The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-13
GeueralitieS,

made to be broken.
Minnesota liquor dealers are taxed to support
the State ncbriate asylum.
Three Young ladies took the black veil at the
convent Of st. Elizabeth, in Port land, Saturday.
Machias has one hundred and twenty-three
persons on the town. A sad indication of hard
times.
Deacon VIM Carlton, of the firm of Garlic
ton & Co., of Rockport, a much respected citi
Zen died Sunday.
Nine Jurors in panel of twelve will be per-
mitted to return a verdict, according to the new
Constitution of Texas.
The Changers have increased so that there
are now over 400 lodges in the State, with an
average membership of 200.
Statistics are given to prove that of the sum
total of human misery, ply and mental,
women have to bear tWO-thirds.
The farm buildings of Benz. Platt. of Pitts
field. were destroyed by fire Friday evening.
Loss $1,000; insured $1,000.
General Babcock is said to be very nervous
about his coming trial, and the President does
not express himself as believing him innocent
now.
Frank S. Jarvis of Castine, mate OF the bark
Shawmut. was washed overheard and lost Sept.
| Sth, in gale, between Pensacola and Rio Ja-
nero.
The army overcoats which the fastidious suf-
| tercrs of Virginia City rejected are being dis
ributed to worthy members of the Piute COM
| munity.
| The people Of san Francisco show growing
| fondness tor reading. Twenty thousand books
| have been stolen from the Mercantile Library
| i'll one year.
! Half dozen tramp> who arrived At Portland,
tl,,,b hnn a N
pay their fare. were taken to the police court
and sent to lail.
The Erie Railroad has arranged to transport
| the survivors of the shipWrecked steamer
| Deutschland from New York to their re>pec-
tive destinations in the West, free of charge.
| The people of the seaport towns of Nova SEQ
tia are already planning to visit the Centennial
| Exhibition. In one place they propose to char
| ter steamer and pass week ut Philadelphia.
Tuesday night, as Estelle Mcfarland, girl
| aged II years. was coming across lots INTO the
| village of lsockport some unknown person SciZ-
ed and committed telonious assault upon her.
| A dollar day, says Il Boston paper, conf
mandS any number of laborers on our streets,
| and most such men are employed more to Eelp
them than because their services are needed.
The Maine Central Directors have voted to
discontinue the Pullman train after February
LIST, unless Il new arrangement can be made
with the Pullman Car Co., and to abolish free
| passes.
The Industrial School for girls in IIoowell
is now filled TO its utmost capacity. 1t has
proved one Of the most successful of all the be-
nevolent and retorhatory institutions in the
| State.
A petition viii soon be presented to the Legis-
| lature, by citizens residing i'll the suburbs to
set OIL all except the most thckly settled por-
pf oil nj 40 ON
| mercial.
Mayor Cobb calls the attention of BostonianS.
i'll his annual message, to the centennial of the
| Evacuation of Boston by the British on March
18th next, and suggests suitable municipal
celebration of it.
American brooms, from their superior make
and finish, have attracted attention in Europe
and heavy shipments of the article are now
made to England and Germany. The business
at present is remarkably good.
A mysterious box shipped by the wretch
Thomas in the steamship Celtic last october on
which he tried in vain to get insurance as CON
tanning gold, has been opened in New York,
and found to contain bags of shot.
The Boston journal pay Governor Castor
the following compliment = Should the politi-
cal winds ever again fill the Democratic sails,
we trust that they may wait into power a> pure
and true a man as William CASTOR"
The Boston journal says: sit is a bit OF
forgotten history that Jefferson was formally
nominated to the presidency for a third term
and Rhode island lie nronntlv declined th,.
nomination.
|
;,lnnt Inventors md c,shiar If tho WalIohnro
National Rank Who were chosen t>yrnty-four
| wears since. are sill serving. The bank hns
always made its regular scmi-annlIal dividend,
from time 10 time
some OF the sentences imposed upon Grim
nastern m,,Iaf,~tnrS WI siromIa ss"lf a.,
nsino ylIlgor Ianouaoe a fellow recently ont :,
fine of $50: another small thief .,ot 300 days
for pett larceny. and 4 Wife striker was mulrt-
cd in $500
| Alanson rainier, VINO Few years ago, owned
some OF the finest steamers on the great lakes,
,,',yarfnI c;fiznns of Rnfi,Io iiaI The n,hnr
aov in an insane ,svlnm nennilnss and cray
| nj the ona of 81 vn,irs lie lost his wealth in
| recliess onerul,tion
| A scholastic professor, in explaining to Il
class of Young ladies the theory according to
which the body is entirely renewed every seven
years, Salu; lhls' Mss Mss b.: III seven years
~ W, ~ ,n,isi w NY
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The shoe and leather exhibition building in
the Centennial grounds will be great addition
to the 'si,lc shows" of the Exhibition. 1t will
be 1850 feet by 5l4 feet on the ground two stories
in height, constructed of iron. wood and glass,
any WI .os( F,'ToVV -. l,.l1 department vi
ii'''">''S VIC ''i oe"' 'A0 "oi"'
| AT Lewiston Friday night. a mother left her
child sitting at the supper table alone. In her
absence the younnster pulled of the table cover.
upsetting a large Kerosene lalnn, thus encom-
passing him With flames. Nv timely id of
nassers-hv tbc rhilJ wns resr,Ied from a tcrri-
| hie ,In,th without SERIOUS iniury
Somo homes fonnl roco,tlv on thn nra,ni.ns
| of Mr. ,,ooinv ~ Franklin Gonn ore thnnyht
by many 70 be the remains Of m old woman
Who ,lisanncared from lrhnnon many Years
400 and was never heard fran Shr wiz re-
snectnbIv connected WA a frpouent oupst Of
Tie Iate Senator Ruclinob,m nnI her disan
nearnnce is a GREAT mystery
that even liquors in the original imported pack