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

Coal has advanced 30 cents per ton in New York
New Yor, has got rid of nearly 1909 dogs this
summer
There four fatal eases Of sunStrole in New
York Friday.
Rev. Avian J. Bates of Grafton Mass dropped
dead at Lincoln, Me- Sunday.
Granville Tinkham of Norridgewock aged 81
waS drowned while bathing Saturday
Wendell Phillips is talked of as the candidate OF
the Massachusetts Prohibitionists for Governor.
East Boston got up quite IL celebration over the
passage of the ordinance making tie ferries free.
The American flag has been hoisted at Samoa
and allegiance formally rendered TO the United
States
The Dubuque Times earnestly advises the us,
of shot guns and reviewers to abate the tramp
nuisance.
The well known comedian Plaeide committed
suicide last week, in New Jersey He was sixty
nine wears old.
Elder Peck, the somewhat notorious ex state
treasurerof Maine, turned up at Rocky Point. h. l.
as temperance orator
The State has recently purchased a tatling gun
one of the latest improvements, which has beel
placed i'll the arsenal at Bangor.
There is u distemper among the horses in the
town Of Weld which proves fatal i'll most eases,
Seven out of eight afflicted have died.
Philadelphia has IL 900 houses to rent and it i,
predicted that before cold weather. families vii
so unite that the number will be increased to j..
600
Much has been written about the mcanest man
and at last the meancst woman has risen. She
allows her daughter only 100 buttons on her sum
mer dress
Miss Won Iillem succeeded i'll her attempt to
walk 30 miles in twelve hours ut Portland, Mon
day, having I'm. 2ss. 10 spare. Her best mile wa,
in I'm. llis
On the eth inst, man named Linscott of Els
worth was so badly gored by a bull that his right
lung WAS exposed to view. His injuries are sup
posed 70 be fatal
Mrs Wilkie, widow lady aged about fifty years
died almost instantly Thursday at Dexter at abou
, p. while attending to her work at one of til,
rooms III Stone Mill.
A drunken rough, named Chas McAlline mad,
an attempt to shoot assistant City Marshal I.ougi
Of Manchester, \. H.. Thursday, but was tinall,
fatally wounded himself.
George W Peck editor of the Daily Advertiser
in Albany, n. Y, shot himself Saturday evening
the bail entering his head above the right ear
causing death i'll half an hour.
The Courier says that a valuable COW bclongin.
to Mr. George W Lermond of Rockand, fell into
well i'll pasture last Wednesday, and was drown
ed before she could be got out
John McFall and Patrick Riley uuarrellc,l in .
saloon on Everett street, East Boston, Sunda,
morning. and the former was fatally stabbed ii
| the breast Riley is under arrest.
A youth of sixteen, nephew of ex GOV Israc
WaShburn, was drowned while bathing in the sur
| at the Atlantic House, Scahoro Beach. The bod'
was recovered in about two hours
The population Of Texas is increasing So rapid,
that the Galveston News predicts that at the mex
census the returns will be doubled on those of lS
when the enumeration was SlS 80.
A paid messenger from the Baltimore & OH
Railroad has been over the Eastern and Boston
Maine railroads seeking to incte the employees t.
strike, but he met with no success.
Young ladies and gentlemen desiring a thoroug
and practical business education are referred to sL
vertsement in another column, of Dirigo Bushes
College. which aims to fit for business on teaching
| The Milwaukee Board of Health has appointed
competent person ''to test the various fancy drink
| made and sold at the bars" in that city. allowin
| him two months for testing and making his repor
| Professor Francis Maryland of Yale College sa,
| two burglars trying to enter no use on Whitne
|
them i'll his carriage, secured the arrest of one
| them.
There are a number of Indians at work at tn
oil wells OF Pennsylvania. Exchange We SUI
| pose they belong to the HOSTILE tribes about whic
we have heard much lately. [Philadelphl
| Bulletin.
little son of John II. Brown teauster of BatI
| fell while playing logs near the Bath Com
mercial and Manufacturing Co., wharf Thursda,
| fell overheard and was drowned The body W.,
| recovered.
In IA church at West Mcrden, Conn the othc
night, a crazy female shouted between the verse
| of hymn, 81 adjure you, in the name of the Lor
God Almighty, to trot that hymn SLOW 1t W;
accordingly trotted slow.
A cable dispatch says that Elk Governor Tide
and Mr.. Bigelow left on the steamer Scytha
Queenstown, Thursday and proceeded to Corl
They will sojoum in Ireland some time and pr,
coed thence to Scotland.
The Republican says that Miss Barbara FRYE q
Machiasport while walking through Il piece q
woods, was met by a sailor from vessel in POI
and robbed of SIS and indecently assaulted. Ii,
loud cries frightened the villain away
An order has just been received from Paris /
| two of the largest silk mills in Paterson n j.. f,
the manufacture of u certain description of sill
| goods. This Is believed to be the first order T.,
|
On the occasion of the recent railroad eycurso
| to MooSehead Lake, one of the speakers state
that there over 100000 acres of heavily tin
bered land bordering on this lake and that il h;
400 miles Of Shore including the islands
Citizen Schwab" of New York one Of the DE
sons most active i'll getting up the workingmen
meetings keeps a rum shop. lIe is fine exalnp
Of laboring mans champion, who takes his m
ney, steals his brains and robs his family of brea
Fifteen prisoners now at work in the ia
| workshops at Bangor The smallest number cv
employed in the shop is twelve and the lar &c
forty-tive. The broom factory is in full operatio
and is turning out IA large amount of first elias
work.
More than five million cans of corn are no
packed in Maine annually, and sold in every pa
of the world, yielding business to the State
about 81 $50 600 and giving profitable employmel
to from eight to ten thousand people during Il
packing season.