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The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

Farmers institutes are to be held in Kennebec
county during the month of January as follows
18th, at Riverside 18th, at Monmouth Centre, ana
the annual meeting at the State House, beginning
the 18th. Good speakers have been secured for
each meeting
meeting of the voters of Rockand was called
for Jan 9Th to take such action as may be deemed
necessary under chap 49, Special Laws OF 1879,
authorizing certain cities and towns to pay the
bonds issued in aid of the Knox d. Lincoln H.
Co. and to issue new bonds for that purpose
The managers of the Maine Beet Sugar Company
have concluded to abandon Maine field for
their operations, and are now engaged IN remov-
ing their machinery from Portland.
D. Q Cushman, of Bath has written letter TO
the Maine Farmer in which he proves concluslvely
that Monhegan was not the island on which the
first sermon in New England was preached, but
that it was on Georges island Bishop Dl COST
would do well to peruse this letter before he erects
the proposed monument on Monhegan in commem-
Grafton of the first Episcopal sermon preached IN
New England.
Samuel Cakes Greene died Monday morning of
apopleXy on the Maine Central train for Portland
at Danville junction.
The annual meeting of the Maine Educational
Association and Teachers Society was held at
Pittsheld last week
Elk arden W. W. Rice, who with exGov. Co
burn has bought into the kennebec Framing Co :,
of Fairfield. is about to make his home in Water
Vile
young lady by the name of Meteat llVlng at
Mlans Corner, Deering, committed suicide Friday
night. by taking strichnine.
Gen. Plasted has been preparing message,
which is said to be quite long and largely devoted
10 the financial question
William Russell Card, convicted at Portland of
passing counterfeit money has been sentenced to
five years in State Prison. Motion for a new trial
was Overruled
Mrs. Sarah Z. Buck. of Bangor, died suddenly
Sunday, aged nearly IS years.
The Wing says that hay sold in Bangor, Monday,
for SlS and $40.
Capt B. Giipatrick, of barque Horace Seudder
which arrived at Boston from the west coast of
Africa after tempesuous passage, died at sea sept
30 He belonged in Biddeford
To accommodate shippers of fruit and articles
that are liable to freeze, the Maine Central Rall-
road company will run lined cars with fires in
them from Portland to Skowhegan via Augusta
and Portland to Bangor via Lewiston every Thurs
day morning, commencing the 9th inst.
Capt Oliver Bourne died suddenly in kennebunk
Tuesday morning. being i'll but few hours. He
was SO years old and was "Dartmoor prisoner"
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

seen the sun rise in five different languages but
it's always the same old fraud, and nearly every
one believes it, but only few of us courage
GUS ones dare say so Congress ought to pass a
law that should compel people to lie abed until at
painters. and oblge them to get up every morning
from Dec to April, clad only in a straw hat and a
linen duster, and teE years OF that medicine would
drive all of the poetry and romance out Of the
scene, which Is all there is to the show anyway,
But We are nearly at Our journeys end, and
must close this to get more notes for my next let
ter, in which will try and give you my impress
sions OF Charleston. 0CB GEORGE.
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

Our Augusta correspondent has some
thing to say this week concerning pro
posed legislation affecting the prohibitory
laws. His opinions will hardly meet the
approval of all of our temperance people,
though some, no doubt, will agree with
him as to the repeal of the cider clause.
But, to offset the move in this direction, it
is said proposition will come up to sub
nit to the people at the election in 1889
an amendment incorporating prohibition
into the constitution, as has Just been
successfully done in Kansas.
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

Gen. Weaver and some of the Green
back organs assert that their party did
splendidly at the late election, making
in fact great gains, and giving promise
of future predominance But from 1878
to 1880 the Greenback party lost 354 ,37l
votes in ten states; as follows: Illinois,
loss, D,636; Indiana, 25,552 Iowa 3D.
l27 Kansas, 1879; Maine, 81 ,O2l Mich
igan, @,60o; Missouri, 26, 122; New York,
62,760; Ohio, 3l,776; Pennsylvania, 81,
600. At this rate, one more pull will
send the Greenback party where the
wOodbine twineth.
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06
The Morey Letter,

