The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1882-11-16

| fishers, Boston,
| NOTES.
Petersons Magazine for December contains
two beautiful steel engrayings. one double
size colored fashion plate and two coored pat
terms, in Il new style Of work, ''Arrascn En-
troidery." \ bright. witty story. "Prue and
the Professor" admirably illustrated, leads off
the stories. The contains Supplement-,
with a full-sze dress-patern, and numerous
patterns in embroidery, Then there are some
fifty other engravngs Of fashions workable
patterns etc. The very best stories are always
| TO be found in "Petcrson." The price of the
| magazine is but 3 a wear Charles j. Peterson.
publisher, 306 Chestnut street. Philadelphia.
| Generalitles.
| Woman suffrage was defeated in Nebraska.
Dwight l.. Moody, the evangelist, is i'll in
| London
Thursday, the 9TH, wa, observed a, Thanks
| giving Day in the Dominion.
| The Queen of Spain has been safely delivered
OF daughter. Both are doing well.
Mrs. Winnie Ream HoNie is engaged upon Il
| colossal statue Of eXPresident Garfield.
There have been 1923 cases of yellow fevc. in
| Pensacola, Fla, this season. and 192 deaths.
| Two hundred and fifty men are now working
the whole country III quest of pension frauds.
| Secretary Foger will remain in office 1T least
! long enough to submit his annual report on the
| finances.
Ben Butler received the news of his victory.
at home, in Lowell, and made speech to a
! noisy crowd.
The case of Jones, indicted for shooting at
Guiteau. came up Friday and was continued
until this week.
| There We're 8 persons burned to death in the
| destruction of the Halifax \. ;. Poor House S
| men and % women.
a fierce war of rates has broken out between
the Chicago trunk lines. great reductions to
points east being made.
1t is estimated that more than $500. 900 900
! have been invested in submarine cables.-it-
| orally sunk i'll the ocean.
The residence of Berstadt, the well known
artist, at White Plains, \. y. caught fire Fri
day morning. Loss 100000.
Christine Nilsson says Oscar Wilde isn't rs
big a fool as he looks. However, he is large
enough for all practical purposes
Mrs Scovie, in letter to "a Washington
lawyer, says she is trying to obtain new trial
| to test the question Of her insanity.
| Captain Alfred Hopkins United States Navy,
| will be tried on charge of abandoning his post
| at Pensacola during the prevalence of yellow
| fever.
General sherman, James G Blaine. William
f. Chandler Joseph II. IIaWley and Governor
Patterson of Pennsylvania We're in New \ ork
Saturday
| In recent sermon, Washington clergyman
| described the United States as a country bound
| ed on the north by an iceberg and on the south
| by Il banana.
Shaw, one of the alleged Star route jury brib-
ers, surrendered Saturday. and was admitted to
| bail in $500. 1t is thought he has been con-
| ccaled by the defence.
The cupola of Gen. Buffers house, opposite
the Capitol, Washington, was adorned by new
broom, Wednesday morning, in honor of his
| clean sweep in Massachusetts.
The issue # three per cent. bonds in cXchange
Tor three and half, since the first inst. Is Sl6,-
50450O, which leaves about S95 900 900 Of unre-
deemed three and half outstanding.
Hor.eshoes made of three thickncsses of green
rawhidc compressed in a steel mould are used TO
some extent in England. They weigh about Il
quarter as much as an iron shoe, and are said TO
wear longer.
Young Mrs, Winthrop" the new play At
the Madison Square Theatre. \. y, has prov
en-, if possible, greater success than amy of its
predecessors. 1t has become the social drama
tic event of the season,
At a sale of thoroughbred horses in New York
city, Monday, $50 900 was realized. The high
| est prices were 5000 for mare Rebccca. SllO0
for Lexington, Sl320 for Pow haitian, and $1,000
for q colt of three years.
In the L. S. District Court at Philadelphia
Joseph X. Black. recently convicted of compile
ity in the Star Route conspiracy, was, on Mon
day, sentenced by Judge Butler to pay costs of
prosecution, and Il fine of $500
DR.. Hamilton of New York. in submitting his
bill of $4,000 for attendance upon President
Garfield, protested against the claim Of another
Of the physicians. presumably DR.. Bliss. to re-
ceive double the fee of the rest.
A despatch from New Orleans. announces
the capture in Texas Of eN-Mayor Neyin of
Adrian. Mich, who absconded some time since
with proceeds of Adrian. Mich, bonds which
he had unlawfuly sold in New York,
IN his report to the secretary of war General
sherman recommends that the standing army be
increased to 80 900 men. The aggregate now is
1898 enlisted men and ,;5SS officers. He rec
omlnends severer punishment for descrtion
There was il very fair distributing trade in
produce Friday, in Boston, and all kinds of yege-
tables moved easily at full prices. Eggs were
very firm Hand picked medium beans were
offered at $40. Potatoes We're firm.
why" said Il Democratic Senator at WASH
ington, Friday, "our great majority in the next
Congress will be a curse. We will have to do
something to the revenue laws, and whatever
we do | am afraid we shall make mistake"
Mr. Henry Watkins, Il prominent agricultural
journalist of England, has been making a tour If
~
He is now on his way home and will write Il
series of articles for his paper on the condition
of agriculture in the various States.
Three hundred dollars a year gives a spacious
and elegant residence i'll the Azores Servant
wages are two to five dollars month; one cent
Il pound buys the finest grapes; meat and chick-
ems cost about 30 per cent. less than here; fish is
excellent and abundant, and vegetables are
plenty and cheap.
Gen. Sherman in a special report, recon-
mends the Secretary of War to ask Congress to
appropriate a million dollars per year for per-
manent posts and quarters for the army through
out the West to the Pacific. He names the diff
ferent forts and recommends that the barracks
for troops be built of brick or stone.
Riots and murders We're plenty at elections in
the South on Nov. eth, and in every case the men
killed were colored. At Nashville, Tenn, there
was a serious disturbance ON the night before
Northern and Western States there were no
election disturbances of Il serious character.
The celebrated scotsman, Mr.. j. J. III. Gre
CORY of Marblehead, Mass, carefully collected
the castings of worms daily for one season
over a given area, and they measured nearly Il
quart to the square foot, or enough to raise the
surface of the land half an inch. He also, by
experiment, shows that an acre of land may
contain six tons of worms.
Daniel Murphy, who went to California prior
to the gold fever in that State, recently died
there. He was stock farmer, and in addition
to large tracts of land in that State he owned
about 100000 acres of land in that State when
he died. and 5000 900 acres in the State of Du-
range, Mexico, and large tracts in Arizona and
was, at the time Of his death, the largest land
owner in the world.
Mr.. W. W. Corcoran of Washington, is max
ing arrangements to have the remains of John
Howard Payne, author of ''Home, Sweet
Home" which are now inferred in Tunis,
exhumed and transported to the United States
for reinterment in Oak Hill Cemetery in that
t.ity The nlan will he carried into effect NEXT