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

The New England Farmer under
stands that the Colorado potato bug has
got to Vermont
Henry Ward Beecher is out with
card, declaring that he didn't do it, and
that its all a lie
The Canada and New Brunswick
Railroad, largely owned by Hon. F A.
Pike, will soon be leased to the Eastern
Railroad, it is rumored.
People who were grieved at Wagner's
escape can now rejoice oyer his capture,
He seems to have been the biggest tool i'll
that section, except those who suffered
him to escape.
The Camden Herald is puzzled to
know why swarm of bees has taken
possession OF the Baptist steeple in that
town. 1t torgets that John the Baptist
fed on honey, and therefore the associa-
ton is natural.
Conductors on the main line of the
Maine Central will hereafter run from
Bangor to Boston, instead of having the
line divided into sections with a conductor
tor each.
The plan of Mr.. Jewett in his pub
lished letter on the salary steal, was that
every one of the thieves should be COM
PEELED to restore his plumber. The Ban
COR Convention forgot that part of the
programme. No wonder they didn't want
Mr. Jewett in the convention
The editor of the Cape Ann Ad-
vertiser records his observations on the
liquor law as follows
In the four days stay in the cities of New
York and Brooklyn, where liquor is sold at
nearly every store, and used by all classes, we
did not see AS much drunkenness rs is visible IN
Gloucester in one day. Can the prohibitory
law admirers explain this?
The tender heart of Judge Morris, of
the Portland Police Court, was greatly
moved at receiving the following note
from young man in Jail for assault
'to your Honor Mr.. Morris Sir it is MY wish to
know II You be So kiend as to empose a fine on
Me my name is - % years of age, and |
| have ben married to monthes 4 | hante had
My Honey Moon yet. this is the first time |
| ever was in Jail or crested. If you will Con =
slider my case T. let me OF on a fine will return
to My darling Wife,"
THE POTATO MARKET The Bangor
Commercial, abiding to the time, five
weeks ago, when potatoes were very low
| in price, says
At that time we talked the matter over with
Mr. Morrow, one of the largest potato dealers
| on the Penobscot river. He gave it rs his best
| Judgment that the article would yet command a
| good price before haying. Acting upon his
| Judgment. we in 4 short paragraph advised our
readers not to he in haste about sacrificing their
| potatoes, but to await the development OF
events. Time has proved that Mr.. Morrow
was quite right in his judgment. On Friday
potatoes sold in this city as high as $1.4O a
buShel.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-07-03
Boiler Explosion.

RICHMOND, June 80. Early this morn
ing the boiler in the drying kiln connect
ed with Tredegar Works, exploded. The
fireman was instantly killed. His body
was blown one hundred yards and terribly
mangled, the head and one arm being
blown off. Several fragments of the
boiler, weighing from 1000 to 1000 pounds
were driven a considerable distance, and
did much damage. One piece, weighing
1000 pounds was blown through wall
into the extensive blacksmith's shop and
the machinery was greatly damaged. The
house containing the kiln was demolished.
Fortunately the accident occurred before
the time for the hands to 90 to work,
otherwise the loss of life would have been
very great.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-07-03

A good story comes to US from the
ancient town of Waldoboro AS is well
known that bailiwick helped to build the
railroad through its territory, and was
called upon to vote subsequent aid and
comfort in the shape of interest on bonds.
One old chap, near whom the road passed,
and who had always opposed it in every
shape, took ground at the meeting against
voting the interest but wrestled unavail-
ingly, and went home dscomlitted and
sore. In the night, hearing the engine
whistling as it went past, he arose, put
lieved his pent up feelings Blow, blow,
you id town pauper -
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-07-03
Another Protection to Mariners,

