The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-20
News Of the City and County.

The thermom eters were very low one veal
ago this time.
Large nu mbcrs OF people are looking abou
the streets for employment
rung loads of frozen tom Gods in our street:
challenge the appetites Of friends of the frying
pan
Morse & Dickey at Searsmont, have finished
their new sash factory and dedicated ii last Fri
day evening with dance.
John Knight. of Searsmont, man over &C
wears of age, was taken to Augusta, Monday
insane to be placed in the asylum.
Railroadng has been easy the past winter
Conductor Mace hasn't had occasion to run a
snow plow upon the Belfast road thus far.
All vessels in port flew their bunting at halt
mast. Saturday, in respect to the late Capt. AL
bert Mckeen, who was buried on that day.
The Belfast Amateur Dramatic Club, last
week. drew the largest crowd, with one excep-
lion. that ever assembled in Hayford Hall
The proposition to divide the town of Mont
lille and set of Il portion to Liberty, is again
before the Legislature, and is to make a hot
ught.
This has been very nearly Il bare ground
,.inter thu> far, and the old Farmers Almanac
doesn't say snow for The remainder of the
,s,on.
A detective from the L. ). Internal r 4yenue
department, wa, in this city last week. to see
who was selling the prohibited fluid without a
license,
Mrs. atnurue Shaw, one of the help in the
American House, fell backward down the eel
llr stairs Monday forenoon, bruislng and niur-
mig herself severely.
Mr. tharles A. Pilsburv of this city. who re-
-ar> Ill Washington during the winters. has
he,.u appointed clerk of the Congressional
tummittee> ON Manufacture and Agriculture.
SHIPMENTS. Pitcher Il Gorham have load
.d srh. Belle Brown with hay for Baltimore,
aud >ch Gen. Mead for Boston. Joseph kaer
l4- loaded sch. j. 5. Gilmore with plaster and
bay for Baltimore.
Mrs., Mckeen arrived home Thursday eve
ling nf last week. with The remains OF her hus-
naud who died on board sch VIM. Frederick,
--pt Slh. the account Of which appeared in the
Journal some lime since.
Onr evening last week the flats on the east
side IL The harbor We're brilliantly Illuminated
by ire, and lanterns, which enabled the clam
lger> TO entce those bivalyes from the mud
gracefully as in daylight.
Mrs. Midget, Of Prospect, was overturn-
r,i in L carriage Oh the east side last Thursav
While descending hin, and had her hip diSlo-
,Htcd She was brought to the house of John
Stewart, where Dr.. Homer attended her.
The small pox has broken out in Morrill,.
p0 Friday of last week Mrs. Nathan Greer
lied OF the disorder, and there are other eases
reporied. Belfast physicians pronounce it
Genuine small pox. 1t is not known how the
disease found it, way there.
Numerous drunken brawls occurred Oh
Wednesday evening OF last week. Signs and
lin cutters were pulled from buildings on High
treet, the large glass in front of Col. Hiram
base, ieWelry store was broken in, and the
streets INSTRUCTED with rubbish.
One year ago next Monday the steamer ka-
lahdin broke her way through eight inches of
ice to her wharf in this city, where she remain
ed twelve weeks. Hundreds of people were
on the ice and walked up the harbor beside her,
as She slowly made her way through.
Capt. Geo. P. Ames has gone to New York
10 take command of the three masted sch. VIM.
Frederick of Belfast. Capt. IIassel who brought
The vessel from Europe sick on the pas
,age, and at one time came near putting into
Fityal, Where the vessel went on the death of
her former captain.
The female mind Is perpleNeda great deal on
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IN place, and the masculnes are apt TO carry
Them or on their shoulders, rs the porpose
l.lrries the ti>hermen's net The Centennial
ldN Button, is a neat invention that obvates
This. Sold by Johnson Il Co. See advertise
ment.
Lewis Nelson, a sail maker, has done con-
-lrrahle travelling in the ten years in which he
has worked at the loft of Thombs & Osborne
ju this city. He lives four miles away and goes
over the road twice day, making eight miles.
He has averaged two hundred working days
year for the past ten years which makes the
'ulai amount travelled 10000 miles, or two
thirds the distance around the globe.
The testimony of Allen, one of the survivors
of the lost steamer Pacific, in which he asper-
-es The memory Of the late j. NJ. Lewis, of this
city, who was third officer of the ship, has
allied forth great deal of indignant comment
The san Francisco papers publish letters from
Goodall, Nelson & Persons, owners of the Pa
ritic. and from j. W. Grace & Co., asserting
That the testimony Of Allen cannot possibly be
lrur, and giving Mr.. Lewis the best of character
LAUNCH. The new bark Emma L. Partridge
Was successfully launched, Saturday, from the
,hipyard OF Captain Henry McGilyery. The
vessel has been upon the stocks nearly two
wears, and has been finished the present winter
by Henry Staples, of Stockton. The bark is a
very line vessel of 800 tons, principally owned
in Stockton, from which port she will hail
apt. A. V. Partridge Of that town will COM
mand her She now lies at Frederick's wharf
and will load hay for uhern port.
Beside the remains Of Capt. Mckeen, the
train of Thursday evening brought the dead
BODY OF y. IL. Coombs son of Capt. Lincoln
tOombs of lslesboro, who was accidentally
killed at Gibraltar, Spain, September last, by
falling overheard from his fathers vessel, and
Striking the gunwae of the boat lying along
side. Mr.. Coombs was young man 10 years
Of age, and was making the voyage for his
health. He had formerly been engaged in trade
at islesboro, and is highly spoken of by mer-
chants in this city with whom he did business.
One of the funny episodes of the life matr-
monial occurred at the recent term of the Su-
prcmc Court in this city Sarah Hunt petition
ed for divorce from her husband, Enoch
Hunt. The parties belong in Thorndike. The
husband is 81 years of age, and the wife 70, and
the marriage had subsisted between them less
> than one year. Somehow loves young dream
had not been realized, the machinery did not
run smoothly, and the unhappy Sarah applied
to the court. Judge Dickerson gave patient at
tention to the recital of troubles, brought his
Judicial wisdom to bear on the case, and decd-
ed to sever the bonds. So EnOch translated to