The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1882-06-01
The Truthful Pilot.

The passenger who was going down the big
river for the first time in his life, secured per
mission 10 climb up beside the pilot grim old
@ray-back.
MANY aligator> in this river inquired the
stranger, after look around
Not so many, now since they got to sh0otin
en- for their hides and taller" was the reply.
Used to be lots eh:''
Il don't want to tell you about EN-, stranger
replied the pilot signing heavily.
why
Cause you'd think was a lyn' TO you.''
Then there used to be lots of 'em - inquired
the passenger,
I'm most afraid to tell We. mister, but Eve
counted Ieyen hundred alIygaters to the mile
| from Nicksburg clar down to New Orleans
hat was two years ago, afore a shot was ever
fired At EN-.
We'll, | don't doubt it" replied the stranger
And Eve counted 3,459 of 'em on one sand.
bar. continued the pilot. 1T looks big to tell
| ou 4 government surveyor was aboard and he
checked EN- of as | called out"
Il haven't the least doubt of it, said the pas.
>rngef. rs he heaved sigh.
I'm glad o that stranger. This used to be
a paradise for allygaters and they We're so thick
thai tie wheels of the boat killed an average OF
I" TO the mile. | used to almost feel sorry for
The Drutc>, cause they'd cry out cen most like
Il human being. We killed lots of 'em, as | said
and we hurt pile more. | sailed with one cap
tain who allus carried a thousand bottles of lini
ment to throw over to the wounded ones. And
the aygater> got to know the Nancy Jane and
TO know Captain Tom, and they'd swim out and
rub their tails asin the boat and purr like eats
and look up and try to smile. And once. when
we grounded Oh a bar, with an opposition boat
right behind. the alygaters gathered around
gol under ner stern, and bumped her clean over
the bar by grand push"
There was painful pause, and after while
the pilot continued:
mUDpS Gin ont onro and crorJ of oil
lNgaltr> took Il toW-line and hauled us fortv-tye
miles up the stream to Nicksburg:'
They did -
And when the news got along the river that
Captain Tom was dead, every alligator in the
river daubed his left ear with mud as badge of
mournin, and lots of 'em pinned away and died -
The passenger left the pilot-house with the re-
mark that he didn't doubt the statement and
the old man gave the wheel a turn
1t is reported that the Dublin police have a
clue to the assassns of Lord Frederick Caven-
dish and Mr.. Burke.
The death of Admiral Rodgers places Admiral
" order, of Monitor fame, at the head of the
list of Rear Admirals.
The Pennsylvania Greenbackers have nomi-
mated Robert X. Tomlinson for Governor. with
a full list of State officers
Patrick Egan, treasurer of the Land League,
protests against using any OF the leagues funds
as a reward for the murderers.
The National Temperance Society held its
annual meeting in New York city, recently.
VIM. 4. Dodge was elected President.
Mrs. Garfield sent young oak and two ash
trees to be planted in Garfield place, Cincinnati.
the other day in memory of her husband.
Mr.. Charles &. Franckyn, the owner of the
house in which President Garfield died last sum-
mer, has just lost little daughter in Paris from
typhoid fever.
The export of apples to Liverpool from this
side show decrease of 641 ,754 bbls. this season
as compared with the corresponding period Of
the previous season.
Hon. Alexander II. Stephens has announced
his Willingness to run for Governor Of Georgia
If elected he says he will be governor Of the
people regardless of party
An Iowa orator speaking for prohibition,
said: Every saloon is mortgage on the
property of the State and county, which is en-
forced by the poor taxes and COSTS
Mrs. Lizzie Wall, who is indicted for man.
slaughter in shooting her husband, George Berry
Wall, in February last, at their home in New
Utrecht. Long Island, was Friday i'm BROOKLYN
admitted to bail in $4,000 pending trial.
The Pennsylvania railroad has recently built
the heaviest engine in the world. "Jumbo, . as
the novel steam monster is called by the habi-
tues of the round house, is ungain in appear
ance, weighs 100 400 pounds, or little over 60
tons.
Madame ,Janauschek came near losing her
life while descending shaft in mine at Lead
vile the other day. The car caught upon a
and the alarmed engineer, finding
the ropes slackened, reversed his engine and
brought the car to the surface. 1t was found
that the siding of the shaft had given way, and
that il the car had not been stopped by one of
the flaming timbers its occupants must have been
killed by falling debris.