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

There were 20 deaths from cholera in Cal
cutta, last week.
yellow fever in its worst form, is raging at
Vera Cruz. Mexico.
Maria Taglioni, the famou, dancer. died at
Mar>eilloS last week.
The South expects to raise S3,0O0,0o0 pea
nut crop this year
The >cmi-annual dividends PAYABLE in Boston
ln.May aggregate S3,19S,0S0.
General sherman has been appointed bligadier
general of the Missouri militia.
\ Jacksonville (Fla.) man has made 81 80
from single rose-bush this season.
The government will rgidly enforce the
neutrality laws against Cuban tiiibusters.
Thousands of pounds of dynamite are carted
through the streets of Chicago every day
Six families We're poisoned by arsenic in cake
SOLD them by Il rontecioner in Louisville. Ky.
Prince kung. the former Prime Minister of
China. Is reported to have committed suicide.
The London Times compliments America
upon the superiority of her industrial educa-
ton.
The president of the Ehlngham (Ill.) Bank
i, missing, it is said with $4,000 or more of
the banks funds.
There are twelve manufactures of artificial
teeth in the United States, which make ten
! millions of them annually.
The Russian government has decided upon
large issue of gold coin. IngOls of specie have
been ordered from abroad
The jury in the case of the negro Rugg on
trial for the Long Island, n. Y, murders re-
I turned q verdict of guilty.
4 revolt in an Austrian prison at Gar>ten
was subdued by militia. Thirty of the conyicts
were wounded seriously.
/ 1t is believed in China that the accession of
Prince Chun to the control of the Grand Council
OF the Empire is a forerunner of war.
| The Brooklyn Bridge is pecuniary failure.
If it were not for visitors from other States the
receipts would be lamentaby meagre.
farmer in possession of a Chicago divorce
shot an admirer of the freed woman and then
fatally stabbed himself at Latrobe, Pa.
I jealous and angry woman who some time
ago killed man at Mauch Chunk, Pa, was
found guilty of voluntary manslaughter."
/ band of men in rebellion against the gov
ernor of the State of Guerrero, Mexico has
been defeated. The loss of the rebels was %.
The steamer Alert, presented to the United
|
Greedy expedition, arrived at New York April
| 23d.
The Guion steamer Oregon has lust beaten
all other ocean greyhounds' by crossing the
Atlantic in SIX days, ten hours and eight min
utes.
The spring exodus from this country to
/ Europe will be of about the usual dimensions,
so the New York agents Of the steamship lines
report.
The President has ordered court of inquiry
into the charges made against Judge Advocate
| General Swain by Mr.. Bateman, the Washing
| ton banker.
The country around London was badly
shaken April ODD by an earthquake. A good
deal of damage was done to property and two
! persons killed.
The Massachusetts House has declared
! against a prohbtory constitutional amend
ment, as anticipated, though majority of the
| Republicans favorit
! Chicago has one liquor saloon to every thirty
| five families, one baker to every 40 families,
one butcher to every 205 families, and one gro
Gerry to every 50 families.
Astounding frauds in customs duties are re-
ported from Winnipeg. Many Canadian Indian
agents are believed to be peculators, like others
on this side OF the border.
kilograms received at Dundee from New
| foundland report that the Greenland seal fish
cries are failure and that the losses to the
fishermen are very heavy.
! The United States Senate has agreed to
resolution admitting to the floor of the Senate
the commissioner of agriculture and secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution.
CONSERVATION reigns in Cuba. The insur-
gents have had several successful encounters
with troops and now maintain themselves by
levying contributions on the planters.
Irish dynamiters are said to meet regularly
twice a week in Paris to perfect plans for fur
ther explosions in England. Let English editors
take notice that Paris is not in America.
The Canadian press favor government COM
pensation to Stephen Dunn, of Armenia. N. Y,
the innocent man who has been held in Cana
| dian prison without trial for three years.