous seasons for a
number Of years. OF wheat, the aggregate
receipts thus far this year, are nearly
twenty -seven million bushels, over twice
the amount received there last year. The
market is behind in corn. as compared
with the unprecedented total of last year,
but nevertheless fully up to the average
sapply. The outward movement has also
been unusually brisk, and gives indications
of progressing satisfactorily for the bal
ance of the year.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-11-10
THE HUNTER AND WALKER
SCHEMES.

We think Virginia is especially unfortu-
nate in the suggestive quality of her states
manship. The proposition urged by Gov
ernor Walker in his last annual message to
the General Assembly was a most unfor-
tunate one so far as the interests Of Vir-
ginia were concerned, while that Of Mr..
Hunter is more unfortunate still, as tending
to shut the door in the face of all Just
claims our people may have upon the ted
eral government for compensation where
show Of justice can be maintained. The
idea that the people of this country will
ever consent to pay, by any
direct or indirect method, fer the
slaves freed by act of rebellion, Qor it
was the rebellion that virtually freed. if not
enfranchised, the negro, } is the most absurd
and chimerical one that could be started,
even il there were no constitutional diff
cultes in the way of carrying it out while
the proposition that the federal government
should assume and pay the debts of the
several states, incurred during and since
the war. is equally Objectionable as having
neither merit nor originality in it, and as
being the last thing the people of the United
States, taken collectively, would ever con-
sent to do, or even think of doing.
Had Governor Walker and his political
friends taken the position of THE STATE
JOURNAL four years ago, instead Of seek
ing to pile up Indebtedness by the mil
lion against the state, there would have
been such recognition Of the justice OF
the claim of Virginia--we mean that Of
exemption from the liabilities Of the old
state-that the prospect of relief would
have been next to an absolute certainty
by this time. What the party lacked
in craftsmanship then, it is not likely
TO make up now by any such sug.
gestions as those contained in the two bar
rem schemes proposed by Governor
Walker and Mr.. Hunter.
Virginia had this vantage ground in
pressing her just claim upon the federal
government--that had she refused to re-
cognze her liability for the debt of the ole
state beyond actual assets in her hands, the
question of federal obligation would have
been pressed by foreign governments. and
the fall Justice of our claim indicated by
the rrefragable logic that would have beer
applied in the argument, and the inevita
BILE conclusion that must have beef
drawn therefrom. 1t is never too late tt
correct wrong, or retrace false stel
when led into an error that is possible o
retrieyal in the future. Let US drop all i'm
possible schemes, then, and go for a ne,
financial deal as to the debts of the oil
state of Virginia.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-11-10

IT seems to be generally conceded that
the country has seen the worst of its finan-
cial troubles. The great speculative move
ments, corporate and otherwise, that have
hitherto absorbed so much of the loana-
BILE capital of the country are now out of
the market, and the large amounts hitherto
employed by them will be allowed to re-
turn into the regular channels of trade.
This fact, taken in connection with the
great influx of gold from Europe, make
it impossible that it should be otherwise
than turning point with us, and that
henceforth we may look for increasing
ease. and along with it. returning conf
dence. Occasional failures and suspen-
sions may yet be expected: but the worst,
we are Confident, is over.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-11-10

THE Dispatch need not go into Mysteries
over any" blatherskite statement of THE
JOURNAL in regard to the withdrawal of
capital from Richmond, or any other por-
ton of Virginia, by reason of the ascend
ancy of Bourbonism in the state. What
We said was true, although the influence of
this journal will be exerted to prevent any
such determination as that made by the
parties to whom we referred. Our neigh
Dor can find better food for reflection in
what some of its Northern exchanges say
of the effect OF the Bourbon victory in Vir-
GINA, than it can by combining its observa-
tons exclusively to US. The Pittsburgh
Commercial. by no means rabid political
journal, but one deeply interested in the
material interests of our state and proud
t. chronicle her material advancement,
speaks of the result of our recent election
as follows:
1.-The Bourbon victory in Virginia will
cost that state millions of dollars in its de-
terrant effects on immigration and capital.
Virginia has probably the greatest area Of
,noceupied land of any of the older states.
Some of this may have been partially ex-
hansted by severe cropping with tobacco,
bat much of it is in its primitive fertility.
There are thousands Of acres northeast
aud east of Richmond, which will with good
culture produce thirty bushels Of first-class
wheat to the acre I; yet year after year they
are only producing Natures crop of weeds.
Hardly any state in the Union has weather.
intrinsic resources, and none stands
in more pressing need of those two great
agencies of material development, money
and muscle. But just so long as she
chooses to fight her political battles on the
miserable caste-basis of Virginia for Vir-
ginians," just so long will the recreating
and viyifying forces on which her. future
progress and prosperity depend, refuse
utterly to wait upon her. The cant OF
shoddyism is certainly bad enough; but the
insolent self.righteousness of Bourbonism
is still more nauseous.o
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-11-10

A CURIOUS fact in structural science has
just been determined, after series of in
teresting experiments. 1t appears that,
even after the dry rot in timber has COM
menced, immersion in saltwater effectually
checks its progress and preserves the re-
mainder of the wood. Possibly, then, the
Salt river experience of the Democratic
party during the past ten or fifteen years,
may have helped to give it its present APP
pearance OF semi-durability. A little 'sa'
line experience" on our part in Virginia,
may not therefore be the worst thing thai
could have happened to us. If it can save
the old rotten hulk of Democracy, what il
heavens name may it not do for the live
oak principles of Republicanism!
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-11-10

We have received several communica-
lions since the election, referring to the
canvass in one or another of its general
phases, as we'll as to the candidates upon
our ticket; but it must be manifest even
to the writers themselves, that it is
too late now to give them to the public.
The contest is over, and we have had our
own personal comments to make on the
result; but there must be an end to all
these little ordinations sooner or later,
and, as we look at things now, the sooner
the better.'