The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-07-03
Generalities.

Joel Gray, Esq, is to build the hotel at Show
hogan.
A case of Asatc cholera is reported at Pas
sale City, N. j.
The Times says Biddeford sells liquor in 90
places, according to report.
Ten deaths from cholera were reported on
Sunday at Nashville, Tenn.
In Bridgton recently a hedgehog stuck Al
quilts into the nose of an inqusitive OK.
Hon. Edward Kent will shortly visit Europe
with his family, for soiourn of several months.
After July lst the Westinghouse brake will be
placed on the Maine Central passenger trains.
Ten Of the Penobscot tribe of Indians have
entered for the boat race at Bangor on the
Fourth.
son of John Moore of Bucksport died on
the 10th inst. of lock jaw caused by a splinter in
his foot
Three boys were drowned in Hartford at
different places between Saturday noon and
Monday night, while bathing.
J. II. Weymouth has been appointed post
master at East Newport, and j. Fl. White, at
Pea Co We.
Cincinnati hotels have a substitute for hash
called ''mOka.f' 1t includes all the ingredients
The Little Emma Mine, into which British
stockholders poured million pounds sterling,
proves, upon official report to be valueless.
youthful fisherman at Rochester, Ind, dove
to the bottom of the river to see what kept his
FISH hook there and forgot to come up again.
Secret marriages are 80 popular at Peoria that
fathers and mothers dare not scold their daught-
ers for fear that they are addressing some ones
wife.
A Georgia newspaper recently informed its
readers that it was not worth while for them to
raise boys. The agoniZed editor insists that he
wrote hogs.
murderer at Meridian, Miss, asked TO be
hung on the Fourth Of July, and the Judge
kindly consented, AS it would help along the
proposed celebration.
Ida Lewis, the heroine of the Lime Rock
Newport, has separated from her hu sband
William Wilson, because he is a lazy fellow
and won't support her.
The water is alreadyllow in the river at Ellis
worth, and fast falling off, which will in few
days compel the mills to shut down, unless
rains should intervene.
A meeting of graduates of West Point at St.
Louis prepared an address to the alumni, who
served on both sides during the late war, inyit-
ing them to q general reunion in June next.
In these days, the young woman of the
period dresses herself in 495 starched, gradu-
ated rutties, to go into some damp grove, and
comes back i'll ten or twelve hours, limp and
dirty, announcing that she had been to a picnic.
S. NJ Stoddara, proprietor Of hotel at Farm
lngton, Mimi, in dispute, Sunday, with a
boarder named Brown, was shot dead. The
Sheriff tried to arrest Brown, who resisted and
was shot ana killed by the Sheriff
On the coast OF Maine there are forty eight
lighthouses and lighted beacons, eight fog sig
mails, operated by steam or ho-air engines, fifty
one day or unghtca beacons, thr hundred
ana tltty.one buOyS actually i'll position.
A Bangor firm has been max ing a pair of
shoes for boy up in Aroostook county The
shoes measures ID 10 inches in length by ID in
breadth and weighed enough to load an ordln-
airy man down. The boy is nineteen years old
and still growing.
A m:7guided youth in Alexandra, Va, in
imitation Of Sergeant Bates. proposes to pro-
coed to Boston for the purpose Of starting from
Bunker Hill on tour through the Northern
States, carrying with him the rebel flag I'M
furled.
Cincinnati, o., 90. jesse r. Grant, father OF
the President, died at his residence in Coving-
ton, Kentucky, of general debility, about 7
O'Clock tonight. The President, although ex-
pected in special train, had not arrived at the
time Of his death.
A conductor, engineer, fireman and two ex-
conductors on the Boston and Fitchburg raI-
road have been arrested for stealing from
train. Large quantities of goods were discoy
cred. Prndle, the conductor, has been SEN
fenced to year IN Jail.
A business man in Adrian, Mich, was for
tunate enough to find, IN the gutter in front of
Il bank, a crumped envelope belonging to him
self, and containing two one hundred dollar
bills, which had been dropped and swept out
from the bank two days before.
THE drain of emigrants to America" says
the Limerick Reporter, sis absolutely alarm
| ing. The people are leaving the country in
crowds. A respectable, welldressed, ntelli-
gent and orderly population are abandoning
their country in countless numbers"
gentleman aud his wife arrived at A lbany,
last week, having driven all the way from
Omaha. They had nice team of horses, which
| did not seem at all fatigued by their long
| journey, and the buggy in which they rode
was, apparently, none the worse for the trip.
| The Sentinel says that British man-of- war,
! at Welchpool, while practising with her guns
| Monday threw 4 l5-inch ball, which struck on
| Treats Island, about twenty feet from the
| dwelling house of U. S. Treat, Esq We learn
| the explanation was they did not know there
| was ball in the gun"
| The Fox Island Steamboat Company, of vi
| nahayen, have purchased the steamer Clara
| Clarita, Of New York, and are putting her in
| thorough repair, and will have her on the
| route between Rockland and Vinalhaven, where
| she is to run, on Monday next. She will cost
! the company about thirty-iive thousand dollars
| Deputy Collector Stoddard of the Third Maine
| District Went to Whitetied and made seizure
Of an illicit distllery, which, from the best in
| formation to be obtained, has been in operation
| some two or three years. The owner acknow |,
| edges that he has been "doing little some
| thin" in the rum making business for at least
year. The product OF his still has been dis
| posed of in the neghborhood.