The Republican journal., 1874-03-05
GenoraIties.

DR.. John Page of Bucksport has been APP
pointed Acting Assistant Surgeon in the Navy
A marble bust of eX-Gov. COburu is to be
placed in the new Court House at Skowhegaii
Ii is estimated that fifty vessels will be bull
on the Pcnobscot river and bay the coming sea-
son.
Miss Rye has brought six hundred and fifty
English girls to this country. and still the>
comc-"roming through the Rye"
For tftv-siX successive years. Col. Masters
| OF Halloween, has superintendent the printing
Of the 'Maine Farmers Almanac.
A child of Mr.. D. Cluny, of Portland lost it,
life by taking laudanlIm instead OF para@orlc
through the mistake OF IN apotheeary
1t is pretty well settled that the Il. 4 \. A
Railway Company will extend the PiScataqul,
branch to Moosehead Lake the coming season
For selling IA blind man pair of boots of diff
ferent numbers. Thomas McDermott. of ProHi-
dence, X. l., will languish in Jail for 80 days.
There are over 1850, 900 children OF the
school ace in tins country. We spend annually
for schools over $4,000, 900
The autopsy of the Siamesr Twins is said to
show that they could not have bern separated
without destroying their lives.
A box of suWduSt Used Il, q -pit1oon in a
store At Maehia~. came near setting the store on
dire by ignitng from the stump 0i 4 lighted
cigar thrown into it,
The murderer Evun-s ON taut, the fifty tol
lars which the father sold his body for and
bought some clothing with it Oh hi way home
from the execution.
The Drering hears have sold tpW Island,
Portland harhat, to the nitrd States Govern
ment for slo,WD, and seventy acre On Great
Hog Island 10 the same Tor $1,000.
In Kansas the question of woman sullr.@r h.
TO be submitted to the people. AMI the l,,Iies
will have the rPhi il they can influence votc-
enough.
BrainurI Watson Of BROOKLYN, Mr., III mate
of the brig Abby Watson, on the pa sage from
New York tn Porto Rico, wa m-toyrrloud
and drowned Jan. 81.
one span Of the Eastern knilro;t bridge
across the eaca river is already iii place and
the contractors IRE pushing I'll" wort, T. fl.t a.
possible,
The Deer Isle and Ellsworth Telegraph om-
pany have contracted for tie construction ot
their line and it is expected that the telegraph
viii he in working order by thu middle Of jlnt.
Miss Brau,od an American LADY, has per
formed the perilou- feat Of attaining the summit
OF the Jun%trau Mountain, in switzerland. The
HEIGHT reached WAS 1851 feet
4 most unusual case Of modest gencruSil, has
come to light in Boston. \ gentleman WHO on
stinatcy refuses to have his name published ha-
given property valued If 100000 to Boston
University.
4 coal mine i'll SaNnny has been burning for
three hundred years, and the people overhead
are enabled to raise nil kinds OF tropical fruits
and other deIrarics, iurlutlin" mosquitoes, IN
winter
Sneezing is very seldom heard in paror>
now after the old folks have retired, for lovers
bear in mind the receipt given by DR.. Brown
Scquard-that sncezng can always be stopped
by pressing the upper lip-and act accordingly.
Mr. Ellery Bond of Lewiston, ha, in hi, pos
session 4 pair Of SpectaceS made hundred and
fifty Years ago. There is metal enough III them
says the journal. 10 make half dozen pair of
our modern ones.
Senator Chandler has brought Il suit against
the Detroit Free Press for libel claiming $40
900 damages the libel being Il despatch from
Washington saving he was drunk in the senate
chamber
An examination of the flesh Of one of the In
diana victims of tricnlnT disclosed millions of
the creatures coiling and uncoiling in the tissues.
Such reports are calculated to give Us all atruIy
Mosaic horror of pork and pork eaters.
The original patent for metallic tips for shoes
was sold for 800, and the company which
bought ii became wealthy. Now, upon it, tA-
pration, the inventor ha, obtained its renewal,
and compcls the company to pay him S60,000.
1t turns out that some of the whi~key sellers
At the west are bought out, when it i found
that they refuse to be prayed out 1t doesn't
look we'll. either, to see men engaged III the
work who take so and 500 4 day Tor their scr
vices
hlched his horse at the lally'S gate but courted
so long that the horse ate oil the top of the
hitching post and Rrrghs men fined the Young
man of Nrw jersey so for cruelty to animals
4 sad warning"
\ Setlo", accident ltS lliitnl''hrd 10 lhgc Watrt
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