The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-05-25
Generalitiss.

| An q voice from Minnesota, and it cries. "help
| help! grasshoppers again"
The Kentucky Republican State Convention en-
| dorsed Grant before its adjournment.
| The Gardiner Savings Institution now refuses dc
| posts OF any considerable amount.
1t is said that Mr.. Wallack has sunk $4,000 on the
| production of Mr. Wheeler's "Twins."
| The Poland camp meeting in charge of Rev. +.
| Martin, will begin on the 22d of August.
On farm in Lancaster county, Pa. is q fence of
| chestnut rails made IN l7GO, or ZIG years ago.
The Lewiston companies who packed ice on the
| hennebec last winter have sold out their stock.
shipbuilding at Newcastle, Damariscotta, Waldo
boro and Thomaston will be quite active this
| The Democrats of the Eighth District of Indiana
| have nominated Colonel WIN. Mclean for Congress
! Beaufort n. G., has captured another whale This
is sixty feet long. and will yield 1000 gallons OF
| oil.
Bursting buds and trilling frogs have come and
the next charming reminder OF the season will be
| nankeen pants.
"Chestnut" means sold story" or cold joke" We
don't mean the vegetable chestnut, but the technical
| ejaculatory one.
232 Ohio, 30, New York, 203, California, 202 Iii
nois, l65; and Michigan, 149.
| Wild geese are going northward not single spies
| but in battalions. Anybody must be goose TO 20
| Ill tlat direction uutll us WARMER
! The Katahdn Iron Works are now turning out
| about thirteen tons of number | X iron, which is a
very superior quality OF soft iron.
"Silver threads among the gold y Four men,
aged respectively 20. H. IS and 81, arrived at the
| Black Hills last week, to try their luck
| When young man goes home with one OF those
| new fashioned plaid suits on, the old goes
quietly to the stable, and counts the horse blankets
The Anchor Works at Camden have just turned
| out two large Irotman anchors, weighing respec
lively 400 and 1900 pounds, for a hennebunk ship.
| Henry c. Bowen says that Beecherite Is worse
| than the devil. Rebuke the devil and he will fly
| from you, but rebuke Beecherite and he flies at
| you.
| Smoking is strictly masculine accomplish
| ment In Russia. Ladies not only smoke In their
| rooms but join the Gentlemen in cigarette al the
| table.
! The owners of the wrecked emigrant ship Strath.
! more will make hands ome present to Capt. Clifford
| of the American whalei Young Phoenix. for his aid
| to survivors.
| The Commercial Advertiser suggests to Nr. Elaine
the propriety of his sending Coi. Scott Il pair OF
| slippers or Il nice family Bible. send along little
| Ratchet, too.
| Next month Pho Mono will have been Pope thirty
years and if he lives two years longer he will have
outlived the full term OF st. Peters primary which
| was thirty-tWo years.
| Grant never wrote that Philadelphia speech The
sixty seven lines. That shows somebody else wrote
| it. LPittsburg Post.
| Mr.. Henry c. Bowen was accommodated from
| Plymouth church last Thursday night, by unan
| nous vote OF one of the largest church meeting.
| ever held in that church.
The New York journals employ scapers. AIMS
| Dickinson says 50, adding that the Tribune in it,
criticism of her debut, WAS mAleyolent, the Time,
| brutal and the Herald stupid.
It is announced that Gen. Garibaldi will forthwith
retire from the Italian Chamber of Deputies, anse
seek leisure and health at Caprcra. The al
| legged for this step Is ill health.
The porgv business in Lincoln county is having It,
usual spring awakening and i'll be pushed this sea
| son with great vigor. several new steamers il
| readiness to put Into the business.
The Hartford Courant (Repubcan) thinks thai
| "Mr, Blaine makes an gorgeous blunder in pu>h
| ing his candidacy sharply. The people want to
| have some voice in the matter themselves"
IT is announced from ST. Louis that more than on,
hundred railroad and steamboat lines centering II
| and pointing toward that city have agreed TO take
those who wish to go to the St. Louis convention u
half fare.
