The Republican journal., 1875-03-11
GeueraIities.

|
Recent discoveries at Newburvport cause
| fresh excitement over the mines there.
The Worcester Press says an Amsterdam fool
has Just started to walk around the world
There is an appropriation of $4,000 for
Rockland's custom house in the omnibus bill
GOV. Ingersoll has appointed Friday March
| 26, as day of fasting and prayer in Connect
| cut.
| Five thousand men are now employed on the
| centennial buildings and grounds at Philadel-
phia.
John Tucker was killed at Dover, n. H., s at
urday, while attempting to get on Il moving
train
Susie Liberty has thirteen lovers, and each of
them eXclaims, Give me liberty or give me
death"'
Representative Hooper left fortune of four
| or five millions of dollars. He made no public
requests.
skowhegan elects Miss Bgelow, one of the
| best teachers in the town, one of the School
| Committee.
A colored member of the Alabama house
named Gaskin, was expelled for accepting
| bride of $500.
The President has signifed his intention of
attending the centennial celebration at Concord,
| MASSACHUSETTS.
In spite of hard times the immigration at
| New York last month was 81 more than in the
| same month in 1874.
| During a fight in bar room at Lawrence,
| Mass, Frank Walcott was shot in the forehead
and seriously injured.
| Col Herbert Sandford has been appointed of
fetal delegate of the British Commission to the
! United States Centennial.
GOV. Joseph Francis, Of Passamaquoddy
Tribe is dead. The Indians say he was one
| hundred and ten years old.
The Aroostook bar will petition Governor
| Dingley to appoint Hon. j. G. Madigan of
| loulton, as Judge Cuttings successor.
| Out West they say that the potato bugs were
discovered in seed store looking over the books
| to see who had purchased seed potatoes.
| David Bartlett, one Of the Bowtonham Bank
| robbers, now i'll prison, is very sick of lung
| fever, and his recovery is very doubtful
The smallpox has broken out among the
| French Canadians employed i'll the cotton mill
| at Brunswick and six cases are reported.
1t has been colder in Sweden this winter than
in any other civilized country. In Furudal,
| the thermometer marked sixty degrees below
| zero.
Mrs. William Pluntz, of Albany, separated
| from her husband after only two weeks Of we'd
lock, because he snored so loudly that she could
not sleep.
Flora Temple, the famous horse, is 30 wears
| old, and her knd-hearted owner is doing All
| that he can to smooth her pathway to the glue
| factory.
jim Fisk'> widow is endeayoring to get
| new trial of the case in which Josephine Mans
| field recovered judgment against the estate
for S25, 100.
| The japanese minister at Washington Yosh-
ida, is rejoicing over the birth of daughter, the
| first japanese child of Japanese parents born
| in this country.
The Pittsfield Eagle says wealthy citizen of
| that town has paid $4,000 i'll hush money dur
| ing the last two years, though entirely innocent
| of WrOng-dOng
fellow who was up in police court recent
! ly gave his occupation as that of a ''concn0lOg
ist,' and explained by saying that he opened
| CLANS at a market.
| a man named Gray WAS struck on the head
| and instantly killed at Calais Saturday night,
! while attempting to fOrcibly enter a dance hail.
| Several arrests have been made.
| A son of Nathan Sullivan of Bath, six years
old was run over by horse and sleigh, break
ing his ribs and mangng his body in Il shock
| ing manner. lie will probably die.
An Indiana darkey says: Use got my cibbil
rights, to be suah, but nam / my ole black toes
| Stckin' outn my ole butes Just de same all for
! dat pesky Freedmun's Borrow failure"
| A. j. Crane. late collector of internal rcvc-
nue. in the third Vermont district, has been
sentenced to eighteen months in prison and
| fine of $4,000 for embezzng government mon
| eys.
Judge Cuttings term as Associate Justice of
the Supreme Judicial Court of this Stale. does
| not expire until April oath, and no appointment
| of his successor viii be made until about that
| time.
| A cruel and unusual punishment is inflicted
| on the prisoners in the Bangor, Me-. ja. in al
| lowing students from the Theological Seminary
| to preach raw sermons to them. + New York
| World.
BY an unanimous vote of the creditors, the
| directors of the G. T. kimball Carriage Com
| pany Of Portland, Me, are authorized TO wind
| up the affairs of the concern with the least pos
| sible delay and expense
A bill to remove all barrier against husband
and wife testifying when either party under
trial is to be introduced i'll the legislature al
Albany. Its object is to allow Mrs. Tlton to
testify in the BeeCher trial.
This is the first time in the memory of man,
says the Salt Lake Tribune, that Great Salt Lake
has been frozen, and the mercury has not been
below zero, this winter. Here is a nice Ques-
ton for scientists to explain.
At the Pembroke iron works, Pembroke
Thursday, a boy fifteen years old named Lewis
Finney, was instantly killed. He was reaching
for a drink of water, was caught by the coup
ling and dragged between the rolls.
This is the season of the year when the farm
Ell tells his son John that if he will sort over
ten bushels of potatoes, feed the stock, repair
that fence and reshingle the corn-crib he may
have the rest OF the day to go rabbit hunting
Joseph l.. Hovey of Goudsboro. who was
committed to Jail at Bangor for lling matches
without athXlng revenue stamps, has been dis
charged from custody by order of U. S. Com
missioner Hamn, upon furnishing bail to the
amount OF $1,000
The body Of a man was found Saturday on
the beach at Sandwich, Mass, near where the
bark Giovanni was wrecked. BY his side We're
empty wine bottles and an examination show
ed that he had killed himself drink ing the
wine that had washed ashore.
James A. Morris, second assistant keeper of
Mt Desert Rock Light, reports that the winter
on the Rock has been an unusually dreary one,
For four months, with the exception of one
visit from the supply steamer, none of the three
Keepers left the station, nor had single visit.
The silver fever increases in Newburyport,
Mass. saturday, three-fOurths OF fourteen acres
of land were sold by Robert Smith to +. A.
Couch of Providence, r. l., and j. W. Bartlett
and others, for $4,000 Ten thousand other
cash sales have been made but this is the larg
est.
When Il girl crops her front hair aud pulls il
down oNSr forehead like Mexican mustang,
and then ties piece OF red velvet around her
neck, who can wonder at the number of pale
faced young men that throw away their anbi-
ton and pass sleepess nights i'll trying to raise
down on their upper lips?
Miss Smiley, the devout Quakeress. native
of Vassalboro, recently delivered sermon on
Dress in Cincinnati, in the course of which
she said that thousands of women in America
were kept away from the house of God solely
because they could not compete with others in
the extravaganza OF their dress.
The following remarkable advertisement late
ly appeared in the Liverpool Post: IF the
lady who struck gentleman on the head with
her umbrella for tearing her dress on Bold
street on Wednesday last will send her address
to A. L., post-otfice, Carlisle, she will hear
something that will surprise hern'
Ealls n ri m no go 81.