The Republican journal., 1873-01-02
GeneraIities.

Senator Sumner is so ill at Washington that
his physician visits him twice day.
Mr.. Charles Basset, of Dexter, Me-, commit
ted suicide by cutting his throat in his room at
Andover, Mass. He was employed in mill
there.
Joseph Harvey, of Carmel, sixty years of age
hung himself in Il barn on Friday. after having
told his wife that she would never see him
again.
The town of Eden is justly proud OF Il new
and elegant school house, just completed, and
into which the ladies put $500 worth of furni-
ture, as a donation.
Two or three more cases of smallpox are re-
ported at Eastport.
Two plugs of tobacco in his pocket stopped a
bullet fired at a Kentucklan.
Several cases Of small pox have occurred in
Millbridge, and the schools have been closed in
consequence.
A WOburn woman has called at the post
office twice a day for twelve years for letter
that does not come.
George Catlin, the celebrated American
painter and traveller, died Monday morning in
New Jersey, aged rs.
Yesterday the Tombs murderers had their
Christmas dinner. Can anybody tell when they
will get their dessert? N. Y. Star.
Mr.. Jacob Stanwood, an euterprising and
opulent merchant of Boston, died suddenly at
his residence in Brighton on Christmas.
The devout Daniel Drew is said to have lost
two millions of dollars recently. This thing
was done i'll a corner. Christian Register.
Ial nfc
on level Friday, and the cost of clearing it u
distance of seventy blocks will reach $40 900.
Four large storm panes in the Tybee light
house Ga, were recently broken by flock OF
wild ducks that the wind had driven against
them.
Mr.. George F. Wood, clerk Of the steamer
katahdin, who has been seriously i'll at Cam
den, is improving, and thee are strong hopes
of his recovery
An Iowa man cannot remember where he
hid a coffee pot. full of silver, during the war
and has scratched nearly every hair out of his
head thinking about it.
A Davenport, Iowa, jury have given Mrs.
Mallory $4,000 damages. which is to be taken
from the private fortune of man who enjoyed
the luxury of numbering her husband.
Mr.. Geo. Waterhouse, proprietor of the Prebl lie
House fell down the steps of the Dewitt House,
in Lewiston, on Saturday and broke one leg in
two plaeGssahd sprGned the other ankle.
The Portland Transcript says that the physi-
elan has under treatment al the hospital man
sick with the small pox who has had it once be-
fore; such cases occasionally occur, but are very
rare.
1t transpres that the claims for damages by
the Alabama and confederate cruisers will not
exceed S4,000,000. The balance of the Geneva
no n t,l.A nj
the United States.
They've a jeweier IN Iitchfeld, Conn, who
has such handsome eyes that Young ladies pur
posely break their jewery and watches for the
sake OF having an excuse to go and gaze into
their dreamy depths
1t is said that during the last twenty-five
years OF lis life, Horace Greeley gave away at
least 800 600 to impecunious cheats, who con.
stantly invested his sanctum and to whom be
could not learn to say ''No.'
Nobody ever stands in the horse cars at
LeavenWorth, Kansas. When gentleman en-
tiers car the nearest young lady rises and
offers him her seat. Then she sits in his lap,
and both are satisfied. So nice.
The saloon-keepers of Dubuque are the most
souess wretches on the earth. They fatty re-
fused when Mr.. Hammond. the reVivalist,
mildly requested them to empty their whiskey
in the cutters and close MP shop.
Husbands must forego the pleasure of the
supervision of their wives correspondence. for
the postmaster general has decided that married
women may require that their letters addressed
to them shall be delivered to no one else.
The journal reports cases of severe destitu-
ton at Gardiner; among others, one Of the Re-
lief Committee found a woman with five chill
dren with not thing to eat in the house. anC
she. poor soul, halt-cad, had been out all day
trying to get washing,
A South Adams boy carried enterprise to the
grave the other day by circulating advertising
sheets along a funeral procession of fortY-Seyen
sleighs, He stood by the roadside assiduously
handing in his bills, and did not miss anybody
IN the ranks outside the hearse.
A foolish fox sat down on the track of the B
evening SO as to get b etffelL Lagrange Monday
light of the approaching locomotive. The man
who picked up the skin said in wasn't worth
hat-prce, there was so many pieces Oft.
A Springfield family were recently made sick
by their coffee at breakfast, and a little while
after there flashed upon the housewife the dis
covery that she had accidentally taken 1.-THE aro-
matte berry," not from the coffee canister, but
from the tobacco can, which was its perfect du-
plicate.
A careless man put lighted pipe IN his coat
tail pocket, and a few moments later startled
from that part of him. AS soon as he was put
out, he gratefully explained to his deliyerers
that 'he thought the weather was m oderatin'
d--n sudden"
A Mr.. Bodgett, of De Witt, New York, alb
sented himself from his home, for no good
reason. for the period of five years. He was
supposed to be dead, and his temperance has
excited more embarrassment than pleasure, as
his family have long since divided his estate
among them.
Some one suggests, for the late arrived
traveller who found the Fifth Avenue Hotel on
fire. the following lines Of Shenst0ne'S
che who hath travelled lifes dull round,
Where'er his journeys may have been,
May sigh to think he still has found,
His warmest welcome at an inn"
Oregon recently experienced the first earth
quake known to the Oldest settlers. There were
several rather sharp shocks, which were felt
at Portland and other places along Columbia
river. and caused much alarm, the people rush
ing out of their houses. Washington Territory
and British Columbia also participated in the
shaking up.
MATRIMONIAL AND MERCANTILE. Accord
ing TO the Bangor Commercial the following
unique thing in the promise-to-pay line was
picked up in a neighboring town the other day
PRoMIssoRY NOTE.
HAMPDEN, MAINE, Sept. 10, 1872.
Dear Mary,-I promise to marry you in six
months from date.
Yours lovingly, L. n.
On Saturday last. as the Portland and Og
densburg train left North Conway, large deer
sprang upon the track before the train. 1t ran
on for about two miles, and then attempted to
go up an incline by the side of the road, when
he slipped and rolled over. AS he fell, Mr..