The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-05-01
GeneraIities.

Thomas Beverage of Thomaston has razor
that has been in constant Use since 1874
The trial of the Tichborne claimant on the
charge of perjury, has commenced in London.
The epizooic is spreading in San Francisco,
several cases resulting fatally. Cinnamon have
been substituted for horses.
Capt. |. A. Haverner of Thomaston died on his
way home from Caao to New York. He left
his vessel on account OF i'll health.
John Cummings, in New York, took lighted
candle to find the leak in the gas pipe. He
found it, Ills widow has moved into another
house.
The melting of big snow-drift at railroad
crossing IN FoXcroft, disc closed a dead horse
winch the train doubtless killed one night last
winter.
cannon weighing 1850 pounds has arrived
IN New ork present to a church at Titusville,
Pa from the Emperor William. 1t is to be cast
into a bell.
California is preparing "A rich treat for Bar
mum IN the shape of a boy only fifteen years
Old, who has already been raised to the height
of six feet three.
A child in Augusta was recently sick with
scarlet fever, and on its recovery the father
grateful for the physicians assiduous care,
presented HIM $1,000.
The war of races has commenced among the
ladies in Philadelphia who are identified with
the preparation for the centennial. The white
ones refuse to associate with the colored ones.
After the ranking privilege is abolished the
post office department can send its own stamps,
envelopes and paper 10 the large office, cheaper
10y express than at its own rates.
Sixteen valuable horses belonging to Thomas
Farrell. Brooklyn street contractor, who had
been away sck, literally starved to death, after
eating boards and eating up their bedding in
the stables where they We're locked up.
Robert p Bleakley, the murderer of his niece
in New York, attempted to commit suicide by
cutting arteries in his arm with a razor. The
physicians saved him.
\ Rhode Island man who mysteEiOusly dis
appeared three years ago, and was supposed to
have been murdered, has Just been discovered
experimenting a mill in Georgia.
The latest labor-savng invention is a tooth
pick that picks both rows of front teeth at once.
leading advantage of it, according to the in
yentor, is that it can be used as 4 comb
The bill securing to colored citizens all their
rights at theatres, hotels, etc., which passed in
the New York Legislature a few days since,
has received the signature of Gov. Dix and is
now Il law.
The Liverpool Board of Trade have recently
presented gold watch and chain to Captain
George W. Smalley Of the ship $. Curling of
Thomaston for rescuing the master and crew
of the ship Clifford of Liverpool.
Rev. w. II. Savary of Ellsworth has decided
not to accept the call to Christ's church Au-
gusta, but has accepted the invitation to be-
come the pastor Of the first Congregational
(Unitarian) Church at Canton, Mass.
Clement f .WorSterof Columbia Falls dropped
dead on The 18th inst. He was walking no
hill accompanied by Il friend, when he remarked,
This hill is growing hard for me to climb
and dropped in his friends arm dead.
The brio Jeremiah Of searsport was boarded
by four thieves, at Brooklyn, N. Y, last Tues
day, and while one kept Capt. Ford and his
family quiet by pistol at their heads, the others
packed up $40 worth of iewelry and other prop
erty.
The Lewiston Journal says that Mr. Daniel
WVman, hard working, industrious farmer of
MI. Vernon, aged y years. went to his barn
sunday morning to care for his stock and was
found dead in the barn floor half an hour after
wards.
Anthony Comstock, the young New Yorker
who has brought himself into prominence by
his vigorous war on the dealers in obscene lit
eratnrr, is now regularly commissioned agent
of the Government, and is bringing the Albany
"lovc-powder" quarks 10 grief.
MI. Lewis, aged about seveny-tive years,
was found drowned in about two feet Of water
in the cellar Of VIM. l.. Lese's house, IN
WutcHille. She had probably been in the
water two hour, when found. It is supposed
she must have fallen down the stars.
An unfortunate kentucky editor thus I'D
dresses his delinquent subscribers: "Friend>
we are pennies. Jobs turkey was a million
are compared with our present depressed treas
ury. 70 day, il salt was ten cents a barrel, we
could not buy enough to pickle iay-bird.'
A horse-car driver in Chicago gave Il penny
over to twenty different passengers, to try their
honesty, and nineteen of them kept the money,
while the other one sWore thai four cents more
Were due him.
Official returns made to the bureau Of -ttts-
tics show that AZ vessels. he aggregate tonnage
of which wa 10000, belonging to the port CT
Boston were lost during the quarter ending
March 31St. 1879 Among TIC Vessels lost
barkS OF 300 tons each, 10 brigs and 10
>chooner> Of a hundred tons each. The loss of
such large number of vessels belonging to a
single port and in such brief period is an
pre- codtnpl.
A Boston Judge has decided in case where
father sued a teamster to recover for the mem
tai suffering caused the father by the death of
his boy, who was run over and instantly killed :,
that rs the death was instantaneous the plaintiff
could not recover in a civil suit. There must
be space of time between the act and the death,
in order to cause suffering for which an action
for damages would lie
Linneus, the great naturalist, in consequence
OF his tohdnesS for chocolate conferred on the
order Carao the title title Theobroma, or "tood
for il god" II is certainly food for men, a. well
rs most healthfu beverage, and medical men
the world oyer recommend its use. The highest
awards for excellence of preparation have been
won NV Walter Baker II Co., Boston, both in
Europe and America. Their goods are sold by
all grocerS.
4 passenger who wa on board the Maine
Central passenger train when that road was OBJ
structed by the slide, says that every possible
accommodation was furnished by the obliging
Superintendent, and that conductor Howard
walked ahead of the train " hen near The place
W here the track was washed away. in order
that no accident might occur. Our informant
further adds 'Such are the men whom the
travelling public like to ride with IN these day
of accidents" Maine Farmer.