The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-12-18
GeneraIties.

The town of Wesley paid $40 bounty for
killing bears last wear.
The excuse Of 4 Young lady to her minister
who caught her mapping was, Don't you think
ladies had better be fast asleep than fast awake"
4 man in Jackson. Ind. has made u, 000
gallons Of cider. this season. and does not con-
slider himself much Of Il sinner. either.
The coroncr'- jury in the case of Bridget
landergin, who was recently murdered at
Dorchester, have cXonerated ThoS Cahill from
all connection With the murder
During the gale on the 18th Of last month
Arthur ;; Thomas, aged -, of Eden, was lost
overheard from the schooner Dexter Clark.
me vessel was bonnd for Jacksonville. Fla.
4 California judge has decided that = woman
who has lived with man for twenty wears and
been by INN acknowledged rs his Wife can
clam homestead out of his estate. even in the
absence OF any marriage ceremony
Hon. samuel Nelson. cN-,Judge OF The L. s.
Supreme court, died suddenly Of appoleNv
while sitting in I chair. at half past one o'clock
sunday afternoon It his residence in Cooper
town. New York.
The Gazette says thar one Of the female
school teachers in Dexter indicated her al-
thority last week by giving one of her pupils Il
good square hor>ewhpping for repeated Viola
tons Of the rules of the school.
A da>hing belle of Green BuA, Wis, a Mis-,
Ruth Taylor, few days since, was presented
win a SILK dress for her gallantry in taking
hold of Il ~panner and helping to pull the engine
10 Il fire. The iircmen have had To add two
hundred feet 10 the rope since then. All the
girls want silk dresses.
\ telegraph messenger boy in Western
State. got his dispatches MIXED the other day
| and handed a horse jockey Il telegram which
m mn ,,I
| bath :: And 20 we'll known clergyman in
| town 4 despatch which read, The trot i, post
poned llil Monday. can't Non come down and
| spend SUNDAY :"
| The first patent issued in the nitrd states of
which there is amy record WAS granted 10 Sol
| ONION Hopkins, Jul, 81, 1870, for making pot
| and pearl ashes. The second wa, to James
Stacy sampson August t. 1870. for making
| candles; and the third (anA last in that vear)
was TO oliver Evans. December Is, 100. for
making flour and meal.
| Thursday afternoon. ANGUS Romrr of Trenton
Al work for Mr.. VIM. NcaNey in Olrington,
WAS choppin@ down Tree, and As it tottcrrd
| and was about 10 fall, he started TO get out ot
| the WAY, but his foot slipping, he fell and his
Az" somehow getting under him. edge up. in
liirtrd 4 shocking wound in his thigh. ,ryrrng
| the artery. :" that he BLEED To death in tiy,
minutes.
The Press says that Col. J. Frank Miller die,
Il! his residence Al Portland, Friday morning
while rising from the breakfast table lie had
been confined in The house some weeks II,
| was graduate Of Bowdoin OF the class Of ls56
vt the outbreak Of the late war he entered the
! army, and among other positions, he held thai
OF military mayor of New Orleans for one year
In 1850 ana 1866 he was member Of The lp@i>
| laure from Portland
Bogus detectives in NrW York are rndeuvor
M to create terror in the Hudson riN er Villages
'hspatch.sl9ncd 'Ihoma> p. Jones a co.
| private detectives, was sent 10 P0u%hkeepsit
the other night. informing the citizens that !
gang of thieves had started for thar place, lnt
half the inhabitants Kept an armed watch dur
ING the night. and one Of them was accidental,
shot dead by his own pistol
MI. Hiram Ellison, Of Warcham, in compan,
with MceSr> r. +. Curtis, l.. Hun nnd William
Thompson. of East Arlington (savS the Boston
Globel killed fourteen wild geese Al one wolfe,
on Thursday last. In two days the party killet
tWenty-Gour wild gec>r. and in eight DAYS Lilr,
SlNly-cight. hr~ldc~ an amounted number O
black duck, root, Wld@ron, tecl. Nr. The sue
ctSStnl hunting ground i on and around Sui
patuit Pond. in the town Of Rochester.