The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-08-03
Generaiities.

IoneratltI9h.
w. W. Chenery. for many years proprietor
| OF the Sit. klnCo House, is dead.
make up your mind he's got both his front
! hoots in the public crib.
When Il physician deserts his profession TO.
the pulpit the Inference is that he can preach
| better than he can practice.
| Lieutenant Cameron SAYS that the whole OF
Africa is one vast slave field. The trade is in.
cleasing instead of diminishing.
The Vinalhaven Granite Company have Sc.
cured a large contract in Chicago to cut the
stone for city and county building.
| In the races at Cleveland, Ohio Thursday
Goldsmith's Maid, was beaten by Smuggler
| making the remarkable time of :16 L.
4 son of jeff Davis belongs to the Chicka-
| saw Guards of Memphis, the company which
| rendered its services to the government to fight
| the Sioux
| II WAS General Braldock who first discover
| ed that one white man could not whip a dozen
| Indians. BraddOck is dead, but the war office
| still lives.
| Mrs. Agnes Bussev, who was recently thrown
| from carriage in DiXmont, did not recover
| from the injuries She then received but died
| on the 18th ut
| The steamer Plymouth Rock went ashore at
| Rockaway. Wednesday, with 2c0O excursion
| lists on board. A man and woman We're drown
| ed in the confusion.
| Revenge may be sweet, as hundreds of peo-
| pie have asserted, but the man who tries to
swecten lemonade with it will fail every time
| Detroit Free Press.
Mr.. Abram W. Heath of Sidney 70 years old.
| fell from his moving machine on Thursday OF
last week, and had his hand cut off short ut the
wrist. He is doing we'll
The Centennial Exhibition managers conf
| IDENTIFY expect to be able to pay a dividend AT
| the close of the big show. The total receipts
at the gates have exceeded $1,000
The houses of Mr.. Isaac Abbott Mrs. Solomon
Stahl, Mr.. j. F. Ingraham and Mr.. r. Y. erie,
in Rockland, were all entered by thieves, last
week. and more or less property stolen.
To see Lieut.. Grant walking down State
street switching a 25-cent cane, fighting In
dians and saving his country, is one Of the
noblest and nobbiest sights under the sun
Chicago Times.
The Newcastle post-otlice was robbed of about
$500 in postage stamps, Sunday night. Entrance
was gained by taking out pane of glass in the
front window As yet no clue to the pcrpera-
tors has been found.
Young men are scarce at Long Branch
this season that the girls have been known to
hang pair of pAntal0ons over the back of n
rocking chair and gaze at them for hours at Il
time. Brooklyn Argus.
A gentleman from California is now in Chi
ca@o negotiating for the purchase of ul-sized
canal schooner to take a cargo of black walnut
lumber from Chicago to San Francisco, via the
st. Lawrence and Cape Horn.
No candidate ought to be asked to carry such
a load as the President is now piling upon the
unfortunate Ohio governor, yet we are afraid
it will bother him and his friends to shake the
load on. LPhila. Times Ind.)
The Reporter says Hon. Abner Coburn's men
last week put into the barn seventy five loads
of hay in five days. the largest days work be-
ing tWenty-one loads. In thirteen DAYS they
housed one hundred and fifteen loads.
Near Bangor Il man lost his wife from Il
malignant disease. and there were no funeral
services. lie procured another quickly as pos
>lbe CHS fifth. and the next Sunday went with
her to hear the funeral sermon of Number
-Four.
The Calais Advertiser says the pickpocbcts
did 4 lively business during Barnum's exhibit
in that place Mrs. G.. NJ. Wentworth lost a
watch valued at $sl50. and several other names
are mentioned who lost from $50 to 800 worth
of valuables.
1t is reported that Wednesday night colored
,'holitit VI 1ltiliDulS, D ", attempted 10 ar
rest two negroes charged with stealing. He
succeeded III catching one of them. when the
other fired at him, the ball striking the prison.
er and killing him instantly. The murderer
escaped
Saturday forenoon, Daniel Bartlett, the ed-
est of the Bowdoinham Bank robbers died in
the state prison of consumption. He has been
SICK for long time, and resisted the encroach-
ment of the disease with an iron will. He had
served nine of his fifteen years sentence. He
Will be buried in the prison cemetery.
A woman who lives in Turner, where the
big bridge was unroofed by the wind the other
day, was so frightened by the pouring thunder
shower of last week that she took an umbrella
and went into the yard, not daring to stay in
the house, and remained there till the shower
was ove". And the roof didn't blow off, after
all.
Week ago Sunday morning, Gibson and
saith, cooks for the riNermen, at the short
tu'n Just below the mills in our village, lost
their beans, pot included There was a French
dance the evening before, and it is surmised
that the company got hungry, 'drew the beans
for ratlonS," and forgot to return the pot. Fair
field Chronicle.
At fremont, Ill.,, Il respected German farmer
named Wensler was pitching hay from wagon
TO u stack, when the handle Of his pitchfOrl1
broke, the part he was holding falling to the
ground. At the same time he lost his balance,
and falling upon the ragged end Of the broken
handle, he was pierced through the heart and
died almost instantly
The Bath Times says that we have secured
for ourselves a residence in hell Before we
start for it we would be much obliged to our
brother of the Times to give us a letter of in
PRODUCTION to his friend who rules he place
There's nothing like being well introduced,
especially in Republican community. Rock
land Opinion.