The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-08-30
Generalities.

Catholic preates have been summoned TO
meet in Rome.
Seyenty-siX new Episcopal churches are being
built in Florida.
Switzerland has prohibited the importation of
Egyptian cotton.
Emperor William has given 80 900 marks to
the lscha sufferers.
Monsgnor Capel says his name is pronounced
"Cay-pie,' not "Cappelle."
Col. Fred Grant has become a permanent
resident at Morristown n. j.
There is an unusually large demand for silver
! dollars in the South and West.
A quarrel overu game of cards resulted in
! murder and suicide in St. Louis
Mr.. John G. Whittier is now at his residence
on Friend street, Amesbury, Mass.
Hon. James Cockburn, ex-Speaker of the
| Dominion House Of Commons is dead
Mrs. Charles S. Stratton widow of General
! Tom Thumb is at Ocean Grove, NJ j.
England has asked Russia to give an cxplana-
| tion OF the expulsion of British jew.
Captain Eads has thus far received 81. 800 900
1or his work at the mouth of the Mississippi.
The daughter of the late Gen. Garfield aud of
Mr.. Hayes attend the same school in Cleveland.
The Treasury Department has paid out nearly
| S1,000,O00 on account of pensions since the 1st
| inst.
The yield of wheat in France will be only
four-hfths of the average crop of the last ten
| years
A petition asking for the pardon of Sergt.
| Mason IS receiving some signatures among army
officers.
The crops in Virginia are suffering from want
of rain. In some sections no rain has fallen for
six weeks.
During the past six months 100 persons Were
killed and 4Ol injured in this State BY railroad
accidents.
Michigan prohibitionists propose, with a
| 100000 campaign fund, to make it lively for
| liquor this fall.
Prof. G. II. f. Peters of Clinton, n. Y, says
| he has found a new planet, an astcrod of the
ninth magnitude.
A young North Carolinian who had been
crossed in love committed suicide by swallow
! ing paper of pins.
Highwaymen forced the cashier of a bank at
! Erie, Colorado, to open the safe whence they
took $4,000 and escaped
| A strong eleven has been selected to repre-
| sent the United States in the international
cricket match at Toronto.
Hanian won the race AT Watkins n. Y, three
miles and Il turD in y minutes, ) seconds, with
| Iosmer second and Ross third.
| Mr.. Dodson stated in the House of Commons
that the foot and mouth disease had been car
ried from England to America.
Mrs. f. d. L. y. Southworth began to write
for Mr. Bonner when he first took charge of
the Ledger, and is still contributor.
| 1t has been discovered in New Brunswick
| that snakes eat potato bugs one killed at
Moncton contained nearly pint of the pests.
| President Arthur hooked some fine trout and
members of his party killed several untelopes
and other game near the forks o Wind River
Wy. Il,
| Canadian authorities notify Captain Rhodes
that any attempt to swim Niagara whirlpool will
| be treated the act Of an insane person and
| prevented.
! News is received of Il terrific storm, accom-
panied by earthquake, ut the Samoan Islands
last March, during which a number of vessels
were wrecked.
President Iincoln's two well-known private
! Secretaries, John e. Nicolay and Col. John
| Hay. are about starting together for summer
| trip i'll Colorado.
The unsecured liabilities of the boot and shoe
manufacturing firm of ). c. Il. j. :. Phnney,
of Boston, Mass, are found TO be S132 SIS; the
assets are only SCI 900.
Presidential candidate Joseph Z. Mcdonald,
of Indiana, has gone with his family to that
summer headquarters of arisOcratic Southern
politicians, White oulpher Springs.
A terrible tragedy is reported from Pueblo,
\. NJ. gambler cut woman's throat and
as she jumped out of second story window to
escape from him he cut his own throat
Official returns from 109 out of the H. coun-
ties in Kentucky show the following vote for
Governor knott (dem.), l29 ,19l; Morrow
(rep.), o5,620; Knotts majority, 43,51l.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette remarks
that ''the great States that will grow up within
a few Years on the line of the Northern Pacific
Railroad will make the old democracy Sick
Several of the Insurgents who took part in
the revolt at Santo Domingo, have been eXecut-
ed at that place. They refused to make any
disclosures III relation to the revolutionary plot.
The German government has notified the
Austrian government that all pig flesh import
ed into Germany from Austria must be accom-
panied by a certificate that it is not American
meat
The anthracite coal production of last month
was l4l .564 tons less than in July, 1882, but
the total of this year to August | being 1926
433 was .3Oi ,}53 greater than for the same time
in last year.
The losses by fire at Vineyard Haven are so
disastrous that many aged people have been
rendered homeless and penniless. Relief is
called for to enable them to obtain some slight
degree of shelter for the future.
Lewis d. Barker, captain, and Croscomb A.
Smith, mate of the schooner Mary ID. Leach
are awaiting trial in Boston on charge of wreck
ing the vessel in June last. The extreme
punishment for the offence charged is death
The Florida democrats are seriously disturbed
by the tendency of the independent and free
| thinking members of the party in that State to
act with the republicans in the contest over the
electoral vote in 1854. Notes Of alarm are
sounded by the party press from various parts
of the State.
A Washington claim agent, named Fitzgerald,
who has recently been disbarred from practice
before the Interior Department for question
able practices, attempted recently to pun
| ish Gen. Boynton correspondent of Il Cincin-
natl paper but GOT the worst of it, and was al
so sent to the station house.
The forestry congress assembled Wednesday
at St. Paul. President Loring gave an address
and made the gratifying statement that in the
older states replanting is going on and the acre
age OF forest steadily increasing. The move
ment to check the denuding of the country is
thus proving to be both strong and seasonabe.
| The fire losses in this country are enormous.
| During July the total reached the enormous
sum of j., 100 ,000-a larger amount than in any
July since the Portland fire. In the six months
ending the first of July the property destroyed
by fire was worth $44, 500, ,000-s 800, 900 larger
| than the average sums in recent years for the
same time.
The regular monthly meeting of the Boston
| Lumber and Manufacturers Protective Union
was held at the Quincy House last Tuesday, and
was fully attended. Members in conversation
after the meeting expressed the opinion that
the season had been profitable for the manufac-
| turers. 1t was decided to hold the sem-annua
meeting of the association at Falmouth Me,
September 9th.
The Bates student walters are in luck. Mr.
W. II. Vanderbilt signalized his departure from
the Glen House recently by an act of law
ish but thoughtful generosity. He was attract
ed by the reliant spirit and gentemanly bearing
of the student walters, and expressed his ap-
probation of their endeavors by leaving his
check for $4,000 with the proprietor, Mr.. Mill-
ken, for distribution among those young men,
''The Alarming Destruction Of American
Forests" is the subject of an article which will
appear in the August number of Forestry, the
| English periodical, from the pen of rWiiam