The Republican journal., 1876-03-09

Lots OF old papers for wrappers, for sale at this
Office.
The quotations OF the thermometer getting
lower every day
Charles r Richards was last week elected Captain
Of No. engine.
Percy sanborn is lettering very handsome sign
for Masonic Hall, Searsport.
Capt Thomas W Warren has gone to Boston to
lake command of the sch. Dione, of Belfast.
This is the season for laying in supply of ice for
domestic use. Picked in sawiust, it keeps well
SHIPMENTS. Pitcher & Gorham are loading sch.
Paragon with hay, and sch james Holmes with ice
for New York.
HAY is accommodating fast in the store houses OF the
dealers. In the ice excitement dried grass is looked
upon a. not OF much account
lee trclghs are very good now, considering the De
preston il business Charters made in this
city last week for jacksonville, Fla $50 per ton.
and sl,50 to New lork
There will be lively times at the polls next Mon
day. The Democrats should be on hand. and get
ont p full vote. We don't want any rabcocks or
Beknaps around our city treasury.
IN its report of the attempt to throw the train off
at Unity, the Prog. Age says clue has been OBJ
tanned OF the perpetrators" That's where the
cal~ are Shire wd, not to convict themselves.
The Prog. Age quotes at the words Of Mare An
tony oh mighty Cesar! dost thou lie low"
No most noble Roman, we don't. There's publ
cation issued from City Block that lie enough,
Ugh or low, for the whole commonwealth.
Friday evening man picked up letter in the
H>ul, of the po>toice addressed to the Treasurer
of Belfast" Visions Of checks, drafts and green
backs fitted through his brain. but being an odd Eel
low Ne deposited it in tho letter box and quietly
walked away.
The Prog Ag, thinks if had something like
alt Of our news items in Il western paper. quite
ukeiy History, both local and general, repeats il
self Even solomon failed 10 discover anything new
under the sun, and only faithfully record the
happenings, wise and otherwise.
The Prog Age says there have recently been drunk
ia lnen in the streets and that the Reform Club
wants 10 know where in thunder they get their rum.
rraps from the laundering corrupt whiskey ring
d st. Louis, before lightning struck it. They could
nave contri'td WAY" you know,
fIalibut all the way from Georges Bank, Via
Gloucester, appears in our market. journal
Jerusha what string Of en-! Age
Then "all the way is Il fish way. The statutes
provide Tor them over mill dams, but not that they
shall be full offsh Any mill dam fool ought 10 know
tiat
Wild, stormy March, has come a last,
With snow and rain and driving sleet. Age.
Notwithstanding all it, practice in that direction,
The Age doesn't seem 10 improve much on the poets
3ryunts really beautiful lines on March commence
The stormy March has come at last,
With wind and cloud and changing skies.
And most people will prefer it to the Age version
The muskrats have taken to unwontcd ways this
winter. Last week, while was unloading
wood at the residence of II. \. Palmer, he discov-
cred one of those animals by the roadside and be
iOre the rodent was aware of what going on, he
mad been knocked the head, skinned, and his pelt
sold to Bean for twenty five cents, boy killed a
Iuuskrat in the barn of Hiram Pierce, on Waldo Av
euue few days ago.
Major Jackson, of the ice dealing firm OF r. f.
Jackson & Son, Petersburg, Va, has been in our
ctv recently and contracted for 1000 tons of ice, to
be delivered at that place. Major j. was of rebel
ou- tendencies during the war and bears the marks
ot ankee bullets; but he is an exceedingly pleas
ant gentleman, and just the kind of man we like to
see coming here to trade. Between such and the
north let there in future be other GOODNESS than
good clear ice at two dollars per ton.
