The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-21

The Century.
Small pox and ryphus are alarminely prevalent
| IN New York
Sitting Bull, it is now asserted seriously pro-
| poses to surrender.
| The crops in Texas were greatly damaged Fri
| day night BY frost
| Cadet WhittaKers ears have already cost the
| government 100000
About eight hundred street railway employees in
Cincinnati are on strike
| Five torpedo boats have been built in England
| for the Greek government
| Two girls of 10 and - years manage a farm of
| 100 acres Frost burg Md
| The Federal Government will at once send food
| and clothing to the sufferers in Dakota.
| Among Vermont dairymer and breeders the
| AYRSHIRE is supplanting the Jersey stock
| Mrs. q. Evans, of Omaha Sunday, gave birth
| to four children, two boys and two girls
Saturday the thirteth anniversary of the
| destruction Of Minots Ledge Light House.
| large part of Rock Island, ILL.,. was submerg-
| ed on Friday, by the rise of the Mississippi
| 1t is a criminal offence to carry flowers in ones
| hand or about ones person, in Central Park New
| York
1t is estimated that at least 900 people in Da-
| kota have been driven from their homes by the
| flood.
The result Of the spring elections in Missouri
| has caused grave alarm among Southern Demo
cratic leaders
! Gov. Foster will be renominated in Ohio by ac-
clamaon, and the Cincinnati Gazette says that he
| will be elected
hail storm at Fayetteville Ark Thursday. I'm
| ffo1o rl Ia,
| age No lives lost
Ohio has passed stringent law requiring all
places for the sale of liquor to be closed ON SUNDAY
under severe penalty.
Jay Gould has bought the entire interest OF Col.
Thomas A Scott in the Texas and Pacific Rail
road, for S3OO00O0.
| There were LOG business failures in the United
States and Canada last week, the smallest number
for several months past
| Mr.. Rutherford B. Hayes, IT,. is engaged to
marry Miss Alice Smi h. daughter of Mr. William
Henry Smith, If Chicago.
| 1t is tacetiously observed that in Florida old
barns and similar barracks are made over into no
| tells for Northern tourists.
woman, 81 years old, living in New York. was
recently robbed Of s., 600 and becoming despond-
emit starved herself TO death
CidEt lbtT dl Marion, ina. attempted to
cut the throat of patron on Thursday The Gus
toner escaped by desperate plunge.
The cooking and canning of rabbits is one of the
industries of Australia, and one firm last season
canned nearly $4,000 Of The animals
A careful calculation places the number of de, r
killed IN Michigan in 1880 at so 600 Such slaugh-
| ter as this will in a few wears cxterninate the
game
| The library Of the late Rev. DR. Chaplin will
probably sell for ten thousand dollars, and his
whole estate is estimated at seventy five thousand
| dollars
Friday was the sixteenth anniversary of the
| death OF Abraham Lincoln He was shot April
| lith in the evening and died on the evening of
the 18th.
Two Nashville wives eloped with two soap ped
oilers few days ago At latest accounts the de
serted husbands following the guilty pairs
| with shot guns.
The New Yo k Graphic says it is understood in
anthracite coal circles that an agreement has been
reached by various companies to advance prices
on the 25th inst
General Grant told St Louis reporter the other
day that he did not to talk politics II am
out OF that now, said the General. as he wound up
| the conversation
There IS revival of confidence among the Com.
mssoners Of the Worlds Fair of 1888 at New
| ORE, and now the project is spoken of as certain
| TO be carried out
Latest returns from Chic show that 5000 persons
were killed and 5000 injured by the recent earth
quakes. The locality which suffered most is Ne
| vita, where 1900 were killed
In test case to determine the legality of the
celebrated ani-treating law of Wisconsin it was
| found that the law imperative because of an
error III its supposed enactment
No
treating law was Of the news editor Of the Mil
waukee Evening Wisconsin, He set en- ~" for
friend with desire to make test case.
Dealers claim that the standard of first class
butter Is getting higher every year, and what
would readily sell for a choice article few wears
ago is now put down as second or third rate.
Last year Chicago furnished ten divorce suits to
every seventy nine weddings there being an
average OF two and one eighth divorce suits per
day instituted IN that city throughout the year.
1t not the widow OF the famous John
Brown who called at the " hte House and asked
for an office, but Mrs J. p. Brown whose husband
had been interpreter in the government service
The Legislature Of North Carolina has passed a
more liberal public school law than the State has
recently had This is the best indication that has
come from North Carolina since the outbreak of
the
The James brothers, notorious Missouri bank
robbers and desperadoes, have been discovered by
the United States marshals near Adair,ille. Ky
They, with friends are strongly fortified and offer
desperate resistance.
At midnight, Sunday, the ninth decennia census
OF Great Britain and the seventh of Great Britain
and Ireland under the authority of Parliament.
was taken 1t is estimated that the population
will reach 350O0,00O.
BY the will of the late Stephen y. Stockwell
$1,000 left the MaSSarhu mat /, ia
hospital for free bed for sick and destitute
printers; $1,000 is left to each of several mission
AIRY and charitable institutions.
Fred Grant has forwarded his resignation as LIST
Lieut.. in the fourth cavalry. and Lieut. Colonel on
the staff Of the Lieut. General Of the army Mr.
Grant will accept position in the employ of the |
Chicago, Texas and Mexican railroad
Thursday last was the sixty third annlversar,. of
the birthday Of the present form Of the fl ~ of the
United States as adopted and established BY Con
gress In 1918, when il for the first time hoist
ed over the House Of Representatives.
Ali those condemned to death for connection |
with the Cars assassination, namely RoussakoH |
Mlchaeof, kbaltschitsch Jeliabotf and SOPHIE |
Pieoffsky, were hanged in St. Petersburg Friday |
morning Michaeloti's rope broke twice
Sergeant Bates who achieved notorietv by |
marching through the southern states and part Of
Europe bearing the American flag is reported DIV |
ing in abject poverty in Say brook, Iii He has |
wife and six children to be LETT destitute
The officers and soldiers at Fort Adams have
presented Ida Lewis, keeper of Lime Rock light |
house IN Newport, r. harbor, with solid silver
teapot as reward for her bravery in saving two |
soldiers from drowning in the harbor last winter
The Republican plurality in Michigan will reach
about 5000 The prohibition vote has increased |
from 1000 last fall to II 900 due to the failure of
the Legislature to submit to the people A consti
tutional amendment prohibiting the liquor traffic
Ihe New ! ork Herald in concluding long ar
tice Secretary Window plan for taking care
of the maturing per cents. says that there is
every reason to wish the Secretary the fullest sue
cess with his plan, because in every detail 1t pro
notes the public interest and guards the Treasury
TX Secretary Evarts and party reached London
on Saturday en- route for the monetary conference.
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