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October 20,1887 The Republican Journal. VOLUME 59. BELFAST, MAINE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1887. NUMBER 12. A Memory or Early Dais. the Monarch of Mexico. turbs the oppressive stillness of this enchanted Bane of Popocatipetl, Hia Funny Sayings. Killed. Generalities. Prohibition in Penobscot. How to Get Rich, RKITHLICAN JOURNAL. childhood's tender years, forest—ten thousand feet above the sea. But Thirty People Swallowed oft with groans and tears, INTO TUB LAND OF TUB SKY. TRADITIONS OF it is wise to get out of these solitudes before How it 'NIK LATE HENRY WARD BEECHER AS A HUM- A RAILROAD ACCIDENT A Under this taking title the have made the flesh recoil, TUB TWIN VOLCANOES. for then IN INDIANA. PAS- Morton E. I’ost & Co., bankers, of Cheyenne, Gov. Bodwell. at the time of sending letters newspapers night-fall, impenetrable darkness de- ORIST. n: i«in.i» r.vi in ninisitw mousing ht tiik Loathsome, greasy castor oil! SENGER TRAIN WRECKED IIY A FAST have liabilities half a mil- letters from a number of who of the Journal. scends like a pall, and the long-drawn scream suspended; nearly to county attorneys and sheriffs concerning the published men Search your early*memory close, Correspondence There is much that be FREIGHT. lion. of the covote Is heard, with the occasional might said about have been successful. While these letters con- Till you find another dose: Oct. 1st. I don’t know whether I enforcement of the prohibitory law, addressed Mexico, of the Beecher as a Koi Get. 11. The horrors of All the shuddering frame revolts blood-curdling cry mountain lion. Nat- humorist, but nothing that could rs, Ind., worst A of gold, at the rate of £800 tain much little that Is At the would advise lo the ascent of deposit yielding one to G. W. Brown, Sheriff of Penobscot good advice, although thought of Kpsom salts! anybody attempt uralists complain tiiat the last named much- lie said in of his claims G'hatsworth were here A a has been discovered in proof would Interest duplicated to-day. ton, Buckingham it well be doubted whether I'nderneath the pill box lid I tried it to-be-dreaded creatures are very rare, but that County to which that officer replied. The tenor really new, may " as a Popocatepetl. myself,—longago,dur- so much at this time as what he said dozen blood-stained township, <}ue. greater honor hid, circumstance is the only thing that can be said people smoke-begrimed, injured their and will in and Climax of all inward ills, ing the first year of my first visit to Mexico, of his reply i» indicated in the following letter diligent general perusal appreci- i.cvi-Bt Circulation City County. in their favor. himself. To meet this demand Eleanor Kirk victims of railroad carelessness or blundering Tlie result of the sham topedo attack on the Huge and old blue pills' from to ably lengthen the list of millionaires. One griping incited thereto by Hie beloved of Scattered all the trail arc black wood- cruiser Atlanta in harbor was a vic- the Governor the Sheriff*, to which " hat a contrast to tin- mild and action of companion my along has made selections from his published works were brought into the little station this Newport gentle early man will starve where another would Ti it\iv In advance, $2.00 a year; Dr. Pierce's Pleasant wanderings, Pinilv Pierce, who has since en crosses, marking wayside murders, growing tory for the defence. there has been no response: grow Purgative Pellets, sugar- which now in book form. The com- morning, aud this afternoon charred u ol the more and more as we appear corpses i, nt the expiration coated. easy to take, cleaning, recuperating, reno- climbed the frequent penetrate deep- G. W. Bkown, Sheriff' of Penobscot rich, and sometimes it seems as if pure luck heights of immortality; but I has were laid the It is stated that Michael Davitt has been Ksq., vating the system w ithout w renching it with agony. er into the wood. Every tangled thicket seems piler evidently done her work carefully upon platform, while three miles one inch made a of with to or- County. makes a man without any exertion on 11.11M.'