The Republican journal., 1875-03-18
GeueraIittes.

all the kissing scrapes.
An Ohio girl wrote letter and forgot to put
''ln haste on the envelope.
Bangor appropriated S36, 900 for the inlproy-
ment and repair OF streets last year.
Senator Andrew Johnson'o wife is lying at
the point of death, with no hopes Of recovery.
a terrible waterspout burst over the city Of
Santiago, Chill, on the LIST of March, causing
great damage.
Capt John Hastings is making preparations
| TO establish porgy oil factory at Browns
Cove, Bristol
Gen. Sherman says the Black Hills region
Will be protected from invasion by gold hunt
| ing expeditions
A little girl about six wears of age residing
| in Deerng, was badly bitten in the face by
dog Thursday evening.
The Bristol Oil Works have declared an an
nual dividend of 65 per cent and the Round
Pond Works 40 per cent
In one district in Asia Minor, twenty thou
| sand people have recently died OF starvation.
| 1t IS a terrible story to tell.
The Tennessee farmers are calling i'll Chinese
to take the place OF the negroes that are leaving
| the state in such large numbers.
Mr.. Tenney of the Brunswick Telegraph has
the estate of the late Joseph Griffin.
The Ohio House of representatives, last week.
adopted a joint resolution requesting Congress
to reduce the Presidents salary to $25 goo.
Public attention is again being aroused, East
| and West, to the necessity Of sparing thaaor-
| ests and adding to them by planting more.
Nantucket has elected two women to serve
| on the school committee. so the appreciation
Of women is extending to ." the islands of the
| sea-
1t is reported that the fare between Portland
| and Boston on the railroads is to be reduced 81
| the coming summer, i'll competition with the
| boats.
A man may forget his business, bis family
| and all his sacred Obligations of life, but he al
| ways remembers where he got that counterfeit
bill.
| The wife of Rev. +. Dearborn of Salem, \ H..
| has recovered $4,000 from the Boston and Maine
Railroad, with costs, for injuries received on
| train.
A colored barber who was refused a game of
billiards at the Trenton House, Trenton, n. j..
has had the proprietor arrested under the civil
rights bill
The Montana Herald says Senator Sharon
has yet two unmarried daughters. And he
| gives his daughters 81 100000 apiece when
| they get married.
Bones of Scotch heroes are quoted at 92ja2G
a pair in Edinburgh. Two bones of the late
| Robert Bruce We're sold at the former figure in
| that city recently.
A can of beef which had been prepared in
| 1896 for the soldiers in the Crimea, was opened
| recently in England, and the meat found per-
tectly sound and wholesome.
| A correspondent of the Baltimore sun has
found in Florida young girl named Neuralgia,
| CHI mol ft., tn+t
medicine which her mother esteemed.
A man by the name of John Harris, a native
| OF Nova Scotia who has been cutting wood and
living alone i'll camp in the south part of San
ford was found dead in his camp Friday.
Andy johnson is quoted as remarking to Il
| friend on Wednesday that he couldn't any
| longer sit silent i'll his place in the senate
and see the liberties of the people throttled.'
Arthur Berry and II. W. Jewett of Gardiner.
| have returned from Philadelphia. where they
have secured large contract for lumber to be
used in the construction of the great Centennial
building.
After waiting for years. 4 Michigan lover
finally popped the question, and the girl ans
wered: "Of course, III have YOU. Why. YOU
fool you, we could have been married three
Years ago!'
Vermont clergymen are never permitted to
| kiss the ladies they have just made brides
| The dear creatures just put up their hands with
the remark: 'There, that'll DO I've seen YOU
| fellows afore.
As a result Of the extreme cold the trunks of
many apple trees in Northern New York have
cracked open from the roots nearly to the
| limbs, so that person may see completely
| through them.
The keeper at the Pemaqud lighthouse re-
| ports that saturday the 18th, rs far the eve
| could see from the light was field of drift ice;
thing that was never witnessed before, to the
| knowledge of man
Six Milwaukee women with babies met the
other day and agreed to vote which was the
handsomest infant. Each kid got one vote and
you ought to have seen how those women
| looked at each other
The Newburyport Herald saws no vessel be-
longing to that port engaged in the coasting
| trade has paid her expenses during the winter
The vessels which have done the the best are
those which were hauled up.
! why is it," asks an exchange "that nearly
every Senator's wife in Washington is a hand
some woman? 1t is simply because nearly
| every Senator's wife who is not a handsome
woman is left at home. [Courier-Journal
| The American says that scarlet fever and
| canker rash which have prevailed at Su!ry this
winter, have now assured malignant form.
The unprecedent cold weather is fearfulv tell
ing on the aged, and all of impaired vitality.
From Mattanawcook Pond, near Lincoln vii
lage, parties have caught more than three
| thousand pounds Of pickerel during the past
| two weeks. The most of these fish were caught
within sight and five minutes walk Of Lincoln
village.
AS an Illustration of the speed at which the
electric current travels, Il message sent from
the observatory at Harvard college direct to
san Francisco and back by way of Canada
over IL railways, occupied only two-thrlS of Il
second.
stalwart negro lodged at police station at
kockland, Friday night, who gave the name Of
Chas. Augustus Lincoln, and said he had walk
ed all the way from Louisiana and was going to
st. John, n. b., and resumed his travels this
morning.
An eastern paper SAYS that during the per-
formance of an opera in st. Petersburg, Patti
was called out sixteen times That sounds
pretty huge, but then she might have eaten
something that didn't agree with her rSt
Louis journal.
A recent local election at Greenbush in New
FORK. was attended by an elector named Wha-
Ian, who is more than one hundred aud four
years Of age He voted for Democratic ins
tice of the peace and evinced much disappoint-
ment at his defeat.
Lucretia Boyd of Elizabethtown, settled the
matter with her slow Wooer by simply she'd
ding few tears, and saying; Il don't believe
/ have a friend on earth" What could the
poor fellow do but open his arms, and eXclaim,
Here is your refugee
The Benedict Arnold house at New Haven is
being demolished to make room for Il neghbor-
ing store. 1t was built between 1850 and 1860
of brick brought from Holland. and was not
only once the lodging-place of Benedict Arnold,
but the scene of his marriage.
Vast quantities of dead grasshoppers are
found on the masses of snow living on the sides
of the Blue Mountains of Colorado, where
bears seek them for food. 1t is thought they
become chilled in attempting to fly over the
range, and falling upon the snow perish.
During the month Of February the Maine
Central delivered at Portland 524 carloads of
| freight. The shipments We're to the same
! amount, making total of about thousand
and fifty loaded cars. This was exclusive OF
the through business to and from Boston.
A backed chicken, with a false tail
! and ring of turkey-teathers glued round his
| neck, received the first premium at the Ohio
State A Agricultural Fair as a ssIIunpariaD chick