The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-07-10
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Bismarck i superstitiols
The crop prospects in Dakota are good.
Japan has fishing population of .GoI ,40G.
One California Vine yields three tons Of
grapes.
Cumberland Nd, strikes the drummer for
81 day.
Pitt,burg's 100000 people uses only 1000
bathtubs.
The total debt of the District of Columbia is
81 ,422 200.
There is Il boom of counterfeit silver dollars
in New Iork.
year in England.
The poultry crop Of North Carolina is said to
be worth s. 100000.
The famous detective Allan Pinkeron died
i'll Chicago July Ist
Trade in Florence 5. c. i handicapl ed with
81 4 day drummer
Twelve thousand weavers at Burnley. Eng
laad, have struck work.
Biz forest fires are doing great deal of dam
age IN Ontario, Canada
Gen Booth is coming to this country to look
after the salvation Army.
Gen. Frauci, Edward Todeben, the famous
Russian engineer. Is dead
The population OF Texas ,5ol 900 in 1Sso-
has grown to 2,2J 900 in 1883.
Gen and Mrs Grant have taken up their
residence at Long Branch Tor the sumner.
A high is II. per cent premium was bid for
Tour per cent clly bonds Of Baltimore, due in
1925.
Franz Iiilmau, the man who invented the
polka, has just died i'll Prague al the age of 50
years.
The bill restricting still further Chinese Inn
migration has passed both branche, of Con-
gress.
The Grand Army memorial dedlcations on
the Gettysburg battle field We're begun on We'd
ne>day.
stockmen are armins against starving lndi-
ans, who are helping themselves to cattle in
Eastern Montana
France will demand f.5oO 900 900 of China as
indemnity for the violation of the Franco
Chinese Treaty al Lan@>OE.
The inundaion Of the Rio Grande in New
Mexico has caused serious damage to The At
chlson. Topeka and Santa fe.
There are 10 cholera patients in the hospitals
at 1oulon. AT Marseillies there is :. better
outlook for the past few days.
There arrived at Boston during the month of
June from foreign ports 80 steamers. ship, 81
bark>, 30 brigs and l42 >chooners.
The largest zinc producing locality in the
world is the district around Galena, Kansas.
Last year 10000 tons We're mined.
The
English firm of shipbuilders an order for con-
>tructing the largest torpedo boat ever built.
The breeding stallion Almont died july 4th
at Lexington, Ky He was the sire of several
fine trotters. His owner had refused $40 900
for him.
In the race for professional scullers on the
Charles river at Boston Friday. Jacob Gaudaur
of ST. Louis was the wilmer in y minutes 30
seconds.
The widow of Gen. George ii. Thomas has
begun the erection of IA handsome residence at
Washington, which she will make her perms-
nent home.
Over 100 people in Brooklyn, n. Y, were
poisoned, Saturday, by ice cream which had
been mpregnated with copper from the lining
of the freezer.
New Jersey strawberry farm has produced
Oh the average 200 bushels day during the
season, and the number of pickers has been
sometimes 300.
Rev. Newman Halls Fourth of July ceebra-
ton in London commemorated the American
Independence and also the Both wear of Mr..
Halls pastOrate.
The interest-bearing debt was reduced in the
last fiscal year by Sill 100000. The whole
debt, less cash in the Treasury, is S101 000, 600
less than on June 80, 1888.
The formal presentation of the Bartholdi
statue to the United States government by
France took place in Paris Friday. NJ. de
Lesseps made the speech and Minister Morton
replied.
Forty houses at Lachine, Canada, were burn
ed Saturday, leaving 300 people homeless. A
train of cars with the engine was destroyed by
fire at West Randolph, VT, Saturday. Damage,
$4,000.
tornado swept over portion of New
York, Iowa, Missouri and Illinois, Friday,
running thousands of acres of crops, wrecking
buildings, destroying telegraph wires, and kill
ing several people.
Another war is imminent between France
and repudiated by an influential party in China,
and responsibility is assumed by the govern
ment for the Lang-Son assault.
The President has nominated John A. Kas-
son Of Iowa, to be minister to Germany, AL.
phonso TAFT of Ohio, to be minister to Russia,
and John NJ. Francis of New York, to be min
lister to the Austro-Hungarian empire.
Young New York girls are said to spend
their pocket money in buying jeweled garter
buckles at $500 and upwards; smelling bottles
at $3.50, gold-headed silk umbrellas for $50,
hair pins at $50, and jeweled opera glasses at
$500.