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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-02

The murderer of the Joyce children in the Bus
sew woods. West koXburv June. T.! 1860, in all
human probability, sleeps III death III the small
graveyard at the castery end of Ggloupc's Island.
Boston harbor, where he died Of small poN ia 1873.
His name is there given and his age at the time
of the commission of the murder was -. He was
a resident in this city, and worked as Il Journey
man i'll different parts of the city prior to IN"
crime, and was visitor ut the house Of the grand
mother at the South End, where the children
stopped while in Boston Taking to drink he
drlttcd away from Boston. aud WAS found IN HI
cago Il few days after the crime, where, IN one of
his maudlin periods. he confessed to a companion
he was the pcrpetrutor Of the deed. pom coming
to his consciousness be denied all that he had SAID
and no further evidence could then be obtained
His revelations were communicated TO our author
tiles and two of our detective force were sent to
that city to shadow him. This was done thorough
y and for six weeks these experienced officers Piled
every art to find out the truth. They became ac-
ullainted with him gained his confidence, were with
him frequently, and heard from his own lips the con
frSsion of his preparation of the double crime. Yet
he offered no corroboratlng clldence-no clue bv
which the trail could be followed and when he was
in his sobcrmoments would invariably deny all that
he had previously said The revelations thus made
were communicated to one Of our abest and best
known Justices, who WaS to pronounce upon the
expcdiency Of an arrest Every effort was made
to gan some corroboratIn% testimony from him.
but without ayail-not single cireunstantia III
cident being vouch sated which would serve to
strengthen hls unsupported statement. Ncvcrthe
less, the time, the prompting the manner, of the
atrocltv were in turn narrated. only once but
over and over again. and i'll turn, in his sober
moments denied. The officers reluctantly gave
up the ease and returned to Boston, after becum-
ing satisfied that it useless To proceed further
unless some confederation was obtained They
were both impressed with the conviction that he
told the literal truth in his drunken moments, and
talsitied when he was sober Suffice ii to say in
conclusion, that he drifted back to Boston, and
that during the smallpox epidemic of 1873, he
took the disease, superinduced by his dlsslpated
habits, and died and was buried upon Galloupes
Island, where his grave and head board may now
be seen-as they were by on Tuesday last, and
where we learned this remarkable story. Com
monWealth
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-02
The Question of an Issue with Prohibition.

Since our paper of last week, in which
We declared against the policy of an issue
with the prohibtionists of Maine, we have
had letters from some of the most promi-
nent Democrats of the State, sustaining
our position. The sentiment in the party
is even stronger and more extended than
we supposed it to be. We do not include
in these endOrsers Of our sentiments Hon
Monroe Young Mayor Of Ellsworth, be-
cause he does not so declare himself but
we give his letter below. We believe him
to be sincere, for his letter accOrds with
his official course as Mayor in 1873, when
liuuor sellers We're prosecuted with the
utmost rigor. Mayor Young says
ELLSWORTH, July "A.
W. H. SIMPSON. EsQ-l notice i'll your last issue
what YOU say i'll regard to license. Well. you may
be right And if you are let us put in our plat
form an endorsement of the present law, and de
mand its enforcement. You will find, | hope, a
sentiment i'll our Convention not to dodge and
eater any longer. We should meet this matter
squarely and if the Democracy will endorse the
present law, | am satisfied Yours truly,
MONROE YOUNG.
Mr.. Young cannot fail to perceive that
there is a wide difference between the
endorsement Of prohibition, which he pro
poses, and polite ignoring of that which
is certain TO be source of dissension and
weakness, if lnwisely insisted upon
The Republicans have bitter contentious
among themselves, upon national issues.
The question is whether we shall heal
their dlssensions by presenting an issue
upon which they never yet failed to unite
that of prohibition.
a prominent Democrat of Bangor, who
saw Mr.. Young's letter before it reached
this office, also drops us Il line, written in
Il vein which ARENAS Ward would call
'.sarkasm." We are not authorized to
give the name of the writer but the style
will be familiar to some of our readers
Abiding to the letter of Mayor Young, he
says
fully endorse its sentiments, but would go one
step further and have the convention after voting
approval (f it does to vote to that the law is
enforced according to its letter and spirit both as
to state and town agencies. Also to advocate re
peal OF Chap. 204 laws of last wintcr-being in fact
an act to enable Crusaders to get their rum with
out having names entered on the book.
Then for consistency ! would pass resolve
that we are the original Maine Law Pary-that
Hubbard was its father. and that the Republican
party has stolen it
Also resolve that we would not enforce the law
except for political purposcs-thc only way it has
heretofore been And think we should catch lots
Of voters-perhaps enough to elect our candidate.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-02

