The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-04-01
Generalities.

| fastest t;llkef IN Congress.
1t is understood that Mr.. Gladstone proposes
| f120 900 900 az Il land fund.
The new census of Japan makes the popua-
| ton of that empire IS S,500,O0
| The annual income of the Salvation Army in
| England is quoted ut 100000.
Many establishments in Grand Rapids, Mich.
| have made eight hours a days work.
| The subject of alien landlordi>m is attracting
great attention in the Western States.
The Knights of Labor protest against the
| free trade schemes of the Democracy
The present estimates for the English navy
are the largest since the Crimcan war.
pr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Mr. Russell
| Lowell will soon 90 together to Europe.
Mr.. IIoar will undertake TO get the bank
| ruptcy bill before the Senate, March 3lSt
A dcSpondent man at Danbury, Conn. shot
| himself three times, the last ball killing him.
| The Massachusetts House has defeated the
biennial election resolve by vote of / II to Sc.
| The suit to test the validity of the Bell clc-
phone patent is to be brought at Columbus, O.
| The Pan-Elcctric Telephone Investigation is
panning ont ricl-too rich for the Democrats.
| y Sc>ian peasant woman has been arrested
ON the charge of having poisoned four hus-
| bands.
| Suits for damages aggregaing $4,000 have
| been instituted against the Boston 4 Lowell
railronl.
| One of the counsel retained by Parson
| Downs, of Boston, has refused to remain in
| his employ.
The Pcnn>y Ivauia Fish Commission has Just
distributed fifteen millions of young white fish
| in Lake Eric.
Carriage factories in New Haven are closed
on account Of Il strike Of body makers and
| blacil>mith>.
phenomenal and extraordinary state of
total darknc>, III midday is reported from
| Oshkosh, Wis.
| The manufacturers of Adams and North Adj
| ans have decided to stand ont against the
| Knights of Labor.
| New York commercial traveller AZ
| rested for arson committed two years OF more
ago iii Connecticut.
| The Secretary of the Treasury has issued Il call
| for @l0,000 900 3 per cent. bonds. The call will
| mature on May |.
| Ii is not probable that Congress will adjourn
| before the middle Of July. and some SET the
date as late as August.
| Although New York had more than fifty
| regiments at Gettysburg, but one has raised a
| monument on the field.
| The English walnut i> the most profitable. nut
| bearing Tree in California. \ full crop is 300
| pounds per tree, worth 80.
| Geo. I. Cannon, the Mormon leader, has
| failed 10 respond III court III salt Lake City,
| and forfeited his S25,00o bail.
The Connecticut Legislature is debating
| bill 10 prohibit the employment Of children
under thirteen years in factories.
over lour hundred thousand dollars have
| already been contributed toward the erection of
| a Catholic university at Washington.
according to statistics collectcdby DR.. Land
| ouzy, during the last five Years there died of
| consumption in Paris 1000 persons.
Official kilograms from Zanzibar confirm the
| recent report Of the putting to death of Bishop
| Harrington by the King ot Momba>a.
| Senator IIoar did not have much trouble
| with his electoral count bill in the Senate. 1T
was passed in half an hour without Il division.
The President approved the bill to increase
| the pensions of widows and dependent relatives
! of deceased soldiers and sailors, and it is now
| Il law
Statistics show that there are 10000 fewer
| Chinese in the country now than there We're
when the act of exclusion was passed against
| them.
| The Mikado of Japan has signified his In
| tenIion of contributing $500 to the Grant mon
! umcnt fund us Il token of his respect for Gen.
| Grant
Alderman Henry W. Jaelnc of New York
| has been arrested on the charge of bribery.
| He is also charged with being Il fence" for
| stolen goods.
| Canadian cruisers are To watch the fishing
| .i,rll,
found fishing within the thrce-me limit she is
| to be seized
The decent citizens of Portland. ore. have
taken decided stand against the expulsion of
| Chinese and declare that they will maintain
| law and order
Returns from all but one town in New
| Hampshire give the following vote on the con-
| >titutonal convention: Affirmative, 1,39S;
| negative, 10, ,l0l.
| The horse distempcr is prevalent in Concord,
| \. H., and i'll several cases is likely to prove
| fatal. In some of the large stables the disease
| Is having Il hard rum
Orders have been issued rcvokng the quar-
| antinc regulations on the Canadian frontier
| against small poN, that disease being now un-
| der control in Canada.
Pension Commissioner Black has signally
| failed TO substaltiate his charges that some
| they We're Democrats.
| The Hudson River ice harvest this season is
| estimated at S2.600,OO0 tons This is about
| 100000 tons short of the storing capacity but
| enough for all demands.
The average price Of orange groves in Cali
foriia is $1,000 per acre. There are seventy
| five trees to the acre and each one produces
| about ten boxes of fruit.
The times are very hard in Newfoundland.
| More than 800 starving people assembled in st.
Johns Il few days ago and demanded employ
| mcnt OF the government.
The certificate of the captain of the steam
ship Missouri, which was lost at Holy head
while Oh her last voyage from Boston, has been
| suspended for six months.
The Missouri Pacific has filed bill in equity
| in the United States District Court of Kansas
against three hundred of the striking employees
| OF the company. This is regarded as very i'm
| portant test case.
The Union Cattle Company of Cheyenne,
| Nch.. have probably the largest barn in the
| world. 1t i, located near Omaha, covers five
acres. cost S123,000 and accommodates 800
head of cattle.
The strike on the Gould system of railroads
| is virtually over. the receivers conSenting to
arbitration before United States Judge. The
Knights will resume the running of trains
| int Scltltl1cHl.
In Carrollton, Mississippi, a gang of fifty
| men marched into the court room where thr-
teen negroes We're on trial for an attempted AS
s;iSsination, shot ten of the negroes dead and
| mortaliy wounded the remaining three.
The Travellers Protective Association of
the United States now numbers 10000 meml-
berS. An effort will be made to have the rail-
roads allow each commercial traveller from
300 to 500 pounds of baggage free.
The city building at Fall River, Mass, was
destroyed by fire March 10Th. Only about one
quarter of the books in the public library We're
| saved The loss is estimated at $3.50, 900, not
including the library, which was valued at S7O,-
900.
If reports are true, the war against the
murderouS Apaches is ended. Geronimo and
his band were driven across the border by
| Mexican troops and at once surrendered to the
United States soldiers under command of Lieu
tenant MallS.
In the telephone investigation in Washing
ton, recently, DR.. J. w. Rogers, father of the
inventor of the Pan Electric telephone, testified
that Casey Young said that Attorney General
Garland had promised explicitly to see that
suits should be brought against the Bell COM
pany by the department of justice.
In Charles Dudley Warmers new serial, be-