The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-10-25
Generalities.
The report is confirmed that cholera p
In the Philippine Islands.

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| Supreme Court, is dangerously i'll.
| The inventor of NolapGk is dead. >invcn-
| ton is not likely to survive him long
Congress has passed the supplementary egi>la-
ton thought to be necessary for the counting of
| the Presidential votes.
A large crack in the sternpost of the steel
cruiser Baltimore will delay the completion of
that vessel several months.
Pauline Lucca declares that her American
| tour on which she starts in November. will
end her career on the stage
A French fishing vessel was run into during
fog on the Banks few days ago i'y Il steamer
and twenty men drowned.
The Montreal Carnival Committee has col
lected $4,000 of the 50, 900 required to lnaugu
rate the carnival this season.
A special from Philadelphia saw that Mr.
Powderly has been studyingla law and will se on
apply for admission to the bar.
There is now no lumber in the Ottawa market
All of next seasons cut has been sold a, well
as great portion of the square cut timber.
In the law office of Senator Evart> a son of
Gen. William T. Sherman and nephew of
Stonewall Jackson occupy desk together.
The apple crop of New jersey j. 50 abun,,-
ant that the farmers cannot get profit by
ma rketing the fruit. and are feeding their hogs
with it.
The Philadelphia Times says Mr. Randall is
improving, and there is every reason to hope
for his ultimate restoration to active public
service.
Americans have been awarded fifteen diplo-
mas twenty-siX gold. six silver and three
bro re medals at the International Exposition
at Brussels.
The United States local inspectors of San
Francisco have found the steamship Oceanic to
blame for the recent collision in which the City
OF Chester was sunk.
Alfred Tennyson. who I, now over - Years
of aye. will spend the coming winter In the
Riviera. Though not strong physically. his
mind continues vigorous
A Chinaman makes Il cigar as he would
make fire-cracker. Ii is very short and VERY
thick. Instead of being round, it has four fiat
sides. 1t is nicer to look at than! 10 smoke.
A negro named McCondon was shot and
killed at Birmingham, Ala. by party of four
negroes, who took him to the woods and made
way with him. A woman caused the quarrel.
The government crop report for October
shows winter wheat better than was supposed;
corn. an enormous crop: tobacco, up to expect
alton; cotton, considerably injured by frost and
wet.
Mrs. Kate Fox Jencken. tile Younger of the
Fox sisters. has arrived from Europe. and say.
that she will cooperate with Mrs. Margaret
Fox Kane in an expose of the fraud Of Spirit
ua>m.
The entire family, seven in number. of pr.
\. Trego Shertzer. of Baltimore, Were attacked
with lead poisoning. the result Of drinking milk
which had stood for thrty->lX hours in i new
milk can
The British government will pay t30.0H0 in
demnitv on account of the loss sustained through
the collision in the River Gagu> of the British
ronclad sultan with the French steamer Willie
lie Victoria.
Mrs. john A. Logan is having her Washing
ton house extensively improved. She i, having
a gallery built in which she will place her coec-
ton of articles connected With the public life Of
the General.
A child was born in North Carolina Il Iew
days ago with two perfectly developed tongues.
In justice TO a malignet, down lrod,len and ol-
pressed sex. it is only fair to state thai the
child is a boy.
The work of forming stations on the Shib
bereen coast, Ireland. for the cure of inackereI
and their expectation TO America is foul i>hine.
The fishing boats are 1t present earning an ave
rage Of $3.50 night.
Miss Emily Faithful has completed the tl.ir-
tieth year of her phanthropc work. She re-
ceiveu portrait of the Queen. bearing an all-
tograph inscription. az token of Her MaieSty's
recognition OF her services.
The American yacht Coronct reached obo-
hama Sept. II on its voyage around the wori
from New York. The owner proposes to return
to New York via Singapore. Bombay, Suez
Canal, Mediterranean Sea and Liverpool.
Dwight l.. Moody. the evangelist. who ar.iy-
ed In san Francisco a few days since. ha, ,lrcil-
ed to spend the entire winter on the Pacific
st af .-.ii
tic meetings in San Francisco January l.
y cablegram received at Ottawa from London
announces the contract for the construction OF
a ship railway from the Bay of Funay to the
Bale Nerte. on the Gulf of st. Lawrence. has
been settled. The works viii probably cost
$500 900.
James b. Caunce. for % wears the trusted
hookkecper Of the Dolphin silk Manufacturing
Company. at Patterson. \. j.. and for a long
time treasurer of st. Paul'> Episcopal church.
is an emhezxler Of about Sl0000 lie has turned
all his real estate over to the firm
1t is rumord that Alice IIoye who gave the
most important evidence against Mc1uatie and
Cowie under arrest for the murder Of Lille
Iloyie, at Webster, Mass. says that her story
was not true and will not testify against the re-
spondcnts at the approaching trial.
Over 500 of the men WHO were in the war of
1872 are on the pension roll. This war ended
seventy-three years ago, and 10000 men We're
recognized as taking a pensionabe part in it.
A Boston man calculates that on like ratio the
veterans of 1861 who survive to 1898 will be
5000 in number.
Among the refugees who left Decatur, Ala.
were Charles Parke, his wife and two small
children. Refused shelter on all sides they
finally camped in the woods. Recently the
bodies of the party We're found, the parents
evidently having died of yellow fever and the
children of starvation.
DIR. George F. Slraly thinks that both the
German physicians and DIR. Mackenzie have
right on their side in the great controversy now
going on over the treatment of the late Emperor
of Germany, and DR.. John q. Peters believes
that but for DR.. Mackenzie Frederick never
would have been Emperor
The striking cigar makers of Havana, Cuba.
have determined upon plan of action which
threatens to destroy one of Cuba> greatest in
dustries They propose TO depopulate the is-
land of every striking cigar maker. The pro-
position has been placed before the American
manufacturers, who are now encouraging the
movement.
The Cnited States revenue cutter Rush has
arrived i'll San Francisco Fl ON Duna'a>ka. She
reports that about Sept. >, at Sand Point. Papon
Island, Alaska, Lousi Sharp shot and killed
illiam III. Dingle, a native Of Maine also shot
H.,
in charge of Lynde 4 IIougi'> fishing and trad
ing station.
SiXty-two Indian chiefs have visited Washing
ton to confer in relation to the opening of the
Dakota Reservation. The Interior Depart
ment does not expect that the present law in
regard to the Sioux Reservation will be opera
tive, but it is hoped that the red men will make
a counter proposition which Congress may act
upon at the next session.
The snowfall in Montreal Oct o, as recorded
at the McGill Observatory, was 5.s inches
This is the heaviest early fall on record in
Montreal The previous heavy falls in early
autumn during a half century We're on Oct. a,
1853, when two inches fell, and on oct. 26. 1862
when six inches were recorded In 1860 there
was snowfall on Sept 80, but II was inappre-
ciabe.
DIR. w. F. Carver. in Pittsburg the other
day, performed the most remarkable feat IN
shooting ever witnessed. DR.. Carver had made
a bet of 800 with Adam Forepaugh, Jr.. that
he would break six glass balls thrown sinful
taneousy before they fell to the ground. The
shooting was done with a Spencer repeating
rifle in the presence Of a few invited guests.
DR.. Carver had not the slightest trouble in per-
forming the feat, repeating it four times In
succession. The doctor was not satisfied with
this but threw up seven balls at once all of
which he perforated before they fell to the
ground.