The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-02-03
February comes in as mild as need be.


installed on Tuesday evening by the NJ. ?.
Grand Master. s. H. Boyntou of Rockland
1t is said that the small pox was brought TO
Morrill, by tramp, who sojourned for day
and departed, leaving the disorder as Il legacy.
AAttention is called to the advertisement of
the Freedom Academy, NJ J. Dow. of Brooks,
Principal-Sch. for sale, by J. II. Lane. Sears
port.
This week ha, been prolific of weather
changes There have been calm and pleasant
DAYS snow storms, rains, and this "wednesday
afternoon there are clustering snow squalls.
Belfast Lodge Of Good Tempars has won the
banner, having initiated IA more members
than any other lodge in the state since last De-
tobcr ON Monday the Deering lodge, their
competitor. acknowledged their defeat by tele
graph, and sent congratulations to Belfast.
The ladies Of the UniNersalist society propose
TO present. ON the evening OF the !lst instant,
at Iayford HAIL. a Mother Goose Reception,
and the alegory Of lndne. This will be fol-
lowed, ON the evening of the 22nd, by several
patriotic representations. and eyec and leap
veal dance.
The stockholders of the Masonic Temple As
,ociation had meeting Tuesday evening. ac-
ceptcl their charter from the Legislature, and
drew up "a code Of by-Iaw,. Hiram Chase. y.
T Houston. j. y. Cottrel, II. l. kgore and
a b. Mathews were chosen Directors Hiram
has, Was afterw rds chosen President and \.
g. Burgess Clerk
a. ,,J
TENT example but we are afraid will have but
few followers She OWLS house, portion of
which she rents When her tenant rendered
d. reut, She remarked that inasmuch as it was
very hard times, She would reduce the rent SO
per year, which is over Il per cent.
une of the girls working in the stitching room
at the shoe factory had dog which regularly
brought her dinner to her. On Tuesday he
brought it as usual deposited it under ma
chine, and wagged his tail in evident satisfac
non. In doing So his busly tail became en-
tangled in the >haf1ng that was making 500 rev
buttons minute; he was drawnu up and around
il a. least one hundred times, his head striking
The floor at each revolution. OF course the dog
Ua> killed. and that was the last of poor Caper.
MYSTERY The house of Mrs. Washburn |
m this city Is now unoecupied, save that two
rooms are used for lodgings by Messrs. Wash |
burn and klgore Last Sunday morning Mr.. |
" found on the kitchen floor piece of appar |
entity genuine and valuable commercial paper, |
which reads thus
$4a469. New York, Dec. Is, 1875.
Four months after date promise pay to the |
order of Thompson. Brown & Co. -Four Hundred
AMI Twenty Two, GS-1Ooth Dollars, at d41 Broad |
way. n Y. Value Received. JAMES MILLER.
No. III Due Apl. Is, u.
This is regularly endorsed Thompson, Brown |
n Co." andthe question is, how the deuce did it |
get there
The Morrill, people claim that the reports in
regard to the small poX in that town were only |
a ''Scare," and reliable parties from there say |
hat there has probably not been Il single ease
# tho disease in town. Prog Age.
conc Of the "reliable parties" above alluded to
is Joseph II. Mears, a prominent citizen of the
Town. ON his return home after leaving the
above information with the Age, Mr.. Mears
was himself taken sick, with an eruption Of the
face, and has since been confined TO his house,
with 4 red flag displayed at the door. Under
the circumstances we have concluded TO adhere
10 our original statement, that there is small
Don in Morrill,
Little Charlie Hartford was on Monday SEN
fenced to the Reform school on complaint of
his father for stealing few pennies. His mo-
Their Is dead. and he has been thrown upon the
cold charities Of others. with DO one to guide
his erriug footsteps save father, who for this
offence sends him away thus. Stealing a few
pennies, Probably he never had cent in his
life he could call his own, and the sight of lit
'Ie money tempted him to steal. We remember
charlie before his mother-his best friend
died He was her baby. and she loved him
JcnIerIy. a neatcr or better behaved boy was
not upon the street. We saw him yesterday in
custody of Sheriff Norton, but he looked happy,
md seemed quite a hero, as the other little bows
gathered round him. Perhaps he will be better
of where he is going, than if left to grow up
amid the influences that have surrounded him
for the past few years
JACKSONVILLE, Jan. 25-The matches OF the
sChr. Florida were again removed Yesterday.
and the fire was found to be so far subdued that
The work of discharging the cargo com
menCed and all the hay, amounting to 80 bales,
taken out; 1000 barrels of lime, about two
thirds of when is stacked, still remains to be
taken out. The fire. which still shoulders. will |
be Smothered with sand as the work of breaking
out the cargo proceeds. The owners now enter
tain strong hoFes of saving the vessel.
Jacksonville. Jan. 2S. The expectation in
dulged in on Monday that it would now be pos
>ible to unload the balance Of the cargo of sch.
Florida and save the veSssl has failed. Iester-
day after the matches were removed the smol-
dering fire broke out the fire and smoke driving |
the workmen from their labors. The matches |
were replaced and preparations made to sink |
the vessel. In the afternoon several holes We're |
rut in the side, while the Mechanics steam fire |
engine and the donkey engine stationed up the |
wharf began pouring several streams of water |
INTO the vessel and continued the work without |
ntermission until about IL O'Clock in the |
evening" when the vessel slowly careened to the |
>tarboard side and sank in about - feet of wa |
Ter. The vessel now lies mOored to the wharf, |
The starbOard side of her deck about four feet |
under water, and the bulWarks on the other |
side (nearest the wharf, as many feet above the |
water. The FIRE IS now completely eXtinguished |
and the work of pumping out the water and |
raising the vessel viii soon commence.
ICE CUTTING. IAzeltinc & Bickford COM |
menced harvesting their ice on Monday, but
lid not fairly get to work until Tuesday, when
they cut and stored 500 tons. Their machinery
and facilities for the work cannot be surpassed
by any company in the state. Fifty men and
Two horses are employed in the work, but ma
chinery performs the principal part of the Ia
Dor. Inc Ice Is 1Irst marked OF, then ploWed
10 the depth of eight inches. A strip is then
cut off and toated to the elevator, where it is
iunked up in cakes and hoisted out of the wa
ter. This elevator is an endless chain running
up an inclined plane, worked by water power.
There are in fact two chains, some four feet
apart, and at regular intervals bars of wood
are attached to them, like rounds in a ladder.
The foot of the elevator is under water. A
cake Of ice is sunk down, which washes it, I'M
til it is caught by one of these bars in the chain
and taken up the plane, then another, and so
on-three or four being continually on their
way. When it arrives al the top it enters 4
suice-way and is carried to and through the
doorways into the building, and is stored.
There is a continual stream of ice from the
pond TO the storehouse. The same process
can be used in loading a vessel at the wharf