The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-09-24

KoDDlnS was arr;tigued al kochland
ON Tuesday and pleaded not guilty He
viii be tried next week.
-An engineer on the Ogdensburg road
was killed on Tuesday by the explosion of
his engine
The season for boys to drown them
selves while swimming is about over, and
that prolific source of items is closed for
the year
The French bark Eliza Prosper, bound
to St. John, and found hanging about our
coast in a suspicious manner, was taken
to Rocklan by the cutter Dobbin, where
she awaits action by the authorities.
The Portland Press intimates, now the
election is over and the noses all counted
that Hamlin has by no means a sure thing
Many OF the members elect are very reti-
cent.
The Waterville Mail laughs at the at
tempts of the kennebec journal to read
Joshua Nye out OF the republican party.
The Journal don't like to see Joshua's
toes off the chalk. mark it draws.
Mr. Pullen, of the Portland Press de
clined to be candidate for the Legisla-
ture He had Leen there once, and found
that it was pulln' him away from his ed
itorial duties. As a matter of fact, a man
can't run many such machines with sue
cess.
The republican Sheriff in Waldo county is
elected by seven plurality, [Kennebec journal
That is probably official, and is a good
deal closer shave than we figured last
week. The voice that called Samuel has
grown so faint that it viii die out entirely
before next September.
Compelled to vote the Knavy Yard in
Maine this year, the radicals lost Ports
mouth. This is the result OF the Demo-
cratic law of New Hampshire, passed last
winter, making the elections on the same
day. The democrats have the city gov
ernmcnt for the first time in eight years
1t will be seen that the radicals had rea-
son to howl over the legislative action.
The Portland Press, which adheres to
the administration, don't think much of
Grants pet Louisiana Governor. 1t says
The dastardly conduct of Gov. kellogg of
Louisiana, in deserving the State House long
before the approach of the rev outionists,
stamps him with the brand of contempt in the
eyes of all men who esteem GOODNESS and cour-
he had gathered his followers about him and
defended the office of the executive with de-
termination, he would have won the respect OF
thousands who now regard him not only as "A
very shabby governor but as "A chicken-heart
fellow.
Hon. Moses Webster Of Ninahaven, carried
Knox county twice against the Democrats who
had hitherto held it, and he was only beaten
this year by about 30 votes, with the strongest
fight that could be made against him. kenne-
bee Journal.
Two years ago Moses was a Democrat
until a week before the election, when he
was discovered in the radical bulrushes
and adopted into the family. The fact
that he didn't survive longer officially, in
dicates that their wet nurse has given out
That seems a better way of stating the
matter
-Messrs. Sprague and Owen, publishers
of the Kennebec journal, have been al
rested and given bail on charge Of libel
ling Gardner G. Vose, representative elect
from that city. Mr.. Vose, who is repub
lican, ran in opposition to John l.. Stevens
former editor of the Journal, and defeated
him. The libel, if any there be, consists
in an intimating that somebody on the
ticket "crooks his elbow frequently Mr.
Vose thinks he's the man pointed at, an(
therefore goes for some OF the profits 0
the state printing