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

Helen Hunt Jackson is ssid to have earned
$4,000 annually with her pen.
The semi-annual dividends payable in Boston
In September amount to 81, 572,2S4.
The Iowa Republicans nominated Senator
Larrabee for Governor on the first ballot.
Texas cattle fever has broken out in portions
OF Pennsylvania and is spreading rapidly.
The prediction is made that Mr.. Gladstone
will return to power with Radical Cabinet.
Mr.. John w. Foster, United States Minister
to Spain, Is about to return to the United States.
Frost is reported at Poughkeepsie N. Y, at
various places in Pennsylvania, and in Staun-
ton, Va.
A single steamer brought 81 ,OOO0O worth of
seal skins from Ounaaska into San Francisco
Sunday.
The Bankers and Merchants Telegraph Com
pany has sued the Western Union for 81, 900 900
alleged damages.
The Knights of Labor who have been on
strike, will return to work on the Texas and
st. Louis railroad.
Minister Kelley arrived in Washington Thurs
day Secretary Bayard says he is still min
| lister to Austria.
There is prospect that the three candidates
| for Governor of Ohio will discuss prohibition
together in public.
In county Kilkenny, Ireland, last week, 1000
persons attacked officers who were attempting
to make an eviction.
1t is said that 10000 persons persisted in the
recent floods in Canton. China. Many more are
left homeless and starving.
The Pennsylvania Democrats nominated Con-
rad B. Day for State treasurer Mr. CleveIand's
administration was endorsed.
The English now drink five times as much
tea as coffee, while the Americans drink eight
| times as much coffee as tea.
More than million horses must be raised
| in this country yearly, simply 10 keep the stock
of 90 millions we now have.
| An earthquake shock was felt throughout the
! Canary Islands Thursday. No damage was
caused by it - far as reported.
Snow fell Thur day near Montreal and frosts
were reported Friday morning in New York
| State New Hampshire and Maine.
A revised estimate of losses by the storm in
Charleston. 5. c., is 81 500 900 Fourteen lives
were lost by the wreck of pilot boat.
The official census of Minnesota shows The
population to be 1.I1S,5S6, a gain over the
| United Sta.os census in 1850 of 81 .1i3.
A furniture factory burned in New York
Saturday morning. with a loss of 100000. A
fireman was killed and another badly injured.
The startling statement is made that about
| $4,000 letters addressed to the President of the
United States are received at Washington daily.
The alleged filibustering party that sailed last
week from Key West, Fla, for Cuba. has re-
turned and the affair is believed to have been a
| false alarm.
| The muilated body of the woman found
some time ago in the Charles River, Boston,
has been fully iden Lifted as that of the missing
Mrs. Mitchell
| Some of the New Hampshire veterans who
escaped SHOT and shell during actual war We're
wounded during fridays sham battle at the
| Weirs reunion.
Mr.. A. NJ. Kelley was at the state department
| Friday, settling up his accounts. He has not
yet resigned as United States Minister to Aus
tra. but will do so.
Friday night the second snow storm of the
season set in on Mt. Washington. and Saturday
morning the snow was an inch deep on the pi-
azla of the Summit House.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has accented the
invitation of the committee of the Boston City
| Council to deliver the Grant eulogy in that
city the latter part of October.
| One of the sights of Ware. Mass, the other
day was that of Benz. Eaton, 81 years old,
topping on chimney above the roof of his
domcile with bricks and morter.
| 1t is said in Washington that the judges of
the Court of Alabama Claims will probably
prepare defence and make fight for the re-
tenion and payment of their employees
Several vessels are overdue at Chicago, and
from the immense amount of wreckage float
| ing in the lake since the recent storms. fears
are entertained that one or more of them is
| lost.
| Memo ia! services in honor CT the late Gen
Grant were held in the hall of Congress in the
City of Mexico Wednesday evening. All the
chief officials of the federal and city govern
ments were present
The singing societies of Baltimore met Fri
day evening and voted to accept the PROPOSE
ton to hold national festival in this civ in
1856. and arrangements will be made for the
largest musical festival ever held in America.
AT a meeting of doctors from Canada and the
States contiguous. at the office of the United
States consul general at Montreal, Friday it
was decided to adopt every safeguard to con-
fine the small poX within the limits of Mont
| real.
| The Paris Newspaper, La France. states that
all Spanish officers now OH furlough have been
ordered to rejon their regiments, and that sew
era large Spanish mercantile houses have can
cefled all their outstanding orders for German
goods.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Saturday celebrated
his 10th birthday by a family dinner party at
his summer residence at Beverly Farms. Mass
There were many callers, and remembrances
were sent by large number Of friends unable
to be present.
The captain of the City of PaIatka reports in
Jacksonville, Fla, that in coming from Charles
ton. 5. c., he passed 20 or 30 large vessels. all
dismasled by the recent gale, and that the ocean
from Charleston to St Johns bar, Fla, is COW
cred with drift stuff from vessels.
The law giving the immediate postal delivery
system to towns of four thousand inhabitants
based upon the last national census, is critics.
ed as unfair. inasmuch as many towns of four
! thousand population in 1880 are to-day much
larger. while some have refrigerated.
An immense Mohammeden army is promul-
eating the law of the Koran in Central Africa
One division is operating near the head waters
OF the Niger; another in the regions east of
Liberia; and third is approaching the coast
few miles northwest of Sierra Leone.
Rhode Island still maintains its lead in point
of density of population of all the States the
number of inhabitants to the square mile being
$50, AS against 30 in Massachusetts, which
still, as ii has done from the foundation of the
government, ranks second in the list
The Bureau of Statistics reports that the total
HullDtl VI lILlulSGdnlS AT lDe pOflS or the
United States for the seven months ended July
81, 1883, was 21S.11S against 276,690 for the
corresponding period of last year. Great Britain
contributed 64,S05, Germany 1858, Sweden
and Norway u $40 and Poland 1900.
Lieut.. Michael Mullen recently pardoned bv
President Cleveland, after having served several
months in the county Jail for violating the
federal election laws last November. has been
reinstated on the Cincinnati, O., police force
and was yesterday assigned 10 his former
position In the Hammond street district.
The Treasury Department has, it is under
stood, reached a satisfactory solution of ques-
ton in customs regulations which will net The
Government about ten or twelve millions a
year. 1t refers 10 the apprasement of fancy
boxes or metallic cases in which some goods
are imported, and which formerly were duty
free.
Gen. Butler denies that he has written any
letter to Ex-Governor Dorsheimer praising
Cleveland's administration he denies also that
his recent trip to Block Island had any political
significance; furthermore he says he has no
intention of attending the Democratic State
Convention at Worcester: and finally he
declares that he doesn't know much about
politics any way.
The present epidemic of small pox in Mon
.real Is by no means an extraordinary occur
renee. In 1872 the disease broke out in that
city and during the nine years following 5000
people died of it. The prejudice against vacci-