The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-06-16
GenSralttles.

New Ofhe1S MAJ i clear Flew OF the cCfuSp
| Saturday night.
New York city has had rain every day this
| month save
President Garfield addressed the graduating class
OF the Naval Academy Friday,
| SIX hundred cabin passengers LETT on seven
steamships for Europe Saturday from New York.
| The business transacted in May exceeds that of
| any other month in the history Of the country
John Burroughs experiment in Introducing Eng
| ilsh kylarks into this country is not success.
Many Of the old Wings in Virginia have joined
the ranks OF the Readjnster party in that State
Last weeks storm was severe on the Middle At
| lantc coast, and number Of vessels went ashore
1t is thought that a drunken man entering
stable with candle the cause of the Quebec
| fire
Secretary Window was most cordially greeted
| Oh Change iii Chicago Saturday. He made a brief
| speech
The biography and correspondence OF William
| Lloyd Garrison will make between three and six
| volumes
| J NJ Hill the Boston theatrical manager has
spent >3O0,oH0 within five years fer newspaper al
vertsing
The centennial of the birth of George Stephen.
son vas celebrated in many places in England
Thursday.
Gen. W. I. Sherman has accepted an invitation
TO attend the New England Fair at Worcester
September til.
California has girl ten years old who is a won
derful rifle snot. She breaks glass balls and hits
ten cent pieces.
The wire has made its appearance in
Carleton county, Ont, and is doing great damage
to growing gram.
The first car Of new wheat for the season. from
TT. ORTIZ Texas, has arrived at St. Louis and sold
at 81 30 per bushel.
The graduating exercises at West Point were
held Friday. General Sherman and Secretary Lin
coin addressed the class
A duel was fought in Clarendon. S C. the other
day, the pistols being loaded by friends OF the com
batants with cork bullets
Chos experienced another earthquake Saturday
Two men were injured and mnaret and several
ruined houses were OverthroWn
The Ohio Republican convention renomnated
Governor Foster by acclamation President Gar
neld administration was endorsed.
An organization OF ex Confederate soldiers will
| tender reception to the Army of the Cumberland
at the annual reunion at Chattanooga
The Greenback national committee met at St
Louis and elected Jesse Harper of Illinois secre-
tary in place of 4. II Murch, resigned.
The total foreign commerce of Boston in April
amounted to nearly SlI 900 900 and greatly led
those Of any other port save New York.
A London dispatch says the American dory Lit
tie Western will start her return Journey from
Westminster Bridge, Tuesday, l4th inst
| The statement that Governor Cornell had written
a letter declining to be candidate for the Senate
| appears to have been an invention of the Conkng
| men.
| Miss Dora Wiley has had benefit at Halifax
which, according to the local press was patronized
BY the lieutenant general the general, the admiral
and the mayor
| Lieut.. Fred Grant, 4th Cavalry has not resigned
| from the army, as is the general belief he las
SIMPLY resigned his position On the staff of Lieut.
| General Sheridan.
| finely equipped expedition for the Jeanette
Archie search. Is soon to start out The steamer
the Rodgers, has five years rations and is put in
| first class condition.
| An autograph testimonial album to Mrs Ruth
| erford b. Hayes has been finished 1t consists Of
SIX large volumes of $50 pages each elegantly bound
| in full Turkey morocco
cyclone killed five persons and DESTROYED many
| buildings Thursday evening at Beloit Solomon
City, Bennington, Minneapolis and other points in
| Solomon Valley. Kansas.
| popular vote on the question whether the
sale OF spirltuous liquors, with the exception of
WINE and cider, shall be prohibited, will be taken
| IN North Carolina in August.
An attempt made Thursday night to blow
up the Liverpool Town Hall Two Liverpool
| lrshmen, who recently arrived from America
| have been arrested for the offence.
The total loss In the Quebec fire June Sth) is
| All unit anfG
number of houses burned is 657. Three persons
lost their lives, and two more missing.
| General Devens was elected president of the so
clety Of the Army of the Potomac General Bea
of Maine was elected president of the Twelfth
crops. The next reunion will be held in Detroit
Mrs Garfield will spend the next few weeks at
the Soldiers Home, her husband and her three old
| est sons being with her Harry and James Gar
| held will take the Williams examinations in Sep
| TENDER
| diabolcal plot to blow up a stove foundry in
Chicago, by loading mould with powder was dis
covered Saturday just as the workmen were about
to turn IN the red hot iron, The plot was original
| ed by strikers.
Washington SPECIAL says it is rumored among
army officers that the President has received a
private telegram from Gen. Miles, saying the court
martial had sustained the charges against Whtta
| ker, colored cadet
The lumber resources of Washington Territory
are very great. The average size of the fullgrown
mr. Is Six feet in diameter while many of the trees
| are 800 feet high, and one tree alone has pro
| duced 1000 feet of lumber
| Advlces from China state that the steamship
Chong, manned and differed exclusively by Chin
ese sailed from Hong Kong for Victoria, British
Columbia, the first of June, with 800 Cinnamon to
| q ian raj