The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-03-19
GeneraIties.

In Manchester, Gov. WestonS home, he made
gain of 80 over last spring.
GOV. Carpenter Of Iowa has declared himself
anew i'll favor of woman suffrage
Hon. Monroe Young. Mayor of Ellsworth,
declines again TO become Il candidate ior that
position.
Mrs W. 81 AStor at Il ball in New York, the
other evening, Wore diamonds valued al NIL
lion dollars.
4 young man i'll Hartford has been divorced
twice in six years, and is now published To ms
third wife.
kiss me-" WA all She said. Modern novel.)
That was "enough Said 70 any young man.
Boston Post.
Miss Jewell, the daughter of the American
munster is astonishing the Russians by her
deNteritY on skates.
The president Of Cornell university saws the
young women average ten per cent better OIL
the examination papers than do the young men.
"A LATHE Unplea~antness one LAWYER
Fondles another with kawhide" is the plin-
fully suggestive heading of 4 st. Louis local
item.
One of Brigham Young'S daughters i, dead
But rs he has about forty ii is difficult to feel
properly erieycd unit further particulars are
given,
The mate of the sch. Mary A, Holt, reported
washed overheard and lost in the list of disus-
tcrS, was Levi Jordan of Ellsworth. Ills age
was about 40.
1t was North Carolina landlord W no posted
the notice III his dinin@-room, that members OF
the legislature would be first seated. ana after
ward the gentlemen
Most every one willie surprised to learn that
$1,000 were collected for the Washington muull-
mont, last year. 1t pay the salary of the 1850
cations treasurer.
An ohio paper says, without rNag4,.ialiou
it Is impossible To procure glass Of liquor in
This town.. II we were III that town and want
| ed liquor we'd eNa@gerlt".
Bret Ilarte'~ last dialect poem. The Ghost
| that Jim Saw is said to have been founded ON
| i verabe incident. which occurred amo~t cN-
lrtiy as related in the verses
\ thing of beauty is JOY forever but when
| the beautiful nose of Ida Hill, Of Dover. Wa~
broken by the fall of board She poisoned her
self to avoid carrying the nose in public.
There are five ministers iii Marhi;r, and THEM
initials are a matter of no little comment among
| the curious. Reys. \. A. Leighton. B. Il. Bvrur.
&. G. Long, y. p. Dodge and T. y. Merry.
schooner 1Iard~crabble of RocNand. a>hore<t
| Cape Poguc with cargo of 1900 barrels Of lime
| and 800 bushels Of potatoes, has bged and
| caught rr and will probably De 4 total loss.
| \ letter from Paris states that Hon. Virgil D.
| Paris, the well known prominent Democratic
| politician OF the past, is in failing health and
| hut slight hopes are entertained of his recovery.
| Collector simmons assumed his duties ut the
| Boston Custom House Thursday. Several
| changes We're made but only one removal. that
| of Col. W. W. Mrkm. brother-in-laW Of Hon,
| A. II. Rice.
Mr.. Livcrmore commenced lecture at Big
Rapids. Michigan, AT the hour of $40 30 T. NJ
| and concluded inst before midnight. Her train
| Had broken down on the road, but the audience
| was willing To wait.
''"1rvweIl, Susan--you have driven me to the
| grave wrote John larch, of .\labama tour
| wear, ago, and left the note on the river bank.
| He was arrested in Cincinnati the other day,
| living With another woman.
The Free FreS> learns that MeS>ls George II.
Blak, Of the Portland Press and s. ]. Chad
bourne Clerk of the Maine House Of Represent
tatyc~, are looking over the ground with view
of establishing a daily paper in Rochland.
A horse belonging to an Augusta citizen, by
| some means got east in the stable the other
| night and it, flesh was so badly laccratcd and
eaten by Il fcIociolls boar that had got loo-r IN
the stable floor. that the owner was obliged tu
Kill the horse.
