The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-05-17
Generalities.

capt. ). W. klmDall OF halloween Is rapidly re
covering from his illness.
The Bangor Wing learns that Hon Edward Kent
and DR.. j. &. Weston are seriously i'll.
The day Pullman cars have been put on the
Maine Central between Boston and Bangor
George Strong Of Portland, fell from bridge i'll
Saco, where he was painting and was fatally in
jured.
1t is said that ex-Gov. c. G. Washburn of Wis
consln, made a quarter of million by the late
rise in -four.
General Hancock is to be one of a commission
OF three generals to visit the seat of the Turco
Russian war.
To aid him in breaking off the habit of tobacco
chewing, an Onondaga county. n. Y, man had all
his teeth extracted.
Clarence Gale, aged IL years. and Frank Libby,
H. were drowned at Saccarappa on Sunday by the
upsettng OF a boat.
John Mnahan. a vagrant who was committed
to the Rockland lookup for drunkenness
found dead in his cell
Mary Brown, daughter of Cyrus Brown of Ep-
som, n. H.. years old, shot herself fatally while
playing with revolver
Geo Il. Butler nephew Of Gen. Butler recently
appointed postal agent for the Black Hills, has
been dismissed for drunkenness.
Miss Luella Knapp Of St Jchnsbury, Vt, aged
49, could not get employment and committed sui
eide with chlor0form Friday night.
Kennebunk contains young man by the name
Of Fred Rankin who is II years Of age, weighs 1862
pounds and is feet 81 inches high
Over two hundred of the dogs of Yonkers n Y
have been poisoned by some persons who have
given them strychnine in pieces of meat.
During the past winter it il estimated that i'll
their hides and the carcassns left to rot on the
ground.
The receipts of potatoes from the Provinces in
Boston on W Wednesday the largest ever re
ccved at that port, comprising i,216 bags 6SS
barrels and I 800 bushels.
Instructions have been sent to our Minister at
Mexico, who VII give partcula attention to the
subject of raids into Texas for cattle stealing with
| e view to their prevention.
No tidings have been received of the brig 4 e.
Boce of Damariscotta, Capt Blasdell mate Fred
Herrck. both Of Camden, which left Savannah for
Boston before the gale of April T.
A gentleman named Battle was attacked BY a
mad dog in Union county, Tenn He began shoot
ing at the dog at which his wife tainted. from the
effects of which she died the next day.
| 1t is calculated that 1t will take forty men four
teen months to do the leather work tor the 20O 0NO
scabbards which the AmeS Company of Chicupee
are TO make for the Turkish Government
Not grasshoppers, but rats are now bptheriug
the Illinois farmers At one place near Bloom
ington 235 were killed in one day! Hedges fences
and foundations are said to be full of them.
A speaker at Columbus (Oho) temperance
meeting electrified the audience by saving that tt
man had chance once i'll IL while To win bucking
against the tiger, but against whiskoy, never!
At the late term of the Kcnncbcc 5 J. Court SIN
teen women were divorced from their husbands
on the ground OF neglect, cruelty and infdclity
and six husbands from their wives for similar l"h
sons.
| Thirteen years ago Il negro burglar Shot man
| III house III Atlanta, Gl, The other day he wrote
| from Kentucky inqniring il the man died OF the
wound u"d his letter has led Ia his arrest for the
murder
The schooner Codseeker of Halifax, ion Barring
| ton capsized Wednesday night oil Cape Sable
| The captain and two men landed i'll dory ut Ban
| rineton The rest of the crew l3 in number, were
drowned
The boodthirsty Turkish soldier could not enter
our Permanent Exhibition, for il is said Of HIM by
his enemies that The gives 10 quarter The nd
mission, You know, is . cents philadelphia
Bulletin
The champion gluttou Of York county is Mir
Albert Tucker Of York who, according To the
hard boiled eggs and one raw one and then drank
two quarts ot hard cider
Major Relos sentence Of dismissal from the
army has been mitigated 10 suspension tor two
| years--aud all for attempting to kiss & brother
officers wife at Fort Abercrombe i'll Dakota when
| pretty women were scarce.
! An attempt was made Friday TO wreck "A passeu
! ger train near Winchendon Mass. by placing Il
| large stone on the track. The train went over it
| and thrown the track INIT
| passengers Il lively shaking up,
Chicago adyices report cold, wet. ana unt,vor
able weather. Large crops have been planted of
both wheat and oats which are well up. There
| are fears that cold weather Will uurr corn
| planting, The soil is very wet and heavy.
| At Newbern, n C., few evenings ago, three
| young eolored persons, man and two women
| were returning from church during severe storm
| when stroke Of lightning killed them all They
were walking under Il steel handled umbrella,
| William Willard master of i, tugboat. while off
| Fort Preble at noon Thursday suddenly pitched
| from the pilot house overheard He was picked
up in twelve minutes. but was found dead, evI
IDENTITY having died in tit. as ne hoated with hi,
head above water.
H. NJ. Bean, and John f. Brown, recently NOV
ed to Camden from Prospect, have contracted TO
build a 600 ton bark for Capt A. II. Parker Of
Winterport to be off this fall She is to be q first
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