The Republican journal., 1871-02-02
SHORT CAKE. Our cheated term" broke last

SHORT CAKE. Our cheated term" broke last
Monday; if it had not the thermometer woud.....
Lots of musquto netting sold for the big Ball next
Monday evening. The ladies will literally rag
OUT at that Ball. after having their trains trodden
on by big boots..We he ard it suggested after the
lecture Friday evening, that the Mormons deserv-
ed some credit for having all their front doors on
their own houses, as this way, a man puts one on
his own house and the rest on his neighbours %.
Wednesday morning could not be beaten by any
day i'll the almanac....We had the most wea Their
last week that we ever knew at one time. 1t re-
minded us of a remark we heard in Minnesota, by
an old stage driver, who had driven between Lynn
and Boston before there were any railroads. He
said 'the weather we had been having was hun
dred and sixty acres of the d-dest weather he ever
saw ..All our good sleighng (Which we have
not had yeti is 1.-The officers of the Phcn tx
and Timothy Chase Lodges were installed by r.
w. d. D. G. NJ. VIM. o. Poor, on Monday evening
...Theres many slip twixt walk and hip-or in
close proximity to that region..... Found-a lady's
green veil, highly scented with smoke, and having
hole burnt in it near the place where ones lips
might come. The owner can have it by ca ling on
the man that found it.
A FREE PASS GIVEN. AT a recent meeting of
the Directors of our railroad, letter OF an unusual
kind, was laid before the Board. 1t vas from
minister OF the gospel, who proposed to hold semi
monthly services in Brooks, and asking that pass
over the road from Burnham be given him. After
due consideration, the following reply was sent
BELFAST, Jan. %, 1871.
INaar for
free pass over the Belfast and Moosehead Lake
Railroad. is at hand This company is disposed to
lend all possible aid toward the advancement of the
gospel. 1t recognizes specially the need of resen-
Grating influences and change of heart in the
field Of your proposed labors at Brooks, which
town has repudiated its subscription to this road.
With the hope that your prayers and eXhOrta tons
may be enicacious to that end, enclose the pass
asked for Respectfully yours,
A. HAYFoRD. President
We learn that our neighbors at Searsport are eX-
ercsed over some search and seizure cases under
the liquor law. A raid on the tavern and several
saloons disclosed the evidence of glasses smelling
suspciOusly, and the keepers being tried before
a tribunal wherein the majesty of the law is repre-
sented by Hon. Syvanus 1. Roberts, of Stockton.
deplorabe want of memory is manifested by the
witnesses, who can remember scarcely ANYTHING,
except need OF something internally warming
during the late cold snap.
The Minneapolis Tribune of recent date chron-
icles the marriage of Mr.. J. w. Pruce, wealthy
gentleman of that city, President of the City Bank
to Miss Laura A. Elwe. They imme diately left
for tour to the Pacific coast The Tribune saws
Miss Elwell came to the city last August from
Frankfort, Maine. She is we'll known in society
as a lady of rare accomplishments and grace"
Some of our exchanges, the Bangor Wing among
them, have been premature in announcing Belfast
harbor as closed by ice. 1t caught across the river
during the severe weather, at the point where the
fresh water from the paper mil stream comes in,
but the steamer katahdin went through it without
and there is now no obstruction at all.
Capt. Charles Baker had his feet badly frozen
while assisting to get schooner through the ice,
last week He didn't discover it, until while warm
ing his toes preparatory to going to bed. Jack
Frost don't make much fuss in taking hold, but he
isn't in a hurry about letting go.
Some people whose supply pipes from the gas
works are exposed TO the frost have been dwelling
in eclipse for the past week-like the foolish virgins
who forgot their kerosene.
Mr.. N. n. Mart in, the veteran teacher of Stock
ton, now 65 years old, is engaged IN teaching his
ninetieth school. He has been Il years teacher,
and has taught three generations the parents child
rem and grandchildren.
i. W. Berry lost about one hundred bushels of
potatoes by freezing IN his cellar, during the late
cold weather.
Loads of ice, freighted with GOODNESS for next
summer, are moving through our streets.
The season of avalanches from the house tops is
bad for skittish horses and good hats The safest
men at such times are the mariners who keep an
eye aloh.
Don't forget the concert by Halls Band. at Hay
ford Hall, on Saturday evening. 1t is to be the
casion of the winter.
care you going to B-B-B-B- hellfast?" asked
suffering man of friend on the train, the other
day. "Probably, if the trains runs Off the track"
A correspondent asks SIS the one who makes
"short-cake" a loughhead:' No--he's the -four of
the family.
There is u remarkable case of dropsy in this city,
on the east side of the river. A boy of 1G, is so
swollen by the disease that he weighs $50 pounds
and sirts five feet.
car load of ashes was sent from Unity to Bangor
few days ago.
Stockholders in the Portland Steamboat Co. can
get their dividends of Mr. Quimby, at the Savings
Bank.
Postmaster Thurlow has received notice that two
western mails will be received and sent over the
railroad to this city soon, one by each train.