The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-07-16
Is the Comet to Blame?


Ill over the world. Our cold and wet sum-
mer is accompanied by similar one on the
other side of the Atlantic, and it really
looks as though Nature is this year
frowning on her children and their harvest |
hopes. The New York Herald, that keeps |
an eye on all that happens the world over,
says that from the other side of the Atlantic |
there is increasing intelligence Of the most
abnormal weather, which will be likely to
mar the pleasure Of American tourists and
to affect agricultural interests seriously.
When, within. II week or two Of the sum-
mer solstice, damaging frosts atilict a
country, as they have this year afflicted
Great Britain, the prospects Of the hus-
bandman must be greatly ieopardized.
An English paper states that the tenn
perature for the week ending June 20, as
recorded at the Royal Observatory Green
Wich), fell so below the mean for the last
fifty years. The Tweed, it is said, has not
been so low since 1926, when corn was SO
short in the stalk It was pulled by hand.
The droughts have been extensive that the
hay harvest has been very short and the
cattle have suffered distressingly, while
the unreasonable dryness has been relieved
only by destructive hail storms
The alarming feature of the season is 4
deficiency of the temperature requisite for
grain ripeninG, and this appears to extend
beyond the British Isles. In the north of
Italy the frequency Of tremendous hail
| storms is anomalous, and indicates an eN-
tremely low thermometer, which is any
thing bnt suspicious for health or harvest.
| Some of the old italian churches and other
magnificent public cdificcs have suffered
severely in these fcmppSS, and we have
reports of the streets of Milan being
covered with wounded and dead birds,
tinbing no escape from the icy elements.
Indeed, it would seem that the whole
northern hemisphere, including our own
Continent, has 50 far, Notwithstanding
occasional ontbursts Of excessive heat,
experienced an extraordinary thermal
depression during the summer Can not
our scientific men determine whether this
anomaly is in any degree traceable to the
cosmical influence of the comet9 Whether
this can be done or not the facts stated are
significant of those conditions which
determine the harvest calculations of the
present year in Europe
Senator Hamlin is much troubled about
the charges that are insinuated against
public men, and claims that great wrongs
has been done to worthy public servants
In his late Bangor speech he said
There has been too much of this Islander b,
innuendo. The man who boldly charges mt
with crime, and fixes the time and place. | re
gard as 4 gentleman when compared with hin
who endeavors to fix it upon me innuendo.
The career OF the Senator seems to have
been consistent with as much honesty a,
the times would admit Of He has beer
generally attentive to public business. an,
has had Il close regard for the interests O
his constituents lie certainly has not fol
lowed the abonnding examples of enrich
ing himself by congressional Jobs. The
only serious lapse that we now recall was
Mr. Hamlin' S failure TO denonce the inta
nous press gag law. The Democratic
senators Bayard and Thurman boldly pro.
claimed that the law would he the most
dangerous to the liberties of the people OF
any act since the old alien and sedition
laws, which buried out Of sight all who
| favored them, No innuendo is in this. And
it is hoped that Senator IIamlin will make
some explanation of his singular silence
|
There having been much discussion in
the Republican papers upon the question
whether Mr. IIamln had promised not to
be again a candidate for u s. Senator. the
Bangor Commercial produces n record
which seems to settle the question. 1t
quotes from Mr. Hamlin's speech, made
at the convention which nominated Gen
Hersey in 1872 In that speech. as pub
! lished in The Wing the NEXT day ii the
following
! There We're loud calls for Hainn, ana when
| he came forward. he was greeted with tumul-
tuous applause.
| de sad he wa always gratilird to meet the
intelligent people OF this district. and should
| never forget the deep personal obligations I'M
der which they had placed him.
rms aeould be, doubHess. the last p0litira1
! IN ipE Io ,jo,.
| te"ded hereafter take " p1are To do his d"ty
| in We rdNhS."
A correspondent at Rockland writes
that there is trouble in the rum depart
ment of that city. He says-sWc have
rum sold by wholesale Liquor is taken
from the rum shops and stored in City
Hall. Barrels have been hauled from
there at one o'clock in the morning. Brass
buttons got caught at the business, and
now he is promising that ne will never do
| so again
1t is apparent by another letter from
Tilton that his wrath hasn't abated a bit.
lie wants TO make a clean breast of it be-
fore the church investigation and the
statement that he announces as in prepar-
alton will doubtless be made public at an
early day. Probably the whole story will
now he known, as it is difficult to see how
it can longer be withheld.
Judge Goddard. Postmaster at Portland,
gives notice that the law allowing papers
to go free to subscribers within the county
OF publication is now in force. Waldo
County subscribers to the Journal will
therefore no longer be obliged to pay post
age for receiving it through the mail
Why does the marriage of Sartors to Miss
Grant lose us all that we gained by the war of
1872? one at a time, now. Cincinnati Com
mercial.
The right of search was all that was in
yolved in the war, and it must be that the