The Republican journal., 1876-09-28

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GeneraIities.
Portland has raised 81 200 for the Savannah
sufferers.
The citizens Of Machias are building Il fine
trottng park
New Hampshire has thirty thousand farms,
two thousand of which are deserted.
The Newfoundland fisheries are below last
years in quality. but prices are better.
During the last thirteen years the donations
to Dartmouth College amounted to $500, $50.
The n. Y. Chamber OF Commerce has thus
far collected over $4,000 for the Savannah suf-
tererS.
The little daughter of Gen. Newton applied
the key which caused the great explosion on
Sunday
The Governor of Texas weighs $50 pounds.
When he puts his foot on Il measure, it is never
heard of again.
A party Of fifteen persons left Piscatapuis
County this week for California, where they
intend residing.
Dogs destroyed twenty-four sheep out Of a
(Nt) pasture, Thursday night.
Lord Palmcrston once said, speaking of the
Turks: ''What energy can be expected of
people with no heels to their shoes
The special train for the Centennial over the
Eastern road Monday, took ten car loads Of eX
curSionists from different parts of Maine.
The largest sea-turtle ever seen on the north
crn coast has Just been caught in the Vineyard
Sound near Woods Hole. 1t weighs 900 lbs.
The schooner Trade W ind, Gray, from Rock
land, Isaac Stilwel pilot, was the first vessel
TO pass through He'll Gate after the explosion.
Jas. Ford, keeping company with Benjamin
Higgins daughter, in Otisicld, Md, had trouble
with the Odd gentleman, who shot him fatally.
There is great deal of new interest in Wash
ington county respecting the proposed Shore
Line railroad. 1t looks as il the people meant
business.
A gentleman and his daughter got lost on
Mount Washington recently, and spent the
night in cave. They were glad when it was
morning.
BY the fall of Il scafolding in Brooklyn, two
brothers, Joseph and Terence smith. painters,
were fatally injured One was impaled on an
iron fence.
The yellow fever has been steadily on the in
| crease in Savannah, and there is Il great deal Of
suffering, especially among the poorer classes
| Of the population.
| Dangerous Hoods are reported in the forest
| regions of Pennsylvania. Several dwellings
have been swept away and twenty-five persons
| have been drowned.
Up at Burlington, VT, the revenue officers
i have been selling lots OF forfeited goods, such
! as jcWelry silks, and even liquors. smuggling
| is still one of the arts
A horse employed in hosting mackcrcl on
Portland Pier fell into the dock, swan round
| -al m
was ready for work again.
ing that Reform has bin runnn in dis coun-
try ever since dc wa, and he never bin 'Iectcd
yet. Time he stop runnin.'
| The Minnesota grasshoppcrs have gotten as
| far east as indianapolis where they are eating
up the crops and laying eggs, i'll preparation
| for vigorous campaign next year.
The venerable eX-Chicr Justice shepley of
Portland. who is now 81 years of age, Is still in
excellent health, and retains his mental and
physical powers to an unusual degree.
Two Fitchburg children played fish, one of
them putting the hook in his mouth, while the
would-be angler rceled in the line. Three doe
| tors were one hour cutting that book loose
While six Swedish laborers were at work at
the bottom OF shaft in an old iron mine, near
Brewster's, N. Y, large mass of ovcrhang-
ing rock, falling 100 feet, crushed them all to
death.
Here's another case Of intimidation in the
South. The president Of the Hayes and Wheel
er Club at HEREFORD n. G., has been indicted
for larceny and put i'll jaiI. New York En-
press.
Quite a large number of persons are sick in
New y ork and in Brooklyn with what is known
lis the Centennial malaria, which has attacked
them after their return from the Philadelphia
exhibition.
Theodore Titon is in another Scrapp BY
mistake, as he says, he cot INTO wrong berth
on q sleeping car, and an enragcd husband
tried to pummel him, but he escaped to the
smoking car.
Mr.. John Walter, the proprietor and editor
of the London Times. is now in this country
The Times was established by his grandfather
more than Il century ago, and has grown to be
Il power in the world
Capt. johnson, who made the voyage across
the Atlantic in the dory Centennial, SAYS moth
ing on earth would tempt him to repeat such Il
voyage. He and his craft are being exhibited
i'll Liverpool at siNpence admission.
A treasure in gold dust and slues, worth half
million dollars, has been dug out of Il cellar
in San Jose, Cal. Ii was doubtless hidden by
Nine. Bernul, the grandmother of the present
owner of the ranch, III pronunciation days.
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rnoi ~ "; ON, ~ a" u.iho" H. Lltn
VI i,,i e't nnsel IN Pollllon
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Extract from private letter from New
Orleans merchant: The city will give $4,000
laory ,o IL i lt't a"u ivy uApeeI -ogoo
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u iii' ,' f ~ gu iol
ny : 'o0' ""' nov ~ '''0" HWY Il 0''''
ma 1orx,aI savs That oal.-h,.,,o,s Of, SOM,
clogSed up the driving wheel of the Hallowell
wire work, Tuesday. After stopping the mill,
and after hours Of labor and the destruction of
hundreds of eels, the wheel was finally cleared
and the machinery once again set in motion.
Mr. Erod D,,a,o, o,d ano.ho. ,,o,,,,,. ,,,,,,
r.,, p .tu Io,.'nus ,au 'll?.n Is soutS lian
day, when by the accidental discharge of Il gun,
Delaney was severely shot in the thigh. His
companion and Just loaded his gun with % fine
shot, and had put the cap on when it was dis
charged.
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