The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-05-24
Generalltles.


| recently.
A London money broker has failed for over
$2,600,000.
Mr.. Bonner's bay gelding Pickard has been
driven mile in 2:163.
One garden at Jacksonville, Fla. has 220l
japanese lilies in bloom.
The Florida Ship Canal Co. is ready for bus
mess with capital stock of 100000 900.
Princess Louise is good housekeeper, cook
contectlOner, laundresS, SeamStresS and dress
maker.
The Rev. Anna Oliver has been sued by a
brother pastor for 5000, the amount of an
alleged debt.
The abolition of the stamp tax of 81 A on
every gross of matches, will take effect on and
after July lst.
Nearly S14,000,000 worth of cattle are now
grazing in what six years ago was Indian
| country in Texas.
1t is expected that the President will attend
the ceremonies incident to the Inauguration OF
the Brooklyn Bridge.
l. is estimated that the emigration from Ire
land this year will amount to at least one hun
| ired thousand persons.
Miss Catherine Wolf, the New York heiress,
| has on an average, one offer of marriage every
day from unknown suitors.
The debt of the city of Boston on April 80
1888, was S4l ,lS435S, the increase during the
year being about 81, l,l05,oO0
The aphis is discovered in nearly every apple
orchard i'll Niagara county, New York, and far
mers are greatly alarmed for the crop.
Major Wasson, the army paymaster who said
he was robbed of $24 200 in Texas, confesseS
that he robbed himself to cover up a defacation
of 5000.
Mrs. Fair, wife of the Nevada Senator, has
been granted divorce and allowed S250,000
the San Francisco residence and the custody OF
the children.
The Maryland peach prospect as reported tc
the United States department of agriculture is q
full average. The prospect for other fruits in
Maryland is unusually good
A gardener at Barton, Fla, challenges the
world to surpass a radish over two feet long
| eight inches in diameter and weighing fifteen
pounds, which he has raised.
The President has selected Charles LYMAN
chief clerk of the L. S. Treasury Office, to be
chief examiner under the Civil Service Com
mission, vice kem withdrawn.
Special advces from st. Louis state that
efforts are being made by Eastern spectators
to secure lease of the rich lands owned bv the
Cherokee Nation at nominal rental.
Amasa Stone the millionaire, committed
suicide by shooting himself through the heart
at his home in Cleveland, Ohio. 1t is thought
he was suffering from alteration of mind.
A new counterfeit of the So gold coin has
made its appearance. 1t purports to be 4 col
of the United States, struck at New Orleans r
1e43. 1t is heavily plated and is 40! grains
light.
Contradictory reports are received from the
Uayti rebellion. The insurgents in Miragoant
are said to be still holding out A dynamite
explosion there killed 200 persons and injured
200 more.
New York police are searching for Mrs
Sophia Williams, who has admitted having
| three husbands, from whom she had never becl
divorced, and who recently tried to poison hel
1 Step-chidren.
Mrs. Hannah Simpson Grant, mother of ex
President [. s. Grant, died suddenly at the
residence Of her daughter, Mrs. May Corbin, il
Jersey City Heights, the 11th inst. Mrs
Grants age was "a.
The executive committee of the Baptist Mis-
sionary Union say that the charges of bad faith
| discrepancies III accounts and speculation il
| stocks by one of the Unions officers are entirely
| without foundation.
| Mrs Jane Henry attempted to drown her
self in North river, New York, on Monday
! because her husband had deserted her. Sht
was committed, and Judge Duffy issued
| summons for the husband, who will be com
! PEELED to support her.
Holmes, a desperate on trial at Orange
/ Texas, for numbering his fourth man. on sun
day ran away from the deputy sheriff, mount
ed a horse and galloped off while Holmes
! St1r tIa ,t7ith
and made him hold up his hands.
Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson, the novelist, OF
Alabama, has a very fine dairy in which she
prizes. She personally attends to the making
OF jams and iellies, and her guests at Mobile
praise her excellent homemade Wine.
The organization and outfit Of the Sigma
Service Relief Expedition to Lady FRANKLIN
Bay. under command of Lieut.. Darlington, art
| now practically complete and Gen. Hazen vii
shortly 90 to St. Johns. n f., in person Il
select steamer for the use of the party.
4 tremendous thunder storm passed ove
| New York City between three and four tht
| 10th inst. accompanied by torrents Of rain
The lightning struck Bradley, Currier 4 Coz
wood moulding factory on 25th street and i
was burned to the ground. Loss Sl5 900
At the close of the last fiscal year there wer,
| ZS0,O3t pensioners III the lnltcQ states. Some
| body in Congress thought it would be a gooC
idea to publish the list, and it is reported from
Washington that the manuscript is now ready
and when printed will fill As volumes of 60t
/ pages each
The San Francisco papers are boasting of
remarkable feat in shipbuilding at that port
The keel Of the steam whaer Balnna was laiC
on Jan. %. and on April 26, only eighty -egh
days later, she was completed, equipped, ant
| Il f,. +I,1 I.,,t
| 52} tons measurement.
The statement prepared by the Sixth Audi
tor of the Treasury shows that the receipts o
| the Post Office Department, from July / t
Dec. 81, 1882, being the first two quarters o.
the current fiscal year, were So ,033.919; ex
penditures during the same period We're go,
666, 40, leaving surplus of 81 ,3S9, ,534