The Republican journal., 1876-03-30
GeueraIities.

lc rails, Will get well.
In Indiana, they are manufacturing and ship
ping wagon wheels to Germany.
Bayard Taylor has been chosen Centennial
poet, and has accepted the appointment.
A Georgian sent to friend in Liverpool two
Savannah shad frozen into two blocks of ice.
King Oscar, of Sweden, will let his second
son, but sixteen years old, come over to our
Centennial.
Mr.. J. II. Stanley, the town clerk of Leroy,
n Y, has been reelected for the fiftieth con-
Secutive term.
They have "swell parties" in New Orleans
The refreshments very appropriately consist of
dried apples and water.
Wilcox, the California Assemblyman who
bounced Chronicle reporter for writing him
up, has been fined $500.
The class of'74 Rockland High School, gave
complimentary supper to Prof. A. A. Wood
bridge Saturday evening.
An order for the reduction of the salaries
of the city officers of Rockland passed both
branches of the city council Thursday evening.
There is an immense pigeon roost near Car
penter, Pa, and the birds are said to number
millions. At times the tiocks darken the sky
The easterly half of the roof of Galen Rcy-
nolds' house, in Sidney, was blown of in the
gale of Tuesday and smashed into kindlng
wood,
During the gale OF Tuesday live cunners were
thrown upon the beach at Saco, and some par
ties gathered strings OF them and brought them
to town,
James MCGEE OF Bangor, recently seriously
injured on the European Railway while intox-
lcated, has sued the man who sold him liquor
for $4,000.
Capt Silas Hodgdon, of Hodgdon's Mills,
suddenly disappeared from Gloucester few
weeks since He had just disposed of u cargo
of herring.
The wall of Harwood dam, upper mills, in
Machias gave way Monday morning. The low
er mills and bridges We're in imminent danger
for a while.
Thomas W. Piper, convicted of the murder
of Mabel Young iii Warren street church, on
the 23d of last May, was on Monday sentenced
to be hung.
During the gale on Tuesday the barn of Sam
uel Porter, at Riverside, was blown down. He
had just time to get out his cattle before the
bu ldlng went over.
Mrs. Betsey Walker of Wilton died upon the
Goth inst, at the advanced age of 81 years Ten
of her children are now living, the youngest of
whom is fifty wears of age.
A passenger reports that the steamship Bal
tic had an exceedingly narrow escape from
collision with an immense iceberg, in dense
fog, on the banks of New Foundland last week.
Vessels can now be built in Maine at less price
than at any time in the past thirty years, ac-
cording to a Washington CORES pOndeut The
best vessels do not cost over Sol to 500 per ton.
A man who appeared at the New London
almshouse, apparently very destitute, some time
ago, is now found to have been wearing belt
containing several thousand dollars, ever since.
About the middle of June will be the stylish
time to visit Philadelphia, as the steamship
Scotia has been chartered by party of English
noblemen, who will arrive about that time with
their families
There is valuable piece of real estate in
this city which Is leased for SO years at an an
nual rental of twenty tons of pig iron. The
lessor evidently believed in hard money. Bos-
ton Transcript
A student at Princeton College exploded
some powder under the door to tutors room
on Friday evening, destroying the door and
blowing out window, besides soaring every
body in the vicinity.
1t turns out that the man into whose ''bsck'
d Derby girl fired pistol-bulet the other day,
was an innocent young fellow who WAS at
tempting TO call on her, and not burglar at
all, as she supposed.
chias Union, makes occasional calls at his office.
He has gained strength sufficiently to be able to
take short walks about the streets, and to call
upon neighbors and friends
Bangor people are happy because the Liver
pool firm OF A. f. Il d. Mckay has settled with
its creditors in that city in full. The trim had
previously been released from its obligations
on per centum agreement.
The report that the steamer Charles Hough-
ton has been sold to the Portland, Bangor Il
Machias Steamship Company is incorrect. This
company has taken the steamer, and fitted her
up and will buy her if she i, suitable for their
purpose.
Mr.. c. c. Lee, who has been teaching near
kcwance, H., suddenly became insane with
out any apparent cause. He arrived at his
nome in FoXcroft sunday, accompanied all
the way by a brother Odd Fellow. His case is
u deplorable, though it is thought not hope
less one.
A prominent clergyman of Brooklyn last
week, while taking one of course OF boxing
lessons for exercise, received what the bows
call "a jolly black eye" On Sunday he chose
his text from Timothy, 4th chapter, It'll verse
Il have fought good fight, have finished my
course
Francis Hawkins Of Meredith, n H., is
nearly 30 years Old, has never missed voting at
an ELECTION since Ne WIS Il years u age ana al
ways voted the Democratic ticket Last year
he framed and finished Oft house. In De
cember last he sawed and Tilted for Il stove ten
cords Of wood.
The snow fall between Omaha and California
is far greater than known for many years past.
The snow covers almost the entire country, and
in many places the Pacific road-bed is from ten
to twenty feet below the top Of the snow. 1t
has required almost superhumau Efforts to keep
the roads open,
There is not an American abroad" writes
Kate Field from London, ''who doesn't blush at
the recent revelations in Washington; but if
| this unvailing of whted sepulchres leads to the
conviction Of every criminal holding office, the
day Of regeneration will be nearer than some
of us dared to hope
While James Buchanan was president he was
so particular not to receive presents, that when
a lady sent him a pair of slippers he not only
returned them, but directed the messenger to
wait and get receipt from the giver, 80 that
he might have i'll his possession proof that they
were sent back.
PHILADELPHIA, March ~ The steamship
DOnati, from Rio Junerio, which arrived st
this port to-day brought 1905 packages of ex-
hibits, among which are 800 specimens OF ma
tive woods. The French steamship Labrador
from Havre, arrived at this port this afternoon
having on board the exhibits forwarded BY the
French government for the Centennial
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The Storm.
Tho on la Of Sunday was vary Savara