The Republican journal., 1877-04-26
Generalities.
The engineers on the Reading railroad in Penn
sylrania have struck

SouHutu W husolu anu uIhc
The limit of the loss of life at the hotel fire in
St. Louis is now put at fifteen
There is a patient in the insane asylum who is
but eleven years old.
More land will be cultivated IN the South this
season than at any time since the war,
About million pounds of beef shipped
from New York TO Europe Saturday.
About five hundred Indians surrendered to Gen.
Crook Saturday. They were in quite u destitute
condition.
A whale ninety six feet in length was recently
driven ashore by the ice at Cape Breton and cap
tured.
The strike of engineers on the Reading railroad
is failure. There are applicants for every vacant
place
After strike Of sixteen weeks duration 20o0
potters in Trenton \. J. have gone To work at old
wages.
VIM j. Reed Of Providence, K l., died Monday
by taking morphine instead Of quinine. through a
mistake of the druggist.
A bill offering bounty of i've cents for every
rat killed in the State has passed tho Missouri
Legislature.
A widow in Iowa has recovered 10000 damages
from rumseller tor the death Of her husband
while intoxicated
The reported appearance of srasshoppers III Ne
braska is incorrect. The eggs lnve been destroyed
by cold weather
tornado visited Pensacola Fla, April I'll, do
moished fifty houses, killed several persons and
left hundreds destitute
The Globe Hotel near tho Centennial grounds
was sold III Philadelphia Thursday for >}l7, 1t
cost over s2O00O0.
Two hand organs. three tramps and It scissors
grinder arrived i'll Damariscotta last Tuesday and
the Herald tn Hks they may yet be il city.
Mayor Nas is President Of the Augusta Society
for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Animals and Dr..
w. b, Laphall is Secretary.
The shoe flctory i'll Portsmouth, NJ H. belong
ing To the estate Of jeremiah G. Carr. which cost
1000, was sold for s60Oo
Our squadron i'll European waters has been or
dered to Constantinople and other Eastern ports to
look after American interests
Secretary Sherman declares that, if Congress Will
leave him alone, he will bring about specie pay
ments by the first of January, 1879.
Several prominent Turkish officials are sand to
have arrived i'll New York to purchase arms and
ammunition for the Turkish government.
Louis Portra Frenchman, was accidentally
drowned i'll tho Androscoggin while engaged III
picking up drift wood. He leaves a family.
Public opinion i'll Vermont regards John T.
Phair as guilty Of the murder for which he
convicted and he will probably be hanged May 4th.
The wife of T. D. Winslow the Boston preach
er, torger and fugitive, and absconder is support
ing herscfat Whitehall, ~ Y, by taking i'll sewing.
Ex Congressman Lang (colored) of Georgia ex
presses the opinion that the Presidents policy will
bring about good feeling among the southern PEG
pie
Two representatives of the Mormon church were
in town last week and the first of this seeking
what they could find for the fold OF Brigham.
DamariscOttA Herald.
4 half breed Indian died recently at Turner
Me, at the age q about one hundred years. He
received support from the town, but preferred To
live in his own wigwam to the last,
Mary f. Harrington the Young woman Who dis
appeared from East Boston some months since,
has been traced to Lowell where She died from the
effects of an attempt to procure abortion.
The President has ordered war vessel to
Acapulco to demand the release of the American
consul Dispatches just received however, say
the counsel has been liberated
Michael Quincy IL man employed i'll unloading
coal from the schooner Sarah F. Bird i'll Portland
fell from the staging to the deck distance OF forty
feet and was instantly killed
One OF Mr. S W LUvels sons of kingsburr,
aged about ten years was drowned i'll Thorn brook
last Sunday, while playing on some logs Iii the
river near his fathers residence
Instead Of the 10000 unemployed worklneu al
New York four months ago, there are now only
10000, the other 30 600 having been furnished en-
ployInont by the revival Of business.
The Grand Jury of the 5 } Court At Ellsworth
have found twenty Indictments, three of which
are against Smith Of BuckSport ion murder ultd
two against Heath ol Bucksport for arson