The Republican journal., 1874-05-28
GenoraIties.

Forty thousand cattle are said to h;,, G per, hctI
i'll Utah and Nevada during the winter.
A Cuban dollar bill Just buys drink of soda
water in New York. lloW's that ior imitation :
The Herald saws that the house Of L. Il. al
! dtlWuod of amtlcn, WAS burned Friday NOM
ing.
\ Connecticut youth, aged -, was serenad-
| ed on tho occasion Of Ills marriage to aNenera-
| bile woman of II summers.
4 California youth won bet by putting Il
billiard ball into his mouth, but a doctor ha'l to
let it ont With his little lancet.
The first Congregational church Of l.rXing-
| ton, Mass, l. still using Bible which WAS pre-
scented to the parish BY John Hancock in lI'}.
Gen. Iieb, Who speaks for the Germans OF
Missouri when Carl Schurz is away, says they
WIN never etc with the Rtpunirs,n party any
more.
A prominent physician declares that since
iced tea came into fashion the digestion and the
nerves Az" disappearing more rapidly than
| ever.
Nlnr1t"n hundred ANA eight lotdpi car, of
freight arrived 1t, and departed from, the IuSt-
ern and Maine Central station At Portland lat
| WPel.
In Boston. Nit itnhin-on (,ol,lcdJ fatally
stabbed Annie NJ Itmrr, aged seventeen
also c"!ored, at a house in ~outhWirl. place.
lie was arrested
..eor@e Dtnnce Of Ellsworth, wa, drowned
While II Work on Il drive iii stream in ,ierlis.t-
l'El. lie WA unmarried Iutt about twenty
| three Nthl- OF age.
| \ kentucky &"lnnalnhuli~ auprd iruln the
| fourth story of hotel, struck on the sIVliplit
of a hat store, went through it aud pooled a
! a.t!e Of hland-ntW sl hat
NJ, ....,
! holden at Calais adjourned to-day. In thr case
/ ot Ircnntr OF Drnny>Nillr, tried t,l az on the
/ JNIN returned 4 verdict Of guilty,
II WAS publicly stated ia The Massachusetts
| senate, Mr,nestiay. that The conductors OF the
| Eastern Railroad had confessed to stealing from
1000 10 10000 week during the pt~I year.
The state Convention Of 'nivcr,aiists meets
IT Calais June 20. A large attendance is anti
rpated ana the Society hope to afford free en-
trrainmenl for alt the delegates and visitors.
Joseph lneraham of Rorkland, aged ninety
| Two Years, died Monday. He was out OF doors
( sunday. His death came Ike Sleep and with
"ut pain, lie only complained vi being tired.
The Free Pres, SAYS that Calvin Hall of
/ Rockland, an old citizen, was struck with ID
opieNy while walking upon The street, On
| Thursday week, and died the saturday onN-
ing.
\ Young man kept at the city farm in Bangor.
IaborS under the curious hallucination that he is
a woman, and apprOpriate~ and wears all the
shnWls and millinery that he can lay his hands
on.
Iowa is said to contain a natural curiosity in
| the form Of a pond, the water of which has the
| property Of bleaching every living creature it
contains. Here is 4 chance for Disconnected
| Ciarkie>.
A small town in Kentucky has developed :,
Of 4 tacctious dentist who advertises that he
will pull teeth without pain to the operator,
and with very little to the bystandrr."
According to the best authorities on the sub
| lrct the average profit of the railroad companies
| is about four and one-half to five per cent, on
| Western roads, and about seven per cent, on
| Eastern roads on the cost Of building the roads.
Thirteen years ago John Kendall of Alabama,
called Arthur Spooner liar. Spooncr reflect
| ed, got mad and the other day decided 70 shoot
| Kendall for the insult, and did shoot him, and
now his honor shines like a new tn-pun on a
| gittc-p0St.
4 Company calling itself the Theatre Conn
iquc concluded its dramatic performances in
the police court this morning, and left town
with slndry bills unpaid, "'lhough lost tu ght,
to memory dear" Lewiston Journal.
