The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-08-19
Generalities.


Small pox is increasing at st. Pierre, Miquc-
Ion.
The prospects of the Delaware peach crop
are very good.
The Red Star ocean steamship line Is cutting
stccrage rates.
The President will leave Washington for his
vacation this week.
Over nine millions of the public debt was cut
OIL last month.
The hop crop throughout Central New York
Is reported total failure
Machine coal cutters are to replace the Strik-
ing miners in the Hooking Valley.
Two hundred wcavers are on Il strike at the
Salmon Falls. y. ii. cotton mills.
An extra session of Congress is talked Of but
it is very doubtful if it will he necessary.
1t is ntimated that Il new Collector for the
port of New York will soon be appointed.
The Senate confirmed the nomination of b.
b. Smalley rs collector of Burlington, Vt.
The Naval Construction bill passed both
houses. 1t provides for large additions to the
navy.
Alabama held Il State election Aug 3, the
Democrats eecting their candidates by Il large
majority.
The introduction of an alleged octoroon into
ariStocratic blue grass circles has createda SEN
sation i'll kentucky.
Extensive intrgues by Irish and Russian
dynamitcrS against the English government,
have been discovered.
The President has withdrawn the nomination
of ii. A. Beechcr to be Collector Of customs at
Port Townsend, w. T.
Congressman Morrison, in ii speech on the
surplus resolution, made a bitter attack upon
the President, in the House.
James A. l.. Whittier, Boston lawyer, is
under arrest on the charge of embeZZement of
trust funds amounting to $125.00O.
The published statement that Gen. Grant had
expressed il wish to be buried at Mt. McGregor
Is contradicted by Col. Fred Grant.
Texans are preparing themselves in ease of
any trouble with Mexico One volunteer militia
company has already been organized.
The popular Baby Pathfinder for August Is
out with all the latest changes, and can be pro-
cured of any newsdcaler for five cents.
During a sham fight at the Indiana State en-
campment one militia man was mortally wound
ed and twenty-five We're prostrated with the
heat.
An eNtradition treaty has been concluded
with Japan, covering substantially the same
class of crimes as the proposed new treaty with
Great Britain.
The Grand Army parade took place in San
Francisco Aug ). IL 600 veterans We're in line,
while 100000 people witnessed the procession
| from the streets.
The wife of Sir Charles Dixie is said to be
nearly demented on account of his social and
| political downfall. She should not have hasten
ed to marry him after the scandal came out.
| In the murder trial of the Chicago anarchists
| witnesses We're introduced who testified that
| the bomb was not thrown from the alley and
| that most of the shooting came from the police.
Col. Fred Grant denies positively the stories
| of disagreements between Mrs. Nellie Grant
| Sartoris and her husband of so serious nature
| that Mrs. Sartoris was about to leave her hus
| band.
| Mr.. Gladstone was received with cheers in
| the House of Commons Thursday. 1t is eX
| pected that he will raise the Irish question in
the debate on an address in reply to the Queens
| speech.
| The witnesses for the defence in the anarchists
| trial at Chicago endeavor to show that the
| police We're to blame for being massacrcd in
| the lIaymarket because Of their dispensing the
| meeting.
p. Il. Barnum is reported to have remarked
| that if he lived much longer and retained his
| present activity he would exhibit himself in
side tent as Zone of the greatest curiosies that
Barnum ever handled
| Miss Minnie Gardner of JoncsvIe, Michigan,
| rode a self-binder to cut 80 acres of wheat and
cut and raked all the hay on her fathers farm.
| She says she enjoys that kind of work, and
| prefers it to swinging in Il hammock.
| Fitz John Porter was confirmed to the posi-
| ton to which he was nominated Oh the retired
list by Il large majority. The Senators appear
| to have overcome their fears that under the
| form of his commission he might be entitled to
back pay.
| A Gloucester fishing schooner which anchor
| cd in Shelburne Harbor, n s., Aug. 9th, was
| prevented by an armed guard from the
| Canadian cruiser Terror from sailing when the
skipper desired to leave. He had to enter his
| vessel at the Custom House.
| The queerest part of the stories of destitution
at Labrador, New Brunswick. and Newfountl-
land, is their denial. A Quebec steamer just
returned from trip to the Labrador coast, says
| the winter on the coast was a mild one, and
| cod fishing has been good The Indians did
| well hunting and are better off than usual 1t is
said, however, that distress will ensue unless
there is something done for the people,