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

The earnings of the Northern Pacific Rail
road Co. for April We're Sl.43S 600.
Parts Of Texas are suffering greatly from the
floods. Every bridge in one county has been
swept away.
Captain Eads now proclain> that his Tehu-
antepec Ship Railway is to be built by English
capitalists.
Gales visited Buffalo, Rochester, syracust
Schenectady and Troy. n. Y, Friday. doing
much damage. Burlington, VT. had her break
water washed away during their prevalence.
and two >chooners were wrecked on Lake Erie.
JAY Cooke. whose fortune was swept away
by the crash of 1873. is to-day one of the wealth
lest men OF Pennsylvania. He has Investments
in iron coal. gold. and silver mines and rail
roads reaching far into the millions.
The damage by Friday nights gale at 5nrling-
ton. VI. will amount to 100000. Piers at the
North end of the harbor about two miles long
were nearly all more or less injured and about
100 feet of the breakWatcr We're swept away.
Waves rolled in thirty feet high.
Adyices from Western Texas are to the effect
that cattle are Suffering and large numbers
dying from want of Waterand grass, the drouth
having been very severe in that section. Myr-
lads of caterpllars have also appeared and are
! destroying all kinds Of vegetables.
Mu>kegon, Mich, sets itself up as the great
est lumber producing city in the world. The
product last wear was GS6019 254 feet exceed
ing the output of the Saginaw Valley by several
hundred millions. Besides this. lS9S54. $50
laths and 80 49l 900 shingles We're turned out
The general conference of the NJ. f. church
met at Philadelphia, Thursday. Delegates
We're present from - conferences, including
some from China. India and Turkey. These
conferences are held once in four Years. and
this one celebrates the centennial of American
Methodsm.
some portions of Pennsylvania We're visited
Friday by a terribly destructive forest fire,
which swept everything before it, levehng
tracts of country. Thousands of people are
homeless. and many ore supposed 70 have
persisted i'll the flames.
The editor of The London Times receives
$4,000 salary, the Standard pays Sl5.O00
Daily News 100000, senior editors of the Tee-
graph receive 81, 800 each. Manchester Guard
ian $4,000. Pail Mall Gazette. Spectator and
saturday Review each $4,000, st. James
Gazette $4,000 and Punch $4,000.
The North Atlantic combination which
agreed to keep up the Storage rates to Europe
has been dissolved and low rates are now the
order of the day. One may now 90 from New
ork to Liverpool, Queenstown. Glasgow
Londonderry and Belfast for SIS, to London
Bristol and Cardiff for $50, and to Norway
| sweden and Denmark for SD.
\ meeting of the New England Gallaudet As
>Ociation of Deaf Mutes was held Saturday af-
ternoon at Providence, K. L., with J. T. Tilling
hast. of New Bedford, Mass. presiding. and j.
r. Donnelly acting as secretary Every New
England State was represented, and it was de-
cidcd TO hold convention there next August.
Mrs. Amelia Barnett of PhiIipsburg, Pa.
locked the doors of her house SATURDAY. then
cut the throats of her two children one two
years and the other five months old. She then
gave an alarm. and lis the neighbors rushed in
she deliberately cut her own throat and threw
herself on the bed by the side of her children.
The oldest child is dead and the others are
mortalIy wounded.
| Forest fires have been unusually destructive
this spring. The Storm King, Shawangunk
Mountains and the Caiskills are crowned with
smoke that betokens damage. distress and suf-
fering to the farmers. In Pennsylvania i'm
mense damage has been done, several mining
towns partially destroyed, powder mills blown
up and lives lost. Arnot, Brisbn, Emporium,
| California. White Haven, Sterling, RidgcWaY