The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1870-03-17
LOCAL ITEM S, & &C.

morning. We hear of a party of inexperienced
nayioators who undertook to sail an ice-boat that
proved TO he too much for them. She got away
from the man at the helm, and went wildly rushing
over the pond, first on one tack and then on the
other. whacking the party with the boom, and slat-
ting them off, till the ice covered with hats,
boots, buttons. pipes, pocket TASKS and disabled
nav gators
Our City Clerk, John II. Quimby, ESD, whose
official papers are models of neatness and accuracy
receives frequent compliments. The Committee on
the War Debt Equalization say that the papers of
the city of Belfast were the best arranged clearest
and altogether the best of any that came before
them.
On Saturday, young daughter, aged seven, of
Lewis c. Smith, had leg broken by running into
a team. while sliding down the Wilson Hill.
The steamer Katahdin is carrying a great many
passengers and large freights. On Saturday she
was an hour and a half in discharging at her wharf
in this city.
Some new certificates of the remarkable perform
ances of the United States Companys watches
have been added to their advertisement in this pa
per- Several of these fine watches, which are
marvels of accuracy as we'll as mechanical beauty,
are Carried ny tltNtiiN WI otiliNt' III I'LL Wy
is agent for their sale
The annual allowance of $500 to the Waldo Ag-
rrultura Society, which came near being lost
through inlormality in returns. has been saved.
:. l.. Mken. Esq, who CHANGED to be at Augusta,
looked after the matter.
A legal gentleman who recently moved his office
from the Telegraph Building to the opposite side OF
Main street, and had his sign taken down, missed
that useful guideboArd from its temporary place of
deposit on the sidewalk. After Il long search he
discovered that some of his thirsty neighbors had
pawned it for drinks at a neighboring ale-shop.
The Colonel proposes amotto for those enterprisns
youths-'In hoe signo yinces.''
The former residence of Joseph F. Hall, ESQ, on
High street. has been leased by Mrs. George Baker,
and is being refurnshed and fitted for rst-class
hoarling-house. Mrs. Baker has had much eXpe-
rience and will make very pleasant home for her
guests.
Considerable amusement was caused, one windy
day last week, by the sight of % Custom House Of
ticial usually deliberate in his movements, indulg-
ing lively chase after his hat across the square.
He recovered it.
Brig Benz Carver and schooner Mary, from
Bucksville, S. c., with hard pine timber, arrived
last week. A portion of their cargoes was for
railroad bridges, and a portion for McGilyery's
shipyard.
Women's rights have gone into operation in the
town of Brooks. Miss S. F. Roberts, an accom-
plished young lady, and a teacher by profession,
has been elected :; member of the Experimenting
School Committee. She is about 90 years of age,
smart and good looking. When it was known that
She a candidate her opponent calamity with
drew. Who says the world is not progressing:
The iron for the railroad bridges, to replace that
condemned by the Chief Engineer, was landed here
last week 1t is very handsome lot, and beauti-
fully fitted
Work on the piers and abutments of the RAILROAD
bridges over the Twenty-Five Mile Stream and the
sahastcook River is being pushed. If no heavy
rains obstruct the work it will be above the reacl
of frcshets by the first of April.
Mr.. sanborn, late of the public house at Frank
fort, has leased the new building at the corner 0
Main and Pleasant streets, the site Of the rail
road depot, and will soon open it as a hotel.
Miss Anna Bell Baker will receive pupils for in
struction on the piano forte See advertisement
Mr.. Crawford. of the American House, is quit
! i'll and confined to his room His trouble is of
pulmonary nature.
The deposits of coal ashes in the street are a nuts
ance. If the city authorities allow the practice
we propose to contribute the ashes and cinder
from our steam engine and stoves TO the general dc
post, which will raise mountain high enough TO
the city fathers to see.
The following, which find in the Poran,
Transcript, illustrates how we sometimes have t.
60 abroad to get news from home
boy in Belfast, only 1G years DID, is bound owe
i'll the sum of 5000, charged with completely in
case in which girl of Is is expecting soon to pro
duce evidence.
The very interesting entertainment by the Tn
versalist Society will be repeated at Hayford Hal
on Friday evening. Tennyson's Dora, dramatize,
which was SO eXcellently rendered on preyiuo
occasion, will be repeated, with other entertainin
novelties. There will also, after the play, be a
entertainment specially for the young folks.
Gen. Webster, assessor for Uncle Samuel in thi
region, is inviting the old gentleman's children t
contribute their annual stipend to his support. Tl
f General does it SO politely that it pains Il man
say that he has no income to speak of.
Sch. Orion, Capt. George F. Osborne, from Belfa
for New York, with ice, went ashore during til
gale of Sunday, at Oak Point, in Long Island Sount
Ii IS thought she will come off with the loss
cargo. The Orion is good vessel, worth $4,000
owned by the captain j. w. Frederick 4 Co., an
others-of whom the captain only has insuranc,
The cargo owned by +. l.. Whittier and W.
} Biclfortl, is insured.
Some Of our people are discussinga city improve
ment by the extension of wide concrete walk IL
length OF Church street. 1t would be great in
woVement, and make a beautiful promenade.
} The alarm Of fire on Sunday morning came from
the burning out of u chimney on Spring stree
which made prodigOus smoke with but little fire
PACIFIC RAILROAD WONDER. We last wee
received from Gibson Carman, Esq, of the firm O
Middleton, Carman & Co., No. 70 Fulton Market
New York, a splendid cut of fresh salmonl frol
the Sacramento River, California. That firm In
J received 10000 pounds in refrigerator car, owe
the railroad, and were expecting six tons more. !
portion of the first lot shipped to Liverpool b
steamer. Seven days was the time occupied in til
transit from California, andprobably ten days NOR
to LNerpool-thus bringing Pacific coast Salmon
table i'll England in seventeen days, and in goo
order The sample we received was in eXcellen
condition. and in flavor and richness was full
equal to Il June salmon from the Penobscot. Thu
Yankee enterprise, like the conquering sword q