The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1882-04-13
Editorial Notes.
John Bulls liquor bill last year amounted to
$635 1872 800. The items include beer, whisky.
and wine.

$685. ,312 300. The items include beer, whisky
and wine.
Jamaica ginger has been declared contraband
by Maine sheriff. All the traders within his
| jun iSdiction have been notified that they must
not sell the horrid stuff, as it contains more al
| cOhol than the law allows. Catnip tea will
come next. Eastern Argus.
That need not worry the Argus man. He is
not supposed to indulge in that kind of nip
| The House has passed the Senate bill reGllc-
ing the fee for licenses of officers of steam YES
sells. The license fund is large enough to pay
| the expenses of the inspection service for %
| years.
There must have been enough three months
extra pay and consuls fees collected to pay ex-
pcnSes for % years, 50 why not give American
shipping chance:
1t is said that James Gordon Benefits new
steam yacht will be named Nourmahal mean
ing The Light of the Harem For further par
ticulars see Moore's poem, Lalla Rookh. The
photographic fraternity will now arise and say
that Bennett always was harem scarem sort
of fellow-that is, if they recognize the name as
| printed in our exchanges.
| We have received the Illustrated Catalogue
and Floral Guide for 1882, issuedby Mr.. Fred'k.
! ii. Muses., Of Bucksp0rt Mr.. Moses has seven
green houses under $500 square feet of glass,
where the choicest varieties of cut flowers can
always be obtained. His flower seeds and bulbs
are reliable and acclimated, thereby making
them the most valuable for purchasers in this
vicinity.
According to the report of private detective
good deal of the butter consumed i'll st. Louis
is made from the carcasses of dead animals.
which are picked up off the streets, cut up. the
, fat separated, ceansed by chemical process,
the oleomargarine extracted, colored, packed,
and sent to some point down the river There
it is marked Goshen butter" and shipped back
to st. Louis dealers. Nice men. those st. Louis
dealers.
The New York sun is exercised because ours
| is "A government of lawyers. In the Senate
there are 81 lawyers, ; bankers, 3 each of mer
chants railroad officials. professional politicians,
manufacturers, , miners, general business
editor and farmers. In the House there are
l95 lawyers, - professional politicians, II mer-
chants. II editors / farmers. 10 manufacturers,
physicians, 3 railroad officials, > each of civil
| engineers, miners and mechanics, clergyman,
| capitalist and | metallurgiSt.
As there is no section of the country where
| YOU can throw a stone at Il dog without hitting
a lawyer. ii seems necessary for the government
to support some of them; and under existing
rules they can probably do less harm in Con-
| greSS than elsewhere.
Few have any idea of the magnitude of the
produce shipments from Norfolk. Virginia, or
of the carly growth of vegetables in that section.
kale, spinach. radishtS. lettuce and cabbagts of
the earliest variety are now in season. and the
Old Dominion Steamship Go. despatch six
steamships per week, carrying each from four to
eight thousand barrels of these green crops. In
addition there are large shipments TO Baltimore.
Philadelphia and Boston. As soon these
crops 90 out others come in. and including
fruits the shipments cover nearly half of the
year bringing i'll great deal of money 70 the
producers and swelling the profits of the >tc,lll-
ship companies.
They had a monster anti-C hine>e meeting in
san Francisco recently, and among the note
worthy speeches was one by W. I. Coleman. Il
leading merchant Of that city. The following
extract from his speech shows What the Cali
fornans fear
Even to-day China has a navy that puts ours
to shame. She lies within twenty days of us,
and could, if occasion required it, place on our
shores army the equal of which modern times
have not seen. This is not likely to occur soon,
but it may come any day. The death OF Il sin
Gle Chinaman in this country OF a single Ameri-
can in that might work complication that
would at once put lis i'll arms. II is said that III
Great Britain there Will be put atoat this year
at least .0o0.000 of tons register of iron ships
and >teamers-mOre probably 200 goo tons. or
200 vessels of 900 tons register each. Ii Oc-
cason required China could buy one half this
fleet, and adding her own and such as she could
get together she could start thousand vessels on
short notice. bringing , 900 men each, and hurl
almost before knew it, 1000. 900 people ON
our coast. This could be rapidly multiplied. so
that five, ten or twenty millions could be here
in comparatively short time What would
become of us in such a contingency? 1t is ap-
paling to contemplate, and yet unfortunately it
is all within the bounds of early possibility
FISH AND FISHING. The mysterious fish
which 50 many vessels have recently reported
as seen floating, dead, in the North Atlantic
over an area of many hundreds of square miles
is pronounced by Prof. Baird. TO be the tile-ti>h
a new species found. by the United States Fish
Commissioner, to occur in incredible quantities
along the western edge of the Gulf Stream, i'll
from - to 40 fathoms. The Professor thinks
they We're killed by storm. Seventeen Glou-
cc>trr vessels and two from Portland, have al
ready sailed on Southern mackcrel voyages
making an unusually early start, and quite 4
fleet are now fitting away. Newburyport will
have but two vessels in the Southern mackere
fishery this season. The spring herring schools
have struck in. Last week the Rockport meters
took about $4,000 Sunday night, from 40, ,000 tC
10000 Monday night. and large schools Were
seen on Old Mans Pasture, Tuesday .Somt
of the residents along the banks of the Eastern
river, near East Pittston, are doing quite live
" and remunerativc business this spring spear
ing ecs. Over $500 worth have been shippec
to the Boston market, and the work still goes
on. One man. Mr.. Archibald Reed, of East
Pittston. took S25 worth in one week recently
They bring five cents per pound at wholesale
at the Club" The trout-fshing season open
ed in New York on the lst instant, and the pros
poets for fine sport are said to be unusually
good. The streams of Long Island afford the
earliest fishing .."..A Friendship correspondent
of the Rockand Opinion says: "Ihirty years
ago, a hundred traps would catch perhaps, tC
each haul, 400 Holsters. averaging about
pounds each, or 800 pounds. Now the samt
traps would eaten perhaps - lonSlefS, aNtThS
ing pounds apiece, or 50 pounds to haul
The truth is, the law for the protection of lob
sterS is imperative and Intellectual. The law
prohibiting the selling of Holsters under TO-
inches in length, from August first till Apri
first, is not obeyed in many instances; and whel
the small ones are not sold at the time, they are
thrown into car and kept till after the first OF
April and then sold. There is mere nothing
for lobster snacks to do, and some are making
arrangements to leave the business Nv off
II Reessing have begun canning Holsters at thei
factory at Round Pond.
| SHIPPING ITEMS. Bark Manhegan, before
reported as partially burned, has been sold b,
auction at Newcastle, n. 5. W. for ST., 800, ant
placed under the British flag. VIM. Howson
one of the late crew, convicted for firing the
vessel, has been sentenced to 10 years on til,
roads with hard labor. The bark Elio
Ritchie, which was once the famous cutter Harri