The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1875-10-14
Are we to have any Indian summer?

| The ground froze on Tuesday night for the
first time this season.
VIM. Pitcher & Son have loaded schr. Dionc
with hay for Savannah, Ga.
The Methodist bell has become cracked BY
some accident, and gives forth a strange sound.
There are now at the County Jail in custody
OF the sheriff 1900 gallons of contiscatcd liquors.
all seized in this city.
| Joseph bennett has in his yard an apple tree
in full bloom, sight which contrasts strangely
with the falling eaycs.
In consequence of the illness Of Judge Thur
| Tough, the Probate Court stands adjourned to
the third Tuesday of October.
Frank Darby, a young man about 20 years of
age, living with his mother near Little River,
has been adjudged an insane person. lie was
on Monday sent to the Lunatic Asylum al Au-
| gusta, by the city authorities.
| A magnificent sunset on Monday night,
crowned the dark and gloomy day with a halo
Of glory. The city spires and the woods that
fringe the eastern hills We're touched by tints
| that the painter art never knew.
| The iron has been laid on the railroad extern
sion rs far as simpsons wharf and within
few yards Of the shIp-building IN Carriers yard,
and there it viii end for The present. The first
gravel train Of eight cars passed over it Tues
! day afternoon. Ii viii be completed by the
| last OF this week.
The grand sweepstakes OF the Waldo Fair
Will come OH to-day Thursday Mt the Park
Some lively trottng may be expected Among
! the contestants are Granite Boy, Young Buch
anan. the Aver horse and several other noted
road,tcrs. Young Buchanan and Granite BOY
are the fayorites
Capt. Timothy Warren. living in The western
! part of ward one died Very suddenly on Mon
| day morning. lie had been i'll his usual health
and was sitting in a chair when his wife no1ic-
| ed that his face was turned towards the floor
and supposed that he was looking at something
| She spoke. but he did not reply, and on going
| 10 him be was found to be dead. lie was GO
! years Of age.
! Mrs. Kent Mason, the lady lecturer on tenn
| perance, is held in high estimation BY the lead
| ing friends of the cause. Hon. Joshua Nye, III
4 letter Of introduction 10 the friends of tenn
| perance at Rochand, says
| ''Mrs. Mason is a lecturer whom, if your peo-
! pie once hear, will desire to hear again our
| people were delighted with her temperance
| lecture given before the reform club here, on
| Sunday evening. il had the genuine ring in il.
| She is Il whoc-souled, pure wonan."
The Black Crook company gave very fair
performances il this city. The gymnastc por-
ton of the exhibition was very good indeed
The play was we'll gotten up in most particll-
lars, but was a failure in the important point
Of the physique of the girls. A LEG drama W it'll
such developments as those, is like the play of
Hamlet with Hamlet omitted. Our Young men
who are supposed to be posted in those mat
tiers, turned up their noses with contempt. A
! modern poet says that
"The devil fishes best for souls of men
When his hook is baited with a lovely limb"
Bat that venerable angler couldn't have rcplcn-
ished his bait box from Off the stage on this De-
casion.
UNITY RACES. Five races were trottcd at
this park on Friday and Saturday of last week,
with very satisfactory results. The rain of
Thursday caused postponement, and was
somewhat detrimental to the course. Two
races, the 2.}J and 30 classes for purses Of
There were ten horses started in the first race,
mile heats, best i'll ) to harness. Il. A, Hunt
| Of Unity. r. II. Mitchell OF Belfast and Horace
Nelson Of China We're the judges. O. A Black
ington's bl. g 0zr0. won the first money, Gen.
Lyon "a, and Ralph Sd. Best time :i3. In
the 2.5J race four horses started. j. $. Ayers
h. G. Aver took the first money, Knox Jr. "a,
and Gen. Lee 81. Best time 31. On Saturday
three races We're troted, in thirteen heats ".
c. Marshall of Belfast, +. +. Morton of Thorn
dixie and j. n VIM of Clinton were judges, |
and H. o. Russell of Belfast, timer. In the
first race the horse Ozro took first money, time
, - -. Purse $40. The second race Was iot
800. and six horses started, and was Won by
j. f. Clements e. Gen. Lyon. Best time
2 40 81 The third or sweepstakes race wa,
Tor $500 open 10 all horses and had four con
teStants, and was won by ]. Fairbanks b. Z.
Plymouth Rock. Best time . - -.
TIE FAIR. The tWcnty-eghth annual Cat
tie Show and Fair Of the Waldo Co. Agricul-
tural Society, advertised to commence Monday.
was postponed TO Tuesday, owing to the rain.
The fair opened with rather small attendance,
but perhaps as large as usual. The samples OF
produce were light, but of Il Very excellent
quality. The show of farm stock was unusll-
ally large and very fine, some monstrons cattle
being present. We didn't see any fancy stock
on the ground. The usual quantity of rugs.
| quilts and fancy needle work WAS displayed,
| ana looked very attractive. The attendance of
people was 81 i'm, owing partly TO the rawness
| Of the weather, and nothing Interesting to draw
| them out. 1t has come to the pass that unless
| there is a good horse trot the occasion fails to
| draw crowd. The comparing and exhibiting
Of farm produce does not excite that interest for
| which the exhibitions were intended, and every
thing centres iii the horse. If you own good
| square trotter you stand Il sight to command
| attention and win purse. while he OF the big
! squashes, pumpkins, and ripe yellow corn, de-
| cious fruit, or she of the dairy or domestic
work, &C., may get premium Of Il dollar.
| The premium offered for the best pair Of beef
| oxen fattened within thc county is So. while
the purse for trotting horse is often $500
| The jockies run the concern. The larger por-
! ton Of Monday was consumed in entering the
! articles a trial Of oXcn and a trot i'll the after
noon. The races were for three and five years
| old horses, and were uninteresting. But two
started in each race, and the time was some in
side of four minutes. The second was for the
! examination of stock, &C., with Il trot. The
third and last day was for the awarding of pre-
mitlms and the grand sweepstakes race
FREEDOM A young man about twenty years
of age, calling himself VIM. Brooks, was ar
rested here last Sunday, for larceny and forgery
in Lewiston. A despatch was Immediately sent
| 10 Lewiston, and an officer arrived on the eve
ming train last Monday night, and took him 10
| Lewiston next morning.
| MONROE. The Waldo and Penobscot Agri-
cultural Society held the annual show and fair
at their grounds in this town Oct Sth and 9th.
| The weather was favorable, and the show
| nro,.ol o,,n of thnir hort tTho Stool- uoootn-