The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-13
GeneraIitl ee.

Epes Sargent wrote IA Life on the Ocean Wayo"
about forty years ago.
The Democrats of Nevada have nominated J g.
Fair for L S. Senator
Much loss is feared from the sudden movement
of ice in the Ohio rivers.
England talks of tattoong her soldiers on the
arm, to prevent desertlon.
1t is rumored that the Chilians have captured
Lima, the capital of Peru.
Russia has 100 torpedo boats of the first class
France has 50, and England 10.
The coinage at the United States minis during
1880 shows grand total Of 500, oSi, 3Sl70
Saturday January Sth, was the anniversary of
the Battle of New Orleans, fought in 1914
Gen. Walker calculates that the population of
the United States i'll 1890 will be Ga, 461 900.
A train near Danville, Va run into slide of
rocks, Saturday, and two persons were killed.
Two women in a sleigh were into, Sunday,
by train near Norwalk Ohio, and both killed
Representative Conger is the coming Senator
from Michigan lie was nominated on the 9th
The total valuation OF property in Kentucky is
1916 l3i 900, Of which negroes hold nine millions.
A mother dead and clasping her dead child in
her arms. found on a wreck off Falmouth,
Nova Scotia
The Republicans of the California legislature in
Joint assembly have nominated Gen. NJ T. Miller
for the U. s. Senate.
Mrs. Hayes is to receive SATIN hanging and al
bum from ladies in Illinois fer banishlng the wine
cup from the White House
Kansas has two Conglessmen Senator, three
Supreme Court Judges, all total abstaners, and
every State officer is also a teetotaaer.
The amount of gold dug ID California last year
was S579 80 greater than for ~ Nevada shows
falling of OF 81, 960,093 in her silver production
Judge Tourgee author Of "A Fools Errand' and
Bricks Without Straw" will lecture in Portland
! on the 10Th inst under the auspices Of the Loyal
League.
| Isaac u Parker, Judge of the United States Dis
/ trict Court al Fort Smith, Ark has sentenced
| forty men to the gallows for murdar in the past
! five years.
| Great restitution is reported at Tampico and
| other parts of Mexico The weather is colder than
ever before known in Mexico, and ice has formed
| two inches thick.
| John p. Hale, of New Hampshire. the first
By the Of Hale that held seat in the United
States Senate and Senator Hale, Cf Maine, will be
| the second of that name
| Gen Butler has declined to act as counsel for
! against him by his wife but VIII represent him in
| the civil cases with his creditors.
| The pews Of Plymouth church. BROOKLYN, were
sold for the year Wednesday evening, and brought
| over forty two thousand dollars-a gain for the
| year OF nearly two thousand dollars.
| Mrs Susan jackson the widow of jackson, who
shot Col Ellsworth at the Marshall House at the be-
| ginning Of the war. died few days since after a
| brief Illness, III Fairfax county, Virginia
| TIE Massachusetts State tax this year unless the
| Legislature is eXtravagant and gives away money
| in large amounts viii not exceed million Of dol
| lars. 1t and half million last year
| A deck hand known as Fred, fell overheard from
| pilot boat Caprice at New York, recently and
was drowned with boat keeper W IN Wright and
| Moses Smith, deck hand who tried to save hun.
| For the first time iii many years, Raritan Bay
| j. is solIdly frozen over TO the width OF two
| miles, and all communication by water to New
| Bruuswic SOnth Ambcy and other towns On The
| river IS stopped
| Probably one Of the most valuable volumes in
| the possession Of President elect Garfield is the
diary he has Kept for the past twenty years. 1t is
| SAID to be full OF vivid details Of experience
| and political matters.
| The average temperature Of December, 1880, was
| about The that Of December Of the preced
ing year. but colder than for several years prior TO
| ~ Then 20l inches Of snow and | 40 inches Of
| rain fell during the month.
| \ record OF the rain guage kept by the Merr
| mack Company Of Lowell Mass shows that for
the last ten months, in every month except JuIy
| the rain fall less than the average Tor the
month for the last fifty four years.
Mrs Harriet y. Cooper colored. died in St
| Louis New Years day, aged Is years She weigh
| ed 400 pounds Mrs Cooper was mother Of >
| children. the youngest Of whom is 62 years old
Her husband is lilt old and = still ljVlDr