The Republican journal., 1877-07-05
Generalitles.

A terrible hail storm Friday at Chatham Canada,
demolished glass and fruit trees.
Miss Mary Haas shot man at Union Hills n.
j.. who attempted to kidnap her
Failures in New DIRK city for June foot up
- 0}2 i35 with assets of S699 l9l
The Democratic Legislative Convention i'll Charles
ton, 5. e., nominated three coorcd men.
The Catholic church at Laconia y. H.,
struck by lightning Sunday, Toss $4,000
CYRUS W. Field will sail for Europe on the It'll
On July III the same vessel with Mr. filden
The Press says that Collector Morrill, at Port
land has dismissed six custom house officers,
james Russell Lowell. the new minister to Spain,
will sail July H. on the Parthia, for Liverpool.
Saws the Graphic The first cracker of the ee-
lebratorv season has gone of dtd D." Sfkoolho"Se
~M III"
Boston leads all other cities in the country i'll
the amount Of her subscription to the st. John
sufferers
The horse -'Smug-er" won the race and purse
in the Beacon Park races near Boston. Friday.
Time 2:l9.
1t is estimated that $4,000 Maine people attended
the Centennial last wear at a cost Of SiNW.ooo or
$40 a head.
A delegation of South Carolina colored men are
en- route for Washington to ask for their share
| Of federal offices
| Miss Clara Louise Kellogg has taken To ltera
ture. She has given a contribution t" one OF the
| forthcoming magazines.
Mrs Iivermore will be grievcd to learn that
| President Hayes slipped Mayor Princes wine and
| liked it, Boston Post,
lart rterlVeu order Tor t. ,,,ltllng guns from
| the British Government.
Hopeful, which won the race at Fleetwood
| Thursday, trottcd without skip or break He is
| evidently the coming horse
The Liberty oil Works iii Iawrenccvillc Pa
were struck by lightning. Sunday and 1000 barrels
Of oil burned Loss S3oO0O
! President Hayes has concluded to visit New
Hampshire after lie has attended the Bennington
| (Nt) celebration August Is aud Is
The Nez Percos are going into Butter Root Val
ley and clean it ont, and if the Flat Heads don't
JON them, they will clean them out too
Measures are being adopted at st John to make
the new city more beautiful and convenient for the
transaction OF business than the old one,
The body of an old lady named castle was found
at the bottom Of well at Ava n T. with the
back of the head crushed Foul play is suspected
Mr. Whittier goes to Martha4 VINEYARD this
summer, where there is not much poetry, but
some sea breeze and great deal of camp meet
ing
There Is great uneaSluesS at the New York
Custom House one hundred men in the collectors
department will be removed and sixty in the sur
Neyors department
Mr. c. W. Hussev has contracted to carry the
mail from Albion to Fairfield for the next four
years. The mail will be carried from Albion to
Belfast by Mr.. James leighton
The death of j. s C. Abbott is the second since
the semi-centennial of the famous Bowdon class
of 1928, celebrated i'll Longtellows poem 5. F.
Benson being the first year ago.
Juvenile Kit Carson. by the name of Colt at
tempted to shoot clay pipe from the hand Of one
Dinsmore of Brattcboro, for practice. Result loss
of two fingers on the part of Dnsmorr
The next session Of the Commissioners of Phur
macy for examination ana registration of apotht
carries, will be at the Falmouth Hotel Portland
Tuesday July 10th, at o'clock, III,
The Liverpool and London ana Globe Insurance
Co.. which lost about $500 600 at St john has in
structed their resident agent at st JuAu to draw
al sight for losses and subscribe S2pOU 10 the relief
fund
on Tuesday, June 10Th, twenty six bushels of
peas Were picked from one little strip OF land at |
the Insane Hospital They furnished just enough |
for Il good mess all round, quite family to pro |
vide for.
The steamer Lady Of the Lake having ON board
about thirty persons, exploded her boiler at Silver
Lake Thursday, severely scacins six persons and |
less dangerously iniurng twelve others The boat
was badly damaged
Boston generously subscribes 30, 900 for the St
John sufferers and entertaus the President i'll
royal style at the same time. Boston has Il big
heart il it does take little wine for It's sonichs
sake Nashua Telegraph.
:, London dispatch says that Lord Beacontields
health is failing under the difficulties between the
members of his cabinet, They cannot agree upon
the sum to be asked for in the vote Of credit three
Of them opposing it altogether
1t was officially announced in the Austrian Reich
'rath Thursday. that no alliance Of any kind eN
sted between Austria and Germany, and, further
more, that the government still maintained lis
declaration of neutrality on the Eastern war Cucs
non.
Hiram Simpson of NasSalboro. recently received
III the thumb from II rusty nail, scratch scarcely
sufficient to draw blood but the hand and arm
'welled SO badly It's to burst in several places and
or time his life was dcSpaired of, but he is now
.ouvaleScent
A steamer Silver Lake Plymouth, Mass, ex
'loded its boiler, Thursday, and six persons were
severely and twelve slightly scadcd. A SUNDAY
choo excursion party had been on board, but only
bout thirty persons were aboard when the cXplo
ION occurred
Ezra Carter of this city has brought bill in
quity against the New England Express Com
,any for salary and money advanced to the sum
If $4,000 Notice served on the members of
he company i'll this city to the number of ubout
fifty yesterday Portland Press.
The New York World announces that Mr.. Til
lens friends have decided to make no effort to dis
ossess President HAYES of the White Hous, and
lieut. GOV. Dorshiemer announces that it is not