TIE GUILTY PARTIES WILL BE MADE PUBLIC.
NEW YORK, Jan T. ''The Truth" the journal
which originally published the Morey Chinese let
ter this morning published an open letter to
James A Garfield, President elect repudiatlng
the Morey letter and declaring it forgery. The
Truth also prints letter from B. g. Kaine ad-
dressed to Joseph Hart, approving OF the retrac-
ton, The Truth says editoray il connection
with the retraetion, that the parties implicated in
the forgery OF the letter will be made public in
due course, in court of justice.
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06
Readers of the New York World from 1863 wi

Readers OF the New York World from 1868 VII
recall some very graphic descriptions Of battles
and other incidents of the war the lnlliaiS Of
j. B. S. In some instances were added the inItlas
e. A. I. These stood for the names Of jerome
Bonaparte Stillson and George Atrei Fo~nSen!,
both of whom won their Journalistic spurs az war
correspondents Mr.. Stillson died few days ago
and was buried from the New York residence Of
his friend and former associate, Mr. To"nseli
Mr.. Stillson was about forty years old al me Tine
of his death After the war closed ne was 70
several years Washington correspondent OF The
World and having the confidence OF President
johnson his letters were often the medium OF IN
portant information as to the intention or Views
of the administration. For several years Mr. S.
was managing editor of the World ana lour Years
ago he joined the staff of the New ork Herald as
correspondent and rendered perllous service in
Utah, accompanied Gen. Miles IN his campagn
against Sitting Bull, visited Cuba Mexico and
Europe, and was engaged quite recently upon pc
litical correspondence in the Western states HID
was strikingly handsome man. Tall well prof.
portioned, with curly black hair, black eyes an
black mustache, and always elegantly dressed, hi
attracted attention everywhere. HIS close reseu
blance to Stokes, the murderer OF jim fiske, we
for time source of embarrassment MI Still
sons wife died some five years ago, leaving nj
children, and his mother was the only relativ t
present at his funeral. He was native of Buffalo
NY
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06
The London Times on our Census Returns.

The London Times, commenting on the increase
of population of the q. S, as shown by the cen
sus, says: These eleven and a half millions PEG
pie are not a poor, INDECENT and untaught mass
such as would be produced in any European coun
try by great and rapid accessons to the population.
They are well fed, clothed and well to do and as
rule, well educated. There is room and to spare
for all and for many more during the next ten
years We cannot but look with some envy at a
nation whose easy lot it is to gather up good
things which fortune casts to it -"
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

1t now appears probable that Hon. 7. H. Murch
will be the next Speaker Of the House [Calais
Times.
Well, well This is too Murch. But
it is just as probable that Murch will be
the next President as that he will be the
next Speaker.
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

The New York Tribune concludes an
article on the Maine Senatorship by eX-
pressing the conviction that Maine will
send Hale to the Senate and keep Frye
either in the Speakers chair or in the
leadership of the House. 1t says the
country. as we'll as Maine, needs both
Hale and Frye in Congress.
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

Last Friday morning Washington, d.
c., according to the reports of the signal
service, was the coolest place in the
United States except the top of Mt.
Washington and Fort Buford, Dakota
Territory. The thermometer indicated
10 below zero.
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06
Honey Raas

We call the special attention of our readers to
the advertisement of Mrs Cotton, in another col
umn under this head. Mrs. Cotton's new system of
bee keeping is great success 4wl
Il heard you were down with the rheumatism. y
exclaimed Mrs. Smith $50 did H. said Harry,
gleetully; but rumor tbs, MN
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

BY a slip of the pen we last week elect
ed Hon. Eugene Hale to the State Senate.
But we hope the same pen will soon write
United States Senator after his name.
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

D. Lothrop g. Co., Boston, will soon publish
Five Little Southerners" by Mary W. Porter, of
Louisiana. 1t is said to be very amusing and
delightful book
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

