The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-21
Generalities.

U6u6TdllCl6S,
| John Kelley of New York is RAPIDLY falling.
| Helena, Mon, taxes Chinese laundries 5000 a
year.
/ Seattle, WASH, shipped 1919 tons of coal
/ in 1885.
/ The Yuma Indians dispose Of their dead by
/ cremation.
1t cost Montreal S1ls.OOo to get rid of the
smallpox.
1 The Cars income from his personal estate is
/ Sl0,000,000.
steel steamer for Siam is being built at
I Wilmington, Del.
! The new French Cabinet is announced, head
ed by NJ. de Freycnet.
/ Gen. Schenck has settled down to the practice
of law in Washington.
Farm laborers in Germany receive $40 per
| year and mechanics - 10 cents per day.
The Grant monument at San Francisco prob
ably will be Il shaft like Cleopatra, Needle
Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburg millionaire
offers to give S23o,0oo for city library.
The police of Victoria, b. c., report that one
! thousand Chincse are suffering for bread in that
! city.
GOV. Foraker. of Ohio. in his inaugural mes
/ sage denounced the recent election outrageS in
| that state.
! The Massachusetts legislature organized Jan.
| 6, rc-eecting President Pillsbury and Speaker
Bracket,
Three to four thousand pounds of sugar to
| the acre is not an unusual crop in Louisiana
this year.
1t is announced that the relations between
Turkey and Greece have assumed more
friendly aspect.
The annual income of Claus Spreckles. the
sugar king of the Sandwich Islands, is placed
at SJ.000,000.
The words boycott, bulldoze and mugwump
coined al the peoples mint, are to be put into
| the dictionaries.
The good people of Chicago are enforcing the
| law which prohibits the keeping open of rum
shops after midnight.
The ship ,Jabez Howe, Just arrived at Brook
lyn made the trip from San Francisco in the
fast time of ninety-nine days.
DR.. Fillmore Bennett, who wrote the favorite
song, "SWeet By-and-by.' in 1868. is quite poor
He lives i'll Richmond. ILL.,
Senator Evarts had family reunion lately in
NeW York, where all OF his children and nine
grandchildren We're assembled.
1t is stated that the guard of federal soldiers
at the tomb of eN-President Garfield will be
Withdrawn on the 1st of June.
The situation in Burmah is said to be critical
for the English. Two pretender> to the throne
are collecting formidable armies.
it i reported that Indians in the Northwest
are making arrangements for an outbreak in
the spring to aVcngc Riefs death.
III,
phia has declared Alexander Graham Bell the
original inventor Of the telephone.
Prince Bismarck is the first Protestant that
has ever received the decoration of the Order
Of Christ The badge is worth 600 pounds.
Steps are being taken in Halifax, n. s.. to
hold Il grand winter carnival in February next
to be modelled after those held in Montreal.
The English Church Times advertiSes home
for "latlic> suffering from the effects of intcm-
perance or from the excessive use of'drugs.'
The ChcrokccS have protested against the
settlement of their lands by " hc people and
dcnoumce the proposed scheme as one of spoia-
ton.
Much damage has been caused by floods In
the Delaware and >usquchanna rivers. Bridges
have been carried away in New Hampshire and
Vermont.
from the u grown ostriches at the Anaheim os-
trich farm. Los Angeles, Cal, during the past
seven months.
The Faculty at Harvard has changed its atti-
tude on the football question. and will permit
the Harvard Club to participate in the intcreol-
legiatc games.
The French fisheries were not very profitable
last year. Although 1900 more men were EN-
plOye'i. the value of the fish taken was S3,1l0.-
| 900 less than i'll 1881.
In London ga> is furnished at the rate of 60
cents per 1000 feet, and vet the companies pay
dividends of Il per cent. In Brussels the price
is - cents per 1000 feet.
David Terry, ev-C!iief Justice of the Califor-
| MIA supreme Court. was married recently TO
Sarah \. Hill, who claims to be the widow of
ex-senator sharon of Nevada.
Georgr Bancroft at - does almost as much
work each day a. he did at 30. What with re-
wishing and ''poIishin@." he considers an ayerag c
of 25o words a day fair progress.
\ special despatch by the Mackay Bennett
cable announces The pO>tpOnement until 1887 of
| the American Exhibition which was to have
been opened in London next May.
The engineers on the New York elevated
railways have gained their point. and hereafter
9 hours will constitute days work, extra pay
| being given for each additional hour.
Agents selling swamp lands and halnt> of
! malaria to CltIulOtlS Northern npnlllp a small