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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-04-05
| Remarkable Submarine Volcano.

The Honolulu Gazette, of February
%, contains an account of remarka-
BILE submarine volcano outbreak in
Kealakeakana Bay near the entrance
to the harbor. Natives report the
eruption occurred at O'Clock on the
morning of the oath, appearing like in
Vulnerable red, blue and green lights.
In the afternoon several boats visited
the eruption, cruising over the most
active part, where the water was in
state of peculiar activity, boiling and
appearing as if passing over rapids, or
very much like the waters at He'll Gate,
at New York. Blocks of lava two feet
square came up from below, frequently
striking and jarring the boats. AS the
lava was quite soft, no harm was done.
Nearly all pieces, on reaching the sur
face, were red hot, emitting steam and
gas strongly sulphurous. A rumbling
noise was heard, like that of rocks in
freshet, caused, no doubt, by the erup-
ton of lava from the submarine crater,
which is supposed to be crack or line
of rupture, extending at lease one mile
from the shore. Another rupture,
doubtless continuation of the subma-
rine fssure, was traced inland from
shore nearly three miles, varying in
width from a few inches to three feet.
In some places water was seen pouring
down into the abyss below. A severe
shock of earthquake was felt by those
living at Kaowaloa and Kell during the
night of the eruption, which must have
preceded the outbreak. 1t was quite
severe, but no damage is reported.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-04-05
AN IRISH SONG.

usa, 6rst saw young Molly
s..tched beneath the holly,
..i.sn foreninst her sheep, wan dreamy
summers day,
Hand and foot bound her,
,!nlIaI naitb her on her bloomin' cheek, and soft
" ly stole away.
v,tas wild bushes burnin',
Tiptoe was turnin',
,,aap she starts and on me darts dreadful
~ lightnin' ray.
~ Nv foolish tiowery letters
Scorntully she scatters,
,rks . winter sunbeam she coldly sweeps
sway.
put Love, Young Love. come stoopin'
ner nv daisies droopin',
:, ohi each flower, wild fairy power, the rosy
~ boy renews;
Then twines each charmin' cluster
i In links of starry luster,
4 Il rid the chain enchanting my colleen proud
And soon met young Molly,
Masin' melancholy,
4 ra aowneast ewes and startip' sighs, along the
meadow bank;
And ohl her swellin' bosom
Was wreathed with daisy blossom,
"a. stsrs in summer heaven, as in my arms she
1- sank.
London SPECTATOR
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-04-05

LADY FINGERs.-2 eggs beaten very
light, 1 cupful white sugar added, !
teaspoonful cream-tartar, the same of
soda, and flour enough to make stiff
dough. Put the cream-tartar with the
flour, and dissolve the soda with little
warm water. Roll out, sprinkle with
sugar, and cut in pieces the size of mid
die fingers. Place on buttered paper
in tins, not letting them touch each
other, and do not let them bake very
brown.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-04-05
A Pair of Gloves in Steers Stomach.

Messrs. Given Brothers, butchers, OF
Morgantown, recently purchased fat
steer from John j. Soltzfus, of Lancas-
ter County. During the last two weeks
it refused to eat The animal was kill
ed, and upon examination it was found
that pair of heavy and large woolen
mittens were tightly wedged in the en-
trance to the pouch or stomach of the
animal, allowing no food to pass. A
part of one of the mittens was sent to
Reading as curiosity. At first sight
it resembles the lower half of hand,
including the wrist. The materisl has
become quite hard, and must have been
swallowed by the OK some time ago
! Phtladslphia Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-04-05

THE two hottest days ever known in
Australia were the 10Th and 10th OF
January, when the thermometer regis
tered 105 degrees in the shade at Mel
bourne.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-04
A Rockland Captain Suffocated.

