The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-05-08

FL Mahdi h,;> eighteen wives.
Harry Leslie, the famou, tight rope walker.
is dead.
rhe Hoh>cnilI, own S4Oo 1000 900 of United
States bonds.
Two men in New York city, Saturday, .'blew
oHt the gas" and both We're sutfocated.
The plumber of applications for liquor iccn-
>e> in Boston i greater than last year.
The formal opening of the Mexican Central
railroad has been postponed to May 10Th
The steamer Thetis, of the Greedy relief ex-
petition, set sail from New lork Thursday.
4 large number of newspapers regard the
latest Arctic expedition "anothcr funeral
procession"
Jane, Il. keene, the well known Wall street
iinancier has failed 1t is thought he will pay
100 cents on Il dollar.
The work of reform has begun in Cincinnati
The Mayor has prohibited >parrng and slug
sins matches'on Sunday.
Ex-senator Kellogg, charged with completely
IN The star route frauds was acquitted because
Of a flaw in the indictment.
The French government has accepted the
English proposal for conference of the pow
ers ON the Egyptian question.
According to the census of 1882. Japan then
had in her public schools 1913 795 students, and
in private institutions, 103Gjl.
Mexico j.. trembling on the verge of a revolu-
ton. American and British steamers have
been ordered to enter no Mexican ports.
The rate of taxation in Boston this year will
be about Sil.o0 on a thousand, the largest rate
ever known Since Boston became Il city.
'hp l.. II l,o.
the poorest in many years in Northern Yer
mont, only averaging about pound to a tree.
Henry W. Cannon of Minnesota, has been
nominated to be comptroller of the currency,
and James A. Conney to be solicitor of the
treasury.
no Information has been received at the
Indian Bureau concerning the reported Navajo
outbreak, and the report is generally discredied
in Washington.
The rainfall in Boston during April was
greater than the average for that month during
The past twelve years. and the mean tempera-
ture was lower.
Augero is still gathering strength in Cuba.
Rev oiutionary documents calling on the people
to join him and throw off the Spanish yoke are
distributed throughout Havana
Judge Lowell of Massachusetts, who has
been connected with the United States courts
for - wears has retired from office in accord
ance with his resignation handed in some
time ago.
\ watcrspout burst over Hutchins station on
the Texas Central railroad last week. Destruc-
ton OF property amounted to thousands of
dollars. Crops and bridges in the vicinity were
DESTROYED.
y tariff reform league has been formed in
Boston, Charles Francis Adams was elected
president. auODtpI
ING the DnSley shipping bill and the free ship
amendment.
Col. Robert G.. Ingerso delivered his new
lecture on Orthodoxy at the Academy of Music.
New York, last week. before an audience
which crowded the immense auditorium from
parquet to gallery.
Last summer over 10000 people crossed the
Atlantic to Europe. This year, however, it is
not expected that more than 10000 will 90
abroad because OF the near approach of the |
presidential election.
The dynamite fiend is in Canada. Two
powerful dynamite cartridges, with wire and
fuse attached, were found under the Crown |
Lands office, in the Parliament building at
Toronto, Wednesday.
There is IA conflict of testimony in the Jean
cite investigation. Lieut.. Danenhower testified |
before the Jeanette committee, "Wednesday |
that Collins and Newcomb were not well treat
Ell personally by the officers.
The young men connected with a church in |
llaverhil Mass, says the Boston Traveller,
are to have supper and sale of fancy articles. |
and they themselves are to do the cooking table |
serving and make all the things offered for sale |
The Question Drawer on Monday morning at
Amherst College contained the inquiry, "What |
were the causes of the Cincinnati riot?' To
which President Seelye replied that in his opin-
ion it was caused by free rum and free Sun |
days.
Louisiana was carried by the Bourbons on
Tuesday McEnery is elected Governor bv a
reduced majority. The independents elected |
criminal sheriff in New Orleans, but the Bour-
bons carried the balance of the ticket by a d. |
minished majority.
member of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee predicts that within five years the |
United States will be called upon to decide
whether Cuba shall be transferred to the con
troll of foreign power-namely Germany-or
to the United States
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