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

The colleges of this country contain 49, 900
female students.
Two men have sailed from the Clyde for New
York in boat - feet long.
Every man on the Pennsylvania Republican
State ticket was Il Union soldier.
The Senate has rejected the nomination of
John Goodc to be Solicitor General.
BAY windows are being torn down in Boston,
As illegal architectural eNcrescences.
The payments in support of the strikes on
the Gould system in the Southwest have ended.
In the last three years 1900, O0O, 900 sheep
have died in New South Wales for want of wa
ter
Mr.. Randall expresses the opinion that Con-
@rcs> can adjourn July 81. Few share this
view.
John l.. sullivan acted as pitcher last week
at a baseball game at the Polo Grounds, New
York.
Several large industries for Bessemer steel
manufacture are in course of erection at Shar-
on, Pa.
New cables, to be laid by French company,
are to connect France with the French Antilles
and Guiana.
The Philadelphia board of education recon-
mends an increase of % per cent. in the salaries
of school teachers.
San Francisco sends an invitation to the Presi-
dent, engraved on solid gold plate, to attend
the Il. n. X. reunion at that city.
The cases against the st. Louis anarchists, in
dicted for indorsing the action of the Chicago
bomb throWers, have been dismissed.
Colonel Frederick Dent Grant has presented
to George w. Childs beautiful Kentucky mare,
which was great pet of the General.
The drouth in the great wheat growing see
tons in Minnesota, Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin
and Nebraska has seriously affected the crops.
The Ohio republicans in convention at Co.
lumbus repeat the charges of bribery in the cleo
ton of Henry B. Payne to the United States
Senate.
The Boston Board of Aldermen did not rive
the orator on Independence Day the usual vote
of thanks because of his personal political al
lusions.
The Halifax Chamber of Commerce has cx-
pressed formally its appreciation of the services
of the Dominion Government i'll protecting the
fisheries.
Six of the Bohemians who were engaged in
the boycOtting of poor baker in New York
were found guilty and received light sentences
in prison.
Joseph Werner, once Il prosperous man, but
ruined through speculation on Wall street. kill
ed his little ninc-year-old son and himself to
escape poverty.
The gross earnings of 81 leading railroads
from January LIST to June 30th, are reported
at S125, 2S7 .353 against $1l7,934, SS1 for the
same period last year.
One of the complaints made against the DOM
lnon Government in the late elections by the
Nova Scotia reformers was that ''thc poor
mans rum is taxed 100 per cent"
A brilliant banquet was given to Mr.. Beecher
| in London, on Friday evening. Minister Phelps,
Justice Stanley Matthews, DIR. Parker and d
| distinguished company were present
The gift of a Cardinals hat will cost Arch
bishop Gibbons of Baltimore from $4,000 to
$4,000, part of which will 60 to pay the eX-
penses of the official who brought it over.
Ex-President Arthur is reported to be much
improved in health. On Thursday, he was
elected the president of the board of directors
of the Arcade Railway Co., of New York.
Henry Young. aged thirty-four, asked Mary
Dschcr, aged Is, at Richard, Mimi, to marry
him. She refused, when he shot her dead and
then ended his own life by the same pistol.
Workingmen who mediate entering on a
| strike might change their plans if they were to
read the result of the strike on the Gould system.
1t cost the abOrers 81 100, 600 and the road So
| 100000.
A cigar-shaped raft of logs, containing 8, 800
| 600 feet and valued at $35, 900, will leave st.
John for New York in few days. 1t will be
hauled by regular ocean steamer. The object
| is to save $4,000 duty.