RocKLAND, Sept rs. Capt. Samuel
Gross OF the schooner Commonwealth.
was found dead i'll the cabin of his vessel
ut Atlantic Wharf this afternoon. The
vessel sailed hence with lime for Boston.
Thursday, the captain and his two sons.
ID and II years of age, being the only
persons on board. The same evening
they discovered the lime in the hold on
lire and the vessel was plastered up and
the cabin closed, and the captain and hi 5
sons remained on deck till 4 A. NJ, when
at the suggestion of the father the boys
lay down to get some sleep. When they
aWoke at & the captain could not be found
and was believed to have fallen overheard
and drowned. The lads brought the
schooner back to this port, arriving yes
terday afternoon. To-day the vessels
deck load was removed, and one of the
men looking through the cabin window
discovered the captains body within. A
coroner and surgeon were summoned.
but an inquest was deemed unnecessary.
The diseased doubtless went into the cab
in for something, closing the companion
way over his head with the design of eX-
Guiding the draft of air, when he was
overcome by the carbonic acid gas from
the lime on fire and sutfocated.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-04

Bob Ingersol offered to pay $1,000 to
any person who could furnish proof to
convince referees that either Noltaire or
Tom Paine died in the pangs Of remorse
DR.. Prime, editor of the New York OBJ
server, accepts, and the hearing is to be
had soon. 1t won't amount to much,
whether the statements are proved or
disproved The peace or pain of death
beds comes from physical rather than
mental conditions. There have been
many open and avowed disbelievers here
in this city, who have died as peacefully
as though lying down to pleasant dreams
rejecting revelation, but contidng i'll
the beneticence Of the great overriding
Power
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-04
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A Xarmout Scandal.

Vermont seems to offer rich field for Mr..
Moody The Cheney scandal at Rutland i'll which
the Young wife OF IN old man cOntcSSes to intlma
CIV with another man. has suddenly Increased in lin
portancc, and other prominent persons implicated.
1t seems that, in accordance with Mrs Cheney \
desire the deacons of the Baptist Church called on
her and she very anxious that, on account OF
a daughter. she should not be expelled from the
church. She thought she had repented. and, as
her husband had forgiven her, she did not see
VIII beng put on probation would not answer all
tht'requrementS of church discipline. Finding
that the deacons did not take this view she threat
encd to make other exposures, even telling the
pastor, Mr.. Richardson, that one of his deacons
was as deep in the mud as she was in the mre
This seemed to go against her III the minds of
the deacons present and at the church meet
ing Monday night they reported that she should
be expelled on account of gross immortality
On the report having been made, one of the dea
cons, man past the prime OF life who was pres
ent with his wife passed a letter to the pastor If
lighted bomb had fallen amid the assembly the
commotion which followed the reading could not
have been greater. The substance was that the
deacon had himself fallen victim to the wiles Of
this woman, and for the past year had repeatedly
been criminally intimate with her, the intimacy
having begun while the deacon watching at
the bedside of Mrs Cheeneys husband then sup
posed to be on his DEATH bed The deacon request
ed to be expelled considering that he guilty
as the woman and that he had been mistaken rs
to his conversion Both parties immediately
expelled from the church. The deacon has here
tofOre borne the best of regulations, and not u
whisper had ever been heard i'll the community
against him. Hiram l.. Cheney, the husband Of
the woman, Wednesday morning advertised his
wife, warning people neither to trust or harbor her
on his account. Her friends it is now reported,
will take legal steps to compel him to refund the
money which she brought him at her marriage
Other important disclosures are expected.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-04
Lincoln County Fair.

WALDOBoKo. Sept -. The third and
last day of the Lincoln County fair at
jefferson was very pleasant and the at
tendance large. The whole number of
entries was 5l7, which is the largest num-
Der for six years. The receipts are larger
than last year. The awarding committee
made their report this afternoon. The
town of jefferson was awarded the first
premium for town teams Alden Engly of
Jefferson, first premium for drawing oxen
At the election Of officers Thomas Boyd
of Boothbay was chosen president; Frank
Weeks, Newcastle, secretary; }. }. A.
Hotfses, jefferson, treasurer. \ board of
trustees was chosen. Ex-Governor Cham
berlain of Brunswick and Hon. d. H.
Thing of Mount Vernon made addresses
in the evening.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-04

