The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-02-26
Generalities.

VI the l6b varieties OF snakes In this country
only % are venomous.
Bismarck is i'll and has been ordered to leave
Berlin for a term of rest.
John Kelly, the Tammany chieftain, is dam
gerously sick in New York.
Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, has gone
south on account of his health.
The number of letters posted in the world
every year is said to be $520O0,0 100000.
Two women in Buffalo have gone crazy over
the stories told them by a fortune teller.
New York's directory contains 800 o29 names,
which indicates population of 800 145.
England notifies Turkey that she will evac-
uate Egypt when she gets ready to do so.
Hanan beat Thomas Clifford at Sydney, New
S nth Wales, the l4th, by six boat lengths.
Lord Wolseley says there are doubts of the
death of Gordon and of the fall of khartoum.
Thirteen men were killed in the explosion In
the coal mine at Westvle, Nova Scotia, recent
ly.
Il. b. Hotchkiss, of Connecticut, the inven-
tor of the Hotchkiss cannon, died in Paris Feb.
14h.
An engineer experienced in canal work says
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years.
The nitrate producers at Iquique have pass
ed resolutions diminishing and regulating their
product.
1t is rumored that Italy has consented to oc
cupy Cairo, Alexandria,, Suakim, Suez. Port
Said and Ismailia.
The condition of business before Congress is
such that either party can force an extra ses-
sion if it so desires
The result of the semi-annual examination at
the Naval Academy is to decrease the number
of cadets materially.
All the coal mines in Illinois. Indiana and
Ohio have shut down because the railroads can
not handle the stock.
A tramp in a Massachusetts, Jail locked up his
iailer and walked off with the keys of the Jail,
court room and banks.
There is much excitement in New Zealand ow-
ing to the statement that Germany has annex
ed the island of Samoa.
In riot in Eureka, California, a Chinaman
killed white man. The Chinese were all COM
PEELED to leave the town.
The insane department of the county aims
house at West Philadelphia burned Feb. 1.th.
Nineteen We're burned to death.
The proposed reciprocity treaty between the
United States and the British West Indies has
been rejected by the English Cabinet.
A Massachusetts mill corporation is about to
transfer their entire plant to Mexico, where
they will manufacture print cloths, employing
Mexican help.
Francis A. DreXel, senior of two brothers at
the head of the famous DreXel banking houses
in Philadelphia, New York and Paris, died sud-
denly Feb. 18th.
The wedding of Miss Eva Mackay and the
Prince of Gaatro was private, but the subse-
quent reception by the mother of the bride was
a most brilliant affair.
Samuel Powers, widely known as breeder
of thoroughbred horses, died at Decatur, Ill.,.
Feb. 14th, aged 50. He was worth quarter
of million of dollars.
1t is said that the crew of the Arcana, recent
ly wrecked on the New Brunswick coast, could
have been saved by prompt action on the part
of men in the light house.
Stepniak, the Russian Nhilist, characterizes
the work of the dynamitards as ''stupid, object
less directed against no particular individual
furtherng no great cause"
The President, by an executive order, has
opened to public settlement after May 10, all Of
The unoccupied lands within the Nlobrara or
-N1pl
La Patria, a Mexican journal, vouches for
the truth of the phenomenon of a woman in
the City of Mexico giving birth to seven chill
dren in one day. All died. but the mot her
lives.
The Secretary of the Treasury transmitted
to the House of Representatives Il statement of
the Treasurer in reference to the refusal of
certain banks to receive silver and silver certi-
ticates.
Mr.. ID. Nevins recently drove his bay family
horse, Bay Fearnaught, attached to sleigh.
with TWO occupants, from Framingham TO Bos-
ton, distance of n miles, i'll l hour and "A
minutes.
The industrial depression in France is ASSUME
ing alarming proportions 1t is said that about
Three hundred thousand workmen are idle in
Paris alone, and at least one million in the
provinces.
A Mrs. Hall was found dead on Scott Hill,
Mass, Feb. 18th, but it has not been
decided Vet whether her death was caused by
exposure or she was murdered. The affair is
being investigated.
An ant-Chinese immigration bin with very
stringent provisions is on its way through the
legislature at Victoria, b. &. A similar bill
passed by Parliament last year was rejected by
the Ottawa government.
Alexander Morton, who died Feb. 18th
on his plantation near Nermlon. La, was
president of the Louisiana Secession Con
vention in 1867. He was United State senator
in 1897 and governor IN 1872
General Eare's division which is travelling
on the Nile route toward Abu Hamed. had :.
five hours battle with hostile Arabs recently
and was completely victorious. General Earle,
however, was killed while leading charge.
Some Northern visitors to New Orleans dwell
during their stay in the railroad car which con-
veyed them to their destination, and lively
parties even hold "atternoon teas for the en-
tertanment of New Orleans visitors in these
cars.
The examination of Short, the assaiIant of
Capt. Phelan in New York, was begun Feb.
l4th. After Phelan had narrated the details
of the assistant and IA policeman testified to
finding the wounded man, the was con-
tinued one week.
Some of the leading millers and business men
of st. Paul and Minneapolis, Mimi. are almost
daily receiving threatening letters from dvna-
miters The British consul at the former city
has also been threatened. Nobody has been
blown up yet, however.
special from Boise City, Idaho, says: "a
Republican office was gutted and sacked Friday
night and an attempt was made to fire the
Democratic newspaper office. The trouble is
the result of bitter political tight, and there is
great excitement over it.
Some of the Democrats who made Il Pilgrim
age recently to New York have returned to
Washington dissatisfied and puzzled. Cleve-
lands retcence leaves them in doubt as to his
purpose and another source of discomfort is the
possible intention of Cleveland to give the mug
wumps choice berths.
The town marshal of Hunnewell Kansas, re-
signed Friday night. Saturday morning gang
of roughs took possession of the town, riding
ly. The citizens then gathered in force and
drove them out of town. A number of shots
were exchanged but no one was hurt.
While encouraging reports of Gen. Grants
health are given to the public from time to
time, there is reason to suspect that it is in Il
very unsatisfactory state. His local trouble at
the root of the tongue does not yield to treat
ment, and his general strength and spirits
seem to be failing. Many fear that he is per-
manently an invalid
The English papers, after kindly Withholding
their criticisms until she has made a fortune in
the United States, now say that Mrs. Langtry
is a failure. She is not great actress. In emo
tona paris she is not even good actress. She
has not depths of passion nor adequate means
of expressing conflicting sentiments. She will
do well in light society pieces, but is untitled
for higher drama.
The Massachusetts Fish and Game Assoca-
ton have adopted the following resolutions:
That whereas the fiShino industry of the