The Republican journal., 1881-07-28

And now the Belfast Journal may be numbered
among the Maine papers which oppose our anti
hanging laws. Perhaps in the course of a few
weeks more when We shall probably have an addI
ton of half dozen murders or SO to our black
list public attention may be laZiy turned to the
subject If 1t isn't too hot. ar1 there's nothing else
of interest to engage it iLewiston Gazette.
II the Gazette had been a careful
reader of the journal it would have known
long ago that this paper believes in capt
tai punishment. 1t does not owe its con
version to recent MURDERS
An obituary Of a COW, published III he
Boston Journal, concludes us follows
Many thousands have come from all parts of the
Union and the Canadas to see her; she as we'll
known IN Mississippi as III Massachusetts and the
town of Scituate will be as well known as the home
Of Jersey Belle as Mansfield and Ashland are for
their illusIrous dead Thus has passed away one
of the nObcS animals that ever stood and in future
years, when the present generation has gone She
will be spoken OF in terms Of the highest praise for
her remarkable dOings
The newspapers are playing sad havoc with the
name OF the Democratic candidate for governor of
Ohio, One calls him ''Backwatcr." and another
waller" etc, while down river exchange calls him
"Brookwater, and anotherin tile lower part of the
state puts it ''prnkwater." His name is Book
walter There is no water about it.
OF course not. Catch the Democrats
nominating a candidate whose name is
water on who believes in water
The Boston journal thinks there is no
cause for anxiety over the prediction of
the London Pail Mall Gazette that this
country is on the eve Of another tinan-
cial panic. of course not. The circus
has been the rounds, and the people have
money enough left to 60 to market with.
We're all right.
The withdrawal Of the Roach line of
steamships to Brazil compels our mcr-
chants to take their chances for shipping
goods for the brazilian markets per the
English steamers, which call at New
York on their way to Rio, and business
letters 60 by the way of England, This
ought not to be.
The Franklin Square edition Of VIII
liam Blacks last novel "Ihe Beautiful
Wretch" is finely illustrated; but why Il
manof-War brig is twice presented as u
full rugged ship and once rs brig is
somewhat Of puzzle to the nautical
reader
The New lork Maritime Register pub
fishes the following encouraging ana sug-
gestlvc item
Large sized sailing ships, it Is said, have paid
handsomely this past year great many shrewd
men think there is yet money to be made with
them.
We thought Of writing a paragraph
about the weather, but as there are nok
words enough of the right kind in the
dictionary WorcestGr's Unabridged 10
express our sentiments we concluded to
say nothing.
The Portland Advertiser tells the whole
story in the following paragraph:
Mr. Conkling's place has been filled. MIR. Lapham
IS not great man, by all accounts, but he will be
on speaking terms with his associates in the Senate
chamber, and will be a more useful representative
OF New ork than his pompous and quarresome
predecessor
The English papers point with pride to the Eng
lish railway carriage as offering no chances for
wholesale robbery Of passengers like the american
trains.
But the chances for murder and outrage
in the English compartment cars are
tirst-class.
Lewiston, Me-, feels rather metropolitanish, 1t
has fire alarm telegraph, and now its policemen
are to belts and blles and besides it is to
have horse railway Boston Post.
And it has one of the best daily papers
Published anywhere.
Hon. Alex. II. Stephens, Of Georgia, is
writing Il book. He edited an Atlanta,
Georgia, daily paper some years ago, and
one of his paragraphs kept the concern in
copy for a week. This leads to specua-
ton as to the size of his book
Ice water, which an exchange calls our |
national beverage, is said to be almost us
injurious to the human system as rum. !
Ice water drinkers should swear off
Some twenty-five cases of lock Jaw are |
recorded against the toy pistol. Why
don't Eli Perkins admirers present him
with toy pistol2
1t is cheaper now to go West by rail
than to stay at home The railroad
have cut rates down to low
figures.
Guteau now wants to write his life. Boston
Post
He had better take it.
The Boston Post alleges that,
Gen. Neal Dow is delivering so called temper
ance lectures in Nova Scotia
Guiteau won't be able to beat his pres
ent boarding house.