The Republican journal., 1875-01-07
GeneraIities.


The Brssemer steamer which was to keep
everybody from being >eHsick has been thrown
W.
samuel Sharplcy, the well-known Etbiopisn
minstrel died in Providence r. l., Friday
night
john Deehan of Portland fell in a fit under
the wheels of his iigger and crushed to
death.
The Scandinavian at Portland from Liver
pool, had hard passage. For two days she
made but 100 miles.
Naturally enough, there is some difficulty In
getting the will of Tom Collins admitted TO pro-
bate i'll san Francisco.
During the cold weather it took two tons OF
coal per day to warm the city building in Lew
iston.
A Washington despatch says: 1T Is believed
that our Government will promptly recognize
the new Government of Spain.
The blackiish caught in Friendship harbor
last month, make about one hundred aud TWEEN
ty barrels OF oil, which sold for SlsS6.
Lady Franklin has written letter re-ofiering
4 reward Of $4,000 for the recovery Of the rec
ords OF her husbands Arctic expedition.
VIM 3. Towne, president of the Milford, n.
H.. bank, has recovered $4,000 Of It's stolen
funds 1t is not yet known how or where.
Barque p. j. Carlton, which was scuttled and
sunk ut kingstown, Ireland. to save her from
destruction by lire, has been raised and pumped
out.
They say that the practice of putting counter
felt money! into the contribution boxes has
grown to unhealthy dimensions in Kentucky.
IT il sad.
The 500 recently-di1charged employees Of the
Washington Navy Yard have petitioned Con
gress to giveTthem work to prevent suffering in
their families.
5. P. Kaler, mail messenger, was quite seri-
ou>y injured Tuesday morning ut Waldoboro',
by being damned between 4 loaded cart and the
depot platform
In some tabeauX ut II recent church festival
at Springfield, Mass, George Washington, the
and Side ' W Ahi k's"'fF "o'earea III mousfaeN
Papa gave Us dollar each for not sucking
our thumbs and We contribute it to the poor
sufferers in Kansas, write two little girls To
the y. y. Tribune.
The swiss, Austrian and Belgian Govern
ments have adopted stringent measures against
the importation Of American potatoes infected
with the Colorado beetle
| The Advertiser says that nice butter is ship
| ped to Portland market from Michigan by the
| barrel, in five pound packages wrapped in cloth
! 1t sells at 50 cents per pound.
| 1t is said that a man can make fool of him
| self cheaper in Washington than in auv other
| city in America. Does it at Government px-
pense. you know. Detroit Free Press.
Ten towns on the Maine Central railroad re-
Gently drew from Portland $50 800 pounds OF
merchandise in one month, IN addition to coal,
| lumber, paper stock, feed and grain Sc.
| A California contemporary puts in good
| word for the much-abuscd Monaghan, remark
ing that no Chimaman has ever yet become &
| book calN lsSer or life insurance agent.
The night police of saco have been deposed be-
| cause they ept so SOundly they could not give
an alarm when there was fire, and the result
was the Biddetord engines got there first, which
made the bold ircmen mad.
A Kentucky merchant offered a reward for
| the capture OF thief who robbed his store.
| AttcrWard being himself arrested and charged
| with the robbery, he was also sued by his cap
| tors for the promised reward.
Ex-Gov Morgan of New York follows the
| example Of James Russell Lowell, and declines
| to 60 to Russia. 1t is most too cold weather,
now, the Springfield Union thinks, to ask man
! to start for The Arctic regions.
James Costeley on trial for The murder OF
Julia Hawkes., at Dedham, Mass has been con.
victed Of murder in the first degree. The evil
dence against him was almost entirely circum-
| stantial.
The Boston Fire Underwriters Union has
employed detective to Investigate the cause Of
all fires. This step is taken for protection
| owing to the large number Of incendiary fire.
occurring Of late,
While dcmolishing an old house in Webster.
! y. H., recently, plate was discovered which
had evidently been used by some continental
rascal in counterfeiting continental money. II
must have been held there century.
It is said that the entire receipts of the New
| York Republic during its brief existence
amounted 10 about $4,000. The expenditure,