Some of the papers are saying that a
daughter Of eX-Gov. Coburn has just grad
uated at Colby University, The eN-Gov.
is a bachelor Of very strict life but Il
smart niece of his graduated at that col
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-02
Letter From Iowa.
MOULTON, low. July

One of them is quite a romantic affair,
and had the pen of a modern story writ
er, might make an interesting narrative
of the facts in the case, which are simply
these. About six months ago MOulton
gentleman went to the Black Hills, and
stopped at a little hotel between Dead
wood and Custer City. The proprietor
of the hotel was q single gentleman, and
said he wanted a wife very badly, was
rich and would like to go East and find
for himself q spouse. Whercupon the
Moulton gentleman told him of a pretty
accomplished lady, of this burg, who
would make him first class wife
The landlord Immediately wrote to he.
and after some correspondence proposed
marriage, if She liked him ON seeing him
She agreed he came. she saw, and he
conquered In eight days he departcl
for the Black Hills, taking with him ON
ot our taireSt girls as his wife. Eyerybod,
is talking OF it, and all the girls are on til,
lookout for somebody from the Blaca
Hills This bridegroom said thar he knew
of but one unmarried woman there, aud
she could have her choice of the meg
Many of our citizens have gone to thu
Hills, and many have returned, disgustcH
and dead broke" They say that Il il,
tie capital may easily he doubled or treh
led there but that is utter tooIishnrss ff
a man to ga without capital, or lit lcas
enough To- board himself for Il while. Blu
experience is the only teacher, and near,
every week somebody starts for the Blac.
Hills, sure of coming back independent
The other great exciting cause was thc
advent of the European Circus. Belorc
"sun-up' many teams We're in town, ,d
more coming from all directions The.
never was SO many people in town on..
| within the memory of the oldest r"sjlrl-
| Horses and mules Of all descriptions VrI.
pressed into service. and every body caw
10 the show. Hardly single buggy vu.
to Ice seen, but nearly all drove sp..
halncssed in the farm wagon. The,
wagons are very heavy, something like
long stout express wagon Most of thr
have springs, but it is very hard ridG
over the rough roads in such Il couNy..
ancc \ crowd of people Of such appeal
anrc never saw, and no one can imu4u
| how it looks until thrN SEQ f0i thcmSclrr.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-02

The quantity of water required in cities has been
found bv experience to increase faster than the
population About 60 gallons, or cubic feet per
day to each lnhabitant is considered fair ample
allowance. Many cities have not half as much
while in other large cities, like Boston or Port
land there is used and wasted half more With
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-02

The strikers say that they struck for
bread-yct one of their first acts was to
burn an elevator full of grain. The re-
suit Of the move tn us far has been to
throw themselves out of employment, and
raise the price Of all kinds of provisions
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-02
Mrs. I1ovt, daughter of the late Chief

Mrs Iioyt, q daughter of the late Chief
Justice Chase, has q pleasant paper in
the August number of Scribner's Maya
zine, descriptive of a canoe trip from
Maine to Canada, in which she pays some
handsome compliments to our stalwart
lumbermen.
4 despatch says that Beecher in his
sermon Sunday night, claimed that he had
been misrepresented by the newspapers,
and said he was now as always, a friend
to the working men. Because Of fears of
being mobbed, a police force was present
in the church
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-02
The Eastern War.
HORRIBLE CRIELTIES.

