The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-12-20
Generalities.

NcieTai hlHlltS, WDO Hfst organized tnC q
A. r., is dead.
There are II 1866 female commercial traveller,
in this country.
The official vote of Nevada gives Harrison
1.23S, Cleveland 5,326, Fisk II.
Eleven hundred new houses, costing SG.OoO
600, is Duluth's building record for 1858.
Boston cooking schools have educated >O(
girls i'll the art Of cooking during the last year
At - Years of age Mrs. L. d. L. y. South.
worth is about to publish her forty-fourtl
novel.
Norkmen are engaged in changing the gauge
of the ST. Augustine, Fla, railway from narrow
to standard.
The subscription to the fund to aid Mr.. Par
nell in his litigation with the London Times
amounts to f2i 800
Ii is proposed at the next session of the Leg
islature to have the name of West Virginia
changed to kanawha,
Powlery's picture has been taken from the
walls Of District Assembly No. of Pittsburg
and hidden i'll closet
Lady Herbert of England is of the opinion
that in ten years Washington will be the hand
somest city in the world.
Two men have been arrested in Chicago on
,u> >plcion Of attempting to blow up Shufe!t'>
distillery with dynamite.
A movement is on foot to organize the
federation Of all railroad employees in the United
States except conductors.
Chicago bakers are now required by law to
stamp the weight and their names on every
loaf of bread they make.
The school fund of Texas is so large that at
the end of the school year. July l. there was :,
surplus of $500 900 on hand.
Emperor William has renewed his grand
fathers order that none Of the imperial ser
wants shall wear a mouStache.
gang Of tramps captured at Ventura, Cal.
had i'll their possession over POO KEYS of differ
eht patterns and no end Of clothing.
The monthly statement of the Chicago. Bur-
llngton aud Quincy Railway >low~ for the first
time this year an increase in net earnings.
The boating committee Of Yale College has
sent rablegram declining to row a race with
the Cambridge University crew in 1889.
The frame buildings erected for the Ccnten-
nial Exposition at Cincinnati at a cost of more
than S2o0,ooO, We're sold at auction for $2G,o0O.
The balance of the $4,000 necessary to COM
John. \. b.. to 81. stephen. has been DEPOSITED.
Italy will build a railroad to the Italian side
of the Simplon tunnel and will grant Il sub
yention of several million francs for the work.
At the auction sale of thoroughbre,lS at Lex
nSton. Ky, Dec. II, 81 head brought So. .l5O.
The Melbourne Stables IS head brought SCI $40.
Since it started. twenty-three wears ago, the
National Temperance Society has paid over
S20.oo0 to women for writing temperance ltera-
turc.
Captain Compton has left his steamer the
liaytlan Republic, after securing bis papers but
the American flag was Still waving over her at
last accounts.
Judge Sage, of Ohio, who sentenced Horkin,
OF the Fidelity bank to the pcnitentiarv. has
signed the petition for his pardon. Hopkins is
said TO be dying.
Professor Henry Clarke, president of the
Philadelphia High School, has been cxonerate,i
from the charge of pIagiarizing GaIiicd'> ad-
dress on education.
Chauncey NJ. Depew. II. Il. Thurber. Profess
Sor Ely, Judge toolly and others will make a,l-
dresses at the banquet of the Boston Merchants :
Association January9 8.
II. Rider IIageard now wears his hair in flow
ing locks. which reach almost to his shoulders
Tie has shaved of his blonde mu>tachc ana
smokes cigarettes continually.
About 1850 persons were present at a banquet
in Baltimore Dee. 9th by the republican friends
OF Gen. Adam +. King, in recognition of his
services III the recent campaign.
1t was an old woman in Indiana " no invented
the Whl>k broom. and millions of them are
whisking from daylight till dark without her
having made cent out Of her invention.
A touching letter from General W. T. Sher-
man, expressing his thanks for the many ey-
pre>>ions of sympathy received since hi, wWifes
death, is printed in the New York papers.
The body of Capt. a. y. Fales of schooner II.
Z. Higginson, wrecked on Nanta>ket Beach, has
never been found. A reward of $3.50 is offered.
Address DO. Wade, Nanta>ket Post Office.
The Brooklyn Bridge is yindcatng its Use
fulne>s. During the past II months 33.l17Sl6
people have passed over it, of whom 2..S5 3D.;
walked across and the rest Went in the cars
Damages of 100000 have been awarded bv
the arbitrator against the Uayten Government
in the case of Adrain Van Bekkelch, who wa,
Illegally imprisoned in 1884 at Port a,l Prince
over twenty-five dredgerS, suffering from dis
ease and i'll treatment at the hands Of CheS;-
peake Bay y! >tcr pirates, have recently been adj
mtted to the BayNiew Alnshouse Baltimore.
The Nayaj 10 Indians are Oft their reservation,
near Fort Wingate. and have gone over on the
Colorado River. Fearing they mean mischief t
troops have been sent after them to force them
back.
A terrific explosion wrecked an oatmeal mill
at Chicago and killed three men, and perhaps
more. Meal dust is generally thought to have
been the cause. but dynamite is suspected bv
others.
Dr. ID. Hayes AgneW has resigned from the
Profes>orship of Surgery in the University of
Pennsylvania, and DIR. John Ashhur>t Jr. Pro-
fes>or of Clinical Surgery, has been elected in
his place.
Il. b. Barry has issued a manifesto TO the
working people of America. announcin. him
self as the leader and founder Of a new labor
movement to be known a> the brotherhood of
United Labor.
A banquet was given Il London last week to
celebrate the completion of the Encyclopedia
Britannica. Mr.. Adam Black declared that the
work owed its increased circulation to Ameri-
can enterprise.
sam Jones says he can earn $25,000 year
preaching all over the country, which is why
he doesn't settle down in country parsonage
and rely on an annual donation party to help
him exc out an existence.
A fire at Isabella de Sagua. Cuba. caused by
the explosion of coal oil lamp. DESTROYED forty
two houses. There were no fatalities. but over
one hundred families We're rendered homeless.
The loss is estimated at $50 600 in gold.
Seventeen out of the TWENTY-FIVE cities of
Massachusetts have voted in favor of license
this year, larger proportion than usual, and
in nearly all the cities voting no the margin
appears to have been exceedingly narrow.
R, n nyrlnSinp of uay in n
Canyon City. Col. while workmen We're en-
gagged i'll eXtingu>hng a fire that had previous
ly broken out, two men We're killed, two NOR
tally injured and eight more seriously hurt.
The annual election of officers and delegates
OF the Grand Army of the Republic of Illinois
is being held and the greatest of unanimity pre-
walls among the comrades all over the State.
Gen. Palmer's withdrawal has not affected the
order.
Mr.. +. NJ. Corey of Montpelier, VT, won Il
few thousand dollars on Harrison's election,
and has invited the whole Legislature of Ner-
mont, as well as other friends, numbring 800
in ALL to banquet in honor of the Republican
victory.
Canonchet, William Sprague's mansion at
Narragansett pier, II. l., owned by Colonel
w heaton and Mrs. Sprague, has been sold to a
syndicate including New York and Rhode Is
land men, W iiam Clark and Banker Earle of
Earlescourt, for $S00,00O. 1t will be used as a
hotel.
Nathan Klein, of New York, was given an
award by a referee at Troy n. y. recently
against the Continental Insurance Company
in a suit for insurance begun in 1856. Klein
sued eighteen companies to recover an aggre-
gate of $4,000. and in this case is regarded as
Il test case.
A resident of kalamazoo has just made public
the alleged confession which dying German