Collector A. +. Howard, Of Portsmouth, n.
H., has received intelligence that the ships with
| the cable from Nova Scotia to New Hampshire
would sail from England on the 10th of this
| month, and probably arrive of Rye Beach
about the Sth Of June
The fifty thousand salmon Matched nj Eyerleth
| 4 Weston's fish breeding establishment for the
Georges river have been placed in the brooks
running into that stream. The balance OF the
hundred thousand will be turned into the Medic
mac in 4 few days. News.
A Troy man carelcssly LETT his fa,,. teeth on
chair and they were swallowed by his dog.
iiberafln tie TcNas@6I 5ttr'nei>' 5Grh ,l "n hfe
dog, however, has not been we'll since the lc-
rident. and Trojan Witlmg~ s.y he is set teeth
inc.
The sail makers and ri@ger~ OF Charlc,town
navy yard We're suspended from work Saturday
afternoon. until June first, ana notice. has been
gwen mechanics Of equipment department that
they will be Suspenredtrom work next Tuesday
until Monday. Cause is that approx TiationS
for naval purpose, are short
The Portland Press says: "A private letter
from Philadelphia gives a very untlyorablp re-
port Of Gen, Jerseys condition. He has had
| another very severe attack, and the chances
| seem much against his recovery. This will be
| sad news for his numerous friends in Maine
| who watch Tor intelligence Of hiy condition with
much solcitlde"
| LlnchburF, H., despatch ,ay> that Rich
| ard Coleman Wegrol murdered hi Wife with
an iron bar and then poured kerosene oil over
the body and aet fire to it, The body was dis
| covered by the flames, and the next morning
| the negroes We're about hanging the murderer.
| hnl We're prevented by the authorities
| 4 lad named Albert Norton, At Mount Desert.
| set ANAL trap, and it was sprung and carried
| oil by some animal. BY careful search ne track
ed the came to its retreat i'll the rocks. hut could
net get At it, lie baited It for several nights
then ser another trap. and the next morning
| tGund "lh:it same old coon" with torHr" in
each trap.
| At seymour Ind, two men named Fleet
| wood, brothers. have been conn icted If the
murder of a little German boy, wear ago, and
| sentenced to the Penitentiary for life The cyi-
| denee showed that they eniced the little boy
| into a licld, beat out his brains with club. cut
| his throat and threw the body into Il creek. The
Object of the murder was the robbery Of two
| dollars from the child
Monday night a son of Capt. GEORGE Wash
ingon James Of Gardiner stepped into his
mothers room and found her all in flames.
| Capt. James ran to the rescue az soon As he
| could but before the flames could be cXtinguish-
ed Mrs. James was burned 50 badly that She is
| not expected 10 recover. She has been I'LL for
| some time and not fully in her right mind II
| is not known how the flames caught.
The Journal of Chemistry thinks tll;t the
potato i deterorating, and that Il person should
I
and select specimens from the healtlieSt wild
potato vines, bring them by good cultivation 10
4 proper degree OF perfection i'll their native
habitat then import them to this country, so
that American agrcuturistS may obtain seed
llng> OF original health and vigor Of conStitu-
ton.
Morking birds can initiate human action as
well aS human voices, it seems. A Macon
(Ga.) paper saws that two pets of this stripe
got jealous of each other and undertook to fight
it out in desperate fashion, One of Them get
ting enough of it, sang out, "Quit, quit" and
followed this UP by crying 'Police. police
And oddly enough there was policeman with
in hearing, who came up and stopped the fight.
LAUNCHEp--.At Tenant Harbor, st George
from the yard OF Dean X Long. May 10. three
mascd schooner Sadie Wilcut, $50 tons. Length
of keel, I'D feet; beam, 81 feet, depth OF hold
10 feet inches carrying capacity, 800 tons
She is designed for the West India trade. She
is owned by the builders. S. IL. Jackson and
others OF ST. George, and by JAS. Bliss ana
other parties of Boston and by Capt. f. g.
Barker, who will command her. She rates Al.