The Republican journal., 1875-04-15
News Of the City and County.
Business men complain of too much rum

1t is time tor a gold or silver mine to be fount
in Belfast
The season for loatcrs to block up doorways
ha, come.
Pilgrimages to the cave Of the pirate chic
still continue.
The condition of highway travel is about a
bad as it can be.
The season of slipping down has given place
to the reign of mud
4 few enthusiastic gardeners are digging
parsnps with crowbars.
The schools of the lower grades in this city
commenced on Monday.
Work has resumed in NIcGilyerv', Shipyard
4 bark is building there.
Large numbers of visitors We're on boare
steamer katahdin on SUNDAY.
The framing Of capt. Ford's ship in Carriers
ward vas completed on Wednesday.
The Wiuterport cheese factory has been rails
e,l. and a large crew Of men are at work.
Tue city Marshal has instructions TO clear
lJater> of from the corners, and means to do it.
We fear thai the Bibles have more dust on
-Arm than the dictionaries, in these spelling
aaN~.
MI. Charles A. Stephenson, a good and eff.
lent man, is foreman Of highway repairs in the
.iy district this wear
The vessels moored At the bridge are hauling
fo The wharve-, taking in cargocs and making
preparations 10 leave.
The Rev John W Kinds, formerly of this
ril>. BOW pastor OF the Winthrop street church
nl Augusta was visiting friends in Belfast last
week
The Ice having injured the in,hore ping of
lhe Richmond's wharf that boat will stop at
thr sanford wharf for few trips until repairs
lre made.
a rat that was discovered in the post Office q
feV days ago. gave the clerks a lively chase,
hut was killed after taking refuge in several
Irtter boxes.
The city clerk has made arrangements with
The niyersalist society for the Use Of their bell
rnt coming season, but has failed to find per-
-on 70 ring it.
l " ne 81 Il LlHll - years VI aye HAS pre-
~ented him with an heir The case is not quite
20 remarkable as that of Sarah, as related in
The Scriptures.
William Pitcher and Son are loading a schoon-
cr al the Camp Ground wharf in Northport
with hay fora southern port. Iis hauled over
land with teams.
31r. Forbes. school agent, has engaged a Miss
A}erlll OF Aroostook county, graduate of
I1e Eastern Normal school, as principal of the
select school in this city.
With all the terrible cold, Belfast harbor
would have been open weeks ago, if there had
been one southerly storm. But we have had
q singular absence of out winds
When shoemaker places the Inscription
" Gone to the shipyaId," outside his door, does
hc want people to understand that he is putting
shoes upon the keels Of vessels building there?
NEW BUILDINGS. Charles A. Brown is
building two story, French rooted dwelling
house on Belmont avenue, and Horatio H. Car
ier is making preparations 10 erect one on
Park street.
Eight pounds of powder in Il tin can, eXplod-
ed a dozen feet under the ice, failed to blow 1t
up on Friday ON Monday the place had
Jhawed ont itself-whiclI was a good deal
heaper than satpetre.
The attention of those who desire nice and
Well lifting shirts, i called to the advertisement
Of Charles Custis 4 Co., Portland. We can
speak from experience OF the extelencies of
Iheir manufactures in that line.
Horatio has lately been greasing the wheels
ment has agam commenced to mark time.
Now when the bell rings we shall be ourselves
again. L. ;. 1t is dead again.
A Capt. Frye, of Camden, who left the San
horn House without paying his stable bill, and
afterwards struck the stable boy with his whip,
besides tiourlshing a pistol, was before the
Police Court on Monday, and fined
Next Sunday evening, at the Unitarian
Church, The Pastor, Rev. j. T. BiXby, will re-
peat by request his sermon entitled, ''rhe Book
Uf Life This will close the series of evening
diScourses at this church for the present season.
Mr.. George Cottrell has the frame of a schoon-
tT at his yard, and work will commence May
ISL 1t Is TO be a three masted double decked
schooner ot 800 tons. owned by parties in this
'ity, and to be commanded by Capt. Rufus B.
Ond0n.
Since The ftlSifying of bills have been traced
10 the State Liquor Agency, it will do no harm
Tor the authorities of Palermo to make closer
inquiry about those missing four barrels OF
rum J on can't always tell by the length o.
eats tail how far she will jump.
Observe the advertisement of Fred Atwood
Of Winterport, who rises up at the voice of thu
bird, and proclaims that the very best agricul
lural implements for all the various depart
nents of farming can be had of him. Fred i
live man, and means every word he says.
steamer City Of Richmond will leave Port
-. This fine boat has been overhauled tn,
past winter and thoroughly renovated in ma
chinery, hull, cabins and furniture, and will
come upon the route in first rate condition.
The building OF summer residences at tn,
amp Ground has already commenced, and thu
prospect is that large number will be put III
The present season. 1t is getting to be pop,l
strangers, particularly from the interior, VIII
ENJOY the cool breezes from the bay.
Two locomotives have recently been dam
aged, one badly, by rocks rolling down upol
the track of the Belfast Branch Railroad. !
gang OF men are now at work along the line re
moving all loose boulders that are liable to b
detached by the spring rains, and it is to b
hoped that disasters from this source will cease
A piece OF land in the south part of the tow
was last week seeded with grass and Glove
sown broadcast upon the snow. A huge foe
OF blackbirds, scentng the feast. swoope
down upon the sowing and gobbled if up quick
er than you could say Jack Robinson The
are going to send deputation to inquire whe
the owner will SOW it again.
Beechers counsel have been writing to thi
city, TO learn what day Tilton was here in 1877:
what he did, &c. 1t all sums up that he wa
here Sept 5, stopped at the American Hous
with Mrs. Tilton, made speech in the ev,
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