The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-07-02
Generalities.

Mccullough, the actor, has been placed in an
asylum.
The Indian population of the United States is
estimated at $50 900.
satinet mill burned at Charleston City,
Mass, Wednesday. Loss, $4,000.
The Norwegian bark Nat is lying off Della
ware Breakwater, with yellow fever on board.
-Four attempts to jump from the Brooklyn
bridge have been made since Odlum's fatal leap
kensington, Ct, claims the Oldest soldiers
monument IN the country. 1t bears the date of
1863.
Harvard college has received bequest of
$4,000 from Robert Treat Paine of Brookline.
Mass.
Twenty-one persons have recently been
poisoned in Merden, Ct, from using favoring
extracts.
A double white rose towering on a red crab
apple tree is one of the sights of So. Framing
ham, Mass
Three men were killed and a woman wound
ed by ii boiler explosion at Mobile, Ala,
Wednesday.
life size oil portrait of eX-President Arthur
mas been hung in the main corridor of the
| White House.
Minneapolis accuses st. Paul of design to
Include in its census, circus companies and the
accompanying animals.
The seventeen-year locusts have made their
appearance in Central Park New York, and in
various parts of Kings county.
A stay of proceedings has been granted in
the Buddensck case in New York, the counsel
claiming an error in the conduct of the case.
Mrs. Frelinghuysen, wife of the late ex-Sec-
rotary of State, is still in dangerous condition.
her sickness has been caused by cIot of blood
in the heart.
The strawberry crop of the eastern shore,
Maryland, is more profitable than the oyster
crop. This region promises to be the great
trucking garden of the Atlantic coast.
A committee of the American Medical Asso-
citation met in Chicago, June oath, to make
arrangements for the international Medical
Congress to be held in Washington, D. c., in
1887.
The work of placing lightning rods on the
roof of the Washington Monument has been
completed, and it is thought that all danger to
the monument from lightning will now be
averted.
George w. Dent, Gen. Grants brother-in-
law, has been suspended from his office as APP
praiser Of the Custom House at San Francisco
Cal. Thomas Beck, recently appointed in the
Custom House, succeeds him.
The ushers who acted at a wedding held in
Baltimore two years ago were the pail bearers
at the funeral of the bride recently. and invita-
tons to attend the funeral were sent out TO all
who had been invited to the wedding.
Mr.. w. r. Smith, superintendent of the
Botanical Gardens at Washington. who has
been seriously III for several days. is In a criti-
cal condition. He is probably the best authority
upon trees and plants in this country.
The rumor has been started that Secretary
Bayard is about to resign. Mr.. Bayard will
not deny or confirm the story. He says that
the Cabinet belongs to Mr. Clevel and, and all
inquiries had better be addressed to him
1t was mischievous Boston girl who, in the
marriage service, repeated the clergyman's
solemn line, "Promising to love, honor and
obey" In this novel form, "Promsing to love.
honor and be gay" He wanted to smile, but
didn't dare; neither did he dare insist that she
say it right. Waterbury American.
In Evergreen, Ala, lives a man who is the
proud possessOr of wife, a baby and cat.
Between the cat and baby an affection came up,
and whenever the cat caught a rat she would
kill 1t and bring it to the baby. But, unfor-
tunately, one day she brought the baby
lizard which was not quite dead, and while
the baby was playing with the lizard the lizard
bit the child. From the effect of the bite the
child is now lying dangerously i'll.