The most determined and inveterate
opponent of the course which President
Hayes has pursued, can find nothing to
cavil at in the present attitude Of the
South, tried by the standard of that pa
triotism which regards the interests OF
the whole country. And no real pat
riotism can have any other tounda
ton. The ostensible object of the north
in the late war was the preservation Of
the Union, the maintenance Of a reciplo-
cal authority and tealty between the GOV
eminent and the people OF the whole
country This most certainly has now
been achieved, and the President has the
right to feel a Just and honest pride in
the part which he has borne in the good
work
1t may well he doubted whether Mr..
Tilden himself. had he been inaugurated,
could have made a tour along the south
ern route recently taken by the Pres
dent, and met with a more cordial reccp-
ton personally, With stronger evidences
Of a restored union or more convincing
proof that the reconciliation is genuine
and durable.
For the first time since the great rebel
lion closed, can the war and its rank
lings in the feeling and acts of NEIL be
said to be over. To be sure, not all will
acknowledge this. Men in tie north will
continue to denOunce the .'rchels" and to
breathe out hate and threatenings. And
there will be here and there in the South
corresponding instances of foolish spite
and talk of vengeance. But the great
heart of the country will be content with
the present and hopeful OF the future.
Time, that has sottened old asperities,
will finally obliteratc them. We shall all,
as citizens of one nationality, stand to-
gether for our country against the world.
With new growths, new enterprises and
the development of new sources of wealth,
we shall enter upon a career of prosperity
and power the like of which the country
has never known, and scarcely dreamed
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-04

If the metropolitan papers are not mis-
taken, there are convincing evidences Of
a general revival of business, and of better
times. The New York Herald of a recent
date says
at is Il manifest fact that the material
and political interests of the country have
greatly improved within the last twelve
months. The entire South, so recently
antagonized and exhausting the energies
personal strife, is now in a condition of
contentment and repose, and as con-
sequence we are entitled to look for a
steady revival of the important business
interest of that section of the Union. New
York is specially protiting by this happy
solution of the chronic state of nation
al disturbance and arrangement. Our
streets have not in the last seven years
presented such evidences of business ac-
tivity as at present. The conveyance Of
merchandise for transportation to various
sections of the country, especially the
South, blockades the thoroughtares of the
lower part of the city during the bust
ness hours of the day. But the signs Of
business reaction do not come alone from
the South. The West has had an I'M
usually fruitful season, and with heavy
crODS has come a fairly active demand
so that on all sides the signs of encour-
agement and hope may be seen. The
autumn trade of our wholesale houses has
been larger this year than at any time
since 1870, and the fairest evidence of a
ness of all descriptions may be gathered
from the general remark to be heard on all
hands, that trade is picking up"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-04

Subscribers are requested to take notice Of the
date on the coored slips attached to the paper 1t
is the only form of receipt now used. For instance,
Is May 49, means that the subscription is paid to
that date. When new payment is made the date
will be changed to correspond, and SUBSCRIBE
Frs ARE REQU ESTED TO SEE HAT THEIR
DATES ARE CORRECT Subscribers in arrears
are requested to forward the sums due.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-04

A large number Of leading Indian
chiefs are at Washington paying their re-
spects to the Great Father. They bear
such pleasing names as Spotted Tail,
White Tail, Swift Bear, Red Bear, ETC.
A very tall one is known as Touch the
Clouds. They are Unsuitable beggars, and
want all they see
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-04

We don't expect correspondents to sign
their names to their contributions but
we do expect that writer's will send their
names with such, that we may know with
whom we are dealing. No notice is tax
en- OF anonymous writings.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-04

On Friday last as Mr.. Elbrldge Gerry was fish
ing IN dory off Eastern Point, he felt something
on his line which seemed very much like whale
ne pulled cautiously, as he was fearful of break
ing ms hook; and upon getting the fish up along
side 1t proved to be monstrous halbut By dint
of much exertion he got him on the dory and pull
ed for the shore and sold him to Mr.. William f.
Cakes He brought the scale beams to 800 pounds.
which is pretty good sized halibut to be found
swimming around in these waters and made a
good days work for Mr.. Gerry, who would ike to
lind one OF the same sort every day in the week
lCape Ann Advertiser
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-04

The Bangor Commercial and Rockland
Opinion will please turn their attention
to the Massachusetts Democratic State
ticket. The name of an open and avowed
prohibtionist is there put forward for
the important office Of Treasurer What
is going to be done about it, We hope
to see, especially, the editor Of the Opin-
ion bring his powerful intellect to bear
upon this matter
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-04
Generaiities.

