The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-04-10
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permanent home.
The special pilotage dues in the Suez Canal
have been abolished.
Jay Gould proposes to build winter resi-
dence at st. Augustine. Fla.
The English Cabinet has decided not to cs-
tabllsh an Egyptian protectorate.
The list of casualties by the Cincinnati riot
comprises Al killed and 120 wounded.
There are eleven States. it is asserted. in
which women vote for school directors.
A rising industry in Florida is the manu-
tacture of perfume from orange flowers.
Alfred W Burnett, the humori>t and carica-
turst, died at Cincinnati Friday of apopleXN
Mrs. Z. Cakes Smith, an author well known
forty years ago, is writing her "reminiscences.
Turkish agents are attempting to close the
American Protestant mission schools in Asia
Minor.
There are in the United States 81 New Jeru-
salem churches % ministers and 1000 commu-
nicans.
Mrs Kate Chase, formerly Mrs. Sprague, has
taken house in Paris and proposes to live
there for time.
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port of Canton if their indemnity demand is
not complied with
The Prince of Wales has been speaking be-
fore the Institute of Agriculture, at Sydenham.
in favor of ensilage.
The cathedral at Tim. Wurtemburg. the
largest Protestant church in the world is to
have a >pire 524 feet high.
The Typographical union OF Toronto has petit
toned Parliament to enact law restricting the
Chinese emgrating to Canada.
Lieutenant Eisenhower. of the Jeanette,
and his BRIDE are in Washington, and are re-
eeiving good dead of attenti N.
The late George Ball, of Galveston Texas.
gave $4,000 to build school and $4,000 to
build a home for aged women there,
A letter from Chile SAYS the phenomenon of
a red sky AT sunrise and long after sunset has
been observed for over three months.
Within the last nine years nearly $50 churche,
have been burned in this country, mostly
through defective heating apparatus.
The situation in Cuba is serious. \ reyolu-
tionary band is arising and it is reported that
the government will be obliged to fight.
Archibald Forbes. the famous Engiis4 war
correspondent, has been given the degree Of
Ii. D. by the university Of Aberdeen.
1t is proposed in Canada to notify farmers
of weather forecasts by means of discs on all
railroad stations and locomotive engines.
Grape culture i, increasing rapidly in Cali
forniH. Al least five million vines will be
planted in Los Angeles county this spring.
The statue of Chief Justice Marshall. which
is to be placed Just west Of The Capitol at
Washington, will be unveiled early in May.
Louisville reports about SlGS. op0 taxes paid
on January Wh>ktv." and tie expectation of
100000 gallons. The Whiskey must pay-or 90,
The debt statement issued April shows Il
decrease of the public debt during March OF
Sl4,23S. 322. and cash in tint Treasury S412.-
S15.2ll.
The farmers Of Aurora county, Dakota. are
sowing wheat. and orange and lemon Trees in
Southern California are loaded with buds and
blossoms.
The failures in the United States for the
quarter ending March 81, Were three millions of
dollars greater than for the corresponding per-
iod in 1883.
Charles Reade. the novelist who has been
passing the winter at Cannes, has returned to
London very i'll in health, and i said to be
rapidly sinking.
Queen Victoria has expressed through Min
lister Lowell her thanks to the President for his
expression of sympathy On account OF the
death of the Duke Of Ibany.
Fresno. Cal. rejoiets in a double towering
peach tree. 1t i a perfect flame of Grim son
blossoms. The flowers are double like ii rose
and lis large over Il, half dollar.
Mayor Martin is undertaking to make il
warm for the Boston gambling heIS, whose
propretor> appear to have an excellent under
Wi no ina. ,t.,t,
Among forty diplomas awarded al the annual
commence ment OF the Habnemahn Medical
College in Philadelphia "Wednesday were three
from Maine and two from Vermont
L. A. Phillips, one of The Berner iurymen.
was caught IN ST. Louis by reporter, and con
fe>sed that the verdict rendered in the notorious
murder trial was reached by compromise.
Fast Day in Boston was unusually quet: the
heavy snow storm prevented any out door OBJ
servance of the da;. Thursday was Fast BAY
III both Massachusetts and New Hampshire
1t is now thought no attempt will be made to
prevent the consideration of the Tariff bill in
the House AZ the protectionist democrats have
concluded it would be bad policy TO oppose it.
The Connecticut legislature Wednesday pass
ed the biennial session amendment. ia to 40.
the TWO thirds vote for submission TO the peo-
pie. The Senate had previously passed it, % to
Since August last Is Gloucester vessel, have
been lost, and with them The lives of 2l9 men,
who have left in that or;-aready full of
mourners-Gj widows and l31 fatheries, chill
drGn.
The experiment of widening General But
ler's Dutch Gap Canal, in Virginia. BY means
Of the hydraulic process, Las been pronounced
success by the engineers in charge OF the
work.
What sunday is to Christians, Monday i, to
the Greeks Tuesday 10 the Per,iaus, Wedne>-
day TO the AsSyrian>. Thursday to the Euypt-
ians, Friday to The Turks and Saturday to the
Jews.
Prof. Nirehow. after minute inquiry. has
been able to authenticate the only ease Of
trlchnOle in Germany, which was of doubtful
origin. No case has been traced to the use of
American pork.
\ telegram received at the Indian Bureau
from GOV. Crosby of Montana saws that the
greatest restitution prevails among the Indians
of that territory. Many of them being on the
verge of starvation.
Edmund II. Yates editor Of the London
World, has been condemned to four months
IN prison for beling the earl of Lon>clale.
Judgment has been re>pittd pending an appeal
upon point Of law.
The Sheriff of Walla Walla, Oregon. a short
time ago received two letters inquiring for two
long lost brothers. One of the lost brothers
had been hanged the week before for the muir
der of the other lost brother.
The supreme court of Massachusetts has
gwen a decision that the tax upon mortgages
of real estate subject to local taxation is lie cal
Under this decision the State will be Obliged TO
refund large amounts of taxes
German steamship Daniel Steinman, from
Antwerp for New York via. Halifax went
ashore near Halifax harbor Thursday night
in fug. Only nine men survived One hun
dred and tWenty-one lives, mostly emigrants,
were lost.
cyclone prevailed near Lynchburg, Va,
Thursday night, doing great damage in the
suburbs of that city. The loss bv the late Gale
IN Oakviile, Ind, is estimated at Sl5O.0oO.
LosantVille, five miles east. was DESTROYED and
five persons killed.
The date for the National Wool Gatherer,'
Convention al Chicago, has been changed from
May ,th to May -, i'll order that delegates may
be present and participate in the proceedings
OF the National Industrial Congress, which is
to be held at Chicago, May 2lst.
narrow gauge railroad is being built to the
top OF Pixies Peak, in Colorado. Six thousand
people climbed to the top of the mountain last
year, and with the aid of the railroad it is be-
eved that $4,000 will make the ascent this
year. The road will be finished by the LIST of
June.
The Post Office Department is about to begin
an examination and review of the claims of
postmasters for REIMBURSEMENT of their salaries
LOT the period between the years 1864 and 1874.