\. J.. Robinson Of Evansville. Ind, j. tho
man Mr., Dawes referred to in his late speech A.
| recommending the abolition of his 5000 office
because he had nothing To do. His friends havn1
put him in all insane asylum Vet. but are getting
| ready 10 do so.
\ clerk in the Mare Island Navy Yard Cali
| tOrnia. had the rashncs~ To tell the commandan
how $4,000 could be saved in purchasing sup
plies for his Department. The conmandan i'm
medatey began TO rttrrnrl by dispensing " it'll
| the ~rrNict~ of that clerk.
Hon. Cha> Holden of Portland y, Inc has tl-t
retired from the board Of school committee in
| Portland, wa, elected on The hoard hi &uii
| l~';',-torty-onc years ago. Que wear he Wa>
on and forty years ne ha~ been On active and
reliable member.
\ praying band Of forty ladies organized al
\ | PIPER Saltwater Thursday. rhcN Visited two
saloons, at the first one they were rrpui .e,I. the
door being slammed in their faces. Al lhr
second they We're we'll treated, and ,tu,D ru,
| prayed. The town is much excited.
Frank Blair, completely broken down, is at
| the Clifton, \. Y, water cure, seeking rc~tur-
ton. lii right side is considerably par:dyzed
He thinks ii is partly the result Of rNrr~siN,
smoking, it having been his habit to ll~t from
thirty TO forty cigars in day.
The tnvcrsali4ts ana Ep>copalian> If Cam
den are contcnding for the possession of "a
church edi1icc, each claiming il. Last SUNDAY
The loor was torcihIy opened BY the UNIVERSAL
ISL and services held. ON entering, an Epi-.
eol1lian gentleman was found in po>~, -Sjon.
Speaking Of the hnlf naked statue Of Washing
ton, which cost $4,000 in the East Capitol
Park, Grace "rcemood witiIy say that hi
outSretched arm points reproachlnllN towards
those glass eases in the patent office, where
hang his much desired habment~
Aman in Hartford Ia, stopped his NEWSPAPER
because his name printed III Il list ot aiyrr
tiScd letters, and his wife happening 10 see il
first Went and got it for HIM. and found il wa,
from a Young lady, who complained that ht
iii .l,,F I,. 4
When "A colored man sits down ON the ciVi
right, bll and Il seat ut "de tn~t table" oil til,
| Lake Michigan steamers, they have Il neat wa,
| OF heading OFT his enjoyment. The waiter
comes around and fakes his order and ms plate
Knife ana fork with it, ard--,Ior't COME bAcl
again.
The Boston journal SAYS The bushes,
| arrangement between the Eastern Railroad an,
Boston and Maine is at last consummated in ac-
| rortanre with Il statement made 1T the Hnnua
meeting of the former road What has now
| been done should have been accomplished thrr,
wears ago.
The grand jury at Rorklnitl. ou saturday
| found twelve indictments, one for burglary
against Edgar A. COwing and Thomas DohrrtN
| of ST. George, one for compound larceny against
same parties, one against Mary Ann lIowr,
| for larceny, and the remainder against li,mul
dealers in Ihoma~ton, Camden and Rocklmd.
and PAID Their fines.
Mrs Jancckr of MiiN aukrr is apparently
one of those women who ought to Vail theil
tranNcendent charms from proiane gaze. From
| lack Of this prccaution, young man. who call
ed to hook at rooms she had to let, was draw
INTO the grirvous error of kissing her, and
when he was arrai2ned for it, he paid his lin,
with great content, averrn% that she was st
| pretty. he could not help it.
To-day, Zach Chandler was standing talking
t" the new collector of Boston and congratulate
ing him. The new custom-hol,e autocrat OF
Boston as usual did not fail to remind his hear
crs that only fifteen years ago he was a knife.
cleaner in Il hotel. "Wcll." said BLUM old Zack,
"what between your knives and Buffers
spoonS.yon have done id we'll" Washington
Special
one of the editorial tends 81 the st. Louis
: Journal has recently INDUCED i'll matrimony,
and here is scrap Of his philosophy growing
out of one of the results