The Maine Mining Journal processes
to think it has found in an editorial on
Maine mines which appeared in the
Journal of Dec. 23d, 'attempts to Justify
the course this paper "has taken in the
past and promises to do different in the
future" If the NJ NJ. j. really does think
so, it is very much mistaken. The Jour
nal has no need to Justify the course it
has taken in the past with regard to wild
cat-mlniug or other delusive schemes, and
it does not propose to deviate from that
course now or in the future. 70 the best
OF its ability it will continue to protect its
constituents from the evils of fiat money,
fiat mining, and all else that may threaten
their interests. 1t will rejoice if legiti-
mate mining in Maine proves to be a
paying business; but it has not yet been
demonstrated that it is, or will become
so. The NJ. NJ. j., as the mouth piece of
the promoters of companies and of those
who have stock to sell, talks very glibly
about rich ores accommodating upon the
dumps of the various mining companies,
and of dividends looming up; but this is
as deceptive as the loom of the fog. That
paper also condemns itself when, speaking
of the mining craze for which it is in part
responsible, it says:
1t was also suspected that not a small number OF
operators were taking advantage Of the excited
condition OF the public to float many worthless
schemes upon the market and that they found an
abundance of victims
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

\ private letter received at Bucksport states
that meteor OF the largest kind passed over St
Simonds Island, Geo, at quarter past four on
the morning of Dec llth 1t passed within mile
OF the EARTH and, on account of the great light,
the darkies all thought the world was coming to
an end 1t fell into the ocean just off land and
Jared the island throughout its whole extent
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06
News of Belfast and Vicinity,

1lfSt, are now broken.
The Ladies Aid Association in this city, has
changed its day of meeting from Wednesday to
Saturday.
Belfast sympathizes with its citizens who have
gone to Florida to pass the winter. Pass another
frozen orange, please.
You can't eat enough in a week to last you year
and you cant do your advertising on that plan,
either; its altogether impossible
The hens strike for higher wages has proved
successful aud eggs retail for thrtyt cents
per dozen, rotten ones included.
The Winterport and Bucksport correspondence
OF the Bangor Commercial reads astonishingly like
that which had previously appeared in this paper.
The tides of last week We're unusually low, and
many a clam that mad reposed in safety below ordi
nary tide water, exultingly taken from his
muddy bed
Carter & Co have again ed labor in their
shipyar,l, and are putting up the frames of Capt
Welchs schooner. \ portion of the timber had to
be renoulded,
ilarbor thieves have commenced operations
the shipping. Sch. Geo B. Ferguson, at Lanes
wharf last week, was entered, but not much of
value was taken.
In crossing the lower bridge on saturday, a por-
ton of the harness of the horse driven by Edwin
Frost broke, the animal clearing itself from the
pung. Frost chung to the reins amt was dragged
nearly halt mile, but without serious injury.
The closing of the river at Bangor gives Belfast
some extra business. Potatoes from Arpo7tooh
county and pig iron from the katahtin Works.
shipped from Bangor in their season. now come
to Belfast by rail. So much for an open winter
port and an excellent harhor.
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The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

Brooklyn N. Y. correspondent of Forest and
Stream says it is not the much maligned pot hunt
ers who violate the game laws Of Maine, but the
gentlemen sportsmen," who afterward abuse the
pot hunters to relieve their consciences
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

An article on ''Onr Savings Banks" original with
us, went the rounds of the papers without credit,
and finally was acknowledged to the Republican
Journal which is good paper really did
not feel very bad about that Home Farm.
We clipped the article in question from an ex-
change, in which it appeared uncredited. We
should of course have credited the Home Farm
had we known the authorship.
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

called the attention OF the journal thereto holds
that The Legislature oy tins decslon has no right
to count all votes given for various PIasteds Tor
harris NJ Plalsted- The Journal holds that amend
lns return OF votes so that 1t VII conform WIN
me mtnlelPai record IS not ~ evidence interior 10
me return !tself' ana that me LEGISLATURE mas
an'hGfl.y 10 cause sbch ameLuinehls 70 re mace
Inc Inc point appears 70 be wen .aNen' p9uouess
me preseht supreme Court or Name. II the ease
was submitted to H. would lntefprel the conS'ltu-
uoh ana lhe avs WIN a we" 70 enforce 'he A.
parent VIII VII Oh me pi"fany or na5ofRy ~ me
voters me court o. lH39 oc'onSea 10 clfsS q
la"EerS II not 10 party lAat were ''Ilct conS'FCC
uonlsts
MAINE 10Y WHO cELW Ur WITH TEE W!sT
About twenty wear, aa,. +. vcun, man about %
years If apa lift ths law, 4 Winthrnn bis rativ.
place and went Wcs+ 10 sook his f6rtQue He
I.as . NOV ~ hr+ f,,1 -a,G nm '-nst a1,
am0untiDl IN ahont SlDn Which he tnoI- viii
Inn. IIe la,f No dafGita 5astinati0r In New
~, Io .+or4a1 Il y, 80. ~ -, ~ y.
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

