The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-09-13
Generalitles,

| willie itSlnllHS dl oilSSi.
Rev J. X Smith of Boston, has been senten ce(
to five wears in state prison for forgery.
Allen Lambard, prominent and valued citze1
of Augusta died on Thursday last. aged 81
Eastport has voted five per cent Of her valuation
| in aid of the PASSPORT and Aroostook Valley Rail
| road.
The seventh annual reunion of the Kallocl
family was held at North Warren. on Wednesday
Doth
Catherine Shines temporarily insane. Jumped
from fourth story window in New Y ork and was
| killed.
Hon. Sidney Perham has been appointed apprais-
| er AT Portland, in the place of Hon Leander Val
| entine resigned
Brigham Young directed for himself a coffin
| three inches wider than his body on either side
| Ito turn in easy"
Richmond und) special says Senator Morton
| Is no better than he week ago Mr. Morton
| can never recover
hod carrier fell from the staging in Music Hall
Lewiston, twenty three feet to the floor His in
Junes will not prove fatal
Senator Stanley Matthews and Gen. Thomas
| Ewing are to meet i'll Joint debate i'll Ohio by ar
| rangement of the State committees.
Calvin Whitehouse of Mercer, a man about 30
| years Of age, hung himself on Thursday, while
| aborlng under temporary tit OF insanity.
Senator Morton is said to be a poor man. No
| wonder. He would always give pound Of profit
| for an ounce of spite. st. Louis Times.
Portland telegraph boy picked up 1928 on the
| sidewalk and restored it to the owner, who gencr
ousy presented him with twenty five cents.
VIM. S. f. Wade Of Augusta young man %
years of age committed suicide by taking lauda-
mi and, n1E :. .ig,
of spirits.
South Carolina Gleayes Montgomery and others
include charges of breach of trust, forgery bribery
and conspiracy
The estate Of the late F. o. J. Smith has been
returned insolvcnt and Judge Cleaves has appoint
ed Hon. W. W. Thomas. Jr, and T. Ii. Haskell
Commissioners.
The schooner Starlight, of Bath, which left Fri
day with coal for Portland. was run into Friday
night by the propeller }. 5. lde and sunk. The
crew We're saved
Avian Adams, Esq the founder and head of the
Express Company of that name died at his resi-
dcnce at Watertown last Saturday evening at the
age of seventy three.
kerosene stove in the house Of Jacob futile
New York city, exploded Friday night severely
burning domestic and fatally burning an infant
which was lying near.
The whole product of the immense Continental
Mill at Lewiston is now sold for export The Jour
mai says the old Continental brand is found to stand
first wherever put on sale.
The Grand Jury at Hartford. found true bills for
murder i'll the first degree against Hamlin and
Allen, who fatally assaulted Shipman. the night
Waterman at the State prison.
Sch. Yankee Blade, from Camden for Fortress
Monroe, put into Delaware Breakwater LIST inst
with loss of anchor and one man overheard about
- miles from Five Fathom Lightshp
Miss Smith Of Skowhegan who was ac cuscd Of
taking goods 10 the value of several hundred dol
lars from the store of Mr.. plummer, where she was
clerk, has been bound over for trial
George W. Murch landlord of the Black Rock
House, Scarboro, had his left hand badly mangcd
by the bursting of gun The hand was partially
amputatcd at the Maine General Hospital.
An order has been issued for the apprehension of
some OF the principal agltatorS among the Indians
i'll the disturbed regions OF the west, with the view
OF placing them III confinement i'll Florida
\ premature explosion Of blast in a ledge in
Auburn, severely injured w H Jordan and Ma
poleon Greene Mr. .ordon lost a finger and had
his arm lacerated but will probably recover
The narrow gauge two feet railway between
Bedford, Mass, and Billerica Mass, is completed,
and the first trains have been run over the line
The working of the road gives general satisfaction,
Sch. Gauges from Ellsworth is the vessel which
was i'll collision with sehr Lucy Wentworth, ON
Nantucket Shoals It'll She carried away iibboom
and gear. and lost overheard man named Frank
Leslie.
a meeting of business men at Louisville, ky
Thursday evening agreed to petition Congress- and
earnestly engage Kentucky Representatives To use
their influence To secure the repeal Of the bank
rupt law.
Texas is So anxious to secure immigration that
she is virtually giving away ler public lands The
head OF family can get 100 acres for the expense
of the survey and patent. which are altogether
about SD
A burglar forced an entrance TO the residence Of
Richard Boiling, near st. Paul, Ind, Friday night,
using an axe to open the window. While in the
act OF searching the bureau Boiling secured the axe
and struck the burglar blow on the head, killing
him instantly
The lift Of $4,000 by which the statue of
Faith" was completed and placed in position
the National Monument to the Pilgrims at pIym
outh was made by the late Oliver Ames, who was
ii native Of that town,
4 Portsmouth paper says that Thomas Roberts
OF that place, lost a hen Hast July. Five weeks
later when some hay in hi, barn was removed. the
missing bird was found under it, She had shrunb
to Malt Il pound i'll weight.
The Free Press says that upwards Of 200 men
are 1T work upon the Cincinnati contract at vi
nahaven, and about $50 on the Philadelphia work
at Dix Island. The latter work started last Mon
day. There will be no immediate further increase
of the force employed
detective from the Pension office Department
is said to be in Washington County looking up
eases where pensions have been traudulently OBJ
tanned 1t is reported that in Hancock county
alone, he has nearly fifty names that he will rec
ommcnd to be dropped from the rolls
The Western railroads are feeling the revival Of
business i'll very satisfactory manner The Mil
waukec and st Paul road earned for the fourth
week in August 1903 900 against 3S7 $50 for the
corresponding week of last year, and the Chicago
and North western shows an increase of SOS. 900
for that week and $4,000 for the month,
HAYNES the man shot by Laughlin last week at
Great Ponds in very much the same condition.
though the fact that he has survived as long he
has gives many faith to believe that he will finally
recover. laughin was brought before Judge Wis
well. and he ordered him TO furnish bail i'll % 600,
The Attorney Generals decision in favor of
Texas mail contractors, enables every contractor
for carrying mails in the Southern States prior to
the rebellion whose contract was discontinued by
the Postmaster General to demand months pay
on account Of service discontinued. 1t is believed
this would require several hundred thousand dol
lars
\ mysterious cattle disease is causing great ex-
citement in North Bangor, Franklin county \. }.
The disease first appeared 10 days ago and since
then many valuable cows have died. On all that
died and on the sick was found pest that re
Sembled the poison Texas cattle tick, No cattle
have thus far been affected except such We're in
contact with Texas cattle last spring.
Complaints Of the prevalence of the rot, are
coming from all quarters, the disease appears to
exist to a greater OF less degree in different sec
tons Of the State. A gentleman told us d few DAYS
Since that one of our Brunswick farmers having IA
field OF over four Of well grown potatoes still
would not dig hill Of them, so badly are they AT
tected Brunswick Telegraph.
Sunday afternoon at Scion, while Lewis T. Mil
Ter and Miss Jennie Webb were out riding the
horse became frightened and ran away, throwing
them out and badly injuring Miss W Gibbs shoulder
and nuring Miller So badly that he died Sunday
night Miller about twenty five years old
and clerk in the custom house at Boston, and was
spending his vacation at Scion.
The American says that ii statement of the af
fairs of Messrs Hall. Brothers of Ellsworth was
made to a meeting Of their creditors on Saturday