The lectures before he Lowell Institute, Boston.
l Rev Mr. BiXby. OF this city, very highly spok-
ga Of By the press OF THAT city. rhc Post of the I'd
r4ys-
Rev James f. BiNbv delivered last evening. at the
Lowell Institute, the third OF his course OF lectures
Physical Theories and Religious Faith, the subject
Being, What can We know and how" Mr. BiNby
Jtgan by speaking OF The craving after knowledge
mar pervadts all minds. We begin by inquiring into
the construction of the common objects around us
and progress the inyesg CATION OF the cause OF eN
lsteuct Of the rocks, and other objects OF ma
and to the conscience Itself. The speaker con
-eed the position which science has held in regard
In piiyip wi Slp
orders into close confinement Science declares what
she has learned and how she has learned il by obser
alton, instruction and Heritication Mr. BiXby stat
I'd that Oldashioned ntideity, by its blunt state
that there il no God struck its own death blow
lille modern materalism tries to lead us away when
II says whether there is God OF not, we can never
know anything about Him, He then proceeded to
prove his claim that able to search into the IN
hHt, 10 some extent Dy intuition, when Is is Teii'l
Die rs is observation. We are not more liable to be
deceived in our iutuitions than by senses. The
lecture was very interesting and was we'll received
The RAILROAD FIEND. We last week recorded
attempt throw the Belfast train from the track
near Unity Pond. The perpetrator has since been
caught and is in Jail. His name is VIM. Barns
seventeen years of age, lately inmate of the Unity
poor house Conductor Mace notified detective Heal
he employ of the Maine Central Company, of the
attrmpt, who at once commenced to work up the
ctsc. A store Unity broken into the same
night, and Barns was suspected of both cases. lie
was tracked TO DiXmont, thence to Bangor, where he
mad half brother living, and was arrested at mid
night Wednesday of last week, and taken to Unity.
lie examined Thursday before Justice r. s Rich,
bound over to the $ j. Court, and brought to this
city same evening. He made partial confession to
Detective Heal and said that after he had obstruced
f.,r track he concealed himself under boat ON the
shore of the pond near by, and waited developments.
When asked his object, he replied that he wanted
how train would look running off the track.
The penalty for such offence is imprisonment for
term ranging from ten years to life, in the discre
ton of the court He was also held for breaking the
store iii Unity. Barns is a very hard case, but has
secured safe place probably for the remainder
OF his days.
FIRES. ON Wednesday evening about nine o'clock
alarm of fire and bright light in southcrly di-
r4cton indicated confagration in that part of the
city. 1t was found 10 proceed from an old and unoc
cupicd house on land owned by heirs Of Thomas
lickard, on Northport Avenue. The house was en-
trcly consumed Those earliest on the spot after the
alarm discovered i'll the light the tracks of the
two ncendiaries, pointing towards Congress street
The house was formerly the homestead Of jonathan
White, father of Martin T. White of Belfast, and
Jonathan White of Rockland, who emigrated from
Chester, n H., in 1875, and built the house in $500.
The lot on which il stood was the selected for
me depot OF the projected ana
road in 1896.
Friday midnight the alarm again sounded, when Il
woodshed in the of, and belonging to- the brick
tenement block Spring street, owned by j. Y. Nc
Cintock was found to be on fire. The flames when
discovered had made rapid progress, and soon com
muncated with the wooden finish at the of the
block and worked through to the interior of the attic
The fire department hand, but found it
tremely difficult to force water so high. There We're
ten families living in the four tenements of the block
F A. Staples and Vincent W Anes in the first
X f. Clark, Mr.. Earle, and Mrs. Waterman in the
second; Elisha H Haney and Mrs. Tollman in the
third, and Granville Paul Charles Critchett and m
Black in the fourth The whole block was filled with
smoke, which greatly alarmed the tenants The hose
from the engines was led through the apartments OF
Clark Haney and Paul, 10 the roof and completely
flooded the building, doing more damage than the
fire. The night was quite calm, which prevented the
spread of the flames. The fire eXtinguished at
ter DESTROYING the roof. Each family sustained more