The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-09-24
News of the City and County.
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NS'NAtoiN PiN''0HH''
The Indians below saniord's wharf play
cards SUNDAY nights.
You can eat oysters now without damage to
anything but your purse.
McGilvely has laid the keel for brig of 500
tons at his ward, for p arties out of town.
The three DAYS rain of Friday, SATURDAY and
sunday did the business and the reign of dust
is over.
He that hath i'll him the blood of Nmrod
no" goeth hunting. Partridges are said to be
very abundant
Burgess X Alexander, horse ran away with
their market wagon few days ago. scattering
steaks and roasts along the street in a very
promscuouS manner.
ON Friday Thomas ogers a blacksmith,
while al work upon the new ship i'll Carriers
ard, He'll froIn a staging into the lower hold
hurting him quite severely
The annual meeting OF the Maine Conference
Ut Unitarian Churches will be held at Portland
beginning the evening of Tue sday, Oct 9th and
continuing through the TWO following days.
sheriff Norton gave Il supper at Dodges to
the seventeen whose votes elected him. 1t
suit ever. one who could pick them out-but
samuel did il. The Maine law WAS not violated.
Merchants pay a great deal of money to place
their signs before the ewes OF passerS by. If
they put 1t in the newspapers, ii is projected
into every household, and cant help attractin g
,.ttention
e. P. Carter " Go. have contracted 10 build
snip OF I400 tons. to be launched next summer.
She will tie owned by parties in Belfast and
Nearsport, and commanded hy Capt James
Ford, OF the latter place.
our fellow citizen. Charles TreadWeil, ESD,
whose home has been broken up by the recent
deceASe of Mrs f., last week sold his house
mold effects at auction, and will pass the winter
18th his daughter at Philadelphia The ancient
.nowdel-pot, which has done service on so
many festive occasions was reserved.
FATAL ACCIDENT on Friday morning last
81, fatal accident occurred on board sch. }. e.
lltew. uischarglns coal Al swan Il >lbley's
wharf. Benjamin Eaton. workman, was
thrown from q stage above the vessel, by
falling plank aud was precipitated TO the deck
Mellow. 4 distance of twenty-five feet. He
uc>er spoke sitter striking the deck, and died in
twenty minutes. His back was broken. He
was an honest. sober, industrious laborer, about
so wears of age, living upon the east side of the
afer where he leaves wife and three children.
A subscription paper has since been circulated
tor the afflicted family. headed with S25 by
swan & Sibley ia whose employ Mr.. F. was at
the time ot the accident About $500 have
been raised
HOWARD 4 CARRIES BLACK CROOK. Our
lily is 10 be favored with genuine representa-
non OF tins gorgeous play, the sight of which
has heretofore been confined TO the favored
jewellers in The larger cities. 1t is undoubtedly
the finest spectacular drama ever put upon the
Stage. Some OF our readers may recall the de-
scrption in "A letter written by the editor from
Boston iii January 1861, The company has been
Isl east a Halifax and rs specimen of the
impression produced we copy from one of the
papers vi that city
We have never had an opportunity of wit
Messing anything equal III grandeur. gorgeous
ness, diversified with real mlrth-provoking at
tributes. The scenes portrayed We're for the
most part exceedingly funny without being in
decent; the cast was well distributed; the
music il superficial and champagne-llke in its
glitter, without being what a musician would
rHil thoughtful. and the situations and scenes
are never tlresOme. But the scenic representa-
tons are truly magnificent, and unapproach
able The audience seem if gazing on a
new world. where all is OF different order
nom thl- mundane sphere; where gold and
glitter ana phanta~y are the chief ingredients.
There were men IN the Hall last evening who
seldom g}tu WAY 10 emotions OF surprise. but
who We're then and there the most frequent to
express themselves lost in wonder. The per- |
iormAnce viii continue each evening this week. |
IN tla1 lnstIp be1.1 tl a
WI have to see for themselves.
Prf innings Lecture, on Monday evening
related 10 Darwinsm, OF the theory OF develop
1ent from the lower to the higher animals.
The speaker began by reference TO the
tabled sphinx. some one had said that in the
yestibule of the temple OF knowledge there sits
and Will forever sit yelled Sphinx, putting
questions to every man no would enter This
question no man can answer, although every
man must attempt it. To-day the Sphinx is
pressing her question as never before 1t is
this suns worlds animals, men,-how came
they to be In early times the human mind
attempted answer only in language of the inn
4gination HindoO seer gave answer in a
single couplet.
Creative thought and passion in a cup
And when the seething foam had all dried up
The sediment was this bright world
Hebrew prophet gave ans wer in a hymn Of
creation which had passed into the literature o.
every civilized people on the globe. The speak
er thought that the form Of language implied
secondary forces to outwork the divine will.
The Sphinx, be said is the impersonation of
religious mystery. She will brook no irrever
lnce and no cant. What would she say to an
answer like this?-1The power which overlies
nature is ONE, and works by methods the same
N kind on either side Of nature, organic and
inorganic. a cyclone sweeps the ocean sending
tN enty ships to the bottom, We no longer call
il j miracle. Ii came as incidental to the out
working of forces good themselves and good in
the sum Of their results. The analogue of the
cyclone is found on the organic side of nature.
Ta>manian devils, sharks tigers, and wolves,
are no more miraculous creations than ship
laundering storms
We find in nature two opposing tendencies. |
There is an effort to run on forever in the same
rut-to make the offspring ali exact copy of the |
parent. There is another tendency to get out |
OF the rut and make the offspring differ from the
parent The speaker showed how man had
taken advantage of these tendencies and created
his domestic animals and plants. He then
showed how nature, unaided by man, works
n the same way. There i. great struggle for
existence" There are more mouths than NOR
sells. Goldfish lays 100000 eggs year If
all these eggs hatched, and all the codlings sur
yiyed to multiply in like manner, in five hun
dred years the sea would be palpitatng world
Of Gods, The same struggle reaches up to man.
But for wars, but for pestilene but for intoxi-
cAting drinks, but for patent medicine, but for
general stupidity TO sweep men prematurely
into the grave the 40,000,000 who people this
land OF ours, in 800 wears could over-run the