The New York Herald gives an account
of new provision for warning seamen
against coming storms and for saving life
from wrecks by the use of the electric
telegraph as an auxiliary. At its third
session the Forty-second Congress pro-
vided for the establishment of ten lite
saving stations, to be located from the
Maine to the North Carolina coast inclu-
sive, and the Treasury Department has
already executed the design of this legis-
lation. The Signal Office, cooperating
with this important life-saving service,
under recent act of Congress. will pro-
coed Immediately to connect itself by wire
with the life stations and lighthouses in
order to signal vessels passing within
sight of the latter of dangerous storms
and hurricanes in time for their masters
to escape impending danger. The double
system Of lite-saving and storm-warning
service will begin at an early day, per-
haps in July, and will be extended first to
Sandy Hook Cape May, Montauk Point,
Minot's Ledge lighthouse and Long
Branch, and thence, as rapidly as posi-
BILE, to Maine and the coast OF Cape Hat
teras.
1t not unfrequently happens that storm
signal displayed at some of our seaboard
capes would be visible in single day to
h,,,, 11
cautioned to put back for shelter or to
take other suitable means of weathering
the gale This is practically new SER
service, or new application OF the weather
forecast, which will be of great utility,
not only as heretofore to the seamen con
templating voyage, but to the seamen
under sail. When this cooperative sys-
TEN is complete our Atlantic sea front
will be well guarded by an active and
efficient line of sentinels. The honorable
emulation enkindled in both branches of
the service will be highly stimulating and
beneficial, while the operations of the
coastguard or life-saving stations must be
greatly assisted by having telegraphlc
communication with the entire line and
with the country back of them.
These stations are now so near each
other that by a rocket or by flag signal
they can Immediately communicate with
each other, concentrate forces and make
the best and most timely use of their life
saving apparatus. AL! coasting vessels
will do we'll as soon as the new service is
put in working order to keep good look
out for the storm flag or red storm lantern
of the Signal Bureau as they pass and re-
pass the stations. And it will frequently
happen that the larger vessels and steam
ships after leaving Atlantic ports will be
in position to see and improve the caution
airy signal displayed at the lighthouses
and life-saving stations, and thus to be
forewarned of dangerous storm moving
toward them.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-07-03

After all the big fuss about Victoria
Woodhull's newspaper the jury a acquitted
her on the charge of circulating obscene
matter, and Vic. is victorious.
The Rockland Gazette, in clarifying
the radical party says. 'Nor have its
members winked at corruption, either in
or out of Congress. But corruption has
winked hard at a good many of them,
and they have responded by holding out
itching palms to be tickled by the votive
greenback. This is as evident as that
Grants approval breathed the breath of
life into the salary steal, and made his
party responsible for it.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-07-03

SCANDALoUs AFFAIR AT NEWPORT. In
Newport, R. l., for several months past,
man claiming to be of the bon ton has
been paying, cIandestinely, his addresses
to the wife OF a gentleman moving in the
first circles "Reminiscences We're of no
avail with either of the criminal parties,
and a few days since a trip to Canada and
pistols for two was arranged and carried
out. from which trip both parties came
home alive and uninjured. The woman
has left her husbands bed and board and
gone home to her father. Names are
withheld, because the parties are in high
life and rich
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-07-03

1t will be recollected that during the
late Presidential campaign it was charged
that the affairs of the Freedmen's Bureau
had been mismanaged, that funds had
been swallowed up of which no account
could be given, and that its affairs were
in inextricable confusion. This was de-
MED by the administration organs and
speakers. But now, when concealment
is no longer possible, it is announced that
Gen. Vincent, who has been looking into
the affairs of the Bureau, reports that a
large sum OF money is missing and can
not be accounted tor; also that Gen. How
ard, who had charge OF the Bureau,
never gave the $50, 900 bond required by
law. In short there has been swindle
of the worst character. Probably, if the
Maine republican convention had noticed
this fact, it would have resolved that the
Democrats are in some way responsible,
and Mr.. Hale would have found words
to glorify the administration party, even
through its stealings.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-07-03

A Massachusetts clergyman, forty years of
age, was welded to a fourteen-years old girl
last week, to the great scandal Of the people.
A little son of E. C. Moody of Camden,
stepped on some rotten boards laid over deep
well in the cellar of his fathers house, and went
through into the well. There was seven feet
OF water in the well, and but for timely assist
ance he would have been drowned.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-07-03
A Serious Matter.

