The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-04-23
GeneraIlties.

| New York sent $4,000 worth of flowers to
| Washington for Easter.
Tho late Thaddeus Stevens never passed a
pin without picking it up.
The Leon Hotel at Tallahassee, Florida, was
burned recently; loss $4,000
Gen. NJ. l.. Barillas succeeds the late General
Barrios as President of Guatemala.
Italy has 100000 lemon trees, which pro-
duce ,260 900 600 lemons annually.
The newspapers of the Pacific slope are COM
planning of that regions dire need of rain.
For the first time in twelve years Washing
ton society possesses Vice Presidents wife.
The woman suffrage question has met with
its annual fate in the New York Legislature.
EX-President Fish. of the Marine Bank of
New Y ork, has been found guilty of embezzle-
ment.
The Washington Monument was struck by
lightning three times on the Sth inst, but not
injured.
1t is reported that the Russian Government is
about to purchase Il couple of Philadelphia
steamers.
A saving of $50, 900 year is to be effected by
reductions in the office of the Sergeant at-Arm
Of The Senate.
Adolph Sutro, the borer of the famous Sutro
Tunnel, has accumulated library of over 150,-
600 volumes.
Joaquin Miller has BOUGHT a building lot at
Lake de Funiak, in Florida and will erect log
| cabin thereon.
In lS4S there were only 900 vines in all
California. In 1862 there We're 9 800 900; in
1881 81, ,U00,O 900.
Minister Foster is about to return to Madrid
TO conduct negotiations in connection with the
Spanish treaty.
Mr. Emmons Hamlin, of the firm of Mason &
Ilalnllu the We-knOWu organ builders, died in
Boston recently.
The Exchange National Bank Of Norfolk.
which recently closed its doors, owes its depos-
itor- over S3,000,00G.
There are 100000 fishermen i'll France and
about four fishermen out of every 1000 are
drowned every year.
John Tennicl, who has been making cartoons
for Punch ever since 1851, has Just celebrated
his >iNty-ifth birthday.
The Princess of Wales took the Irish heart bv
storm in Dublin by the wearing of the green
and the royal shamrock.
In some provinces of Brazil iron ore is used
in large quantities AS building stone, SO abund-
ant and ready to hand is it.
The Japanese post-ofiice. which is ten years
old, carried 95,000,000 letters and transmitted
100000 kilograms last year.
Alfred A. Nudge, of the well known printing
firm of Alfred Nudge 4 Son, Boston, died
| recently of drop>y, aged y years.
The Kimberley Diamond District, South
Africa, exported more than goo 900 worth of
cut and uncut stones during January.
The lcvee given Thursday at Dublin Castle by
the Prince and Princess of Wales was larger
| than any held in Ireland since the visit 0 { Queen
Victoria in 1919.
\ great number of Chicago girls have given
up their situations in shops, millinery, and
| other establishments, and have engaged as ser
wants i'll families.
Cholera Is raging in the province of Valencia,
Spain, and is sprt aiding along the entire eastern
>paboard of Spain 1t is at Malaga, and also on
the island of Minorca.
The New York Tribune states that nearly the
whole OF the $780, 600 which was raised fol
General Grant year or two ago is invested
with absolute safety.
| a committee of The Grand Army Of the Re
| public has called upon President Cleveland in
behalf of the retention of otticehoders who be-
| long to that organization.
| An Internal machine was sent to Governor
| Hoadly OF Ohloa few days ago, but for unaleiy
| the Governor had the box opened carefully, and
| The scpundre who sent it was foiled.
Moncure d. Conway, who is 10 return to this
country and take up his residence in Washing
ton, was forced to quit that city in 1877, on ac-
count of his radical political sermons.
There are twenty persons whose gifts to
colleges aggregate over S23 600 900. Three of
these rich meu-Stephen GIraru. Johns Hop
kins aid Asa Packer-gave over Sl4,0 900.
The mion-doilar cathedral erected in Gar
den CITY, l.. L., by the widow of the late A. 7.
| Stewart was formally opened Thursday week.
| 1t Will be con>ecrated with great pomp in May.
| General Grant never sat but once to have his
| portrait painted in OIL. Mr. Huntington was
the fortunate artist, but the result was not yer,
satisfactory to the friends of General Grant.
| President Cleveland has suspended the Post
| master of Rome for neglect Of duty aud ap-
| pointed to the place Mr. j. B. Corcoran, whose
nomination the Senate had refused 10 confirm.
Joseph Lilly, well-to-dO farmer living near
| Namesport, Mo-, has been in bed for Is wears,
and is still in perfect health. He abors under
the impression that if he gets out of bed he will
die.
Minister Phelps is said to be an ''Angloman-
| lhc,' and his house and grounds at Burlington,
| VI, resemble an English country grntleman'-
| them.
| Secretary Bayard has signitied the Willingness
| of the United States to cooperate with the
Latin Union in fixing the ratio between gold
| ana silver with a view to the unlimited coinage
| of both
Gen. Grant, il is said is to receive from the
| publishers of his autobiography. Charles l..
| Webster Il Co., 100000. which suln is to be
| carefully invested AS the Generals Legacy to his
| family.
BY clerical error in the Land Commission
| er's Office half million acres We're said to be
| exempted from the land restored to the public
| domain from the Texas Pacific grant; the error
| has been corrected and an investigation is to be
| made.
The returns of April to the department of
agriculture indicate a reduction of area in win
| ter Wheat, and The present condition Of wheat
i - per cent. against 96 last year and 50 In 1888
| The real status OF the crop, however, viii be
| better shown month hence.
England and Wales produced last year to-
| gether, wheat crop of 17,S6I 600 bushels, at
an average rate per acre of $3.50 bushels
Scotland raised 234SO00 averaging "a II per
acre The total wheat crop of Great Britain
| was1, ,56, 900 less in 1854 than in 1888.
The committee appointed by the Ohio Legis-
| laure to investigate the telephone companies
| doing business in that State find that for the
use of $40 600 worth of telephone instruments
| the Bell Telephone Company receives an annual
| income of $500 900. The committee pronounces
the company to be an imperlous and uncon-
! scionabe monopoly, which should be restricted
| by legislative enacments.
The most reliable of all Cough Remedies is
Jadwin's Tar Syrup. So say the doctors Sold
| by all druggists.
| Clippings.
| Our citizens who leave town to dodge taxes
or ''transfer" shipping evidently prefer great
| riches to a good name. The old adage remains
true nevertheless. Bath independent.
| Now that the law forbdding the manufac-
| ture and sale of oleomargarine has gone into
effect, and ii begins to pinch the fingers of those
who desire cheap butter there is talk that 1t is
| unconstitutional. Waterville Mail.
A Maine clergyman claims to have been per-
secuted by ''religous boodhounds." 1t seems
| there was woman in the case and the blood
hounds were deacon and a deacon's wife.
| [Roston Post.
Soliloquy of Maine Democrats in Washing
ton: mo appointments today? What are we
here for, anyhow"' Then the procession files
into the sample room and drinks to the confu-
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