NEW YORK, July 81. \ cable special
says Russian officers and men are eNas-
perated because Of their defeat in Plevnia
with the mutilation Of the dead and mas
sacrc of the the wounded by the Turks
The camp at Bjela is excited and eXult-
ant over the report that great battle is
to take place in a few days. \ kustendgc
despatch says frightul cruclties were
perpetrated by the Circassians in North
eastern Turkey, and 1000 Bulgarians ar
rived there half starved and naked
Many were horribly wounded and march
ed three days without food to escape the
Circassians and BaZouks
VARIOUS STATEMENTS.
\ Bucharest despatch SAYS Russia is
modifying two new army corps. and q re-
serve of $4,000 men will soon be in camp
at Ploiesti. A Vienna despatch states
that Mehemet Ali expects to attack the
Russians in the rear by the way of Tier
novia and began his movement last Sat
urday, A Shumla despatch says Fridays
fight near Rasgrad was more severe than
at first reported, the Turks losing $50
killed and $50 wounded. The latter
who arrived at Shumla, en- route to the
hospital at Narna, We're in shocking
condition. A Vienna despatch says that
Nidhat Pasha viii remain there ten days
before going to London Two of the
strongest Turkish batteries at Nicsics
have been sileuced.
TO PROTECT BRITISH INTERESTS.
LONDON, July 81 \ despatch from
Plymouth states that the steamships Fla
mingo and Condor, which go to the Dan
ubc to protect British interests and assert
Great Britan's treaty right to maintain
two gunboats on the Danube, will be ac-
companied to the blockade bv the iron
clads Shannon and Agincourt to support
them should their passage be opposed.
rNCONFIEMED.
There is no confirmation from any
quarters ofthe Times Bucharest despatch
reporting the defeat of the Turks near
Rustchuk except a special despatch to
the News from Vienna which says. 60
night We have adviccs OF Il great defeat
of Achnet Eyonb Pasha.'
AN ENGAGEMENT.
C0NSTANTlNOrLE, July 81 Official
dispatches from Adrianople to-day says
Suleiman Pasha's corps have effected Il
junction with Raoi1 pacia. near leni
Saghra where an engagement is proceed
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-02

In a recent article on Castjnc the writer
says of the summer visitors ''They will
pause before the white house on Main
street, where Tallyrand once lodged.
Machias also can boast of an old man
sion, the Wetherbee house, in which
TalIyrand was at one time q Quest
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-02

CONSTANTlNOrLE, July 81. Official
dispatches from Adrianople to-day says
Suleiman PaSha's corps have effected Il
junction with Kaoi1 pacha near leni
Sa9hra where an engagement is proceed
ing.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-02
Another and Better View Of the Subject.


1t is gratifying to turn from the bloody
records of the riot at Montreal to the ac-
count OF the conduct OF a New York
priest, Rev Father +. v. Mcnamara, an
Irish Catholic, founder of st. Johns col
lege. Kings county, New York, author of
the 'Irish National Songs" who read to
the Orangemen Il lengthy address plead
ing for the extinction Of religious ami
mostly and for the promotion of an en-
lightened and truly patriotic spirit among
all classes of his country men. 1t WAS an
eloquent, patriotic and Christian address.
this extract being an example OF its spirit :
have this very summer mingled in the cut
door gatherings OF at least 2O0jn Catholic Irish
men who wore the Orange color at their button
hole and who oatcd yellow bunting from every
spar Of the steamers and from every point Of the
bargcs that bore their tens of thousands of patr
otic followers the waters ot the Hudson to all
the picnic parks i'll our vicinity This was prompted
bv spirit of enlightened putriotiSm ny which they
would give Won Irish Protcstauts to understand
that they recognize your rights Is lrsmncn and
that your religion is 10 Var to their friendship and
protection. Love the land that bore You. BE
patriots AND gentlemen. an" inc modest iIl I
stately lily and the strains OF Whatever music we
lllat .nulTiu4hE ,r,tl ",i ''ua'' ViTH i1 ~,
the Boynr.
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,rattau, Cturan, Fitzgerald the shcuyscs, Wolf
i@h H. ni,Jm 'y INK ,'.'
tion were Professionals by training and by PROBES
'rlbl, '"[i' w., ,,r'y ', lrr b1r, g
their souls were intensely "na entirety lnsi, Pr~
tempt Of all well meaning people if vlulr vr
honor 'h'S' iIH'tf'""T u"'I IS M 'I'' r", a.
their fellow Procstm,s On the films, protest. I'd
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"@oi'ItS "l lil' I"l''"N tA'""I"NF'' una
l" GOING vi UNI ''ii'H'''i W '''''''
nt4nrin,r - nnnu nf decentralization srt
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to the ar Ot line HONnr NattE diltl
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-02

The Roman Catholic Bishop Hendricken Of
Rhode Island told his people Sunday: Strikes
are bad and must inevitably tend to get the striker
into something worse.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-02


