The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-08-31
GeneraIities.

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The first bale of Georgia cotton has appeared
at Atlanta. and was sold at II cents a pound.
Georgia's forty cotton mills are said to pay
good dividends, and Texas is building nine rail
roads
Charles II. Adams, the well known hotel
proprietor at Portland, died at Poland Springs.
Sunday 7. NJ, aged % wears.
Let the Modern DiogneS rest his lantern by
the bier of Michael c. Kerr. Here was an
honest man. Utica Observer
The Normal school at Castine is now the
largest but one in New England. Last term
there were registered 10 pupils.
In Portsmouth, Charles Glincs, aged IA, was
accidentally shot in the stomach by I; com
panon playing with pocket pistol and NOR
tally wounded.
\ little girl of il Mr.. Bragdon of Easton,
while out berrying last Saturday, was so III
jured by a falling tree that it resulted in her
death the following day.
Soundings for the Channel tunnel to connect
England and France will be finished by the
end of August. Tie engineers report that the
results are very satisfactory.
Pacific mail steamer Colon. that sailed from
New York Goth for AspinWall, returned on Sat
urday, having burst Il boiler, which killed the
chief engineer and one man.
The Molly Mcguire prisoners, Munley, Ne
Gehan, Carroll, Roarity and Boyle, recently
convicted of the murder of policeman Iost at
Tamagua, have been sentenced to death.
Mr.. Geo. Purlngton of Black Strap, near
Portland, was badly gored by Il bull one day
last week while putting ring in the animals
nose. 1t is doubtful whether he RECEIVERS.
A Maine clergyman recently omitted a pray
el-mceting i'll order to give the intidel lngrr>o!i
chance 10 speak in his Iecture-room. Piety
is not 50 rigid ;s it used to be. Boston Post.
The Portland Reform Club are making ar
rangcments for the convention of reform clubs
of the State, on the 9th and 9th of September,
which promises to eclipse ANY ever before held.
The Journal says that the Industrial School
for Girls at Ha!owe is brim-tull and running
over. There are thirty girls at the institution
and two or three are out on trial, liable TO be
returned.
The Wing saws the potato business is becom-
ing quite traffic in Bangor and vicinity. The
katahdin took 1000 barrels from Bangor to
Boston last Wedne slay, and left large mum
Der for the Cambridge
In Bangor, on Monday a carriage containing
Mr.. Geo. p. SpauIding and wife, Of Brewer,
was overturned by the runaway horses Of Il
hack, and Mrs. Spanlding so bad injured that
she died in few minutes.
Babcocli will be tried on the third Tuesday
in September, on the indictment found against
him As an accomplish in the safe burglary con-
spiracy. Emery Storrs, of Chicago, and VIM.
a. Cook, of Washington, will be his counsel.
As 4l9 clerks are to be discharged from the
Treasury Department by the 10th of October, Il
| circular has been issued to all of the Treasury
employees, informing them that as many as
choose to resign can have their pay contiii-
| ued till that date.
On Wednesday morning the 23d inst. n little
son of Dexter Halen (toll-gather at the Warren
toll BRIDGE fell from the bridge distance OF 20
| feet, striking upon II piece of timber which so
severely fractured the skull that little hope of
recovery is entertained.
| The New York Central, in view of the recent
dastardy attempt by tramps to wreck II rail-
f! road train to st. Louis. has placed special po-
lice guards all along lis line for its protection.
| Orders have been given 10 arrest all tramps
! found walking on its track
| A ten years old son of Joseph Towne Of Saco
| met with a shocking accident which will prove
| fatal. He was engaged with his father in re-
moving a chimney. when it toppled over and
| buried him beneath the ruins. One leg was
| broken and his skull crushed in.
| The shipments of fresh beef to England by
| steamers i'll refrigeratOrs continue uneXnected-
| " successful, the meat arriving in good cou-
| dition, fresh and tender as if killed two days
| before. The English cattle merchants are
| amazed. The American beef was bought up
ut less than half the price charged for English
beef.
The American says that on Friday, Mr.. Geo.
f. Saunders, Il young man 80 years of age,
| while at work at the edger in the mill of Robert
| Gerry, ut Ellsworth, was fatally injured by Il
sharp piece Of Il board three inches wide, flying
from the saw, striking his leg and penetrating
his thigh and groin to the depth Of seven inches.
1t is supposed that he bed to death internally.
The '.blacIl fellows" in Australia are rapidly
| dying away. Trucanini, the last Tasmanian
| aboriginal, died Il few months ago. and even in
| New Zealand, the far nobler Maori, who flour
| shed during the centuries of cannibaism and
| internecine warfare, is disappearing under the
| mysterious influences Of the white mans pres
ence.
The first shipment of cattle ii rough by rail
! direct from Chicago t. Lewiston arrived in
| Lewiston on Tuesday by the Grandl Trunk Rail
| road. They were about six days on the way,
and the cost of forwarding was about $50 per
car. The whole expense including care and
feeding, was about $40 per head. The cattle
were taken out and fed and watered every
twenty hours, and allowed once or twice
| a rest of twelve hours on the way They shrank
about sixty pounds a head, and came out in
good condition.