The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-01-12
Generalities.

position and thinks Blaine the strongest man in
his party.
Some labor leaders predict that there will be
fewer strikes this winter than during any winter
for several years.
The great lens for the Lick telescope was
successfully mounted at the observatory in Cal
ifornia last week.
Pitt>tield, Mass, is suffering visitation of
malignant diphtheria. There have been Is
deaths i'll six weeks.
Fifteen cut of eighteen important chairman
ships given to the South. Verify the solid South
is again in the saddle.
Boston is overrun by crooks from New York.
Numerous burglares occur every night and the
police seem powerless.
several alleged anarchists in Switzerland
having been arrested, prove 20 be spies in the
pay # the German police.
Hicks. the defaulting cashier of the Stafford
Comm National Bank. was sentenced to the
state Prison for four years.
Il is expected that the value of the gifts to
the Pope i'll connection with his golden Jubilee
will represent 100000.
Dover, \. H., knights of Labor are quarreling.
One faction wants to disband and distribute the
funds and the other opposes.
The enactment of prohibitory or high IL
cenSe law in the District of Columbia is regard
ed as po ssible. to say the least.
senator Hearst, of California. proposes Il bill
to increase the pensions of the few remaining
veterans Of the war of 1872.
No more timber RATS are to be built, but Il
timber ship, provi>ioned for 60 days will be
constructed in New Brunswick.
y swine plague prevails in the south of
France. ana 10000 animals have died in the
Mar>elle> district within i month.
All the Continental Powers seem anxious to
give the impression that they really have had
no idea of doing anything warlike.
The South Carolina Legislature has passed a
law prohibiting grocer> from givin. premiums
OF chromos. china, &c.. to customers
/ Ii is reported from the City of Mexico that a
loan will he negotiated soon in Germany for
$''!,0o0.o00 on terms favorable to Mexico.
! Martin Peak. in the state of Vera Cruz,
Mexico has been bechng forth a dense smoke
and promises to become fir>t-clas> volcano.
Cid 't92rS must find il hard to realize that
land on the great American desert is now worth
500 an acre. Irrigation and immigration did
il.
,icor@e L. Harris. the president of the City
sheriff Hayes recently on charge of selling
liquor.
Senator Voorhees, charges Mr.. Joseph Cham
barain with di>courtcsy while the Senator was
speaking in reply to Senator Sherman on We'd
ie>day.
The coroncr'S jury holds the Vacuum Oil
company responsible for the naphtha explosion
| III Rochester, New York. Five deaths have
resulted.
Ii is reported from Ottowa that the scheme
to connect Australia. British Columbia and
India by an ocean cable has met with grave
obstacles.
An international Musical exhibition will open
1T Bologna, Italy. on May |. ISIS, and continue
for six months. Verdi, the composer, will be
president.
During the year 1857 the new mileage actually
constructed of railroads in the Southwest az
gfeg'tffS 4,j1i miles. Kansas is far ahead of any
other state.
TIC District Attorney says that Jacob Sharp's
case Will be the first of The New York booder
cas- TO be tried. Dr.. LOOMS says Sharp can
not live long.
IN amusing traye>ty on Donneily's cipher dis
coNeries in ,hake>peare'> works makes it APP
pear that Shakespeare is only another form of
the sun myth.
The Grand Lodge Of Quebec +. and A. NJ.
VIII II It's next meeting consider the propriety
OF refusing membership to any dealer in in
t"Aicating liquors.
| j. |. Case, owner Of Jay Eye See and Phal-
las. has received IN offer from Louisville par
ties Of $4,000 for Phallas. He sent back his
refusal OF the offer.
The friends of Senator Blackburn are greatly
alarmed regarding his health, it being reported
upon good authority that he is suffering from
cancer Of the stomach.
| Another attempt will he made during the ses-
! .lonS of this Congress to have the Revenue Ma
r!Ec Service transferred from the Treasury De-
| ia!tncnt 10 that of the Navy.
The eX-Confederate Association of Chicago
| proposes to erect Il monument to Confederate
veterans buried in the North. The estimated
cost of the monument is $4,000.
The coal tonnage report of the Reading r.
Il. for the week ending Dec. 81, shows the total
tonnage Hop tous against S5.OaS tons the cor
responding week the year before.
The Mexican gunboat Democratic is said to
have secretly removed over 1900 Indians from
the Iaqui River territory and taken them to
touna, where they are dying of fever.
Dir. Charles L. Shepherd, lately of New Hay-
en-. has given to Amherst College the splendid
meteorological collection left to him by his father
the late Professor Charles L. Shepherd.
President Carnot eff France is said to have
written to Emperor William of Germany that
As ongas he is President he will never allow
his government TO adopt warike policy.
The New York Daily Commercial Bulletin
reports that the total fire waste in 1887 was
Sl29.2640O0, Sl3, 100000 greater than the losses
i'll 1881, and not exceeded since the Boston fire.
Mrs. Triphcna Bevens, widow Of a veteran
Of 1sl.. and a pensioner. died at Danburv,
Conn.,, Dec. 29th. in her 1920 year. She was
born April II, l1SG, and retained her faculties to
the last.
The annual election of officers of District AS
seilby n III Chicago, places the assembly en-
tircly in the control of socialists. This assembly
has jurisdiction over nearly all the knights in
Chicago.
Miss Frances f. Willard, who is a warm
friend Of the poet Whittier, thinks that the
state should own the early home of Whittier
She urges the women of the country to unite
and buy it.
Unless Thomas b. Barry, member of the EX-
ecutive Board knights of Labor paws a iudc-
ment for $2,09O.1S found against him under the
new Michigan conspiracy law, he will be i'm
pri>oned.
The verdict in the Goldman case sets the will
aside and leaves the property to the heirs, to be
divided rs provided by the laws of Massachll-
sets. Mrs. Goldman and her daughter will have
the whole estate, amounting to about $500, 600
During the present season Fresno County,
CAL. has shipped 100000 pounds of raisins.
This record is remarkable in view of the fact
tllata few years ago Fresno County was CON
sidercd almost worthless from an agricultural
point of view.
Owing to photographers neglect to deliver an
order. two freight trains on the Canadian Paci-
tic collideu Oh a trestle 80 feet high. few
miles west of White River. The shock threw
both trains off the trcstle, and terrible smash
up resulted. Six men We're killed.
Cardinal Manning is quoted as saying in Lon
don: Every man has right to life and the
food necessary to sustain life. So strict is this
right that it prevails over all rights of proper
ty. Necessity knows no law. A starving man
may steal his neighbor's bread"
y big lawsuit over 230 acres of land i'm West
81. Paul has arisen from conflicting claims
The tract was once a lake which has since dried
up. Settlers have tried to pre-empt it, but the
United States Government has refused to make
it public. The land is worth 81 ,OOO, 900.
The backwoods Democratic editors are losing
great deal of sleep III trying to find out the
best way to reduce the surplus. One of them
has solved the difficulty by suggesting that the
Democratic party be turned loose upon it.
That would reduce it quicker than wink.
The shipping tonnage of the Maritime Pro
vlnces decreased during the past year Al, 900
tons, the total now being 1877, 723 tons. Nova
Scotia shipping shows the greatest decrease,