Luther Brown of Scbec was found dead in Gar
land Pond i'll that town Sunday 1t probably
suicide
1t is Gen. Franklin Smith mot his sony who is
elected representative from Watervillc and W est
Watcrvilc.
The Maine Central Institute at pittsteld has IA
new bell the gift of Warren II. Lanccy, formerly
Of that town.
woman at eighteen wants five trunks when
she travels At fifty she can get along with a bot
tie Of cold tea.
Eight thousand two hundred and thirty one dogs
fell victims to the dog law during the summer i'll
New York city,
The barn Of Otis Pickett. at Harrington, was
struck by lightning. The entire contents and
| thirteen sheep We're burned.
The loss by the Patent Office fire in Washing
ton will not exceed 5000 900 The number Of
models destroyed was 81 900
1t is likely that Congress will open with five Re
publican Senators absent-Senators Morton, Spcu
Ger, Patterson, Jones of Nevada and Sharon.
A Kentucky man poisoned several watermeous
for thieves, and then by mistake sold them to
customers Lacking the nerve of druggist, he
has fed,
4 Baltimore girl was observed taking prone
made i'll the W est End IA few days ago with dainty
| for dear life.
| 1t Is reported that an attempt was recently made
| to kldnap Commodore Mutt, the dwarf. from a
sleeping ear in Nebraska while He WAS on his way
t" San francisco.
Ricardo Brunette, a Young Cuban was found in
| the woods near High Bridge \ \. SUNDAY in Il
dying condition Tie had Shot himself through the
| temple; cause, poverty
| 1t is asserted that MANY of tine barrel, Of Hour
shipped from BoStoa to Maine contain demliohnS
OF "hiskey and that 1t Is to carry the llquor that
\ inc shipments ait made
| Ais Samuel ,,.,ill M. l,ro,,f,i anil ,i,.r,,.
@ -, t,ii y, ,'i''t.',U ", ".'''l w.
Gently. Mrs, Avemll being paralyzed ;" that SHE
| can ilVc pUt snort tlme
l.bn Hamilton, IL, Iovi.tan Il, ,.,,t,,,, ..,,l,.
or in lis nantnIInns ,,l,t Tin M ,.,;' M
oharraI + MA 4, n lnturai ,I Ii, ti
hip, making severe wound
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"D''' T''''''' "'"' '''"Ii'" i"i'N l"Sul'"
OF Senator Morton DIR RIiss saws that there is no
hope that lie cun recover from his PARALYSIS; bit
that ms general health win doubtless be 50 re,tor
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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-04
News of the City and County.


at hand
Good deal of drunkenness and rowdyism about
the city now
Emery Boardman, Esq, assumes the office Of
Police Judge, this week.
This is the time when clcrgmen are glad, be
cause Of weddings and fees.
A little fire on the hearth is very comfortable
now at morning and evening.
The schooner A HaYford is on Dycrs marine
railway undergoing some repairs.
The stove funnel season is here i'll all its glory
Happy is he who can make the joints fit
The last straw hat of the season scared in d
gust Of wiud, and disappeared over a building top
s 7 Edgecomb who has for d number of year.
run milk team in. this city has sold the route t.
John Wight.
The free stone trimmings Of the Masonic build
ing begin to- convey an idea Of the appearance OF
that structure
Those who keep records of the weather say that
the September Just closed has been the warnest
ion twenty years
Mr. Pierce is making his quarterly rounds among
the gas consumers HI reports an increase in the
consumption Of gas over last year.
October opens as bright and far as the month
just closed. We are now to have the beautiful In
dian summer and hunters moon
Hon Joseph Williamson has been elected mem
Der oftne Royal Historical Society OF Ioudou. aua
Of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Nr, \N;t,,,. St.,.,,.. ;... .,,;4. an r.,, Il .t,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-04

