The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-05-27
Generalities.
EN-Prr~i'lent Arthur is improving.

EN-Prc~rent Arthur is improving.
Disastrous floods in Great Britain are re-
ported.
Alderman Jaehne'> trial for bribery resulted
in Il verdict of guilty.
The ri@hthour strike of the New York piano.
makers has collapsed.
More than Il million Of trees were planted in
Nebraska on Arbor Day.
Northwestern crop reports are not of the
most favorable character.
The hurricane in Madrid recently killed 32
persons and wounded G20.
Thirteen deaths occurred in two families from
black diphthera at Big Rapids, Mich.
The Chicago police have arrested Louis Iingg,
the man, they believe, who threw the bomb.
The Florida hotel keepers are reported to
have lost good deal of money last winter.
The new play by Mark Twain and W. d.
lioWell> will not be brought out this season
The Savannah Times speaks of Jefferson
Davis as ''the greatest man living in the word,
to-day.
The increase Of population by births in this
country is estimated at 5000 a day, or LILO 900
yearly.
Captain Cotter, Of the lost Oregon, is to be
given the command Of one of the Boston Gun
arlers.
The losses to nine counties III Ohio devastated
by the recent storm are computed at two million
dollars
The Kansas prohibitory law is again sustained
in the State courts against the 4uibbleS of the
lawyers.
4 fire in Honolulu burned over 20 acres leav-
ing 5000 persons homeless, and causing Il loss of
Sl.50000O.
A Greek, With sixteen letters in his name,
agree, to form new Ministry and d;sband the
Greek army.
The comets promised as a public display about
this time are only minute telescope objects. and
one i already fading.
The President has vetoed two private pension
bills, signed 81 and allowed 157 to become law
without his signature
The eight hour movement in the West seems
to be losing ground and men are returning to
work on compromise.
A colossal statue of William Llovd Garrison
has been placed on its pedestal on Common
wealth avenue Boston.
Mr.. Manning's condition is improving rapidly,
li( Ilt Is ilTPdIlN 10 RESUME
Of the affairs of the treasury.
Thus far in the fiscal year the internal rcvc-
nuc receipts have been 81 ,000. 900 more than for
the corresponding period last year.
The opposition to Mr.. Gladstonc's home rule
measure are caucusng to unite all their strength
against the passage of the bill to a second read
ing.
There is an increasing likelihood that the Ma
tional Senate will order an Investigation into the
means by which Mr.. Payne of Ohio obtained
his seat.
The boat crew of Cambridge University
England, have declined Il challenge from the
Harvard University crew for an international
boat race
Gen. John A. Logan has accepted the invita-
ton to speak ut Il meeting of the Young Mems
Republican Club in Providence OH the evening
of May DIST
The blockade of the Greek coast by the allied
fleet has been completed. The Greek ministry
resigned but the king refused to accept the
designations.
"A cyclone at Kansas City recently wrecked
several buildings and killed about twenty peo-
pie. There was alsoa severe tornado at Lcaven-
worth, Kansas.
A dispatch from Berlin says the new German
with loss instead of promoting them, as Prince
Bismarck excepted.
Austria-IIungary have raised the duties on
half-refined American petroleum 10 per ccntum,
and have made the tariff on wholly refined pc
troleum prohibitory.
The appointment Of George E. Dame as
superintendent of the First Division of Rail-
way Mail Service ut Boston, vice Bigelow re-
signed, is announced.
An official report shows that 6G policemen
We're wounded on the night of the riot in Chi
cago; have died, 10 resumed their duties and
81 are still unable to work.
The Baltimore steamer Acadia with sixteen
persons on board, is given up for lost She
sailed from Jamaica on the 10th of April and
has not been heard from since.
OF the Chicago rioters who sacked drug
store eight are dead and four others are diving
from the effects of drinking colchicum, which
they supposed was sherry wine.
Parsons, the Chicago anarchist with the ex-
plosve mouth, is an eX-rebel One unslccess-
full attempt to break up the country doesn't
seem to have been enough for him.
1t is said that Mr.. Powderly's temperance
views, as expressed in his addresses to the
knights of Labor, have aroused the Germans in
this country to open hostility to the order.