The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-27
News of the City and County.


tolerable seighing.
How would a $50, 900 Masonic Temple look
on Lancasters corner:
The centennial tidy buttons are going like
hot cakes at johnson & Co.'S.
A lodge of Good Templars has been organ
lied at Halls Corner, Belmont.
In the gang Of 25 paving stone cutters at City
point, six nations are represented.
The lack of good travelling makes trade dull,
and dealers are feeling rather blue.
Ii is proposed by the officers of Corinthian
r. A. Chapter TO have public installation.
The Masons of Belfast will petition the Leg
stature TO be incorporated into Building As
ISOLATION
Terribly hard time 10 get drink now. Bel
fast never experienced such y drought in the
whi,kcy line.
Martin Patterson, of the east side, slipped
on the street, Monday, and broke both bones OF
The leg below the knee.
The owner of those sixteen barrels of whis-
key can appropriately quote shakspere-"Oh.
thou i,4risible spirit of wine.''
Horace Thurlow took his white squirrel to
the Poultry show at Portland last week, and
drew two prizes OF s. and s..
Pitcher 4 Gorham are loading sch. Frank
Jameson with hay for Charleston; also sch.
Lizzie Carr, for southern port.
Men who contract to clear the walks of SHOW
are having AN easy time thus far this winter.
But February and March are coming.
Ii all that seized whskey shall be suffered to
run into the harbor, won't there be danger of
getting tight by eating clans from the flats
The detective recently here had no trouble in
Identifying the railroad wood, as it is all sawn
with circular saw. The piferers didn't think
OF that.
A chimney on Il tenement building owned by
AXel Hayford, on Federal street, was over
thrown by the high wind of Friday. and smash
ed IN the roof
Among the local newspaper news it is assert
sd IN good authority that Mr.. Lucius II. Murch,
late editor Of the suspended Weekly Advertis-
er has become assistant editor of the Prog.
Age.
Capt Robert Ii. Coombs left last Tuesday for
The Cora. Capt. James r. Hartman, now
IN command of the Cora, will be transferred
10 the Alice Buck.
The case of the Il bottles of Golden Sheaf
whiskey that was seized on the steamboat
wharf recently, came before the Police Court.
saturday. No one claiming the liquor. it was
ordered TO be destroyed.
Three deaths have occurred in Morrill, the
past week from small poX, and additional cases
are reported. Mr.. Morrill,, at Belmont has
closed his store, and other precautions have
been taken to arrest the spread OF the disorder.
It was pretty good price that was obtained
by Gov. Crosby and eo-heirs for the lot of land
at the corner of Main and High streets. The
lot is ~ by s. containing 402S square feet. At
$500 this would be Sl.SG per foot, or at the
rate of SSl ,239 per acre.
y Hudson, Mass, paper gives an account of
the partial burning of the Trip Bros box
factory and saw mill at that place recently.
The MesSrs. Trip are Searsport men, and re-
reiye very fiattering notices from the Hudson
paper Their loss WAS about 81 ,000 no insur-
ance. They Immediately repaired and resumed
operations.
AT the October session of the Grand Lodge
OF Good Templars silk banner was offered TO
the lodge that would make the largest gain OF
members from that time to the first of February.
The contest has narrowed down to Belfast
Lodge and lodge near Portland. At their
meeting last week, Belfast lodge initiated Al
candidates, and 81 at a previous meeting. They
l,,f,
They believe they will win the prize and be-
come the banner lodge Of the state.
There is trouble in the town school at Jack
son, where several large boys attempted to take
charge of the school house, the teacher incud-
ed, but came to grief. Mr.. Harry II. Thurston
Of Belfast, is teaching the uneXpired term of
former master, who was turned away through
the instrumentality of these boys. Last week,
Mr. T., after having some difficulty, went to
the school house, found the shutters closed and
The room in charge of the boys. A knock
down ensued in which the teacher with some
help came off best. The boys are now under
arrest to appear before a Justice at Brooks.
Mr. /. proposes to keep the school out
FIRE. Four o'clock Tuesday morning fire
Capt. Daniel Netherlands house on the corner
of Congress and Franklin streets. The main
house was brick, with wooden porch and barn.
The fire department was long time in getting
10 the spot, owing to the bad travelling, and the
nre had entered the main building before wa
Ter was procured. The furniture in the lower
part was saved, but portion i'll the chambers
was destroyed. The buildings were entirely
consumed, leaving the brick walls alone stand
ing The fire is supposed to have originated
from a defective chimney. Loss about Sc, 900;
insured with Cox & Field for s., 1900. The
same building took fire last October from like
cause.
Mr.. Head, of Portland, the special detective
OF the Maine Central Railroad, was in this city
last week looking up some delinquencies
About all the losses that the road has exper-
fenced in this vicinity have been in the wood
department. There have been pilferngs from
the woodshed of considerable amount. and
list of the thieves is in the hands of the detec-
tive. They will be invited to call and settle.
clue was also found to some larger opera
lions, and car load of the company's wood
discovered in one of Wymans buildings, close
to the track. 1t took Head but little while
to satisfy himself that this was fraudulent
transaction, and that the wood was bought of
the conductor in charge of a wood train, at a
very low price. There are some whisperings
In regard to other persons in the employ of the
company, but we do not learn that they have
any foundation. The company's attorney will
deal with the matter.
Since the fire of last May, which destroyed
the inside fixtures Of Masonic Hall, the frater-
nifty have been looking about with the view to
building structure suitable to their wants
We now have the pleasure of chronicling the
first real step in that direction. On Saturday
last they succeeded in etfecting the purchase of
the lot at the corner of Main and High Streets
now occupied by the wooden stores of J. C.
Thompson, David Lancaster, and Charles II
Mitchell. The lot is 40 feet on Main and Sc feet
on High street and is one of tho most doSirohIa