The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-07
aeneraI1tles.

Boston paid out over 300 900 il goIl to its en-
ployes last month.
1t is alleged that the late Thomas Carlyle was a
terrible domestic tyrapt
Western farmers are said to be month behind
hand IN their spring work
The widow of Commodore Vanderbilt has an in
come of fifty thousand year.
1t is now thought Cyrus W. Field will accept
the presidency of the Worlds Fair
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, reported last week
as seriously i'll, has entirely recovered.
The Governor Of Kansas has approved the bill
prohibiting the carving of concealed weapons.
The marriage of Crown Prince Rudolph and
Princess Stephanie of Belgium is fixed for the 10th
of May
The Massachusetts House of Representatives
Tuesday defeated a bill giving municipal suffrage
to women.
Chill demands large war indemnity Of Peru.
and will hold large strip OF the latter country
until it is paid.
Adynamite explosion near Pleasant alley. Penn
sylvania Friday. blew man to pieces and demol-
lshed the building
Rev, Herbert II. HAYDEN the alleged murderer
of Mary Stannard earns his daily bread in New
Haven carriage shop.
NJ. NJ Pomeroy Familiarity known throughout
the country as Brick" Pomery is the largest
mining operator in Colorado
The experiment Of lighting portions OF London
By the Brush and Siemens electric system Thurs
day night was entirely successful.
GEORGE Schmidt, two years DID, died Sunday at
Evansville, nd Of hydrophobla after 80 houls
suffering He was bitten March It'll
1t is proposed to hold an International conference
OF jurlsts at Vienna to yentilate the question of
the right Of asy lum of political refugees
Montreal immigration agent is visiting New
England to persuade the French Canadians 10 re-
turn to Canada lie offers them grants Of land
During fight roof in New York Friday
morning Frank Muloss shot Samuel Wallace in the
heat. and Ernest Leatz shot himself in the leg
Articles tor the Ashley contest arc signed. and
the race will take place in England Rowel and
Weston, the challengers, have signed the ar icles
March 1881, shows an average Of nearly seven
degrees warmer weather than March 1880 There
were seventeen days in March in which rain or
snow fell
The Boston police report that II i 50 gallons OF
soup were furnished to Is POI families the past
winter, all for S223l an average cost of 3 cents
per meal
third attempt to acclimate the English sky
lark ~ TINS country is to be made this sprug Tie
bird has always been the most admired of English
songsterS.
The L1ndon Daily News indicates that England
has declined to attend the monetary conference
because the conference is practically pledged to
| bi meta llism.
| The decrease id the public debt during March
was Sh.l9Oblo; cash in treasury. $3.50 Sl3 CO., %
The reduction of the debt since June Both 1850 S
StS 40S 407 II
jim Curry, the Texan desperate. who fatally
shot William Porter the actor at Marshall
Tex has been shot and killed bv a bartender in
| Las Vegas, n NJ
Ex Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas. is at present IN
| North Carolina managing gold mine with sue
| cess Tie has also invented a machine for extract
| llg gold from quartz rock
GOV Iittlefeld OF Rhode Island. has accepted
| both the republican and prohlbitorv nominations
for re election Last year be was vigorously op-
| posed to the prohbtionists.
1t is stated the Secretary of the Navy has lcciI
! ed that workmen II navy yards b. paid for eight
hours work, but not be paid for ten hours work if
they work only eight hours
Persons from the Transyaal report that the Beers
are looting the property of loyaIjsts The Boer
leaders cannot control their followers and il is be
! icved peace Is only temporary
a, IT, ~" Jersey I-eglSlatnTr mas passed a bI
oHtIIaS n'E IN 'uSanu dollars year to each city
or town III the State that will raise the like Snu
annually tor industrial education
| SECRETARY ot War ii,o,l, ;.,.,,.I. ...,
break mn The snt ,iann. ~ " - 'Hq 10
MANY otiirnrs hoya baan l,,- y! MiLirn
on stan duty IN me Eastern cities.
| IoO hasLots ~ .horr;,, ,,.;...., T.. ,.-...
from Florida on the last Savannah steamer They
from sarentv +a nL nIte, "no sol" al
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29,37} barrels OK apples We're shipped from This
country to Europe last week CAbe news from
had cpndito3 %.g l.a.nS a!gre 4
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Some of the Springfield women are Qualifying
| themselves against the time when women shall
vote and hold office in Massachusetts, bv forming
club forthe systematic study Of political economy
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,- lteutIIeh t,ou9lass was once almost mob0ed IN
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