The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-10-09

1t cost fifty million dollars TO pick last years
cotton crop.
The grave of Thaddeus Stevens is covered
with weeds and grass foot high.
The personal estate of the late Bishop Mat
thew Simpson is valued at SOB ,0s3.
Isaac Newton, an eminent engineer, Of New
York, committed suicide Thursday.
1t is asserted that the Chinese have decided 10
block the Woosung River at Shanghai.
ermont school teachers violate the law when
they use tobacco, and are liable to dismissal.
1t is believed that Frank Hatton will succeed
Secretary Gresham a> Postmaster General.
A new vault to hold fifty million silver dol
lars has been completed in the Treasury build
ing, Washington.
Colorado Democrats in State convention at
Denver passed resolution fayoring the un-
limited coinage of silver.
Eta Larrabee, a handsome young woman in
New \ ork, is serving her third term in the
penitentiary for burglary.
The cotton, peanut and late corn crops Of
Virginia and North Carolina have been seri-
ou>ly injured by the drought.
Cholera still continues its ravages in italy. is
declining in France, and is said TO be fatally
progressing in Odessa and in China.
The steamer Etruria, recently launched on
the Clyde for the Cunard line, is, next TO the
Great Eastern, the largest steamer atloat.
The Marine National Bank ID New York in
the hands of the comptroller of The currency,
will pay dividend Of 10 per cent. 10 deposors
soon.
Henry Clay, grandson of the great states
man and orator of that name, was shot and
mortally wounded BY saloonkeeper in Louis
vile, Ky.
The Newcomb- Buchanan Company, Of Louis
vile, one OF the largest WLiskey dstiers in the
country, has made an assignment. Fraud is
alleged.
Constantinope dispatch says Mr.. f. Mari
on Crawford, the American novelist, will mar
ry the daughter of Col. Berdan, the inventor,
some time in October
A circular from the Commissioner of Navi-
CATION says scamen must be paid of In presence
of a shipping commissioner in money. and not
by drafts or lin kind"
During the year 1888, the sun in London
shone for only 974 hours out of possible 1856
hours. which is an average of two hours and
forty minutes per day.
A syndicate of English and Scotch gentlemen
have purchased tract of land in northern
Mexico twice as large as Rhode Island The
price paid was 81 100000.
The losses of the National Bank of New Jer-
sey at New Brunswick will amount to about
$3.50 900. Comptroller Cannon has authorized
the reopening of the bank.
James and Harry, the two eldest boys of the
Garfield family, have decided to be lawyers,
and Miss Molie, who is now young lady Of
l., is preparing to 90 to Nassar.
An elderly lady near Erie, Pa, while in a
state of somnambulism got out of second story
window, and, on being suddenly awakened, fell
to the ground, sustaining fatal injuries.
Mormon troubles in Tennessee continue.
Thirty-three miles from Nashville, at Drennon
settlement, Mormon converts have been order
ed TO leave the country on pain of death.
Of the 600 0000 900 pounds of tobacco grown
| in this country this season, says the Baltimore
| American, 300,000,000 will be manufactured
| into chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff.
| The price of milk was fixed Thursday in
Boston between the producers and contractors,
| the farmers to receive for the next six months
AZ cents per can and take care of their own sur
| plus.
| The acting secretary of the treasury Friday
| afternoon issued the one hundred and thirty
| first call for the redemption of bonds. The call
is for $40 1000 900 of the three per cent. loan OF
| 1882.
| Four schooners of the Greenland fleet have
arrived at Gloucester. They report the fisher
| les on the coast failure. The Danish authori-
| ties oppose all fishing on the western coast of
| Greenland.
| The Panama Canal Company has signed a
contract with New York dredging company
for the cutting of the last section of the canal
| This contract provides that the work shall be
| finished in 1887.