The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-07-09
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of copper this year.
Four dollars week is the amount earned bv
a good mechanic in Holland.
Drainage has diminished deaths from CON
sumption in Vermont one half
The Berlin Post hints that Prince Bismarck
desires an alliance with England.
The number of Quakers in the United States
is estimated at less than 100000.
Mrs. Dudley, who shot 0'Donovan Rosa,
has been sent to an insane asylum.
Heavy rain storms in Kansas have caused
disastrous frcshets in some localities.
Until Andrew Jaekson's time ofice-holIers
We're not permitted to see the President.
Lightning is reflected for $50 to POO miles,
and thunder may be heard for 20 or % miles.
AT a sale of coins in New York, Wednesday,
July lst, bali dime of the date 1904 sold for
So.
Fifteen hundred rolling mill hands at Cleye-
land are ON Il strike against reduction of
wages.
More than forty years ago the manufacture Of
molasses from melons was carried on In central
Illinois.
Gen. Booth claims that by the year 1906 the
Salvation Army will number 10000 900 mem
bers.
A tomato vine at Plant city, Fla, covers a
space seyentl-t five feet IN circumference, and
bore all last winter.
A prominent physician of Pittsburg has been
discovered to be Ill league with Il band of rob
bcrs and is under arrest.
The total receipts OF the United States Treas
ury for the last fiscal year ARE about nine
millions below the estimates.
The English cabinet has decided to abandon
coercion in Ireland and rely on the strict I'd
ministratiun Of the general law.
Colonel Couch, since the death OF Payne the
leader Of the Oklahoma 'boomers,' is II native
of Wisconsin and Il forty miner"
--latest accounts of the harvesting lib Kansas
show the wheat crop to be by 100 per cent. bet
ter than the estimate month ago
The Baltimore American predicts that within
ten years half of the States will set up whip
ping posts for the punishment of wifc-beaters.
The commissioner of pensions has decided to
dismiss Do or 81 of the special examiners ap-
pointed under the act of Congress passed in
1884.
John Bright predicts Il great catastrophe in
Europe unless the military system be changed
it cannot be indefinitely supported with pa
thence.
The English government has determined to
keep the English forces in the Soudan at Dom
COLA, possibly for fresh campaign against the
Mahdi.
Maryland's strawberry crop this year has
been very profitable 10 growers, besides paying
from 10 cents to s. day to women and chill
dren pickers.
1t is stated in Vienna that ii the United States
government refuses TO recall Mr.. Kelley. the
uslrian government will formally decline TO
recognize him.
\ census which is in progress i'll Iowa shows
gains in all the cities, and the State enumtra-
ton is likely to reach 1000 900, II gain of
100000 in five years.
Miss Mary \. Murfree (Charles Egbert Grad
duck) will spend part of this month IN Con
cord, Mass, the guest of the Lothrops, at
Hawthorne's Wayside.
The Connecticut River, once Il nayigabe
stream for a considerable distance, is said to be
drying up because of the destruction of the
forests along its watershed.
An annual review of the grain market in san
Francisco, gives the wheat exports for the
cereal year ending June 30 At $3.50 600 bushels
and -four at 800 900 barrels.
Secretary Whitney has revoked the order
prohibiting the wives of navy officers from fol-
lowing their husbands TO stations at which
they may be assigned to duty.
A despatch from Teheran states that 1000
Persians are at work constructing the Trans
Caspian railway. Warlike preparations are
still continued by the Russians.