The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-04-28
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The damage from the floods IN Minnesota is i'm
mense
The Chicago pork corner collapsed on Wednes-
day OF last week
Horses in Chicago are suffering from peculiar
and serious foot disease
It's rumored that De Lesseps's cashier at Panama
has absconded with 30 millions.
Secretary Window says he has no intention of
retiring the small notes il circulation.
Manager John Stetson. Of Boston, has sued
Anna Dickinson for s. coo, .or breach of contract
Secretary Blaine has accepted proposals for
a monument to George Washington, at Mount
Vernon
Bsmarcks attitude on the monetary question
decidedly favors the maintenance Of the gold
standard
Fourteen million children ought to attend school
III this country That is the number returned BY
the census.
ten. James Longstreet. minister to Turkey
las been nominated to be United States Marshal
for Georgia
There are eight Greenbackers in the next Ma
uonal House seven Of whom will vote with the
Republicans.
Forty four thousand immigrants came to this
country IN March, and nineteen thousand of them
were Germans
Senator Logan has effectually disposed of the
Islander that he raised company for the rebel
army lnl $50 81.
Reports from all sections of Missouri Illinois
and Kansas of the condition of Winter wheat are
extremely discouraging.
There were only 81 failures IN the United States
and Canada the past week, the smallest number
reported IN many months.
At least 100000 colored people have arrived in
Kansas since the exodus from the South began
and they are still arriving.
The Union Pacific railroad has made claims
against the government for over million dollars
for transportation services
Mrs. Howe president of the fraudulent Ladies'
Deposit bank OF Boston. was found guilty Monday
The case will go up on exceptions
The temperance party in Ohio are taking initial
steps toward putting Elk President HAYES in nomi-
nation for the gubernatOrial chair.
Three firms are now engaged in canning Boston
baked beans, and their annual production is not
less than 4.o00,UOO or 1000, goo cans
Bets are now offered that Stearns Kendall Alb
oolt, the massachusetts murderer will escape the
halter lie has been replieved until June 23d.
B W. Hext and j A. Conner clerks in store
II Miller, Georgia. had difficulty about five cents
resulting IN HeXt shooting Conner dead. Hext
fed
Mr. Gould is said to have made a canvass of the
Wheat-crop prospects. HIS conclusion is that the
crop will fail 600 600 bushels below the crop of
last year
lav,4 hoe d,
length OF It's mail routes in operation is II 29I
miles. The money order system is employed to
the public satisfaction
The man who pcrjured himself in defence of the
Morey letter forgery has been sent to prison for
eight years, while the men who hired him to com
nit perjury are still at large.
DR.. SchatT thinks the revised New Testament
Will be almost universally accepted hy English
speaking people within five years from the date of
its issue, the 10th Of next month
James 7. Fields the author and publisher, died
suddenly in Boston Sunday night, of paralysis of
the heart. He was a native of Portsmouth New
Hampshire and was 81 years of age.
Chief Justice Pierpont, of Vermont, decided the
other day that drunkenness had never been held in
that State a good cause for divorce under the
statute, and refused TO grant one on that ground
A passenger train on the Rock Island division of
WI
through treste work into Meredosia iver Wed
nesday night, near Albany. H., drowning eight
persons.
DR. Hammond formerly Surgeon General of the
Onlted States army, says II know of no possible
condition which renders the use of whiskey gin
rum or brandy necessary or proper Pretty posi-
tive language, this.
table showing the increase of the annual paw
OF ninety three star routes out Of 9,225 whereby
the annual pay raised between lettings of 1878
and January !, 1880 from S727 Il9 to s. SO2 pa
has been prepared from official sources
a Northern congressman who has lately visited
FLORIDA says the State Is rapidly falling into the
hands of Northern people, who are buying up all
The lands that are worth anything. In few years
they Will own three quarters of the state
woman in Chicago recently bought parcel of
butter paying at the rate of thirty five cents per
pound Tested at Elgin, Ill g, 1t proved 10 be made
up OF one third OF pumpkin, trace of butter with
the rest lard The Western are beating the
world on the adulteration of butter
Ihos W. Cunningham, commission merchant.
and j. A. Chandler, broker, said to be the nephew
of the late Hon. Zach Chandler fred several shots
at one another the street in San Francisco last
Friday morning Cunningham was killed and
Chandler wounded. The men were married to two
sisters and family disputes caused the trouble.
The police of New York, acting on information
received from Secretary Blaine, are watching for
noble criminal from Brazil Il Is known as the
Baron Puttkammer, has just completed sentence
OF SIX years imprisonment for attempted robbery
and assassination, aud is now sailor on board the
British steamer Grecian, bound to New York and
London.
Postmaster General James is overhaullng the
star route and other contracts and it is ntimated
that the Grand Jury may be invited to examine
INTO the official conduct of several clerks of the
Post office Department with outside confederates |
and apologists General James is already satisfied
that he can so reduce these thievng expenditures
as to make the postal service self sustaining
The bronze statue of Farragut was unveiled in
Washington, Tuesday Pres Garfield accepted |
the statue in brief address, and Hon Horace |
Maynard and Senator voorhees, delivered brief ad |
dresses. Then the procession reformed and moved |
towards the executive mansion from which it was |
reviewed by the President Members of the cabi |
net except Mr.. Blame who has gone to New York |
accompanied the President at the unveiling to |
gether with his wife and children and Mrs, Farra-
gut, widow of the Admiral who was placed in a |
position of honor on the platform next to the |
President on his right, while the artist Mrs Vim |
ME Ream Hoxie, was seated next to him on the |
left The son of the Admiral and Mrs. Farragut,
Mr.. Loyal Farragut, of New York city, were pres
ent with his wife