The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-06-07
Generalities.

| IL
Mayor Robinson of Gloucester Mass. saws he
| cannot sign liquor licenses. so he resigns his
office.
A copious rainfall in Southern Russia has
saved the crops. and an abundant harvest is in
| sured.
A Young man in Chicago who killed a hina-
| man for amusement was sentenced to prison
for fifty years.
1t is stated that greater prominence than
usual will be given to temperance at Chautar-
| qua this season.
jealousy, red pepper and Il cowhide played
| part in the story of a Wife'S revenge told in
| Brook yn police court.
Capt. NJ. S. IIowes of the American bark
| Freeman has been indicted at Boston for the
| murder of japanese sailor.
Judge Lewis W. Clark of the New IIamp-
| shire Supreme Court has issued injunctonS
against 36 Dover liquor dealers.
| Rev. Lyman Abbott, d. H., was elected pcl-
| manent pastor Of Plymouth church, Brooklyn.
| last week, 10y a vote of 400 to 60.
| The town of Bethel. Ct. is excited over at
| tempts Of its town officials to enforce to the
letter the Purtanical Sunday blue laws
Students Of Princeton. Cornell. Columbia,
| Pennsylvania and Harvard universities have
!
The attempt to collect from non-resi.cntS Il
| per head on all sto in the territory of the
| Chickasaw Nation has caused a serious row.
| Divers off Chatl am have found an ancient
| cannon of curious workmanship. which they
| have raised and will have placed on exhibition.
! Mrs. Cleveland was present at the centennial
| OF the Presbyterian Church at Philadelphia.
| She was entertained at luncheon hy Mr.. George
| W. Child>.
| Frank Mills. il >ul-frc>iman at Harvard.
| died recently from excessive opium smoking.
| Two of his companions are seriously i'll from
| the same cause.
There are 2OO0 Cinnamon in Chicago. of whom
only two are women. About !GO of them are
merchants. who have ma'le fortunes Of S1o0.-
| 900 to S200,Ot0.
Matthew Arnos will. which is dated July
| 1883. and which consists Of a single clause
| leaves everything to the wife. Tie estate is
| valued at II .04O.
Canada refuses to entertain the claim for
| compensation made hy the owner of the Amer
| lean ship Brid.cwater. which was seized ut
| Shelburne, \. :.
Winnebago Indians in Wisconsin nave suffer-
| ed great hardships during the winter. They
were forced to sell their ponies and are now at
| the point OF starvation.
The wages OF the 1860 hands in the Reading
la.) Iron Company'> tube mills Will lie re-
duccd 10 per cent. June i. on account of trade
depression and low prices.
The address before the graduating class of the
Dana Hall School. W cllescy. will be delivered
by the Rev. L. H. Munger. u. D.. Of New
| Haven, OH Wednesday June -.
Reuben Drake and his wife and two grand
children We're May 24th found murdered in
their home at Viola. Richmond county. Wis.
There is no cew to the murderer.
At the laying of the corner stone Of the col,-
federate monument in jackson, Miss. May 2lth
Winnie Davis was given a crown for her
| father who was too sick TO be present
Mrs. Stone Of Danblry, Ct. who has been
for four months past ncarceraed Illegally. il
is alleged. by her husband in the Mildletown
| insane asylum, was released Thursday.
Thomas Moore, the companion of Fred Low
ther. who tried TO liber;,te two New York
crooks from the Jail at Bangor. Me-. by means
OF false keys, has been discharged from lack Of
evidence.
The Moscow Gazette. commenting upon the
recent scare over the condition of England,
defences. says: "Englana, being Il ruin. must
| be content to play the part Of Il peaceful COM
mcrcal State.
The Occidental and Oriental Steamship Com
the Chinese Government for the loss of The
steamship San Pablo. which was boarded hy
pirates and set on fire.
Judge Wallace. of the United States Circuit
Court. has decided that Holy Trinity Church.
New York city. must pay the 81 600 tine for
importing foreign contract labor in the shape
of Rector Warren, of England.
Mr.. A. de Bau>set's projected air ship. which
will have a capacity for one hundred paSSca-
ha Sfa ,1,f Ii hmm, lr,.
feet long. exhausted of air and furnished with
propelling and other machinery.
The smallest circular saw in practical iise i,
a tiny disc about the size of 4 British shilling.
which is employed for cutting the :,litS in gold
pens. These saws are about as thick a> ordin-
arv paper, and revolve some 1000 times per
minute.
The Philadelphia License Court has only
three wards more to consider. and it is r~Iimat-
ed that the 5000 saloons existing under the old
law will have been reduced to less than 1900
under the new law when the court has com-
peted its work.
Lieut.. Gen. Sir John Ross, the new COM
manher of the British forces in North Amer
lea, has arrived at Halifax. Lord Stanley. the
new sovernor-gcneral. will not arrive at Otta-
wa till autumn, and meanwhile Sir John will
be sworn in as administrator.
Rev. J. L. Newman. IL. d., of Washington,
ID. g., recently elected Bishop of the Method
ist Episcopal Church, will preach the bac
calaureatc sermon before the class of IS and
the students of the New England Conservatory
Of Music on Sunday June Il.
A bridge across the British Channel from
Dover to Calais is projected. 1t is 10 De -
miles long and 100 feet above the level of the
sea. 1t will carry four lines of railway track
and the cost is estimated at SlG0.000. 600. A
company is being formed in London to execute
the plan.
Cornell University is to have department Of
Journalism. Prof. Brainer,l Smith will give a
series of lectures on the condition of new spaper
work today in great cities. Classes will be
ganZed very much like the city stan of large
newspapers. Professor Smith acting a~ nana--
ing editor.
Henry George is to be expelled from the
Twenty third Assembly District Association
of the United Labor party. He Is charged
with having violated the county constitution
Of the party, which declares that no member
shall at any time fuse or dckcr with any other
political party.
report has reached Pierre. Oak, of :; large
gathering of Indians from the Red Cloud, Pine
Ridge, Brule, Standing Rock and Cheyenne
agencies. They will meet at Cherry Creek, on
the upper Cheyenne river, to take action
garding the signing of the treaty for the open
ing of the Sioux reservation to settlement.
The United States treasurer has paid ont
S12,5OO,OOO during the present month on ac-
count Of pensions alone, but, notwithstanding
this, the receipts Of the month exceed the cN-
penditures by nearly SjOO0000. The treasury
surplus, which fell to sos ,O0O,0 900 at one time
during the month. has again risen to $lC1 co.,
900.
A white man disguised AS a negro, and call
ing himself "Abiddigal," or .'lIoly one" has
been deIuding the negroes OF Green county.
Ga, inducing them to steal, or sell their
worldly all, and put the money into his hands.
lie promised to lead them to Il ''Iand Of prom
ise," but decamped with the funds. He was
caught, Iashed with briers, and left for dead,
and cannot recover.
OF all the months in the year June is the one
when you are most likely to find some strange
! and beautiful wild flower whose name YOU
would like to learn. In such case fold the
| plant snugly in a soft newspaper and mail it
| to Mr.. f. Il. Sterns. Botanist, % Union Square
| New York, and he will send you without
| charge, its popular and scientific names. and
i other details of interest concerning it.
/ At Cleveland, Ohio. May %. laborng man.
/ of Irish birth, named Mcfarland, Went home
| drunk. He had some words with his wife,
| and drawing u pistol fired three shots at her
| The woman jumped out of the window and