. For square, (one Sold by druggists. doubt if life will be long enough to enable me to shelter one, and our peons arc and in down the track of Knight Labor, authority wealthy 2.r> kept busy the main judiciously, and it is said that west, the G’hicago and At- assemblies in Ireland. Dear Sir:—In to a communication ad- a, *l.o.' for one week, anti ganize reply his As a rule we believe the rich ever to feel quite rested from that adventure. crossing themselves aud muttering their pray- dressed to part. man, s.t in-crtion. A fraction of Ladies will In* interested, perhaps, to know that the compilation was practically completed be- lantic Railway, near a lonely old water tank, you concerning the proper enforce- the ers. Expressing surprise at the great number Robert like the is us see ion i a- a lull one. surplus waste will i-till be a prominent There are not those and Garrett lias resigned the presidency ment of the laws tin* sale of intox- poet, born, not mad**. Hut let subject wanting unaspiring fore Mr. Beecher was called of debris marked the prohibiting <d conversation the w inter. of these grim mementoes, and that any man away. We sub- piles fearfully inangled of tlie Baltimore & and the during coming therefore Ohio, board of di- icating liquors, a letter of the following tenor what the rieli men have to I*. T. Hamum incredulous souls, who—having never should have such a with a say. attempted journey join a liberal selection of the most characteris- spot where collision seldom equalled for ter- rectors have the has been received from viz: “I have en- 1 u ithori/c M agents for the accepted resignation. you, starts out with 5500 Reward ascended the of either about him to rible results had occurred. to the the proposition that “the foun- beyond valleys life, money enough tempt banditti, tic utterances: According deavored since assuming my present position is in the the solemnly; Thomas Courtlauil of i; s So 1'>; \Ya-!nn*rtoji St BoMon. oflered, good faith, by manufacturers of guide replied “Senora, they best estimate obtainable, for an estimate Manning, Louisiana, to enforce all laws me as dation of success in life i> health.*’ Then l>r. metaphorically or literally, but stick to beaten only required of Sheriff*, good \\ sage's Catarrh for a ease of catarrh will murder here for nos in the Lord I will was United States Minister to died at the ! \s J 'l e. !•: iiiTt**l. '•*(., Boston. Remedy you rentes—twenty- "Kejoicc always.” defy possible, fully thirtv human lives had been Mexico, and in the future I shall continue to do let the man which cannot from the cradle to my duty young select the vocation which is 1 state >{ Boston, they cure. It is mild, soothing and paths the grave—sneer at live cents. the Imlrones follow to do it. if he were such a God as Fifth Avenue New Oct. 11. At..1." Sometimes you anybody sacrificed outright, and half that number of Hotel, York, to best I am not in its and cures “cold in the according my judgment. ii 1 • 1 >■ .io•. 1'\\ i-l.-mrteti >t Boston. healing efleets, head," the of the out from if was me when I was a most congenial to his avoid in possibility undertaking and hint Ameca-Meca,—especially you be taught boy. [Sermon, persons had suffered injuries more or less ser- aware of about the sub- taste, running •••• catarrhal deafness, throat ailtm-uts, and The Niobrara any complaint special \ U s|.t -i New Y«»rk. many who are known to in Practice. Cattle Company, Incorporated other <•■that those who Americans, always have Christianity ious. to in debt, and do what he has to do with all Ids > •• eomnlieations of this disease. 50 claim to have it in alluded letter, in this section.” Ii f. » I'.u-ft K‘'\vP Vi"t 1 ork. distressing accomplished The maii that has lived for himself East St. Louis, 111., which a vear ago was ject your cents, money—or will precede you and lie in wait in has the The eastbound express that left last It is in section 27 of the by druggists. are 1 can Chicago offered a million dollars for its has made provided <50, Chapter might. Head the newspapers, advertise, pre- merely romancing. testify, however, the black forest.” privilege of being his own mourner. with a load of cattle, [Ser- night great passengers, had, an Revised Statutes of this state, that “Sheriff's ■ When a — man a — serve '■<■ conveys to you In loud tone of to mon, and assignment. your be and and .mi:- u.;11 i:,j mown or ilesirln^ to the feasibility of it, even for ladies, if they “However,” he added Generosity Liberality. without a moment’s warning, a tem- and their integrity, polite civil, "•ice and the language of slang, and philosophically during deputies shall diligently and faithful- ;i -ei i>:,p.' ~' haniroM. must state the profanity arc and enthusias- will say for soul, if you send a villain to Albany or Washing- been smashed into from behind The Hon. become tin.* of the second bad grammar the intoruiatloii that he Is n physically strong spiritually “They always prayers your stop, J.
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