The Republican journal., 1875-03-04
Generalities.

The Beecher trial may terminate by the 1st of
June.
The bunting business will be lively if Coora-
do and New Mexico are admitted as States.
The Chinese are perfectly satisfied that their
Emperors death was one result of the transit
Of Venus.
A postoffice has been established at Hurri-
cane Island, Knox county, and George f. Crab
tree appointed postmaster.
A cadet named Gordon Claude has been dis
missed from the Annapolis naval academy be-
cause he refused to fence with negro.
On opening a box of articles sent to the starry
ing of Kansas, tract was found the title of
which is, ''The Wickedness of Gluttony."
A Portland court has decided that bills for
goods sold by runners cannot be collected, be- |
cause there is law against such sale of goods |
The ice is piled up ten feet high in some |
places bv the sea-wall at Old Orchard, making |
it quite difficult to get upon the beach with L
team.
It's a good thing that the weather is never
cold enough to freeze the milk of human kind
ness, because the dairy isn't particularly well
stocked.
A peaseable French boy, named Alexis Pa
rant, 10 years old, was assaulted by crowd of
Irish boys at Lewiston last week and fatally |
stabbed.
Dr. r. Z. Neal, for several years assistant
physician in the insane hospital in Illinois, has
been chosen an assistant physician in the insane
asylum at Augusta.
James Murphy, Jr., the Irish giant. died in
Baltimore, Saturday, of bronchial affection
Aged 80 years. He was about eight feet high
and weighed $50 pounds.
SDon't you know that it's four degrees below
zeroT' asked a Milwaukee girl as she was
slegh-riding with her lover He took the hint
and put his arm around her.
The Kansas Legislature is discussing a bill
appropriating 5000 900 for the reliefof the grass
hopper sufferers. 1t is said that several per-
sons have recently died Of starvation.
Charles Post of Union, of the firm Of Post 4
Cunningham, tanners. died suddenly Thursday
week. He had been ill with the prevailing
| cold for several day, but was about the house.
| A Covington lady started Matrimonial
| Intelligence Office" recently and managed to
marry herself to the first man that applied,
| which proceeding brought the institution to
| an end.
| a warrant has been issued for the arrest of
| Huge Smith Of West Buxton, for the inhuman
| treatment of his insane Wife, who was found
nearly frozen to death in Il comtorless room,
few days ago
| In jubilee ceremony in 1.15, two boys who
|
and fought one another with the golden candle
| sticks. One of them became Pope Leo XII,
the other Plus VIII.
A Reading pa. girl recently married, finding
that her husband couldn't get leave Of absence,
| said she was going to have wedding trip any
how, and started off home. There will be no
quarrelng on that bridal trip.
Some people don't appear to have any more
sense than a bow-legged clam. Nearly every
water pipe and hydrant are frozen up and here
some maniac sends us a sixteen-verse temper
ance poem. [Danbury News
The propeller City Of Norwalk has lust ar
| rived at New York from South Norwalk after
fifteen days struggle. The ice gave her an
extraordinary rubbing, carrying off her rudder
and breaking the blades Of her wheel.
The French Code forbids physicians to re-
ceive legacies from deceased patients, the
temptation TO hasten the bequest by heroically
| ''eXpectant' treatment being deemed too great
for professional human nature.
A Dubuque boy was rather troubled for fear
that he would not know his father when they
both reached heaven, but his mother eased him.
remarking, " All you have to do is to look for
| all angel with red nose on him.
A little girl 10 years of age, daughter of an in
digent and widowed lady of Surry, recently re-
ceived from trader in that place barrel of
| flour and fifty cents, the same being the proceeds
Of smelts caught by her in the bay.
serenading has ceased to be popular in Lew
| iston, Oregon, since Recorder Vincent fined
| each member of too meodiOuS nocturnal
| band s. and costs, and gave the trombone and
the snare drum men six days each 4. the chief
offenders.
It is said that one OF the twelve persons who
| secured a pass to witness the execution of Wug-
ner, was Mrs. llontvent, the principal witness
| against Wagner, and the only person escaping
| the murderers axe on Smutty Nose Island on
that eyentiul night.
Irving Haynes, Il boy thirteen wears of age,
while playing with boy named White in the
attic of his mothers boarding house at Chicopee
Fails, saturday AFTERNOON, W;ts fatally Shot in
The head by the latter, Who was caIelcsoiN hand
ling loaded revolver.
Mrs LoNit, of Springfield, Mass, has forced
her husband and three grown up sons to take
board at a neighbours, as She finds it impossible
to spare time for house-work While the Tilton-
Beecher trial is going on. She is a slow reader
and gets up at daylight.
At the annual meeting of the Maine Stock
Breeders Association at Waterville, Hon : L.
GOouale was elected President, Enoch Knight
Secretary. l.. A. Dow Treasurer. and :. II.
Tewksbury, Hannibal Belcher. VIM. F. Blake
and G. A. Gilbert Trustees.
A Miss Lancaster of Arson, who visited Gar
diner last week, was unacCustOmed to gas and
blew it out at night instead of turning it OFF, and
tlle result was that she was made very sick, and
| would probably have lost her life if a large ven
tilator over the door had not been open.
Phair, the Vermont murderer. has been >en-
fenced to be hung two wears from next Nav.
The law Of the state named is peculiar. even
| cruel iii capital cases. The felon must, before
execution, undergo twenty months imprison-
ment at hard labor and four months of solitary
| confinement.
Mrs. llontvet, who came very near being one
of Wagner's victims ut the Isles of shoals was
one Of the twelve who secured il pass to witness
his execution. Waguer's threats to kill her in
case ne GOT clear for testityimg against him,
| made her, as She says, anxious to see with
her own eyes the villain hung
At Kalamazoo, Mich. the other day. 4 lady
| followed her husband to a gambling den and
| begged hlm TO come home. lie refused, and
| she drew 4 pistol, Which began to 90 off acct
dentally in so many directions that every body
else fled and she broke up the gathering.
A Kentucky woman gave birth to five children
| in one year-triplets in January and twins in
| December. Her mother had previously given
birth to trlpIets her sister is the mother of three
| pairs of twins, and each of her two daughters
| has given birth to triplets. Bad family for an
| economical man to marry into.
The SEVENTEEN year locuss are to make +
| raid this year on fruit orchards. 4 Hartford
| man has shown the C0urant several specimens
| that he dug last fall from the roots of trees,
! where they had lain in i dormant state for six
teen wears. The spring-time will bring forth an
army OF them, and they will make sad havoc.
In answer to despatch, sent to Andrew
johnson by George f. Putnam, chairman of the
New Hampshire democratic State committee.
inviting him to speak in that State during the
present political campaign, word was received
from Washington, that he cannot come owing
to the extra session OF the senate on the 4th of
| March.
| The Eastern was the only railroad in Massa-
chusetts that made any considerable increase
in its earnings from freights last year. Its
freight receipts exceed by 1914 SOL, those of the
year before. The Boston and Maine, Boston
| and Lowell, Old Colony, Boston and Provi-
dence lost and the Boston and Albany fell off
$685. ISL.
The present winter has disprovcd some pop
ular talacles; viz: that cold weather can't set
in until the springs are filled up; that" signs