The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-09-03
Generalities.

1t is proposed to raise the Grant Memorial
fund i'll New y ork to one million dollars.
\ German corvette. with 23S men, was re.
Gently lost in cyclone in the Red Sea.
Yellow fever prevails in many districts in
Mexico. especially in Vera Cruz. where it has
become epidemic.
EXGov. Fenton of New York died suddenly
at Jamestown n V Aug o6tb while at his
desk in the First National Bank.
The Republicans of New York will hold their
state convention at Saratoga on September 22d,
three days before the Democratic convention.
Poundmaker, one of the Northwestern In
dian chiefs associated with Rel, has been SEN
fenced at Winnipeg to three years imprison-
ment.
A series of thunder storms passed north of
Hartford Connecticut. last week, damaging
tobacco crops and orchards to the extent of
$4,000.
Russia sent 3 batlalions of infantry 200
cavalry men. and guns to Pen nideh. the first of
August. The work of fortifyiug Ilerat Is pro-
crossing rapidly.
AT Erie, Pa, beautiful child died from star
vatIon while she waited with her parents their
turn for relief in the office of the Municipal
Charities Directors
A mother and three children were killed and
the father and two other children injured by
the accidental explosion Of gunpowder i'll Il
small town in Louisiana.
The rumored rupture between Tilden and
the Administration is an interesting topic of
conversation at Washington among the few
politicians left at the Capital.
1t is said that about seventy five companies
are doing an Illicit and surreptitious insurance
business in Wisconsin. Their collections the
past year are estimated at SI00000
Mr.. W. w. Cole has purchased from Mr..
James A. Bailey his interest in Barnum's cir
cns. The price paid Is said TO be $500, 900. Mr..
Bailey is to retire from the business.
The British ship Haddingtonshire from As
toria, Ore, for Liverpool, Eng, has been
wrecked north Of San Francisco, and Is lives
lost. The cargo was valued at 100000.
Helen Hunt was one of the most active
women in Connecticut during the early years
OF the war in preparing supplies for soldiers in
the field. She then lived at New Haven.
The Oklahoma Boomers have become CON
vnced. il is said, of the justice of the Govern
meut in removing them, and will make no fur
ther efforts to encroach on Indian territory.
| The Etruria, of the Cunard line, made the
| run from Queenstown to Sandy Hook in days.
| ] hour and minutes mean time, or days, D
hours and 81 minutes, the fastest time on
record.
| Ex-Representative Robinson, the twister of
the British lions tail. having completed his
| Congressional career, has returned to Journal
ism, and is writing over his old signature OF
| ''Richelieu."
The most valuable wedding present which
| the Princess Beatrice received was magnificent
tea and coffee service of solid gold, each piece
being richly chased, which was sent by the
| Empress Eugene.
tornado in South Carolina, Aug. 18th. un-
rooted one-fourth of the houses in Charleston
and did other damage in that city and IN the
region around. For Charleston alone the loss
| is estimated at $1000,000.
Some one who processes to be In the conf
dence of Secretary Manning says it is the pur-
| pose of the Administration to show that the
| Bland silver dollar is one of the most expensive
| experiments civilized nation has ever made.