We are sorry for our prohibitory liquor
law friends, who wage such persistent
war upon any article of diet that contains
even the smallest appreciable quantity of
alcohol. Their consistency is about to be
put to severe trial Those terrible tel-
lows the chemists, who insist that all sus-
tenance, and even the air we breathe. is
only an alcohol-like stimulation in one
form or another, and that alcohol in
moderation is simply sustenance-they
have discovered, we say, that the bread
we eat is pervaded by alcohol. We quote
from that high authority the journal of
Chemistry
Mr.. T. Bolas finds that pereeptbe amount
of the intoxicating fluid may be obtained from
so small quantity as two ounces of ordinary
bread. From the report OF his Investigations
published in the Chemical News, it appears
that six samples of new bread, bought at shops
in London yielded from 22l to .401 of one per
cent of alcohol. After the bread had been eX-
posed to the air in a moderately warm room for
week, two thirds of the alcohol had evapor-
ated. Mr.. BOas remarks that "the amount of
alcohol contained in bread is too small to be of
any dietetic importance, but it may be perhaps
worth while to notice, that forty two pound
loaves are about equal in alcoholic strength 10
an ordinary bottle of port" He hopes soon to
determine the amount of alcohol which dough
loses while baking. Our readers probably recol-
lect that, some years ago, attempts were made
IN England to save the large amounts of alcohol
supposed to be lost in bakers ovens. A good
deal of money was sunk in the experiment, but
it was found that the amount and quality of
spirit obtained were not such as to make the
process remuneratiYe.
What will our prohibitory friends do !?
New cider and lager beer, with scarce .
trace of alcohol, are under the ban, and
what is to become of US all when it shall
be settled that a man may get tight on his
breakfast biscuit, and three sheets in the
wind on his tea rolls? Shall Mr. Eaton
Shaw be authorized to furnish the state
| with bread also, and shall Captain Beams
agency supersede all the kitchen stoves
| Perhaps it will suffice to have regularly
| commissioned bread tasters. who shall
determine whether or not the family loaf
is dangerously intoxicating VIII The
| conscientious manager of the Rockland
| Gazette inform us how this strikes the
| editorial mind of that reformatory sheet =?
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-07-03

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

We haye always thought that the vener-
able John Adams meant we'll when he
uttered his adjuration to posterity, that on
the anniversary of the signing of the
Declaration, the bells should ring and the
cannon roar and general rejoicing be had.
But the patriot had no glimmering of the
fearful gunpowder brood that he was in
voking, or we feel sure he would have
put in a reservation against fire crackers,
torpedoes and squibs, in which the heart
Of young America delights. 1t would
seem to be quite sufficient that hands be
mutilated, arms blown off and eyes put
out by cannon and guns, without the added
suffering of the spiteful snap of those in
fernal invention of the rat-eating China
men, obtruding upon the quiet of those
who wish to sit and mediate on the viz
tues Of the patriot fathers.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-07-03
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR,

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

The arrival at Searsport of new three
masted schooner built in South Carolina,
is reversal of the old order of things.
But we have no belief that it indicates 3
change, immediate or remote, in the laws
of trade or manufacture. The southern
States, from the unavoidable laws OF
climate and production, can never be-
come shipbuilding communities, to COM
pete with those of the north. They pro-
duce excellent woods, but the heat of the
climate warps and checks them in work
ing, at the same that it renders the work
man incapable of continued hard labor.
The government, with all its live oak re-
serves in the south, has always brought
the wood north to be made into ships.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-07-03

No more free transportation in the
mails after this date. Even the venerable
Uncle Sam pays himself for carrying his
own documents in his own mails.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-07-03
News of the County and CITY.

Fog that drifts in from the sea is almost
nightly visilant now.
Wednesday was the warmest day of the sea-
SON
VIM. Pitcher & Son are running It hay press
| at their establishment
A. Hayford has loaded sch Nathan Clifford
with slaves for New York.
Mr.. W. J. Colburn, who has resided at Toledo
for the past year, is at home on visit.
A pair of cows yoked to a hay team attracted
considerable attention in our streets last week.
The cisterns are getting aIarmingly low, and
housewives arc anxious about coming wash
days.
Engine Co. No. , has 4 new bell mounted on
the roof aud rather overlnp~ the thing in ring
| ing it.
| The trains on the Maine Contra. and branches
will hereafter be run 10y Boston instead of Port
land time.
If your business is DUN, liven ii up with al
vertising. 1t operates like pint of yeast IN
| peck of flour.
The new schooner Ralph Howes has bean
| loaded with Rockport jcr fof Jacksonville by
George F, White.
Sch, George NJ. Branerj, as noticed last
week, was successfully launched from Ctrter'-
yard last Thursday
d. W. Allen, workman the repairing
yard of d. W. Dyer & Son, severely cut his
foot one day last week.
| The drought was broken on Tuesday by some
very fue showers. which will very much belt
the hay and other crops.
A Church street Eply, interested u tnr rising
generation, expects to uoid nt3y show On her
| grounds the coming Fourth
The ship City of Brooklyn, capt. Herrimab
made the passage from Halifax To Liverpool m
nineteen DAYS, with a clrgo Of 1aal-
The cisteru nj the shoe factory is reported
nearly empty, which win nece,>itate TIE haa..
ing of water unless nature r'm h- tnlG.-l to
| weep.
| Some villain put spirits of turpentme on p
dog on Main street "Wednesday morning sud
the tortured animal hllod the a., with uowIug~
| of pam
Fort Poin Hotel wa. cpened tolhe pubu.
on Tuesday. j. +. Herman n Co.. oi the
Hartman House, Bangor, having lee--d The
house are now ready for guests.
| The steam yacht Fire Flg OF RoektauI. with
a large party on board, WAS N opr hubpr la-t
week to witness the launching of the new h.
| George NJ. Rranerd
| The yacht Tunah Of Boston. uue large
| pleasure schooner, with party ot jtdie~ aui
gentlemen ou board ha- nrr4p .n nur harbJr
| several times this week
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-07-03

