The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-07-15
Generalities.


suspended.
Gen. Grants tomb will hereafter be guarded
by eight men.
p. Il. Barnum, the Snowman, was 76 years
old on the 9TH.
The decrease in the public debt in June was
| over nine millions.
1t is again stated that ATTORNEY General Gar
land will soon resign.
The Freshman race at New London July
lst was won by Harvard.
The District ATTORNEY of Potter county, Oak.
runs milk wagon during vacation.
The President has had collection made of
the newspaper savings about his wedding.
The House committee on ways and means
made an adverse report on the Randall tariff
bill.
The thermometer ut Phoenix, A. T.. the
week before last registered from 1O4 to Is de-
grees.
Crops in Dakota have been greatly damaged
| by drouth and hail Scores of wheat fields are
ruined.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination of
| Hugh Thompson to be assistant Secrc tary of
| the treasury.
The bill granting railway the right of way
| through Indian Territory has been vetoed by
| the President.
A street railway system run by electricity is
| expected to be i'll operation at Los Angles, Cal,
| by October.
A plot to murder Joseph Chamberlain and
Lord harrington is said to have been discover
ell in London.
The trial of Ii fellows implicated in the boy
| cottnS of Il poor Woman'S bakery in New y ork
| city has begun.
At Appalachicola last week gale did $40
600 damage. Six persons We're caught i'll the
bay and drowned.
Paul ii. IIayne, the southern poet laureate,
died at his home. Copsehl, near Grovetown.
Georgia. last week.
The wages of the brakcmcn on the Boston 4
| Providence railroad have been increased from
| Sl.90 to - per day.
nimpromptud duel in which both participants
We're mortallv wounded and one now dead is
| reported from Texas.
RusSia's course in the East is causing much
anxiety, and war between Russia and Austria
| is said to be imminent.
The population of Chicago as indicated by
the new directory, is over 10000, an increase
| of 10000 over last year.
Young James Garfield, who is studying law
| at Cleveland, gives promise of one day becom-
| ng eminent i'll the profession.
Seven thousand dollars was raised at Il mass
meeting in san Francisco Thursday night for
the Irish parliamentary fund.
From Munich we are informed that since the
death of King Louis the very name of Wagner
is eNccrated by the Bavarians
The American SchoonerS seized ut Shclburnc.
n. s., for at alleged infraction of the Dominion
customs laws We're fined S40o each.
\ decision of the United States Circuit Court
| of Boston declares that the bay windows of the
| Back Bay mansions must come down.
1t is said at the White House that the Prc>i-
| dent and Mrs. Cleveland will pass their vaca-
ton in the north mountains of New York.
Last June Il freak OF fashion, bringing flowers
and scarlS into favor, threw out of work in
| New York 1000 women who had been engaged
| ON feathers.
Mrs. Grant and family are ut their Long
| Branch cottage for the summer. Colonel
| Frederick Dent Grant and family are guests Of
| Mrs. Grant.
j. A. Wilson, of philadelphia, secretary and
treasurer of the Chesapeake and Delaware
| Canal company is said to be Il dcfauItcr to the
| extent of >l1S.0o0.
July I'll at Wakefield Mass, the Portland
| express train struck carriage containing 4
| man. woman and two children. All We're al
most instantly killed
Gen. Alfred Plca>anton, the gallant cavalry
leader of the Union army. is said to be now in
his old age dependent for support upon saloon
keeper at Washington.
The PcnnS, Ivana Republicans incorporated
in their platform Il resolution which favor> the
| submission to the people of Il prohibitory
amendment to the Constitution.
A deadly disease has developed on the cattle
ranges of Lonakc and Prairie counties, Arkan-
saS and the cattle are dying by scores. The
disease resembles somewhat the Texas fever.
Cattle grazcr> are leaving the ranges and in
radng the Watered portion of Texas, cutting
fences they 20. Several conflicts with farm
er> have already been attended with fatal re-
| suits.
The olcomargarne bill has been reported to
the Senate without amendment. Miller of New
York will speak on ii Is soon as the appropri-
alton bills are disposed Of 1t will probably
| become Il law.
The Pennsylvania Republican Convention at
| Harrisburg nominated General James \ Bc;l-
| Yer for Governor without dissenting vote.
William T. Davis was nominated for Licutcli-
ant Governor.
The iron reservoir contracted for by Fall
River for its high water service will he the
largest ever built. 1t will he - feet in diam
eter and 81 feet high, with capacity of over
!, 900 900 gallons.
The origin of the fire in the Institute Build
ing Boston was due to the carclr>sne>S of Il
workman who left Il lamp burning under his
| glue pot while he went up stairs. When he re-
turned his glue was in flames.
Col. George b. CorkhilI died at Mount Pleas
ant, Iowa, July 6. lie was United States At
| fpr al t'ouni,i1 "a.
the prosecuting attorney who trcd th" case of
Guiteau, who assa$sinatcd President Gaflicd.
The new Sioop Atlantic has been slightly al
! tered. Her mast has been set Is inches farther
aft, and her ballast shifted so as to take her nose
out of water. She showed the good effect Of
| the change by running away from the speedy
| Crawling Oh a recent trial trip.
The democratic New York sun occupies Il
dozen Of its columns in printin" the report Of
the republican members of the Pan Electric
| investigating committee, and says cdtorally
| that the report presents evidence sufficient for
the impeachment of Atty-Gen. Garland.
The democrats have decided to pass a bill in
the House authorizing the construction of two
| armorcd ships of war of 5000 tons dSplacc
ment, three cruisers of from $500 to 5000 tons
dsplacemcnt four torpedo boats and one tor
pcdo cruiscr-the total cost to be S3,000,0 900.
The general election in Prince Edward Is
| land, June Both, resulted in the government
being sustained, Il ministerialiSts and nine OPP
position being elected. There is no repeal sem
timent on the island, and the cry of reciprocity
with the United States did not take very deep
| root.
The imperial revenue of Germany for the
fiscal year lSs5'S6 will, it is calculated, fall H.
00000O marks below the estimate. The de-
fciency is attributed to Il decrease, amounting
to 20,000,000 marks, in the revenue derived
from the sugar taN. The new sugar tax law
will, it is thought, produce an addition of 49,
| 000, 900 marks to the revenue.
| Even the Democratic Senators are becoming
| very indignant at the fact that Democratic Rep
resentativcS, after voting against certain appro-
| priations, come to the Senate Committee on
| Appropriations and be" that these appropli;,-
tions be inserted. This has been done by some
| of the most conspicuous of the cleeSe-pariny
| reformcrs of the House.
The boycottcrs of Thesis, the New York con-
cert garden proprietor, We're sentenced July ID.
,luge Barrett gave Paul Wizig and Henry
lIoldorf two years and ten months at hard
labor, Michael Strohand and Julius Rosenburg
one year and six months Imprisonment. Daniel
| Daunhauscr, the most violent of any of the boy
cotters, got three years and eight months in
| state prison.