The Republican journal., 1874-09-10
Generalties,

There are more Jews in New York than Their,
are i'll JcrlSalem.
Freedom uttered nary Shrek at the fall OF
Poland up in Vermont
1t takes 3S3,939 cars and Il ,939 locomotive
engines TO run the railroads in the United States
and Canada.
Mr. Henry ore Of Portsmouth, Va, has
eloped with his mother-in-law. The daze OF
\ ore will soon be over.
General John c. Breckenridge still continues
i'll very poor health, and his physicians are very
anxious about his condition.
| Did the New Bedford scnoolmaser, before
the grand Jury, do well to describe his calling rs
whaling at thirty dollars month";
Thou shalt not get found OUT is not one of
Gods commandments, and no man can be saved
by trying 10 keep it, says Rev Leonard Bacon,
ID. d,
They say that the grasshopper OF the wear
can clear Wheat field i'll the time that his
grandfather would have required TO sharpen
his teeth.
Mrs. Hannah Hawcy of Boston was born on
the 10Th of August, l..4 she is enjoying good
health. and keeps open house to-day to receive
her friends.
j. W. Clapp, Esq, for seventeen years the
General Ticket Agent of the Maine Central
Railroad Company, has rendered his resigna-
ton, and the same has been accepted.
The enterprsing citizens of Branch Mills
China have Just procured a new bell Weighing
some 800 pounds for the Union church in that
village.
On two points Beecher and Tilton exactly
agree First, that Mrs. Tilton is pure minded
Christian woman, and second, that she Will lie
occasionally.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says, what is
wanted in Kansas is more telegraph poles, or
stronger ones. The average pole holds only
about four horse thieves comtortablv.'
Judah +. Benjamin, a noted confederate
leader and once United States Senator from
Louisiana, is sail to be earning forty thousand
dollar income in the practice of his profession
in London.
Some OF the scenery took fire during the
Black Crook performance At Bangor Thursday
night, and the audience commenced a stampede.
The fire was cNiinguishtd, however, without
much damage.
Relormers will soon have Il new enemy to
battle The importation OF opium TO tins
country now amounts to nearly two hundred
and fifty thousand pounds annually; ten times
more than thirty wears ago.
Members of the Austrian Polar Expedition,
for whose fate grave fears We're felt. have been
heard from. They were shipwrecked ard took
to sleighS in which they succeeded, after a long
journey, in reaching the Norwegian Island of
Wartoc.
As Il coach with sixteen passengers was
coming from the camp ground at Ncbleboro'
it was upset, and one mans arm was broken,
the ankle of A. W Dean of Rockland was badly
sprained, and the remaining passengers Were
much bruised.
Cant the Chinese he trained to eat grass
hon tta tl,a
heart of one section of the great West; while
another is riyen with anguish over the dread
inquiry: Can't they train the grasShoppers to
eat the Chine c:"
The PRINCIPAL evidence in Il breach of promise
ease in England consisted of letter in which
the Young man advised the lady to take beer
daily. and giYnG her permission to use his
tooth brush during his absence. Snch proof Of
affection brought verdict of >Sl256,
''Shr WAS Ike a beautiful picture seen in the
soft haze of Tuscan shadows" Beechcr's
NORWOOD
Was that the picture he wa hunting for
when Theodore caught him? st Louis
Times.
san FRANcIsCo, sept. .. The town of
Mokelumne Hills, California, was totally de
stroycd by fire yesterday afternoon. This place
was originally settled by Judge Campbell, Il
former Boston Journalist and other4 from New
England
There are some merchants who thiul. they
''can dispense with adycrtising,' because they
are so we'll known. Let such ask why it is that
A. I. Stewart Co spend half a million every
year for advertising. That firm is tolerably
well known. Whenever heard ii accused, either
of making bad Investments
Now when the ffteen-year-oll maiden would
be a bride. she writes eighteen on piece Of
paper, puts ii in the bottom o. one of her shoes.
This tetchrs the license and the CLERGYMAN, and
she is All right-pro'ided the young man is on
hand.
Several months since man named Anthony
Murphy disappeared from Philadelphia, and !,
body found floating in the Delaware was
recognized that of Murphy and buried in
due form Last Thursday evening the man
walked into the house and general rejoicing
took place.
The Washington core spondent, a1e remind
ing the President OF the existence of the fol-
lowing law
All Offices attached to the seat OF Government
shall be exercised in the District of Columbia,
and not elsewhere except as otherwise expressly
provided by law.
The ice business is very dull on the kennebec:
only two or three vessels are loading at Gardi-
ner at the present time. 1t is estimated that
one hundred and fifty thousand tons remain on
lHt fNtllltDtt 70 Dc sOlo most lllaL
We're offered early in the season, four dollars Il
ton, now see their mistake in refusing that re-
muneratiNe price
What is that for asked the colored porter
at the - Hotel. Long Branch, the other day,
holdln" out 2o-cent note given him by the
gentleman addressed for carrying up his trunk.
That, said the gentleman, taking the note and
putting it back in his pocket, was for Your
trouble, and this is for your impudencc," and he
kicked him eleven feet nine inches and half
into the halfway
ii was in Albany. The man was strongly in
favor OF the cight-hour movement, and the
woman was aversr to the new-fangled notion.
SO when he went home the other evening for
his supper, he found his wife, not in the best of
temper>, sitting in her best clothes, on the front
stOop, reading volume of travels. CLOVIS
thiS?' he exclaimed where's my SUPPER
Il don't know" replied his " lie II began to
get your breakfast at six O'Clock this morning,
and my eight hours ended at 9 p. NJ.
By the careless shooting at mark in Bangor
few days since, a bullet entered the window Of
Mr.. Daniel EmersOn's store Il distance of at
least one hundred and fifty yards. Mr.. Emerson
was standing behind his counter when the
bullet struck him in the angle of his Jaw and
shattered the bone 50 badly that several pieces
of bone, two inches long, with one TOOTH We're
taken out by the surgeon who was called 10 at
tend him. The wound was very severe.