The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-03-25
Generalities.

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There is prospect that the Chinese will be
| forcibly expelled from Los Angeles
transatlantic vessels arriving in the Clyde
| report terrible weatheron the passage.
The big strike on the Missouri Pacific Rail-
way is seriously affecting the business of st.
| Louis.
Mrs. Michael Anagnos, daughter of the late
| DR.. Samuel &. Howe and Julia Ward Howe, is
| dead.
The sleeping girl of Chicago, who woke at
long intervals for refreshmcnt, is dead and
| buried
1t is settled that the Galatea shall represent
| England i'll the coming contest for the Ameri-
can cup.
| 1t is reported that Lucius NJ. Fay, OF Wiscon-
| sin, is to be appointed to succeed Public Printer
Rounds.
It is estimated that many as $50 persons
| VIII die OF starvation on the Labrador coast
| this spring.
The Louisiana sugar men are endeavorng to
| prevent either removal or Il reduction of the
tariff on sugar.
De Soto, Mo-, is reported in the hands of
| mob, with every engine side tracked by the
railroad strikers.
| President Cleveland has vetoed the bill to
quiet the title of settlers on the Des Moines
| river lands in Iowa.
| Richard Allen, the pioneer newspaper man
| of Leadvie, Col, has made Il fortune out of a
| mine in New Mexico.
| EX-PreSdent Arthur has been made perma-
| nent chairman of the newly incorporated Grant
monument association.
| The British war department is preparing to
make Halifax the strongest of Englands mill
| tary stations in the New World.
| 1t is authoritatvely stated in New York that
| eN-President Arthur is not dangerously ill, bat
| Is improving and will probably be out in few
| days.
| Dr. Austin Flint, the well known New York
physician, died of apopeXy at his residence
| AIS Fifth Avenue, Mch 18th at the aye of a
years.
| The annual report of the Park Street Church
| i'll Boston shows the distribution of $50, ,520. 13
| for benevolent purposes, outside of the church
| itself.
General Master Workman Powderly. head of
| the knights of Labor. severely criticseS hastv
| strikes and calls for more moderation and arb-
! tration.
| John Murphy and Patrick Ford were hang
| ed in New Orleans, La, March 18th for the
cold-booded murder i'll December last of Capt.
Murphy.
| There is great excitement among New Jer-
| sey legislators over charges that several of
| their number have been publicly accused of
! taking brides
| During consideration of the Indian appropri-
alton bill in the House of Representatives, the
| aggreSSionS of the cattle companies We're the
| subject of debate.
| \ goose farm is one of the curiosties of
| agriculture on the eastern shore of Virginia.
Within an area of about 1000 acres live 5000
| geese, OF several varieties.
There are indications that the concurrent re-
| solution submitting to the popular vote the
question of constitutional prohibition will pass
the New York Legislature.
British Columbia has sent to the Liverpool
| Exhibition a plank nine feet wide and twenty
| feet long, without knot or blcmiSh of any kind
and another twelve feet wide.
| The steamer San Pablo which sailed from
| New York recently for China took 1900 thinese.
| A large number We're aged and to these no
| return certificates were issued.
bill comforting school suffrage upon women
i'll Ohio and making them eligible to office as
school directors received onl thrty-threc votes
in the House of Representatives.
The elections in Maine this month Indicate,
says the Boston Herald. 50 far as they show
amy political drift, that the republicans are
gaining and the democrats losing.
one of the French Commissioners sent to in
| spect the Panama Canal is now in New York,
| and says the canal will be completed, though
when, and at what cost, he is not prepared to
| say.
Black diphthcria prevails at Wynantskill, a
| hamlet near Troy, y. Y. Many deaths have
occurred and considerable apprehension exists
at Troy lest the epidemic should attack that
| city.
The Secretary of the Treasury reports to the
| Senate that the reduction of the public debt
| from July, 1871, to June 30, 1888, has exceeded
| the requirements of the sinking fund by S3l2,-
1881.
NJ. Cernuschi, when discussing the recent
| strikes in America, said :-'They are merely a
natural and healthful struggle between capital
and labor. No serious consequences need be
| feared"
| Onontyoh, a full-blooded Indian, graduated
| number eighteen in c'ass of forty-eight at the
| Buffalo Medical college. He is the first of his
| race to take honor> in Il course of medicine in
| this country.
The committee appointed to examine the af-
| fairs OF the treasurer'S office Of the American
| Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
| report that they can find no ground for sus-
picion of irregularities.
1t is said that financial arrangements have
been completed for the construction of the
| Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie 4 Atlantic Rail-
way, thus giving Minneapolis and st. Paul a
| short and direct route to the Seaboard.
The managers of the Gould system retaiate
on the strikers by dismissing every employe
not absolutely necessary to the company in ts
| present crippled condition. This cuts oil about
five thousand men who have not participated in
| the strike.
The New England manufacturers of rubber
goods have made new arrangements for selling
| their goods by which it is expected the eX-
penses will be materially reduced. There are
| hereafter to be only three agencies, located in
| Boston, New York and Chicago
Edward IIanlan, the oarsman, in view OF
| Bcach's proposed trip to America, has deter
mined to offer stake of $1,000 to induce the
| latter to race with him in Canadian waters
He further proposes, i'll the event of Beach's
defeat, to present him with $2500.
Supt. Lane, of the state census bureau of
| Nebraska, reports that the increase in popua-
ton for the five years from 1880 to 1850 is
2!,S ,243, or more than 90 per cent. The number
| of farms increased 5S per cent. The acreage
under cultivation has just doubled.
An unknown man committed suicide at Nj
! agara Falls March 18th by deliberately jumping
into the river from small platform at the
| north end of Cedar Island and boldly swimming
| right over the cataract. The man was of rather
large size and wore u dark overcoat and felt
| hat.
The steamer Ike Bonham exploded her boiler
near Nicksburg, Miss, March llth William st.
| Andrews, the niate, and several coored men of
the deck crew We're blown overheard and
drowned. Z. Z. McElroy, the pilot, and
| Charles Girard, the engineer, We're seriously
scaded and bruised.
The last honors to the dead Senator from
| California was rendered in the Senate cham.
Der March 18th at three O'Clock. After a
| brief public service the remains We're escorted
by the Senators in body to the Baltimore and
Ohio depot, and will be taken to their last rest
ing place, across the continent by a special
| train.
In the past year the richest American mer.
chant, ii. B. Claflin; the richest American
railroad man, W. III. Vanderbilt, and the rich.
est American planter, Edmond Richardson
have died. 1t is notable that not one of the
three died in his bed. One dropped dead al
his desk, another in his hall and the other in
the street."
Guiteau's sister and her husband are botl
ruined by the division he brought about be-
tween them. Mrs. Scovile is living in poverty
in Chicago upon the frugal alimony paid her by
her former husband while the latter is strug.
Cling unsuccessfully in his profession. and
making barely enough to pay her this almon,
and live himself.