The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-06-18
Generalities.

Sir julius Benedict, the celebrated composer,
1s dead.
In only ten States is Decoration Day legal
holiday.
Senator and Mrs Logan will spend August at
the Thousand Islands.
The Hessian fly is doing great damage to the
wheat crop of Kansas
The grasshopper ravages In California are
| not so serious as reported.
The bursting of a waterspout in Mexico is
said to have killed 100 persons.
The capstone on the Washington Monument
has been shattered by lightning.
Col. Ingersol is not allowed to lecture In the
| Philadelphia Academy of Music.
Ex-President Arthur denies the report that he
| is suffering from Bright's disease.
| The people of Jackson county, W. Va, are
said to be in danger of starvation.
| Theron c. Leland, one of the first phono-
| graphic reporters in the country, Is dead.
Grasshoppers are devouring every green
thing along the upper waters of the Arkansas
| river.
Well-diggers in Dakota hunt for ant hills.
| The wise insects always locate owe u vein OF
! water.
Bar Silver Is worth SLOT an ounce in New
| York. At this rate the silver dollar is worth
| 80. cents.
| t. J. Cuverius was found guilty, at Rich
mond, Va. of the murder of Frances Lillian
| Madison.
| The iron and mining industries of Southwest
| Virginia, for long time idle, are again resum-
| ing operations.
| Atlanta put over $500, 900 in buildings last
! year outside of the kimball House, in spite of
| the hard times.
jeff johnson and Henry Brown. negroes,
| fought a duel with casped knives at Americas,
Ga. Both died of their wounds.
Two more indictments have been found
| against Ward and Fish for stealing $3.50. 900
| from the Marine National Bank.
| The only child of General ''Stonewal' Jack
| son was the bride in a brilliant marriage cere-
mony at Richmond Va, recently.
| Whole villages have been swallowed up ia
the Vale of Cashmere by earthquakes, and
| 200 people are believed to have perished.
A statue of the botanist Linnaus was dedi-
| Gated at Stockholm on the one hundred and
| seventyeighth anniversary of his birth.
| Naval officers report strong sentiment exist
| ing In Panama in favor of Il permanent occupa-
The Masonic fraternity is said to be very
| strong in Mexico, notwithstanding the Catholic
| tendencies OF the people and Government.
| The London Telegraph states that there is
| absolutely no foundation for the report of the
assassination of the Ameer of Afghanistan.
A band of maSkers took Thomas Fairly, of
| Leaksvile, La, from the Jail at that place and
| hung hlm to a tree ON suspicion of murder.
Ex-Gov. Hale of New Hampshire has failed
| for large amount and all his property in Yer
mont has been attached for four times its value.
| Paying Teller scott of the Bank of the Man
| haitian Company, at No. 40 Wall street, stepped
out recently with Sl60,6l0 of the Banks money.
| The question of Il reciprocity treaty with the
| United States, in order to protect their fishery
industries Is agitating the merchants of Nova
| Scotia.
| The Illinois Senate passed the House bill
| giving colored people the same rights as whites
in hotels, restaurants, theatres and other public
| places.
Reports to the War Department indicate that
| there are not sufficient troops in New Mexico
and Arizona to etlectually quel the insurrecion
of the Apaches.
| Canker worms have made their appearance in
many towns in the vicinity of Medway, Mass,
and it is expected that they will destroy large
amount OF fruit.
| Wards heroic statue of Il typical Pilgrim,
| presented to the c y of New York by the New
England Society of that city, unveiled in
Celtral Park Saturday week.
More than 900 900 cattle Craze on the green
plains east of the Rocky Mountains, and their
value reaches the snug little sum of about two
hundred millions of dollars.
| Big Bear has gone to the north of British
| America there it will be impossible for Can
adian troops to follow. There is IL report that
he has massacred all his prisoners.
1t is understood that Republican Senators do
| not propose to oppose President Cleyeands
nominations generally, but only in cases where
| unfit parties have been given office.
Three hundred houses, fifty shops aud three
mosques in the steamboat quarter Of Constan-
tinople, were destroyed by fire recently. One
person was killed and many were injured.
The board appointed by the Secretary of the
Navy to inquire into the value of the wood
preserving plant at the Boston Navy Yard has
made report condenlnatory of the process.
new mail route has been established be-
tween Key West and Havana, by which letters
| reach the latter city TWO days in advance of the
| regular steamer leaving New York Thursdays.
1t is now believed that Scott, the absconding
teller of the Manhattan Bank, is in Canada,
where. it is reported, he has enough money to
enable him 10 live comfortably the rest of his
life.
The Suez Canal Company, at its meeting in
Paris, June 4, unanimously approved the prop
osition to empower the Directors to borrow
S2O,000,00O for the purpose of cnarging the
! canal.
The East Weymouth (Pa.) News says that
some OF the Italians employed there on the wa
ter works, eat aeWives raw, taking them from
the river and chewing them down as Il cat
! would do.
| EX-Frst Auditor Reynolds of the Treasury
| Department fell or Jumped through an air shaft
in the Southern Hotel, st. Louis, recently and
| was killed. The theory of suicide is not enter
| tanned by his friends.
| The coroner's jury who Investigated the
| circumstances of Odlums fatal leap from the
! Brooklyn bridge have returned the verdict that
''he came to his death by jumping from Brook
| lyn bridge of his own free WILL
Charles L. Gilmore of Chicago, who was ar
| rested for perjury in connection with the Chi
| cago election frauds, has confessed his guilt,
| duplicating Mackin, who, he says, planned and
| helped execute the whole business.
| The casualties III the Federal army during
| the of the Rebellion are now put at ;}59,-
| 1876 deaths of this number %, ,49S died as prison
| ers Of war. The act ual number of soldiers
| listed from the North was about 2,100, 900.
Admiral Jouett reports that sickness among
| the American forces at Panama has increased
| rapidly and SAYS that yellow fever is liable to
| become epidemic at any time, as there have been
a number of fatal cases among the marines.
Just before noon at New Bedford Mass,
| June 9th Charles Foss fatally shot Charles
| Slocum and then put bullet into his own head,
| intlicting mortal wound. Slocum leaves
wife and six children. Foss is Il drunken sailor.