The Union Mills of Orono, Me, which are owned
| by Messre. Gilman & Webster, have been almost en-
trey washed away by the high water in the rive
| undermining them. The damage is estimated to bt
| between $1,000 and $1,000.
The Kennebec Valley camp meeting will begin Al
| Richmond on Monday the eth day of August con
| tnung one week. The State camp -meetng will b,
| held on the camp ground at Richmond. beginning OF
| Monday, the 18th Of August,
Squedunk out of thee
| Oshkosh, thee-thee, New Jersee.
Springtime cries-It rains Away
summer cries-It's warm, Away!
Winter cries-lt SHOWS; Away!
When Dom Pedro visited the pententary in Pitts
burgh and told that the building had cost $500
900, he remarked that the man who built it shoulC
be in il now" and added that this country coun
try of Jobbery.
The Police of Portland have three hundred dollar
| worth of unclaimed gold chains, taken from two
plckpockets convicted there Of larceny. The thieve
| claim to have come from Philadelphia The police
| invite owners to claim property.
The date of the presidential inauguration will oc
cur next year on Sunday. 1t will also occur on that
| day in the following years 1877, 1918, 1915 1873
2O0! 2O2y 2O57 2u15 etc Just make note Of tba
and remember it when these dates come round.
Custer gets back on Grant by writing in the Gal
axy that Mcclellan soldier " whose menta
| training and abilities were of higher order, ant
| whose military qualifications and knowledge were
superior to those possessed by any officer who sub
| sequently led the Army Of the Potomac 10 battle"
The rumOr that a in New Hampshire haC
made a death-bed confession of the murder of the
two Christensen women at Smutty Nose Island
appears TO have been an ugly sensation, probabl!
| suggested to monger of horrors by the mania
for confession that has recently prevailed in som,
| quarters.
| Arrangements are being made in Gardiner for thu
dedication of the soldiers monument on Decoration
| Day by committee from the city government anC
| Heath Post There will be parade by some CT tn,
| different organizations in Augusta Hon. +. A. Pix
of Calais has been engaged as orator Of the day.
On Wednesday last, while A girl was caring for III
infant son of Mr.. j. NJ. Smith of Gardiner, she at
tempted to toss the little fellow in her toward.
| the ceiling, when Its head came in contact with th'
| knob of gas-burner overhead, which entered thu
skull half an inch, INJECTING painful and dangerous
| wound
Miss Dickinson will probably not be on tn,
stage long before she finds that she has theme
enough for the platform. We should judge that sh,
might present graphic picture of Behind thu
Scenes" and preach" q vigorous sermon thereon
Bartlett, the Bowdoinhan bank robber in the
Maine State Prison, is in the last stage OF con
| sumption. 1t is impossible for him TO recover. lie
is in he hospital department and wasting ava.
does not expire for about four years.
Sister, when you start out as Il callare
Pinch your card in the presence Of the waitalre
The right upper corner for the nsolaire,
The left ditto for the usual visitaire,
The right under corner pour congo prendair.
Punched in the presence Of the waiaire.
Pinch, sisters, pinch! Pinch with caire
Pinch in the presence of the waitaire.
An the trunk lines announce tickets at halffart
| to delegates attending the National Republican Con
| vention in Cincinnati June 4, aud to the Democrat
ic Convention in ST. Louis, June ~ other visitors ri
| the round trip Of $50 from New YORK ~ Cincinnati
and return, and at iiO.5O from New York to st
| Louis and return. Tickets for the Republican Con
| vention to Cincinnati are good from June to the
10Th going, and until June % for return. Ticket
for the Democratic Convention at St. Louis will be
good from june IS to the 2sth going, and until Jul,
| IL for return.
The cost of months stay in philadel
phia with daily visits to the Exhibition
may be as follows, surprising the visitor
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