The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-02-15
9eneralities.

Gloucester sends halibut to Florida. where
it is served up fresh.
The Indians are shooting settlers in Dakota
and running of with their stock.
Ten editors and printers in the United States
Senate--two of them fl ON Kansas.
Fourteen divorces were dpcreed at the late
January term OF the s. j Court for AndroScog-
gin county.
The three unidentified bodies of the victims
of The Lake Shore Railroad bridge disaster,
have been ordered buried.
Rear Admiral Theodorus Bailey died in
Washington, Saturday morning. lie has been
on the retired list since Oct. 10, 1876.
California produced the biggest wheat crop,
the biggest wool crop and the biggest Wine
crop, last year, i'll her short history rs an a9ri-
cultural State
There is to he a great emigration TO Africa
by Southern negroes within 4 few years, so
says the Missionary, the organ of South Caro-
lima negro MethodiStS.
The man-ot-war Plymouth. from Pensacola
for New Orleans, passed through south pass,
lefty Channel, at New Orleans, at low tide
drawing nineteen feet six inches.
Hartford has largely reduced its tramp popu-
| lation by the happy device Of taking out the
windows from the lodging house. and The
tramps now seek less chilly quarters.
The Fresno, Cal. Expositor of the 1th of
January, says that a flock Oh wild geese, form
ing solid column of birds seven miles in length,
passed over that town the day before.
| Col Bob Ingerso has been interviewed. He
remarked mildly that the Louisiana Returning
| Board would have been justified in throwing
| out every Democratic vote in the State.
Maggie Mitchell came near getting her head
broken by the fall of a chandelier at De Bars
| Theatre, in st. Louis. last Thursday night AS
| the curtain dropped the chandelier fell, making
! a hole in the stage close by her.
There will be y fishing steamers in the por-
| gle fishery on the coast Of Maine the coming
season. Last year was very successful, the
fish being IA, and the price of oil going up from
50 cents to =, the present price.
Lleweyn Mute Of Wiscasset. was waylaid
near that town Saturday night by three men,
who beat him insensbe and robbed him of
Sl20. He was then put into his sleigh. where
he was subsequently discovered.
In the Superior Court at Portland Monday,
the case of Israel g. simpson and wife against
the town of Brunswick, for damages received
Nv the latter on account Of Il defective highway.
4 verdict of $1,000 was rendered.
A ten year old adopted son of Peter Whita-
ker, of Hancock, y. II. died Feb. >, Of hydro
phobia. He was bitten siX:y-thrce days before
the symptoms appeared. and dice, twenty -four
hours after the first attack of Sl,asms.
| An Amherst sophomore, who is teaching
| school, gave out the selection having the pas
sage, "And, like great Caesar, die with lpren-
| cy." The brilliant reader rendered il, 'Ani,
| like great Cesar, die with dVSentery.'
| A pair of horses, drawing a load Of sand of
nearly two tons weight, broke through the ice
on the Connecticut river at Hartford on We'd
neSdaY, and the horses We're pulled down by
the heavy load and drowned. They We're yaIu-
ed al 5000.
| Horace Greeley said that of the thousands he
| lent the most he ever receive back was a five
dollar note enclosed III Il letter. and upon trac-
ing out the writer OF the letter he found il came
| from a lunatc in Utica Asylum who never
owed him a cent.
| Some curious compiler of statistics and gene
| alogies has discovered that eighty-nine des-
| pendants of the fiuguenotS banished from
| France by the revolution OF the lIct of y an~
tes returned to that country in l@.u N officers
| in the German army.
| Two well diggers Were at Worl, in Blooming
ton, ILL.,, and had, after reaching forty feet be-
| gun to bore deeper with drill. Suddenly
| there was an outburst of gas, which was light
| ed by the flame Of a candle, and the explosion
| killed both of the men.
A despatch has been received III Portland
| giving the sad intelligence Of the death Of Or.
Jacob NJ Tewksbury, OF San Francisco, Cal.
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| A Boston merchant not long SINCE telegraph
| ed to Calcutta at i've O'Clock in the afternoon
,,aIa Of IN opn ~ tiIn,,frlr Wy
| nine O'Clock response to the order was on
| the merchants table price given r1te9 OF
| ~
| lhefe are 'hltr superior o'"'ei7 III thr ''ei
man army "no nave atfNe Tor more man st4 %
envy wear " No ieyrlf GU ~
| served eighty wears, and lent. ten. Maltzew-
| Ski. commanding the invalida. who ha- eryrl
| seventy-two wears.
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| Nearly 2o,o0o alligator skins are yearly used
| by Inc hoot anu Shoe manufacturers IA The
| United States. only portions OF The indies are
| servlreahle ines" are packed IN strong BRINE,
| anu shipped 10 the Noflheff tanner, VINO Keeps
| them under treatment rom SIN to figlll months,
| when they are ready Tor use
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- $3.50, ' Ii t' tt,i ~ '''',' VI i'" II
W. "a, nth any,; " hi ,a' as
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n 'Iem y 'n'' az WIZ ~ my, ne't iiIN S'v,l'
| @asned once or twice, md lifn wa extinrt H.,
was one of the most respected citizens in Town
| and was g.; year, of ne
|
ont OF the sixty savings banks IN Maine iitty-
| sin are solvent and III good condition. OF the
! four detaultng banks. the Fhomaston hanA has
a deficiency of 20 per cent, Brunswick - per
| cent, Camden = pef cent and the brONu bank
y per cent. The Brunswick bank has paid but
one dividend throughout the wear. and the
! Fhomaston bank none.
Dol, ,topr;Jo o,,;,o,. \, t,, r,,,,.,,, H..
i. , ~ ,',iliil III I i w. NJ, r..
lady is Of diminutive size. and Bob was soon
anle TO dlsa tE nGr, "hen ne TO-, LOOK ner "nder
marched down the street to the amusement of
T an @ III ",ii t mlin@ an.
| guage used by Mcbride in his paper concern
|