The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-02-14
GeneralltieS.

Massachusetts has $4,000 more women than
men.
Canada'> Indian population is estimated at
ID! 900.
Japan mas 1873 mile, of telegraph and -
miles OF railway.
General sherman was placed on the retired
list Of The army Friday.
Congressman Blackburn has been nominated
for senator from Kentucky.
OF tn 300 students at the Munich Academy
of Fine Arts II are Americans.
Canadian inventors petition for the adoption
OF The American patent law entire
The city council of Philadelphia will not al
low AN elevated railroad in that city.
\ ST. Thomas dispatch states that the port Of
Mlragoane is open to foreign commerce.
Lake Champan is frozen its entire length
and breadth and can be Travelled by horses
Ohio has coal in 30 of IS counties. and put
out S,220,22 tons in lSS3-a gain of 1000 900
tons
\ Western paper truthtully remarks that it
Is the early advertiser who catches the spring
trade.
Michigan prohibtionists are raising fund
to start newspaper organ. They have got
$4,000.
4 love affair in Wisconsin was permanently
settled by the lover shooting his inamorata and
himself.
At Trenton, y. j., the House has passed a
bill abolishing the contract labor system in
prisons.
The British Columbia Assembly proposes a
law limitiuU the nf lam, hat np.a t,iu N
can own to $40 acres.
Edward Mcpherson, of Penn, has decided to
accept the SecretaryShip of the republican Con-
gressiOnal committee
The Boston Globe proposes a popular sub
scrIptlOn for a statue Of W endtll Phillips to be
placed on the Common.
The entire drove of Arizona camc>. which
number about 400, and are widely scattered,
has been sold for Sll 900.
There are 300 geysers and 800 hot springs IN
the Yellowstone National Park, according to
the Government surveyors.
Official reports from Tonquin announce that
the rebels in the provinces of Namdina and
Sontay have been dispersed.
The indications are that the Massachusetts
legislature will adopt biennial elections and re-
tam annual sessions of the legislature.
The proposition to abolish pension agencies
and to pay the pensions direct from the Treas
ury Department is not likely to succeed.
LII an interview Governor IIoadly said that
positively he Is not candidate for the Presi-
dency, but is for Payne without reserve.
A despatch from London announces the
death of Ceteway0, the famous Zulu chieftain,
who is said to have died of heart disease.
EX United States Senator Judge Henry
Cooper, from Tennessee, was murdered and
robbed near Cutiacon, Mexico, last week.
During the past year or two Wendell Phil
fps kept his pen busy, and if is believed that lie
has left some manuscript of great interest.
\ coal mine under Hazelton, Pennsylvania
caved in Friday. A square in the town settled
three feet and many houses were wrecked.
British Columbia agrees officially that the
Chinese must not cOme and asks the Dominion
Parliament to attend to the matter at once.
Miss Leslie Josephine Aver. daughter of the
late DIR. j. G. Aver of Lowell was married in
New York recently to Commander Pearson, U.
S.N.
The Congressional Library contained in Jan.
nary 513.441 volumes and 40 900 pamphlets. an
increase for the calendar year of 33.363 vo'-
umeS.
The House committee on naval affairs recon-
mend an appropriation of Sl6500 for the pub
LEGATION of the record of the navy during til
| late war.
The civil rights bill in the Ohio Legislature
has become law. 1t is the same as that de
clared unconstitutional by the United States
| Supreme Court.
| The increase of cotton manufactures in South
Carolina for the last three years is 10 per cent
/ The whole product in 1888 was ten times a.
great as that in 1860.