The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-12-23
Generaiities.


at st. Louis, Jan. II.
Four women are among the school commit
tee elected i'll Boston last Tuesday.
The shirt mandatory at West Wateryillc
has shut up, owing to the hard times.
1t is rumored that Mr. Longfellow has de
clined to accept the Office of Centennial Poet.
The Committee on the American Centennial
have received 5000 applications for space in
| the Italian department.
A young man named Dorr, of Bucksport. has
been missing for several days past. No one
knows his whereabouts
G. +. Simpson has been appointed Deputy
Collector of Customs at the port Of sullivan in
place of John U. Hill, resigned.
Hon. Henry W. Paine, of Boston. Mass. for.
merlv of Maine. declines the tender OF seat
on the supreme bench OF that State.
! Possibly some steps may be taken during the
present winter, looking to II representation OF
The Maine Militia at the Centennial Exposition
| Schooner Amos Walker of Thoma>ton. from
| Liverpool for Baltimore reports losing Ellis
Moody, one OF the crew, oN erboard on tine pas
| sage.
The water will he let IN upon the racewa4 OF
| the new cotton mill in Watcryle, Monday,
! Dee. 21 The mill will be ready to start up by
the first of January
Mr.. John Atkinson, aged about q years
| living at the upper part Of Saco committed
| suicide by hanging himself, Friday afternoon
No cause for the deed is known.
| The largest amount Of fish ever received al
Portland came IN on Monday. There Were
3oo,00o haGdock II required three cars 10 hold
them, and the lot was worth $1,000.
The McXicans crossed into Texas again. re-
Gently, and stole 500 head of cattle and 20 hor-
,c>. Military companies are being raised and
the people threaten to cross the river.
| A New Jersey man was summoned by his
| church to appear and answer certainS charges
! and he went there and whipped seven men
cleared the church and locked the doors.
A wood chopper, about thirty years of age.
wa, found dead Friday night near Fremont
station, on the Rochester and Nashua railroad
He had been drinking and was frozen to death
One hundred tons of sugar passed through
Bangor, Thursday, in bond for st. John. Ii
was sent from Liverpool to Boston and thence
by rail to st. John. The Wing says this ha,
never occurred before.
Masked robbers entered an express car about
| T. miles from st. Louis, Saturday, and lorket
| the messenger in Il large packing boA and then
ruled the safe OF S2o.0H0. lie could give no de
| finite description of them.
Mary Ogle. colorcd, threw herself before
train near Pittsburg, Pa, Saturday. and wa,
lh>ttntiN hlHtu' IVY ~ NY ',"lu W Is p''klh-
" 10 irN up MY p'"ly' a'i Nv iii'i NNhS Oh
'''' 'i''PN ""a i"" o'ti anu Ni'l'"'
| On the l0th Il party of Cuban n>ureent,
p'lllPo the t"Wh ~ Jat'lu'A any aitGrWafu arg.
provisions and ammunition. from which thrN
supplied themselves and fired the train.
vb, whole t:rmilv Of Thomas McCann of Pam
DOR n,rrnyylv r-rnnu,I ,I,trnr,tino ON W-r,inp.
| NV morniu1 a jor0n oaS main in rho stree
Im1l,n ,nI fhn ~,s f7I,nurI - sewer into th
house. When discovered two of the Girls an,
one boy were almost dead.
win tha nxco,tio, of fo,v ,,I,.o. ,,hor
,I,, '' n ,,l,,o. ro f. t n,,t in th, v."ri -
o,'', nd iir 49, tI ,,t
,,1 ,I.t nnm't ms nlI1 f,,,,i+aI S;"n
thn miIdIn ~ tnn,l~t nm nvnr,lf. of inn mo,
hnya harn ,lmnst cnnstantIy rmT7nvpd
nov -
The Gazette says that Edward Rankin 0
Rockland, while sweeping his store, Monday
thn # rtoyn tbinlin, Il emntv i-ni,ciiiiv if rnn
tinoJ ',n,y,ln. .,i7d Mr. T.pl,in md = ,non j.
mo Stnrn founI themselves ,iIed in :, CORNER
-
Chnal, ain thrivps in some rosns \ rounI
If vnu IrcSSe,J mon have recently htrnd tcom
,t several of our livery ,tableS-thry neve
deem if nruJrnt 10 90 twice If the same stable
Thnv ,b.iyn i, tsvy hnI,rs ana Mich thn horse ,
tho va,li,1n TI,t !. ths Ia.t brari of tbp,T
n owisfom Jnurnni
Recently Plymouth monster saturated Il ga
nttrr SETTING her ON fire. The tortured animf
suffered horribly. ana tore about among hiahI
rombustil,lc buildings in n frenzy of agon,
The mercst chance. seemingly. prevented III
nnnr crr,turn ron, nrc,initufinat her bIaZiu
hnIv into u haynoN She wa~ in tbc habit g.
tr4uucntinY.
workman AT Columbus, ~, 4 ieW daN9 aS'
endeaN ored TO pass over the Ncloto river man
over hand, on wire OF in unfinished bridge
lie had proceeded Il short distance when III
wire began TO cut his hands, and, though h
made desperate efforts to return, the pain /
his hands was such that he was forced TO let z
rbo ,,rao lonno,iuo mill owned nv Cleo II
Lincoln and Parker Means, of Washington
t3@r , m' Win the stock on hand and ali ii
machinery. The mill was nearly new an