Fire plugs or Itydrant> are usually placed l5o
yards apart, and estimate that the necessary
number can be purchased ion i %.
The expense Of reservoir at the muck pond viii
not exceed 5000, Of capacity sufficient for re
serve. The whole expense there will be
Main pipe II inches diameter 1I.12".G0
Distributing PIPE, u l'l.00
Fire plugs l,Ho0.0O
Reservoir .i.OOU.Nn
Total 500 $50 90
or IN round numbers slO0,oo
These figures might by reduced somewhat by
varying the size If the pipe, but ii would not hc
advisable to do 49, as what might be saved at first
would be loss in the end, on account ofthere br
ing an nsutfcicncy in case Of fire. a, well as by
increased friction and consequent loss OF head.
when i'll use. The general practice in large cities
is, no pipe as small as : inches is carried over toe
feet and none OF inch over 1000 feet.
In conclusion let me ask of those who have been
interested enough i'll this matter, to have read this
article il candid critcism-not declaring, without
a second thought that we are now oyrrburdcnrd
with taxation that this is new scheme to entail
no,r taxes upon them; but rather give it careful
consideration. and examination and contrast our
annual municipal expenditure at the present time.
for protection from the ravagcs of fire and the an
nual tax paid tor insuranee-which can belcSSened
one halt-aud contrast these items with the small
amount which will need to he raised by taxation
to pay the interest upon the bonds at per cent
am firmly convinced that in FIVE year, from the
time water is brought into the city. the water
rental, win pay the interest and running expenses
Very Truly Yours. WAI. ". CASTLE
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-02

Bro. Simpson of the Belfast Journal, has had
rich joke played on him, although it is an old one
His sub, taking advantage of his absence down the
bay on fishing excursion, has put his paper in
for genuine Neal Dow Prohibition. Bangor Com
mercial
We haven't seen the article that the
Commercial alludes to. We have seen
one declaring against a license plank in
the Democratic platform; and we find it
so strongly supported by the better por-
ton Of the party, that we see no other
course than to let it stand unchallenged.
The personal habits of our friend Emery
are so thoroughly abstinent, that the at
tempted rum domination in the party
must be very distasteful to him; and we
shall not be surprised to hear that he has
gone fishing and left some one else in
the editorial chair
There isa good deal Of truth in the re-
mark of the Boston Herald that "editorial
excursions are getting played out" 1t
says that this summers excursion of the
| Maine editors has but a few genuine news
paper men, and adds
Then there We're three newspaper men from
| Massachusetts and two from New HAMPSHIRE One
weekly religious paper i'll the State was represent
| ed by five persons. Five persons We're connected
with the job printing business. There were
| twenty four women, not one of whom is a contri
| butter to the press. And this gang has been trav
| cling to Mooschead Lake and elsewhere as tn,
| press OF Maine 1t is time this iunkcting business
should cease.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-02
GENERAL NOTES.

News has been received at the Office of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in New
York that the strike on the road is ended,
and that the passenger and freight cars
have commenced running.
The strikers on the Canada Southern
Railroad have resumed work on the Can
ada division. All trains are moving
passenger trains from Buffalo and from
Detroit left on the usual time Saturday.
The strikers have abandoned all their
claims and gone to work Internationally.
\ st. Thomas despatch says: The train
service on all the Canada Southern lines
resumes work tonight. The men return
to work as before the strike. The griev-
ance will be adjusted when the road is in
full operation.
The police of Philadelphia dispersed
the working mems meeting Saturday
night and i'll reply to protest the Mayor
told them to postpone such meetings like
good citizens till the excitement subsidized.
At San Francisco, Saturday afternoon,
five boys between the ages of - and Ii
were detected depositing combustibles in
the lumber yard Of Bryant, between Tire
mont and Beale streets, near the scene OF
the fire Wednesday night. They were
arrested.
AS result of the strike 300 employees
of the Domestic Sewing Machine Com
pany at Paterson, n. j. have been notified
to quit work, because they are not in re-
ceipt of the material necessary to manu-
facture, which is usually shipped over the
Lackawanna Railroad.
Strikers on the st. Louis and South
eastern road at Nashville, Tenn, still
hold out. They met Saturday to draft {
petition to Judge 1'rigg Of the United
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-02