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

Our representative in Congress, Mr..
Hale, is a man who chooses his words
carefully. In his speech at the Bangor
Convention he said that in the seventeen
republican Legislatures in Maine ono one
had ever heard of one man being bought
or sold" Those transactions are not likely
to be heard of, because the only persons
who know of them are most interested in
keeping them secret Let us hope that,
if Mr. Hale shall be candidate for u. S.
Senator before some future Legislature,
there will not only be no buying and sell
ing heard Of but none take place.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-07-03

ADMINISTRATORS, EXECUTORS and GUARDIANS
desiring their advertisements published in the Jour
nal will please so state to the Court.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-07-03
REPUBLICAN JOURNAL.
THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1873.
WILLIAM H. SIMPSON.

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-07-03

The San Francisco papers give G lowing
accounts of the new Grand Central Hotel,
just completed at Oakland, on San Fran
cisco Bay. 1t is an elegant editice, with
every modern improvement and con
venience, built at cost Of $3.50, 900. 1t is
to be kept by Col. John A, Lancaster, OF
the National Hotel, Navada City, q brother
of the Lancasters of this city and Ban
COR. Those who have soiourned with the
Colonel say that what he don't know
about keeping a hotel is scarcely worth
any ones while to learn.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-07-03

SUBSCRIBERS desiring to have the address of
papers changed, must state the Post Office to which
the paper has been sent as we'll the to which
it ia to 90.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-07-03

The Belfast journal dem) is anxious to
have the republican candidate for governor de-
line his views on the question of enforcing the
penalty for the crime of murder. We have
not consulted the candidate on the subject, but
from articles which he has written on the ques
ton within the past few years, we find he has
repeatedly urged that the punishment for muir
der should be clearly and Enthusiastically defined
by law and then that that penalty, whatever it
may be, should be faithfully enforced. 1t is for
the Legislative department of the government to
prescribe the penalty tor murder without any
equivocation or uncertainty, aud then for the
executive to enforce the DEGREES of the courts
acting under the authority Of law. Lewiston
journal.
The Journal evades the point of our
inquiry. The penalty for murder, as now
defined by the statute, is not equivocal or
uncertain. But with an uncertain Gov
ernor it may be made So The law now
provides as follows:
When any person is convicted of crime
punishable with DEATH and sentenced therefor
he shall at the same time be sentenced to soli-
tary confinement in the state prison till such
punishment is inflicted; but he shall not be
executed until the whole record of such pro-
ceedngS or case is certified by the clerk of said
court, under the seal thereof, to the supreme
executive authority of the state, and warrant
is issued by said executive authority, under the
great seal of the State, to the sheriff or one
of his deputies, of the county wherein the state
prison is situated, commanding him to carry
said sentence of death into execution.
The practice has been, in the exercise
of a mistaken clemency and q misdirected
sympathy, to regard the law as not man
datory IN its nature, and to make the
punishment for murder simply imprison-
ment for life. Gov. Chamberlain had the
nerve and sense Of Justice to order the cx-
ecution of the murderer Harris, and an
other Governor, we think Coney, issued
his warrant for the execution of Spencer
who while a convict murdered the Warden,
With these exceptions there has been no
execution by the state authorities of Maine
tor a long series Of years. SO that the law
| and precedent make the death penalty
optional with the Governor. Now in the
case of a deliberate and undoubted muir
derer, whose term of Imprisonment shall
! expire during his term as Governor, if he
shall be elected, will Mr., Dingley issue
his warrant or refuse to issue it? The
Portland Press, one Of his supporters,
says Mr.. Dingley is an opponent of capt.
| tai punishment, and unless his home organ
authoritatively declares to the contrary
this will be accepted as the fact When
the lives of the people of Maine are at
stake there should be no equivocation.
Let the Journal speak out