The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-04-26
Generalities.

one single county in Virginia shipped ~9i :
900 worth of cabla@c> last year.
China now furnishes only onc-t hire, Of the ten
consumed in England. India furnishes the
rest.
John Stet>on'> new steam Yacht. The Sapphire.
is to have her name in electric lights upoll each
bow.
In the Mormon Conference Just ended at III
Lake City the question of polygamy was total!y
ignored.
The Chicago police have abandoned the search
for Tascott. the supposed murderer Of Mlinn-
are Smell.
Indications now are that the strike of the
Pitt>burg flint glass manufacturers will last
until next fall.
The Naval Brigade have established camp
of instruction for the North Atlantic squadron
near Pensacola.
1t is stated that the late Emperor William left
the sum of 30 marks to every invalid soldier OF
the war of 1870.
The sealer Neptune has arrived al st. Johns,
\. f.. with $1,000 seals, the largest cargo ever
brought into that port.
New complications have arisen in the ease of
Emperor Frederick Of Germany and he is re-
ported somewhat worse.
1t is believed that the Administration has
cured pledges from enough Congress 10
sccusc the passage through the House of the
Mills bill
The United States Supreme Court has ~i,s-
tained Pennsylvania State law prohibiting the
manufacture of olcOmargarine or any other inn
itaton of butter.
Fifteen business buildings and eight cottages
were destroyed by fire at TavarcS. Fla, April
a lbs pfp nl,l1,l ,l,- In.
surance. S20,OO0.
EN-County Treasurer j. S. Simon. convicted
of embeZZlemcnt, was sentenced to six wears
in the pententiary at GreenviIie. Ohio. and a
fine imposed of nearly 100000.
Mme Dis DE Bar. her husband and another
man have been arrested in New York charged
with obtaining money by fraudulent devices,
She was an alleged SpiritualiSt.
A rnmor prevails in Washington that Sccrc-
tary Whitney will succeed Minister Phelps in
England, and. in that event, it is supposed MIR.
Phelps will be called to the cabinet.
The Dominion government has decided to con-
tinue the Atlantic mail service is at present for
another year. the service to be performed by
the Allan and Dominion lines for the present
subsidies.
Experts have been appointed to examine the
keey motor, and decree of the court orders
kecly to exhibit AMI operate his machine for
their inspection. This action is the result of Il
suit against keely.
General Sherman has sent letters of invitation
to the banquet in New York, in memory of
General Grants birthday, April 2.th. to the
Confederate Generals Longstreet, Moseby,
Gordon, Buckner, Lee, Malone and Johnston.
Boys playing in vacant lot in Newark, y.
j.. found letter signed Mrs {. Kenney. stat
ing that the writer's body would be found near
by, as she had committed suicide. being unable
to live with her husband The police found the
body and arrested the husband.
The Railway Age says that while the rail-
road business of the country last year reached
the unprecedented record of $1,000 miles, the
construction in % States for the first three
months of this year was 1896 miles against 1910
in % States for the same period last year
The First Comptroller has decided that three
80 bonds of $500 each, found some months
ago concealed in a stone wall on Il farm in
Wrentham. Mass belong to l.. G. ChadhOurne,
notwithstanding that the finder of the bonds
| was the owner of the property on which they
were discovered.
Gen. Quincy A. Gilmore, who died ut hiS re-
sidence in Brooklyn recently one of the most
distinguished engineers in the army, and achiev-
ed great fame during the war by his mastery
operations in that lime. He was also the
author of several important works on military
and civil engineering.
Collector SatonstalI, of Boston. after hear
ing at the custom house, has decided to forbid
the landing of alien fishermen who had been
brought from Liverpool, N. s., by Captain
Kempton, of the vessel On Time. He held that
| it was contract labor and that their landing
would be clearly against the law.
| Recorder Smyth Of New York has taken Wig
orous action against the sellers of bogus butter
for the real article. A respectable grocer de-
| tccted several times in practising this impo>-
ton, has been sent to the peEitentiary for three
months. ~ am going to send every one of the
cart grease butter dealers to prison now.' said
! the recorder. "This business must be stopped