The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-11-29

In BRIEF. }. +. Bclel. the New York real
estate clerk who >windeI hi, employers and
clients out of s264 900, was sentenced Friday on
his plea of guilty to state prison for - ears
and months. Gos> one of the policy dealers
who got $4,000 out of BeGell, pleaded guilty
to felony, and was fined $l00O..... Poeomoke
City, Maryland, was swept by fire Thursday
night. All the business section was burned
and the loss will he half million dollars. Tie
fire was discovered p. m. ami a strong wind
sent the flames rapidly from one building to
ancther....1he second session of the Fifty-lirst
Congress will meet next Monday. Dee. 3. The
calendars of the two Houses very yoilInin-
Gus. The House calendar is composed of l02
pages. and gives the titles Of nearly fifteen hum
bred bills, while the Senate calendar has Is
pages, and upon ii four hundred and twenty
bills.....David Pnkham. an aged citizen Of
Monmouth, died suddenly Saturday, probably
from heart disease. He was for fifteen wears
proprietor of the Cochnewagan House. and
was widely known to the travelling pu)ic.....
Capt. W. II. Smith. for some wears the com
modore of the Allen line fleet, will succeed
Captain Scott AS head of the Canadian fleet of
cruisers.....Sunday morning in Augusta Charles
A. Luce, aged ID. was struck by John Mulver-
hill, boy of Is years who had been drinking.
and died Monday. The boy is under arrest
......George W. Russell, a prominent business
man of Wilton, has been arrested for forging
names to nOtes......Monday's storm extended as
Tar south as \. York harbor. Hail and snow fell
in sheets, the wind meanwhile blowing gale
Some damage was done to YES .els. In the inter-
ior Of New York and throughout the New Eng
land States the snow drfted badly. .....D'Con-
nor beat Teemer in the boat race at Washington
Saturday by nearly ten lengths. $50. The cruiser
Boston came back from IIayt in a hurry, with
yellow fever on board. She is at quarantine
OIL New York. Four men have died......Ony
one new of feyerat Jacksonville Monday
and none at Gainesville, Fla......Two detectives
have arrived at Halifax in pursuit of John
Thompson. the alleged murderer of Mrs
Mehitable White of Braintree, Mass. They be-
ileve he Is somewhere in the Maritime Prov
inces......Some one who thinks he knows all
about it says that Senator Sherman will be
Secretary OF State and Mr.. Blaine may 90 to
England as Minister to the Court of st. James,
......It is said that the next legislature will be
asked to modify the present law relating to the
taxation of property owned by religious and
educational institutions, so as to exempt from
taxes only that portion which is directly used
for those purposes. Bates College, a large
portion of the property of which consists of
real estate in Lewiston. would suffer more than
any other institution in the State, and her
trustees will make determined effort to
prevent the passage of such an act......The
steamer to be built by the New England
Company at Bath for the Portland and Boston
route is to be named the ''Portland." She will
be the largest sidewheel boat ever run east of
Long Island Sound. Her dimensions are
Length 30 feet, over all 2S1 feet; breadth of
beam AZ feet, breadth over all 6S feet depth of
hold 10 feet The cylinder of the engine will
be 81 inches in diameter and II feet stroke.
She will have two boilers which will carry
steam pressure of fifty pounds to the square
inch. The engines and boilers will be built by
the Portland WOrks.....A Jacksonville despatch |
OF the 18th says: A heavy white frost arrived
here last night and in number of other fever
stricken places. 1t is now safe to travel in any
part of the State.....Ihe Boston journal saws |
that Saturdays storm will be long remembered |
as one Of the most terribly destructive in its
effect on shipping which ever visited our New |
England coast. The indications are that its re-
cord Of casualties will be worse even than that |
Of the dreadful blizzard Of last March, and the |
probability is that the story Of the storms
savage work among our shipping is not yet |
half told.