The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-01-20

The post office at Whites Corner, in this
county has been discontinued.
1t was reported that one of the prisoners in
the county Jail tried 10 escape recently by dig
cling through the wall.
The Belfast Weekly Advertiser came out Oh
Tuesday with Il half sheet and announced its
suspension until better times. 1t has been pub
shed five wears and three weeks.
The Ladies of the North Church will hold a
Levee at Pierces Hall Wednesday evening Jan.
10Th. Ice cream and other refreshments. Ia
BILE OF fancy articles. Admission Is cents.
The pressure upon our columns in these eX-
citing days of amnesty debates, &C., compels
| us to omit for a time the sage observations of
Our George. They will be renewed in calmer
| times.
David Norton, EST, writes from Iowa that
the recent statement concerning n loss of mon
ey on his part is entirely Incorrect We had it
from what we considered good authority in
Montyille
The annual convocation of Corinthan ROYAL
| Arch Chapter for the choice of officers occur
red on Monday evening last, as follows-(ieo
f. Wight, II. P; n. +. Houston. X: Jas. f.
| Fernald, s.; {. W. Haney. c. of H.; j. C..
| Townsend, P. s.; VIM. o. Poor, Treas: r. g.
Dyer. Sec. The installation will take place at
| the stated conyocation in February.
Our venerable friend Thomas Park. of Sears
| port. sends us the following item AT the house
OF Capt. sewa Lancaster, recently. there We're
| present in one room at the same time, four boy
babies, four mothers, three grandtathers, three
| grandmothers, one uncle. and one great grand
father in his Sl>t year. The fathers of the ba-
bies who were absent, are all Democrats and
| subscribers to the journal.
| SEAMEN RESCUED. A letter has been re-
ceived from Mr.. James L, Doak, chief officer
| of bark Naye>nk, from Savannah for Antwerp,
written While in the English channel. in which
| he says
| We have had quick but tempestuous pas
sage. On the 9TH we picked up at sea the crew
of the sch. Itaska, of Cherryfied, from Boston
| for Millbridge. She was 800 miles from land.
| They are now all safe on board. On the 9th.
| we took the crew from the sch. Thomas Watt
| of Passport. from New York for st. john
| The vessel sunk soon after we got the crew off.
| The funeral obsequles of the city rum shop
| took place one day last week. 4 very solemn
| appearing cart backed up to the door of the
| agency. and the remains of the departed were
brought out, III the shape Of sundry barrels.
demiiohns, &C., carefully sealed, and deposited
i'll the catafalquc. When all was ready, the
mournfu procession moved, attended by one
representative of the city government, rs pail
bearer. +" Not drum was heard, not a funeral
note" rs the procession took its way to the
county Jail. There the sheriff received ii, with
| a cOuntenance As solemn as graveyard. The
corpus was deposited in Il secure place, and the
ceremonies were over
DEATH OF c. 7. CARTER. Columbia p. Car
ter, the well-known shipbuilder, and one of the
most prominent citizens of Belfast, died at his
residence in this city on Friday noon, at the
age of 50. He had been for a long time i'll with
II painful and lingering disease of the kidneys.
He was the son OF Thomas Carter and was
born in the town of Montvlle lie received the
advantages Of II common school education, and
resided with his father unt about 10 years OF
age. He then came to Belfast and worked in
the shipyard with Master Rogers, and was
afterwards for many wears in various places as.
foreman in different departments of shipbuild-
ing. The first vessel of which he had actual
charge as master-workman was the brig Demo
crat, built above the Upper Bridge by }. Y
McClintock, in 1910. In 1871 he formed CO.
partnership with Erastus b. Stephenson, Sam
ue l.. Sweetser and Y. Il. Lancaster as ship
builders, and for thirty-fyc years was steadily
engaged in the business, having as partners at
different times, H. II. Carter, j. G. Frye, f. f.
Frye, Thomas Carter, H. A. Carter j. y. Cot
trel, and Everett 5. Carter. The list of vessels
built under hi supervision numbers just one
hundred, with total tonnage Of 4.,941. The
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