The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-05-13

The Beecher trial still drags along. A
month more will be required to finish it..
The whole affair is getting to be very stale.
The persistent efforts of the opponents of
the Republican party to keep the third term
question before the people render it necessary
that the Republican State Convention soon to
be holden express their opinion upon the mat
ter. Ohio and Pennsylvania as we'll as Maine
will hold conventions in June, all of which will
without doubt speak decidedly against the third
term. kennebec journal.
We will wait and see whether this
prophet prophesies truly. If an intima-
the administration officials in Maine that
they are expected to head off the conven-
tion from speaking decidedly against the
third term, those patriotic gentlemen will
| be called upon to choose whom they will
| serve. We shall look to see many sleek
| official sitting in the Maine convention
with the sword of the Presidential Damo-
Giles cleaning above his head 1t will be
| cruel, yet such is the state of man when
in office
1t having been charged that the Louis
lana adjustment had not been observed
| and carried out in good faith by the Dem
ocrats Of that state, Hon VIM. A. Wheeler,
republican, and chairman of the commit
tee by which the adjustment was made.
has published a letter on the subject. He
says that the agreement has been strictly
| observed by both parties, and that the I'M
seating Of several members was the cor
rection of an error of the returning board,
which was understood in the adjustment
A correspondent calls our attention
to the fact that the telegraph line between
Stockton and Belfast crosses the draw
bridge by submarine wire that goes to
the bottom. He wants to know how Bar
nabas gets over it without wetting his
Goldfish. 1t is hard question, and we
can only venture conjecture. The scales
of the fish are adapted to keep out the
wet. and as Barnabas is very scaley HIM
self, he goes through on the same princi-
pie.
The notice which we published of the
Belfast lady who never wore hoop skirts,
false hair, or ornaments on her dresses,
eAcites wondering comments among the
newspapers. Some of them think it is
Joke. The Houlton Times asks
Will wonders ever cease? Is she real live
woman or merely a figure head to one of your
Belfast ships?
To end all questions, we will say that
the lady is Mrs Samuel Sweetsir, and that
the paragraph is true in every particular
-Briant. the Lewiston liquor agent,
has boon discharged. He was not legally
guilty of embezzling the city liquor and
money, because he had not received Il GER
tilcate of agency. SO Judge Walton ruled.
The Judge said also that Rriant was Just
as liable to prosecution as any other rum
seller
There are to be lively times in the
Fourth Congressional district. Lew. Pow
ers of Houlton is to be a candidate, and
the nomination will be claimed on the
ground of justice to Aroostook. Attorney
General Plaisted, however, thinks that he
sees a chance for Penobscot, and will be
q candidate.
The colored soverigns Of Hayti re-
Gently had one Of their periodical rebel
lions, and showed their courage by muir
derlng several unarmed foreigners. The
result will be that ships of war belonging
to the white trash will be showing their
teeth about the island, and Sambo will be
called upon to explain.
Willis Phelps sued the Springfield
Republican for libel, putting the damages
at $780, 900. By tight squeeze he got
800, and had to pay his own costs. The
Republican pied the truth of its state
ments, and proved all but one minor ale
CATION.
The West Waterville Union is as
bright as new dollar just from the mint.
Daniel Rowe is editor And, by the way,
the second issue makes it all right about
the girls, and says nothing improper was
meant.
John W. X. Norwood, a prominent
citizen of Camden, died in that town Nav
Sd, aged Il. ..