The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-04-06

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-Ihe Democrat in the House perseyere in their
contemplate practice OF publshing testimony against
public officers before the accused men have OPP
portunitY TO appear in their own behalf. Portland
Press.
The Press forgets that the Investigating
Committees at first sat with closed doors,
IN order to control that matter and were
assailel by Republican papers. and we
think the Press among them, with the cry
that honest inquiry should be open Now
that it is open, the complaint is made that
testimony gets published Isn't this
trihe inconsste It
There's a hitch IN the eXtradtion of
WinSIow The British government decline
to give HIM up, unless under assurances
that he Shall not be tried for any other
crime than that for which he has been
indicted The government Of the t. ;. de-
cline to give any promise, and 50 he will
probably remain abroad
Tile literary society of the Maine Central lnsti
tute discussed resolve 10 the effect that Mr. Blaine
is preferable 10 Mr. Tden for the Presidency. After
H.
Blaine Portland Press.
The next we shall hear about it, the
managers OF the Institute will want $50,
900 from Mr. Blaine's Legislature at Au-
gusta, They are shrewl up there at Pitts
field
The Belfast journal in honor of the democratic
victory at Ellsworth sports funny looking Grower
Well urht tn h, Iiyc
victory to justify the presence OF such foul affair
as the grafe-rooster Lewiston Journal
That's true-but there was other provo
cation, The Prog Age undertook to pick
upon one OF the chickens. when the fight
ing father OF the fami Y came forth There's
20 nonsense about that bird
Speaking of the railroad meeting at
Augusta, that was so enthusiastic on paper,
the Portland Press says
we wish them all manner Of success but it strikes
rs that practical Ira Sturgis must have thrown
GOODNESS over the Augusta portion Of the meeting
when lie remarked that the first step was for Au,
gusta to loan its credit for 5000 the
Prise. The tact is people amt quite so willing to
vote railroad aid a. they We're,
The Maine Central Directors, at a re-
cent meeting. passed resolutions looking
to the extension Of their rails from Show
hogan to Scion, and thence on the route
to meet the new road from Quebec That's
what We have indicted, orr readers viii
remember
THE Bangor liquor agenI puid the city treasurer
between August and March 3l12ti. The profits
were &!."f.
That's good showing. There doesn't
seem to have been anybody with gimlet
lurking among the casks. Is there any
good reason Why the Belfast agency il
run at all, should be run at Il loss?
Albert Y Hall, whose trial for rape
on the little girl OF eight years, we men
toned last week, was found guilty and
sentenced to II years Imprisonment Geo.
/, Cox tried for TIE same offence on the
same child, was acquitted.
We try TO keep up with the develop
ment Of administration rascalities. but
there's 50 much of it that some may es-
cape ~ The harvest i out of all proper
lIOn 10 Inc IdlDOIplS III tle Iltlt
a new postotlice has been established
at Damariscotta ANY subscriber to the
Journal whose paper has heretofore been
sent to Newcastle, can have it changed to
the new Office, on notification
The American Citizen, an anti Cath
Ollie paper, recently started at Portland,
has gone to the shades. It's conductor
was WiGslOw. an unfortunate name in the
newspaper business
Capt. Joseph 7. Berry formerly of
RocEland, Il gentleman we'll and fayora-
bly, known III the shipping business, has
been admitted Il partner in the firm OF
Vaughn. Bros. 4 Co, Liverpool.
The Supreme iniquity is reached, and have
handkerchiefs with pictures of the everlasting Cen
tehnial building. Gardner Reporter.
What's the trouble? Is there any reason
why we shouldn't all blow our noses once
in a hundred years?
- bill is before Congress to pay $780,
90 to the owners of Maine land taken to
adjust the boundary with England in
1872
Somebody whispered something diff
ierent to that old gun in Connecticut, Bro.
Hale Probably it was the ghost of Old
Pat
The Indictment against ex-clty mar
shall Mitchell, of Rock land. has been aban-
doned, the evidence being weak.
blaine has been slipping of the Ban
gor Wings bitter chalice. 1t was mixed
in Connecticut
The storm Of Tuesday night was
heavy at the westward, with probability
of marine disasters.