The Republican journal., 1875-04-01
GeneraIities.

nfe mOlafS per nOur.
The surf bell at Owls Head WAS RECENTLY
thrown down by ice.
John Hickman, an EN- .Courre.smon from
Pennsylvania died on Tuesday.
Ground has been broken for the foundation
of the grammar school building in Bangor.
Since October seventeen vessels have been
wrecked in Massachusetts Bay, and seventeen
lives lost.
The Centennial State . is suggested as \
name for Colorado, which will enter the Union
III 1876.
A citizen Of Machias has caught this winter
thirteen foxes, for which he realized seventy
dollars.
The Rockland city council elected d. NJ.
Mitchell, city marshal, and l.. l.. Buckland,
street engineer.
The spelling match at Music Hall. Boston,
attracted a very large audience. A sch ooboy
won the hrst prize and printer the second.
We read good deal in the papers of stylish
turnouts in Washington. Buffers turnout,
though not Stylish has been much admired
There will be about 100 vacancies among the
cadet mdshlpmen at the United States naval
academy, to be fliled at the annual examination
in June next.
On the Governor vote in New HAMPSHIRE
the Republicans had plurality of 10; but on
the vote Tor congressman the Democratic blu
ratY was 325.
The cheapest and most efticacous method Of
advertising, is in the columns of live papers
These are read, re-read and preserved for fu-
ture reference.
Josh Billings, it is said has taken mortal Of
fence at the spelling matches. They are in open
violation OF his theory, and calculated to throw
dlscrcdit upon his system.
Charles Newman, of Orland, while 1T work
in the woods, nearly severed bis foot from his
leg. lie was saved from bleeding to death by
his companion cording his leg.
The New York Commercial thoughtfi,lly
asks: Won't it seem funny to have Ben But
Ter staying at home and reading the news of
what they are doing in Congress-"
Two full-grown offers, driven bv The cold
from creek in Lafayette county. Indiana re-
Gently walked deliberately into dwelling
house for the purpose of warming themselves
at the fire
\ bride in Indiana, after the conclusion of
tie marriage ceremony, stepped gracefully for
ward and requested the clergyman to give out
the hymn, This is the way | long have
sought"
a despatch has been received announcing the
death at Mendocino CITY, California, of Horace
J.. Pike, son of Daniel p. Pike, of Augusta.
lie was formerly a lieutenant in the seventh
United States Artillery.
1t is rumorcd that the next meeting of the
board of OyerSeers of BoWd0in College the
resignation Of President Chamberlain will be
presented and accepted. Prof. Young OF the
college Is mentioned as his possible successor.
The first person to be hoored in am Tndianap-
Oils spelllng-match was Prof Bell, of the school
journal, w hen the word n him
Bell was tongue-tled, and, not unuaturallv, had
to be tolled by somebody else.
a colored congregation in DAYTON have de-
cded to forgive their clergyman for betting on
three card monte and losing 800 of festival
money. one Of the deacons remarked: $ We
are all human, and the game is VERY exciting"
The Alert one Of the eight new sIoops of
war authorized by the act Of 1873, will be pre-
pared for sea at Chester, Pa, by the first of
June, to take the class Of cadet engineers from
the naval academy on their annual practice
cruise
At Harrison, KY, a few DAYS ago. lightning
struck the residence of a family consisting Of
eight members, with the singular effect, as a
local paper SAYS, of causing them all to become
crazy in which condition they have since re-
manned
The New York Herald hits the BULBS eve
plump when it says 1.-THE most wearlsome mess
ol Wol lhlesS llttle-tattle ever inflicted on the
patience OF long-sutlering public is presented
IN the TRIVIAL and prolN testimony of the minor
witnesses in the Beecher trial.
Belle seymour OF Memphis, worked in male
azure with gang OF laborers for three months
without beng found out. The discovery was
GVentuany made according to guess OF the st.
LOUIS Glooe' because she sat down on the floor
to put her shoes and stockings on.
At Iarvrnnca,ilIa p, ! t,,,. ,,;ct,+. ,.,..,
voIIno woman vas li.rovnro,I ',-.Iii7n
illght dress on the edge OF the roof of a build
ing, slNty teGt from lhe ground. She was rescued
ny tW" Young men, and wns considerably fright
ehco When aroused from her sleep.
y ne insurance company mas refused to bay
a $4,000 policy because the insurer committed
moral suicide, ne having procured the policy in
reply to message from 4 friend in the unseen
upon 4 certain day And honrwwhrn he Xxi ''''
ono OF thr meaneet robhnric~ on record be-
CURED at New Haven the other day when a
Ilttle glrl who was known TO have four dollars
WIN hcr was asked to ride by an unknown
man. who drove her to retired place and tax
ing hef money from her turned her atiritt