The Republican journal., 1874-10-01
News Of the City and County.

Wm Pitcher X Son are loading sch sarah L
Davis with hay for Wilmington, \. C.
There has been remarkable absence of hisl
winds this fall. Perhaps we shall catch it by
and by.
The knowing ones piscatorially are getting
their lines ready with IN eve to those big trout
in Swan Lake.
The shade trees are putting on varied colors
and soon the naples will fame with all theil
autumn gories.
Judge Barrows will hold the next term o
the Supreme Court in this city, which com
mences Oct. Goth.
The Belfast Shoe factory people are turning
ont some monster shoes No. 12'S, weighing
four pounds per pair.
j. d. Tucker invites attention to his notice OF
an excellent lot of shotcs.-Top buggy for sale
by Thomas Cannon
At the close Of the Black Crook performance
Friday evening, the company was taken to
Rockland on steamer Pioneer, chartered ox-
pressly for that purpose.
A company from Brook, came oven the rail
road track saturday evening in a hand car, to
attend Masonic meeting
ON Saturday farmer was searching for q
ten gallon keg of cider which had adunaccountably
disappeared from his wagon.
A person subject to attacks of heart trouble
had a severe attack on the square last Sunday.
| He WAS nsensible for time.
Taylor Durgin, former resident OF Belfast
but more recently we'll known citizen Of Ban
gor died in that city on Monday
Death has visited one OF the Indian tents ill
this city The body WAS taken TO OldtoWn TO
be placed in the tomb OF ite fathers.
Leaves have their time 10 fall" SAYS the
poet and that melancholy season has begun.
1t reminds Us that = we all do fade a. the leaf"
A valuable mare belonging to Ed Whittier
| was kicked by another horse last week, break
/ ing the leg which neceSsitated her being Killed.
| John Stewart is making his house 10 core
1 spond with the new addition al the rear, by
casing it with brick and putting on Il manSard
| root.
| While driving i'll from the Trottng Park at
| lively gait on Saturday, Geo. O. Bailey was
| thrown from his carriage and considerably
| bruised.
The new schooner building i'll Carriers yard
| tor John Bird, of Rockland. is nearly complet-
ed and will launch soon. She has been named
the :. NJ Bird.
The Wilson X Clarke theatrical company did
| not succeed in this city After struggling tor
few niohtS with ,i,.ht and small a1lIi,aucaS il
! dissolved, and each went his or her separate
ways
Mr. White has sold the Phenix House in this
city to Il. II. Mitchell of Appleton, who will
| take possession in about three weeks The
price to be paid is $1,000, not including the fur
niture.
The entorcers Of the liquor law are resting
on their election laurels, while the spiruous
traffic goes right along. A len cent scrip will
entice drink from i great many shelves in
the city.
col Hiram Chase raises pears of the variety
called Clapp's Favorite, that he thinks better
than the Bartlett. Among lot laid upon our
table was one that measured nine inches in
circumference.
SOME professors OF three card monte came
upon the wharf from the steamer Kataldin on
Tuesday, and began their little game. one cit
lzen came near putting up so, which he would
OF course have lost.
The Teachers Institute for th- county viii
be held this wear at Searsport, commencing
Oct. 1ztlI ttG continuing ltc days. The tAvI-
cises will be conducted by Hon. John II. French
and Prot. n. A. Luce.
The match between Washington Engine Go.
ana the Zimmerman of Ellsworth is OFF. The
chaengers would concede no rights TO the
challenged party, the other side says, hence the
difficulty i'll arranging for trial.
POLICE COURT William G. Kendall IS.
Joseph Larrabee. Threatening TO Kill. Parties
belonging in Swanyi.le. Larrabee was ordered
to give bond of $500 to keep the peace for one
year Failing 10 procure the bond he went to
Jail
The Black Crook, at Hayford Hall on Friday
evening, was in scenic effect the most gorgeous
exhibition that ever visited this city, and the
performances in all departments were exceed
ingly good. The hall was filled TO its utmost
capacity by an audience OF our best people,
who We're well pleased.
The manager of the Black Crook troupe says
that Hayford Hall is the best that he has found
| during his recent tour from New ork to Hall
| fax. Advertiser.
! The hall is a credit to the city, and our peo-
| pie owe to Mr. Hayford leht Of gratitude for
having built it.
| In its account of the mechanical devices at
the State Fair the Lewiston journal says
l.. r. Palmer, of Belfast, exhibited ad
| Unstable stave lointer tor edglng slaves, which
is automatic, and adjusts the staves TO its prop
| er proportions. We should think this machine
| must prove Indispensable to every cask manu-
| facturer.
The season of masquerade balls is upon lis.
The first came OIL Friday evening at Thomas
Storers, in Morrill, One hundred and fifty
were present. A picnic supper was one of the
features A very enjoyable time was had, in
which the genial and good natured countenance
of our friend Thomas was conspicuous. 1t is
one of the best places in the county to enjoy
ones self
A man i'll the vicinity who raises choice
squashes came into town with dozen big ones
in his wagon, and Went into store, leaving his
small boy in charge. He had heard his father
offer them at two cents, which he interpreted
to mean two cents each, and closed Out the
dozen 10 the first conner for "A cents. The
buyer who is something of joker, made il
all right.
Ph9niX Lodge of +. IL A. Masons entertain
ed visiting brethren, to the number of 1875, in Il
: truelv Masonic manner on Saturday evening
last 1t was on the occasion of a raising tC
the 30 or sublime degree. Al the close of the
meeting they repaired to Pierce's Hall, wher'
tables were spread, and were served with ho1
coffee and clam chowder, prepared in Havner''
best style. Those who believe ladies are indis
pensable to social entertainment, should have
been there and seen how one hundred anC
twenty-five men can enjoy themselves when as
/ sembled under the broad span of fraterna
S brotherhood. At eleven O'Clock the compan,
6 dispersed, filed with the hest of faelings an,