The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-10-29
Generalities.

large one.
Genevieve Ward is said to have made $4,000
in Australia.
The wheat crop of France this year is a full
average one.
Gen. 0. o. Howard will make his home in
San Francisco.
The French wheat harvest Is 10000 quin-
tails less than in 1854.
Nine. Nilsson has been decorated with Rus
sian and Danish orders.
The Lowell cotton mills will adopt weekly
payment system Immediately.
An association to prevent burial before death
has been formed at Bridgeport, Conn.
The strike of 10000 operatives In Oldham,
England has terminated in compromise.
1t is reported that seven thousand Christians,
including the priests, have been massacred In
AMMAN.
Lieutenant Allen. of the army, has returned
safely to San Francisco after an exploring trip
In Alaska.
The general assembly of the knights of La
Dor has decided to meet next year In Rich
mond, Va.
The new horse car regulations in Boston will
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ingtOn street.
Since 1860 more than two million five hun
dred thousand immigrants have landed In the
United States.
1t is understood in London that the sentence
of death passed on Rel will be commuted to
lifelong servtude.
The American botanst, Caspar Wstar. gave
the name to the plant that is commonly mis-
spelled "wisteria."
The Bell Telephone Company, recently de-
cldred an extra dividend of s. per share pay
able November 10th.
In the double scull race at Pleasant Island,
N. Y, Oct. 10th, Hanlan and Lee easily defeat
ed Courtney and ConIey.
Colored citizens of Kentucky formulate seri-
Gus charges OF social and politca! oppression
by the white neghbors.
A paper pledging every effort to drive the
Chinese from the country is receiving numerous
signers in Stockton, Cal.
OF 200 men appointed to the more impor-
tant offices by President Cleveland some 240O
are eX-Confeclerate soldiers.
Francis Murphy has enlisted nearly twenty
live hundred recruits for Temperance at VIII
kesbarre in the last few days.
William Astor's yacht Ambassadress, the
largest yacht in the country. has been purchas-
ed by Nathaniel Thayer of Boston.
The experiments at Fort Lafayette proved
the compressed air gun a success but the
dynamite projectile did not explode.
j. A. Manning, the attorney who was disbar-
red by the Court of Alabama Claims, has asked
for reinstatement, and been denied.
Servia has protested against the decision of
the Power, and proposes TO fight. A large
force, it is said, has invaded Bulgaria.
More than two hundred vessels arrived in
New York, during Oct. 18th and 10th hay
ing been detained by gales on the ocean.
The Chinese Government has unanimously
decided to proceed speedily with the work of
building railways throughout the empire.
Virginia republicans are elated by the Ohio
vote, democrats are indignant, and both are hard
at work to secure the State in November.
The Providence journal SAYS that $50 far as
Rhode Island is concerned, the Administra-
tons civil service reform Is a minus quantity"
Cardinal Newman, in an address Oct. 18th
said the Protestant Church OF England Is the
great bulwark of this country against atheism.
British troops are massing in the direction of
Burmaf and it is thought that the trouble with
King Thebaw may lead to the annexation OF his
realm to India.
The Court of Alabama Claims is getting
through its work at the rate of thirty cases q
DAY and expects to end business before the end
of December.
Scott Ellis, charged with being an aacomplice
in the murder of ii Colorado ranchman named
Ilon, about year ago, has been arrested al
Aurora, Wy. T.
Carl Schurz has written letter to the Brook
lyn Independent Republicans expressing his
preference for the Republican candidate for
governor of New York.
The new star, whose appearance in the ne5ula
of Andromeda lately produced so great SEN
sation in celestial circles, has faded from its
position and is seen no more.
A review of the Southern industrial growth
for the first nine months of 1855 shows wide
diversity of new industries in which large
amount of capital has been invested.
Secretary Whitney has paid $50 900 for a
country estate about five miles from W NaShlng-
ton. and expended $4,000 more in making
improvements. 1t comprises about 100 acres.
1t is believed that the report of the Secretary
of the Treasury will contain an earnest plea
for legislation looking to an unconditional suS-
pension of the present coinage OF silver dollars.
A warrant has been issued in New York for
the arrest of William 5. Warner on the charge
of completely in the big steal by Ferdinand
Ward. Warner Has surrendered to the author
tiles
1t is understood that Secretary Whitney will
be the society leader in the present AdmiDistra-
ton. He has leased the Freiinghuy>en estate
for four years, and is to make extensive i'm
proyements.
DR.. AmEndo, the Jersey City (N.J.) drug
gist, whu substituted morphine for quinine
thereby causing the death Of two daughters of
c. +. iiollz, was held in S23no bail nn charge
OF manslaughtar.
New England college officials met in Boston
Oct. 10th, to discuss cooperation between col
leges and preparatory schools. Presidents Ell
Hot and Porter and many other prominent edu-
Gators Were present.
There are at least twenty cases Of small poA
in Marinstte, Wis. the disease having been
brought there by Montreal citizen. -Four
deaths have already occurred, and many per
sons have been exposed.
Five cars loaded with wheat were diched on
the Northern Pacific Railroad five miles east OF
Aitken, Mimi, Oct. 18th Two men who
We're stealing a ride were found dead. having
been su1ocated in the W heat,
Gold medals will be forwarded to officers OF
different nations who fought with the Chiiau
army in its campaigns against Peru and Boliv'
ia. Among the recipients of this honor is Capt
Maen OF the United States navy.
General Grants height, as given by Colonel
Frederick ID. Grant in a letter to an inquirer in
Scranton, was D feet inches; chest measure
about IS inches; weight, in April, 1861, 10
pounds in June, 1868, l42 pounds.
The fall of exchange and the low price of sill
yer are stimulating expectation of wheat from
India. Enormous shipments are pending. Yes
sells have already been chartered for the ship
ment of 100000 tons before January.
Godfrey Smith and Francklyn Mcleod are
on trial at Halifax, n. S., for selling saltec
gold mine at ChiZzlecook, n. s.. to American
purchasers. The buyers paid $4,000 cash fol
the worthless plant and put $4,000 into ma
chinery for it.
Geronini Guseppi, representing Nenini OF
Milan, Italy, crematory builder, Is In Buffalo
N. u, making arrangements for building
furnace for the Buffalo Cremation Society. II
is believed that the crematory will be In work
ing order by December 1st
1t is estimated that the new marriage law OF
Pennsylvania will bring revenue of abou
$4,000 into the treasury in Philadelphia eacl
year, as the number of marriages in the city
ranges from 1000 to 90G0. Last year there were
$500 marriages in Philadelphia.
The American Woman's Suffrage Association
adjourned at Minneapolis Mimi, Oct. 10th after
three days session. Fifteen States and Ter
ritories were represented. Resolutions were
adopted defending the principles of the associa
| tion and laying out plan of work.