Gen Grant has written for the February number
Of the North american Review article on lnter
Oceanic Canals, il which the various routes are
discussed and the decided advantages Of the Mica
ragua route forth. TIE subject one in which
Gen. Grant has long felt deep interest, and dur
ing his first year President 1859 he sent sur
veying expedition under Commander Selfrdge to
the Isthmus. The conclusion Of Gen. Grants ar
tcle is said to contain stalwart assertion of the
Monroe doctrine.
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

In reply to letter from Messrs. S. E Spring
and Josiah H. Drummond of Portland, Hon. w.
p Frye says he is candidate for the O. S. SEN
atorship, but that owing to important measures
pending in Congress, he shall not go to Augusta
to advance his interests.
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

The Pressure Isle North Star Is dlsgusted with
Viewers blackguardsm and rutfianism on the
floor of Congress and says
Weaver made an ass of himself and we would
not vote for him aga if we knew that one vote
would make him President
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06
In eighteen hundred and eighty-one

Mother Symptoms Prophecy.
As Mother Symptoms prophecy is fraud, no one
need lie awake nights on account of it.
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

The Boston Herald thinks that nothing would
be lost, but much gained, by having the legisla-
ton of Massachusetts done in biennial sessions of
go days each The Massachusetts legislature now
holds annual sessions which are unlimited as to
time
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

The Washington Capital says Hon Grahal
Frost is spending the holidays in St. LOUIS. Hol
j. Frost spent the holidays here.
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

The superintendent Of Inc census published an
approximate statement of the population OF the
States and Territories which, it is believed, is
very near the final figures. The latter is expected
to be announced next week. The population of
Maine is given as 640,9i3 and that of Massachu-
sets 1S30S6 The grand total of the country is
SO, l62, $50 In the approximate population of
cities Of above 1000 Portland is given as 80 80:
Fall River, 1906; Boston, 362 $50 Providence,
9S4; Chicago SOB 300; st. Louis. $50, 500; Wash
ington, IA }07; San Francisco, 233 956 Hartford
10 a52
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

The election passed Of quietly. | have only
heard from the Camden poll. AS before, the box
at this poll carried by majority of 800 and
more for the Democratic candidate when there
were but 700 votes actually east, of which the Re
publican candidate received 46l giving him ma
iority Of 222 According to the count of the man
ayers there were lG4S counted out Of the box
1912 in favor Of the Democrats and 406 in favor of
the Republican candidate kept poll list out
side of the window from the commencement to
the end of the voting, tallying every man who
voted the Democratic ticket, and taking the names
of those who voted the Republican ticket.
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

THE ORANGES. Waldo County Council will
hold its next regular meeting with Silver Harvest
Grange, Waldo, Jan. II, 1881, at ten O'Clock \ NJ.
Question for discussion Resoly cti-That farmers
need education other subjects, more than on
farming Affirmative, Bro. Could and sister Nick
erSon; negative, Bro. shepherd and Sister smith.
Essay Inv Sister Moody. Song by Bro Poland and
daughter, Officers for the ensuing year will be
elected. e.. Harvest Home Grange p. of II of Brooks
at its last meeting elected the following officers for
the ensuing year: Master, {. T. Foss; Overseer
c. +. Peavey: Lecturer, James Mcraggart: Stew
ard, samuel Reynolds Chaplain Samuel Fo4s, ST.,
Asst Steward Samuel Foss il; Treasurer John
d Jones, Secretary, William G.. Rowe Gate keeper,
A, VI. Buzzeli. Ceres, Mrs. G. f. Foss Pomona Mrs.
James McTaggart Flora, Mrs. c. +. Hail. Lady
Asst steward Mrs. Hattie Foss. -. Waldo County
lodges were represented at the recent meeting of
the State Grange in Waterville rs follows Northern
Light, Wnterport, Fred W. Ritchie and wife; Star
OF Progress, jackson, A. X. Fletcher and wife;
Harvest Moon, Thorndike, \. j. Hurd; Honesty,
Morrill, Frank A. Gray; Union Harvest, Montvie,
d. W. Graves; Dirigo, Freedom, j. ii. NOse and
wife. Floral Grange of Bucksport represent
ell by A. NJ. Houstin, and Rainbow Grange of
BrookSVlle by Noah f. Wotton, proxy.
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06
REPUBLICAN JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.

