The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-10-18
Generalities.
Public interest in the Dominion in the qucS-
ton of annexation is rapidly spreading.

Public interest in the Dominion In the gucS-
ton of annexation is rapidly spreading.
The Worlds pacing record of one mile for
2year-ods, was beaten at Napa, Cal, Oct 4.
by Gold Leaf. Time. > 10.
A destructive hail storm visited portions of
Kentucky and Ohio recently causing great
damage to tobacco and other crops.
The total number of both sexes assessed in
Boston School Committee is 146.460. The total
number of women assessed is 23219.
The cabbage growers of Weston, Ohio. have
formed trust and will refuse to sell cabbages
for less than five cents head in the field.
An effort will be made in tie Vermont Le.is-
lature at this session to adopt more cllectual
and satisfactory common school system.
The State election in Georgia occurred Oct B.
There was no organized opposition to the
Democratic State ticket and light vote was
poed.
ID. P. Wigginton of California has been piac-
ed on the American party ticket rs candidate
for Vice President in place Of Judge Green.
who declined.
Advices from Suakim, Egypt state that the
rebels made attack that place Oct 4h
but were repulsel by the heavy fire of
the British troops.
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster was reelected president
of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
of Iowa, receiving 226 votes against 2G for
| another candidate.
There is great haste shown in preparing tho
naval despatch boat Dolphin for sea at Mare
Island Cal. her presence in Cailao being
urgently demanded.
The cigarmakers' strike II Cub, continues In
| about the same condition. few of the
factories are working shorthanltl. but the
| greater number remain cl> Sei.
| The town of Tlacohua, Mexico, has been
! completely destroyed by floods. over five
| hundred families have been rendered homeless
in the mountains and are in great distress.
| Violent storms have prevailed on the North
Sea. Several fishing >matk> which have arrived
| at English ports report the loss OF portions of
their crews, which were washed oNerboard.
The residence of Ezra W. Chaplin Northboro
Mass. was completely wrecked by the cNp!o-
| sion OF the steam boiler in the cellar, Oct 4th
causing Il loss of $4,000. Nobody was injured.
4. B. Barry has resigned from the General
| Executive Board of the Knights of Labor. lie
| charges the Powderly administration with
| deception. cruelty and intrigue to keep itself in
| power
| The Russian government has agreed to admit
| foreign sacks into Russia without the payment
OF duty In order to facilitate the export of grain
| and -four from the Baltic. Black Sea ana Sea Of
| Azof ports.
| Crimes are getting numerous in Havana
now that the people are afraid to 90 upon the
| streets after dark. The press i calling upon
the government to take active measures 10 pro-
tect the public.
Captain BENJAMIN Glcatle. commander of
| the White Star steamer Germanir and ccnl-
modore Of the White Star fleet. died Oh the
voyage from Liverpool His body was brought
| to New York.
| Information has been received that the dam
age by frost to the tobacco crop in the south
| side section Of Virginia. Is very great, and that
| more than one fourth of the crop has been conn
| pietely ruined.
! The rains in Mexico have completely ceased
| and all the waters are rece,ing. The official
| figures to date state that the losses throughout
| the country by the cyclones and floods exceeds
| three million dollars.
| The Governor and Council of Massachusetts,
| have assigned October 81 AS the date ofhearing
| oil the petition for a commutation of Mrs Rob-
| inson, who is under sentence of death, to he
| executed November ] I.
A diver recently employed to locate the sun
| ken City of Chester in San Francisco ilarbor
found it in fifty fathoms of water. lie also found
| three bodies distorted in horrible shape. He
| refused to continue his search.
| The annual report of the Commissioner OF
| the General Land Office shows that ,ltiringthe
| year s.60o10l acres OF land have been conveyed
| from the Government, either by patent OF by
| certfcation under specific grants.
! VIM. ii. Inghan, a New York broker, has
| disappeared. He has been running swindling
| investment syndicate, and is believed to have
| caused losses to investors amounting to S00,
| 900. He had agents IN many places.
| The American Missionary Association will
| hold its 42l annual meeting in Providence. II.
| L.. Oct 23 and %. The sessions will be held in
| the Union Congregational church, and will com
mencc at 3 O'Clock Tuesday afternoon. Oct. %.
There are six large manufacturing establish
ments in Wheeling, W. Va. employing 1000
| hands. whose proprietors have always been
| Democrats, but who this year express their
| intention to vote for Harrison and Morton.
The firm of Shipman. Barlow. EaRocque 4
| Choate, New York. has made good to the
Farmers Loan and Trust company loss TO the
| amount of Sl12,6G4 caused by the forgeric> Of
| their clerk Redell. of bogus mortgage fame.
| The executive committee of the New York
| Civil Service Reform Association has adopted
| a resolution denouncing the Benet circular as
"a violation of the fundamental principle which
should govern appointments IN the pubic ser
| vice.
Admiral Lace proposes petroleum as har-
Dor defence. His idea Is to send by means Of
submarine pipes, a stream Of burning oil to
consume the invading fleet. This is an improve
ment on the ancient Greek fire and fire raft
| methods.
The Bombay police recently discovered that
a secret traffic in arms and ammunition was
| being carried on with the Afghan frontier
tribes. -Four Afghans who were engaged III
the traffic were sentenced to two years inpri-
| sonment each.
| Captain Wiley, of the fruit steamer Lorenzo
| D. Baker, says he was recently fined S40O and
| subjected to outrageous indignitics in Jamaica
| on charge of violating customs laws. The
attention of the State Department has been
| called to the case.
A despatch from Paris SAYS Mrs. Paran
Stevens, wealthy Amerian lady, las charged
| her maid, an Italian named Anita Cc!anza
| with rObDing her of diamonds valued al E6o00
| The girl has been arrested. She asserts that
| her mistress sent the diamonds to London
A horrible story OF widespread dcstitution
| comes from Ramsey county, Dakota, where the
entire population is said to be on the brink of
| starvation. Recent froSts destroyed thousands
of bushels of wheat and left destitute residents
| of all but one of the townships in the county.
The New York Tribune has special from
| indianapolis stating that DR.. III. 4. Leonard
| the leader of the Greenbaek party IN Indiana,
and the candidate Of that party for Governor,
has formally declared his intention to support
Harrison and Morton. DR.. Leonard, when
| candidate for Governor, received S3;'S votes.
The new steamer Puritan. being constructed
for the Fall River Line, cannot be completed
until spring. Her walking-bcam Is twenty-five
feet long and twelve feet wide, is Of steel and
weighs several tons. Her paddewheeIs will
have some late improvements, which it is ex-
pected will give greater speed for the amount
| of fuel consumed than the kind at present used.
She will be a four-decker.
The chief of the London police force has
decided to employ bloodhounds In his efforts to
discover the perpetrator Of the Whtechapel
murders. The police place confidence in the
story of George NJ. Dodge, "A seaman. who
states that in August last he met a Malay cook
named Alaska, who told him he had been
robbed of all he had by a woman of the town
and threatened that unless he found the woman
and recovered his property lie would kill and
mutilate every Whtechapel woman he met.
| Five children In One Year.
| CHARLESTON, S. C., oct 3. Mrs. Crane Wash
ington, who with her husband. lives on the Milton
farm, the city, will densely populate that
ton in the course of time if she continues con
trlbutng to the population she has the past year
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