The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-04-09
Generallties.

Congressman Miller of Texas owns 100. 600
| cattle.
Great Britain contains million more womer
than men.
The farmers of Montana have begun theiI
spring plowing.
| Thirty houses in Oakland City. Cal, were
burned Friday week.
The ice in the Susquehanna River is twenty
eight inches thick.
An extensive salt mine has been discovered
at Clifton. n. Y.
Mile Emma Nevada is called in California the
"Sagebrush Linnet.'
Henry NJ. Stanley expects to return to the
| Congo region in June
The dividends payable in April in Boston
| amount to S6,ll2,S ,S42.
Sunset Cox has been nominated and confirm.
| Ell Minister TO Turkey.
France received 10000 tons of oranges last
! year, chiefly from Spain.
| The honey crop of the United States reaches
| 1000 pounds annually.
| Chicago beef packers have received large
| orders from the English Government.
| fire occurred at Foo Chow on February q,
which destroyed fifty dwelling houses.
Of the 10000 inhabitants of the would-be
State of New Ne Xco 10000 are Mexicans.
! The noted Rev. |. S. kaloch has left San
! Francisco TO settle in Washington Territory.
| Mr.. Donald g. Mitchell The author of s'Dream
Life tried daily journalism, but didn't like 1t.
| Admiral Porter who is now p years old was
Iy hIr h foil it,W thn pfb
day
Mr.. George H, Pendletons grandfather was
lIamton's second in the fatal duel with Aaron
Burr.
The White House has been without mistress
IN her own right about one-fourth the period Of
Its existence.
Queen Victoria has issued a message calling
out all the reserves, and placing the militia in
active service.
Ex-senator Mcdonald is said to be the only
Indiana democrat who ever declined a first class
foreign mission
The Commissioner of Pensions has decided
that no pension claim shall be considered out of
lis regular Order
The Pope bas issued another appeal for
Peters pence contributions, which have largely
fallen of Of late Years.
General Iazen has been found guilty BY the
court martial. and sentenced to be reprimanded
by the secretary of war.
In San Francisco social circles are stirred bv
the marriage of wealthy man of seventy and
| a young woman of nineteen.
There is trouble in the Boston democratic city
committee, and one member has been expelled
tor voting with republicans.
| ton Exchange is a youth of Is summers, and
the oldest ii veteran OF 50 years.
There We're three mine explosions recently,
i'll Austria, MOravia and Chilli One hundred
and thirty-tive men were killed.
The Mexican government has created new
fiscal police. 500 strong, to prevent smuggling
along the United States boundary.
The United States steamship Wyoming has
been detailed and fitted UP for the exercise of
the naval cadets IN seamanship and gunnery.
The steamer Wisconsin, believed to be lost in
Lake Michigan, has been sighted. surrounded
by Ice, about fifteen miles west of Grand Haven.
1t is proposed to bond the State of New Jer-
>ey for $3.50 900 to defray the expense of re-
building the State House recently damaged by
fire.
Montana ranks second to Texas in the amount
of its grazing lands. having something over
seventy thousand acres, with Arizona IA close
third.
The Board of Overseers of Harvard College
have decided that a knowledge of Greek will
continue to be IA prerequisite for admission to
Harvard.
The graduates of Vassar have in short time
| raised 5, 800 toward building twenty thousand
dollar gymnasium, and expect to complete the
sum this spring.
Coffee as beverage was invented in Abvssin-
ia, whence it migrated to Persia in SO, thence
to Arabia and Egypt before the beginning of
the fifteenth century.
1t is rumored that Treasurer Wyman and
Superintendent of the Life Saving Service Kim
bal are the ony Treasury Chiefs of Bureaus
who Will be retained i'll office.
Sir Moses Montetlore has been a Freemason
seNent.-tWo Years, but according to the Masonic
Token there are several members of the order
i'll this country who antedate him.
The missionary steamer Morning Star. Capt.
Bray, from Boston, Nov. 9Th, via. Straits of
Magellan. arrived safely at Honolulu, Sandwich
Islands, March 10Th. All well on board.
The commissioner of pensions has decided
that mother cannot be allowed pension as a
dependent mother and the accrued pension of
her deceased husband for the same period.
Secretary Manning has appointed Eugene
| Higgins, of Baltimore, to be chief of the ap-
pontment division of the treasury department
| the permanent appointment to take effect April
| "a.
| Wesley Gibson, tried for the murder of his
uncle in Lincoln county, Mo-, and acquitted,
| has since confessed that he committed the muir
| der. assisted by the deceased's wife and negro
| aceompli"e.
Sir Ambrose Shea, the representative of
| Newfoundland, has arrived at Washington to
| attempt negotiations in the matter of the fish
| cries. The fisheries provision of the Washing
| ton treaty terminates June 30, next.
| 1t is said that proposition having reference
to requirement by the United States of com
mercial supremacy in the South American
States has been submitted to Prt >idcnt CIeVe-
land by the Colombian government
| w. BAKER 4 CO.'S BREAKFAST Cocoa, cost
| ing less than one cent cup, Is the most health
| full and invigoratlng beverage in the world
atfordlng nutriment TO the invalid rest to the
wearied brain of the man of business, refresh
menl TO the tired aborer. and drink greatly
| relished by our little ones. Its purity and eX-
celence have long rendered Bakers Cocoa The
| standard, and after more than centurys test
it still remains unsurpassed.