SUBSCRIBERS renting money OF desiring 10
have the address of papers changed, must state the
Post Office to which the paperhas been sent as well
as the Office to which it is to 90.
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06
Name M alters.
NEWS AND GOSSIP FROM ALL OVER THE STATE

NARROW GUAGE RAILROADS..
The Home Farm advocates narrow gnage
railway system for Maine, and after study of the
map thus presents the subject; One line would
be the proposed Pennington and kennebec Valley
road, with an extension to Rangely Lakes another
would extend from Arson to the Dead River
Valley and The Forks-one OF the best farming
regions in Maine another would feed the Maine
Central from the rich section of blanchard Kings
bury and Monson another would unite Pressure
Isle with Mattawamkeag Point; another would
stretch across kennebec and Lincoln counties
from this city to Belfast; and still others would
open up other rich and important sections of our
State, which are lust waiting for this railroad
svstem 10 renEenate them INTO a nav life
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

The Bangor q PiseAta4uis raIr55}1I has in tu..
year ending Dee 3ls., lSS0 PAID into the Bangor
city treasury tne sam OF S365 500 This is Sll.5ou
more than paid ia the year 1872, and is $4,000
in excess of the amount expected. The sam paid
INTO the city treasury comes within 80 coo Of pay
ing the interest on the city bonded Indebtedness
At the time the city made the offer 10 the Lake
Megantc railroad, no one expected that the net
earnings would exceed s}0,990 There have been
several Improvements mad Oh tie road lurH-, Tie
last year, which have been paid for out OF the
earnings It is considered that the improvements
more Than balance tn" deterioration Of til" read
from wear and tear % the lren 2Gl rolling stock.
The Republican journal., 1881-01-06

EPlS'oPai'''' 49, sac
The House of Representatives is composed of Isl
members The political complexion of the iioust
Is follows
Republicans, .......... OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
National Greenbacks, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 80
democrats,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-24

CUTTING w HALES IN TWO.-1hs
Newport, of the New York and Cuba
steamship Company, ran into school
OF sperm whales Oft the Delaware cape,
Oh her last southwark trip 1t was
Capt. John p. Sundberg says he could
see milliens OF them from the deck.
He estimated the widta Of the schsol
-t Iaif /. lnic and It's length 1t twenty
rifles. The sea was smooth, the sun
Was shining, and all the passengers
were on deck. The vessel was steam
ing at fifteen knots. Some Of the
whales were seventy feet long One Of
:hom. about sixty five feet long, wss
struck by the bow Of the steamship at
right angles and about in the middle OF
its body. The shock nearly threw the
passengers from their feet. At the mo-
nlent of the collision the whale threw
up his flukss and deluged the fore part
of the deck. Com missioner Alden S.
Swan of the Brooklyn Bridge, who
va. looking over the prov, was among
The passengers who got drenched.
The whale, Capt. Sundberg says, was
was cut in two, the fore part going to
one side Of the vessel and the after
part to the other. The sea was colered
with blood. The head was driven down
into the water SO far that when it came
up it arose six feet cbove the surface.
in plain sight of those who were look
ing over the side. The shock threw tt 2
stsam-steering gear temporarily out Of
order but otherwise the vessel was not
damaged.
\ few minutes later second whale
was cut in two almost ia the same man
aer IS the first had been. The head
went to the port side, but the body pass
ed under the bottom and was struck by
the propeller blades. The effect Of this
on the machinery alarmed the enginee
Ia the engine room, who thought the
blades had struck drifting spar. The
course of the vessel was then changed.
and she ran out Of the school.