The Republican journal., 1892-10-20

William c. Mcconnell. arrived at Boston
Friday with the Labrador expedition
which was sent out 10y the management of
the Worlds Columbian Exposition last
June to procure an EsquimauX to exhibit
for the fair. MessIs. W. d. Vincent and
Il. &. TarboX, who are in charge. report
very successful issue in their undertake
ing. Captain William A. Andrews, the
daring navigator, who recently crossed the
Atlantic in a fourteen foot dory from At
lantic City. y j., to Lisbon. and who AZ
rived at Palos on October T. announces
that he will cross the Atlantic again in a
small aluminium boat..... Henry Waiter
son, editor ot the Louisville Courier } our
nal, has accepted an invitation to deliver
the dedicatory address at the World : Fair.
..... Chas. L. erkeS is to give the new
Chicago niverslty 500. 600 for tele
scope and observatory. The Lick Obser-
vatory instrument at Mount Hamilton, in
California, now the largest in the world
| has an object glass :}6 inches III diameter
while Chicago $ telescope will have a glass
- inches in diameter. The large cretli-
tors OF Henry Poor X SON. leather manu-
facturers, have arranged to grant an cx-
tension of time. The finn state that the
/ liabilities are about $50 900: assets about
f'''''' WV
who Shot Manager Fricl1 of the Carnegie
Company jumped 40 feet in the attempt
to break jail Saturday. He landed on a
pavement beneath the prison wall appar-
emily unhult. but a bullet from a guard $
rifle broke his LEG and ended his dash for
liberty .... The troops have been with
drawn from Homestead. .... The contract
between the International Navigation
Company and the postmaster general for
the mail service between New York and
Antwerp was formally signed Friday, in
accordance with Il bin passed in Congress
on September !. The bill required the
company that secured the contract to con
struct five ships in addition to the City of
Paris and the City Of New ork. now in
service. The international Navigation
Company steamships viii all fly the
American flag and the company will be a
thoroughly American institution Band
master Reeves. of Providence, X. L.. it is
reported, will accept the offer to lead Gil
more's band. d.....A water spout Hooded
400, 900 acres cattle grazing land in Morey
county, Texas. Saturday....At Orilla
Ont, Saturday, Hosmer rand (iaudaur out
rowed Ilanlan and O. Conner for the world
championship: time lS31... Nj Blaine
has communicated through Secretary J. w.
Foster to the President an expression of
his deep sympathy with him ON account of
Mrs. Harrison dangerous illness. Pres
ident L. Benjamin Andrews, of Brown
| University, has been appointed by the
President d delegate from the United
States to the international monetary CON
ference i'll place of President +. A. Walker
who was compelled to decline.....A great
storm has been raging in the Gulf of
Mexico, and it is feared llIat a number Of
lives and vessels have been lost,.... DO
meStlc money order service will be eS-
tablished in lS4I fourth class post offices
throughout tile country beginning Octo-
ber l1th.
FISH AND GAME. \ Gloucester dies
patch OF the 18th says: The brightest
maekerel news heard for a month OF more
is the news that Capt Melvin McClail. of
the schooner Ada K. Terry, took 100 bar
rels OF mackerel in Ipswich bay Tuesday
night This is about the best haul made
So near home this season. The "trip is
worth 81, 700 in gold. If the fish have
struck in to stay even 4 short time, they
will yield thousands oi dollars. .tFly
Rod, Writing to the Industrial Journal
says; There has never been a time when
the hunter has found the game 50 album
dant in the langeley, Seven Ponds and
Dead River region as this year. Ii may
seem we are telling Il fish story to say
we know that since the first day of Oc-
tOber lN!Z three bear, one moose. two car
lbou and fifteen deer are the trophies of
the sportsman. But such We are inform
ed are the facts. ..... Charles A. Gilley. of
Barker 5 Isle in one tide recently in one
Welr caught about eleven hundred dollars
worth OF mackerel. Wm. L. Mayo also
caught good haul of mackerel in one
Weir, and also ). sanford. The other six
weils at the Cranberry Isles have done
very little during the season. Herring
have been scarce... Lane u Libby, Ninai-
haven are filling an order for 900 forty
pound boxes OF fish, 600 Of them to 90 to
ST Louis and the balance to Philadelphia
....A Bangor despatch Of the 18th SAYS:
"lhls Is the best season tor game known
i'll many years in this State 1t is belev-
ed that more game has been killed east
and north of Bangor during the last ten
days than during the whole month of Oc-
tober last year. Moose are plentiful up
North. ..... The North kennebec Fish and
Game Association has received from the
State Fish Commissioners 5000 young
land-locked salmon, varying in length
from Two and Il half inches. the largest
that have ever been sent out from the
Ilatching stations. These are to be placed
i'll the stream running into McGra pond.
This makes about 20. 600 fish in all that
have been introduced into the waters GOV.
cred by the operations of the association
and over which they enjoy Legislative plo-
lection tor term of four Years. .... Fred
Scribner recently Shot large caribou ON
his fathers farm, two miles from Au-
gusta
POLITICAL POINTS. Hon. james g.
Blaine left Ban Harbor last week for New
\ ork, and went to Ophir Farm. as the
guest Of WlIitelaw Reid. His family
Joined him there later for an indefinite
stay. They viii spend the winter in
Washington. a reporter, who called ON
Nh. Blaine, says: His figure was erect,
his eye bright, and the pallor OF his face
was not 50 marked as on the occasion OF
his last visit to New York. His voice was
strong and his hand shake firm, muscular
and vigorous. ,.... More than 100, 600 citi-
zens qualified for voting in New York city
Oct. II. 1t was the first day OF registration
and the number of names recorded was
larger than on any previous first day in the
ciuy's S history EXPIRES. Cleveland and
" hltelaW Reid were OF those who register
d.....A canvass of the undergraduates Of
Cornell University, discloses 800 Repubi-
cans and 239 Democrats-rather Il sharp
commentary On the ridiculous claim that