\ move libel suit was brought in Eng
land recently. \ man who didn't like his
neighbor, sowcd mustard and water cress
on his own grounds in such u way that
when they grew the words ''Whitehead is
4 scamp" were seen. The court decided
the act to be libellous, and that vege-
tables had no right to grow in that style.
The striking tiremen and their allies
have one newspaper organ thus far, The
Capital, edited by Don Piatt. 1t issued
an extra, on Monday of last week, in
which it declared itself the champion of
labor in its contest with capital. Has the
gentle Piatt no capital save the Capital
he sends out to subscribers ?
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-02

The Boston Advertiser begs the Re
publicans Of Maine, at their coming con-
vention, not to ''adopt policy which
must result in alternating them still far
ther, not only from the administration. 49,
which might perhaps be borne, but from
the prevailing sentiment and purpose of
the country in regard to the political in
terests Of the hour" That is sound adj
vice, but we fear that it will not be Needed
Have our readers ever seen Scion Chase,
the 'Chronicle Maker" of Chase's Mills,
with that wonderful nose of his sticking
out from under his Wool hat, like a huge
blood beet projecting from horse shed
If SO they will be amused to read the fol
lowing paragraph from his paper
The Belfast Journal is crazy for watcr-gucss
rum is getting scarce.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-02

According to the Philadelphia Bulletin. the
strikers version of Hallecks verses runs thus:
Strikc-ti the railroad man expires;
Strike-for your tenders and your fires;
Strike-like printers and Mol Magrircs,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-02

A cable despatch received Wednesday from
Capt Horatio Moody of kcnnebunk, III aster of
ship Rembrandt of Boston. announces the arrival
of the vessel at Liverpool from San Franc isco,
and that both his We're washed overheard
and lost in the gale in the South Pacific ocean
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-08-02
The Railroad Strike

The excitement and violence are about
over although it still fingers in some
localities. Mail aud passenger trains now
run with tolerable regularity, Below are
given some recent accounts from the
scenes of disturbance
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1877-12-21

There Il M advertisements In CIT
columns 81 which SO iak. much
pleasure III referring nnr ienirfa.
because W. hrlirve Ia |, ttnd can .un.
sei,allionals aud heartily recommend
II, W. refer IN Hull iialr Removed.
W. remember many pasee Ii Gil.
hlide, III oil AMI middle aged people
who formerly wnre grey haif, "
whose larkA were thin nnd faina Int
who r,w haya preH,nluhln hcnh plet-
~, and with III llttlr pride announce
10 their friends hut they haven't Il
grey hair III their hen,la. n Il apni.
aonahlr PRIZE. and thu world would
~ better of. II there WI moro ef II,
| for when the aged mnko Themselves
attractive III uiliera they ere more
certain to win anl rr'tlin thu e4ieein
an respect ~ Ahlal, q hinthen II
we'll speni years entities ihem, Tfy
ifnll'n lin'r Remover II nEn 81 dlrrnH.
has thinnel OF Mhlienrd your lueke
AMI ypu will thank III fnr oar nl.is
.tl'd,. HANDLE NenN, II eiis,urp. II ~
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1877-12-21

IAsSk.utss InNh lie. III, w.
~. Edtia4 Int ,hs Mheist II
~ farmers IA ills srt,ien, ~ would
Ike through snnl nehfnNa ii g'ls.
Tho faats II ii iIlllr transaction "
hnsr hal Tire misfortune "a haNe.
with 1hWsr nhs Tim themes Ia iii
the 'ieeeatah Packing 60 ",
contracted iifte, ii hag. 10 item ~
Tuesday tuo Till. ai 1 .ensa, Int II
,ra,l thrm rn tie nttrlnooa ~ the
nth. trhe wind bl.w from tn
northwest, anil finzr hnrsl liza, light
aud the hnus Mslu hung separate IN
an open shchl Delivered them
the nth. They were weighed, han',,s
hnck on the ilnor, rui open. nfd eight
ont IL the fifteen ware con,lcmn, i
~ sonr pork and dorkrd 10 ,h. TUNE
of sii.bO. Pork had fallen nearly
III cents per hundred from thu time
they N,fc contracted Till they NJ.
delivered. uld pork dealer. tell ~
W. hive been "swlnllcd' and my
hnrs went sour Such weather. hand.
led na they were, Let every farmer
iitlg" for himself. whether they tire
yWindlrr- or 10, und govern them.
selves accordingly.
n. Il r. ". nr,ar.