\ Mrs. Stow is travelling this way, de-
livering a lecture on the injustice of Pro-
bate Courts to widows. If she gets as
far as Belfast, we hope a debate will be
arranged between her and our friend
Capt. Hichborn, of Stockton, who has
taken the position, in newspapers and
conventions, that Probate Courts give to
widows great deal that rightfully be-
longs to the creditors of their husbands
estates.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-04

The skeleton of Il woman lately sold to satisfy
claim for rent against the estate of country
physician, had inscribed upon it Miss Ida Mon
tague aged % years. Died of grief May %, 1856
Her death bed request: Honor your sanctum with
my bones ~
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-04

pair of boot lasts have been made for Leonard
Wilcox of Rome, n Y, who is seven feet i'll height
and weighs 600 pounds. The lasts are twenty two
inches in length, seven in height and eighteen
around the instep.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-04

SUBSCRIBERS renting money or desiring to
have the address of papers changed must state the
Post Office to which the paper has been sent, as
well the office to which it is to 60
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-04

The democratic papers on our borders are crit
ciSing the statement Of our neighbor the Journal
attrlbutlng the increase of the democratic majority
i'll Stockton to the position Of the leading demo
Gratis i'll favor of the prohibitory law Progressive
Age.
We did not attribute the increase of
the Democratic majority in Stockton to
any such cause. The paragraph i'll this
paper which commented on the vote Of
Stockton began in these words
The town of Stockton furnished an instructive
study for that class of Democrats who hold that
rum and the interests of the party are inseparably
connected.
We then proceeded to say that while
the Democratic sentiment in the town
favored prohibition, the town had become
strongly Democratic. This instance was
cited in combating the position of the
Bangor Commercial, that Il declaration
i'll favor of license would increase the
Democratic vote. We don't believe it,
any more than we do the other assertion
SO freely made 10y the Commercial and
the Rockland Opinion that a Democrat
must favor liquor license, because he IS a
Democrat.
There can be cited in support OF such
an assertion no authority higher than
that of the two papers named which is
not now, and never has been, overwhelm-
ing. The late Democratic Convention in
Maine put its foot on a license resolution
in the most determined manner, as soon
as ii was introduced.
The action of the Massachusetts Demo
cratic Convention has been triumphantlv
cited as declaring against prohibition. SO
it did. But at the same time it nominal
ed for State Treasurer Gen Skillings, who
had Just been nominated for the same Of
flee 10y a convention Of the PrOhibitionsts,
and whose letter of acceptance is as fol-
lows
WINCHESTER, Sept 20, 1871
ID. {. Eddy, President Chas. A. Hoyev Secretary
Dear Sirs-Your official letter of the 18th, in
forming me OF my nomination by the Prohibition
lists at the State Convention al Worcester on the
18th for the office of Treasurer and Receiver Gen
eral, was duly received, and in reply have to say
! accept the nomination, and also that my inter
est IN the temperance cause is unabating and be
ileyc it can be best promoted by prohibtory laws,
and therefore shall continue to use my best efforts
to secure the enactment Of such laws, notwtl-
standing my other political associations. With
kindest regards remain
Yours truly, D. n. SKILLINGs.
The action Of the two Conventions and
the letter OF the nominee seem to settle
in an authoritative manner some contro-
verted points-first, that Democrat may
be a prohibitionist second, that Pro-
hibtionist may be Democrat And
the party aw-givers of the Commercial
and the Opinion are flat on their backs
both having endorsed the action of the
Massachusetts Democracy.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-04

The water in the city reservoirs has
very nearly if not quite failed. The one
in Custom House square had but four
feet on Monday. The people can with
great difficulty get enough for household
purposes. Everything of wood is as in
t1ammable as finder, and should fire get
a start nothing could save the place from
a third destruction. And yet there are
people who say that Belfast does not need
a water supply.
The Camden Herald made an excellent
report of the County Fair at that place.