The Republican journal., 1877-05-03
wv is the time for the farmer to feel his oats

| market
Did you hang for your girl May basket or
Tuesday night
About time for picnic parties and flirting under
| the greenwood tree.
The early season will bring advanced supply
of mosquitoes, with other crops.
1t is warm enough already for people in the in
terror to begin to talk Of the seaside.
C. j. Hail. of this city, is to furnish portion of
the granite for the State Prison extension
Mathews Bros receiving direct by rail pine
and ash lumber from Wisconsin and Illinois
On Sabbath evening it was as dark as Egypt in
our streets. Not public gas burner was lighted
\ bottle OF Imminent exploded in Moody's drug
store the other day, with a loud report and d
pungent odor
Clark Fernad are making d handsome granite
monument 10 be placed above the remains Of the
late William Pitcher
Three gay girls from Bangor attracted some al
tentiou one day last week by driving through the
streets on Il jolly lark.
| While all the flowers are coming up, that which
the brradstuf dealers keep has rison about two
dollars and half per barrel
The sixteen barrels Of liquor seized last fall 1t
Lncolnyle Beach. were last Monday ordered by
Judge Dicker,on to DO destroyed,
At Frankfort on tho 9th two leo houses. con
tanning 200O tons of ice belonging to Rowe Emery.
We're burned Loss 5000 ami small insurance
Some entcrprIsing city gardeners have potatoe,
through the ground and expect new ones By the
middle Of Juue They We're ~prouted under glas,
ktbid dogs are creating some excitement all over
the country. In Connecticut dogs are muzzlcd
from early spring to September. A very good move
The Belfast military company wiu como out OIL
Saturday for May inspection and target shooting
The farm OF ) O. Townsend is tho place selected
for practice
l. \, knowlt"n has growing corn tSo OF three
inches high. The kernels fell from the bin al his
store and were planted by chance. knowltuu also
has corn 'a the bin several feet high-or deep
Bay windows prc slt, btrbors ut uipht for little
smacks Progressive Alo,
Nh bur there's more craft ia those httc -macks
than one would think and IL, hard to toll what u
safe
Ii IS ngenerous for the cocI dealers at tn.
season Of spriugtng vegetation and bursting bud,
and flowers To remind It's ot next winters frost AMI
SHOWS, by those piles Of coal that arc being dc
liycrcd about town.
This tThnrSduy) evening at the Good Temph,r-
Lodge the question ct Moral Suasior versus LEGAL
Force will be argued by members On some tutlr.
accession public argument ON Prohibition versus
License Law Will be gwen
Miles Staples, logu,cry of SwanvllIc has Dur
chased what is known a, the Pare place, on the
east side OF the river Belfast. and has moved or.
the premises Capt h. Fuas has purchased Tie
lot known as the Mathews place .tlsa upon tho east
side
TIL" Emerson Chorus of Hartford Conn is an us
soeatiou of ladies and gentrmcn--tur tho PRONE.
ton Of musical culture and social pleasure, under
direction Of Mr. Irving Emerson. formerly of Tho
city. At ii recent rehearsal MI Emerson wus pre-
scented by this chorus. with beautiful silver tea
service, consisting Of nine pieces and valued at near
" 500 som" very complimentary rcsolutIonsac-
conpanied tho eft.
portion of the >lO-ooo appropriated tor Belfast
harbor, rAouM be used in removing the ledge of
Lanes wharf The rock in question IS small, be
ing only about siy feet across ut the top and lies
directly il. the passage At lows tide there is about
one foot OF water over this obstruction Strangers
in running into the harbor often strike IT, i
com loaded vessel on sunday came in with il stiff
breeze and i'll rounding to struck the ledge seyers
heavy blows, that must have douo some dalnage
The rivalry and wrangIing between the two ell
CINE companies in this city may lead 10 serious
difficulties. At the fro On Monday night ali alter
cation nj some description arose, It large crowi
gathered when 4 strcnm of water was turned upon
them which CAUSED a stampede Thurston Clough
torch boy OF Me- in getting ont of tho way wa,
forced down, falling upon his left arm doubling t
up backwards So that the hand nearly touched the
shoulder Tho elbow WAS badly dl4ocatrd, and
the cords strained, making very serious hurt
Ahbic daughter of Reuben Deerng formerly ut
Jackson i'll this county, was murdered April 2Oth
at Moln4oua, iowa by 1t man whose addresses She
had refused The young lady WAS receiving call
from gentleman to HON sle Was engaged, when
the assassin called htr to the door and shot her.
and thrI, Shot himself The Young uly died i'm
me,iately but the murderer i, still living Mis-
pcerlog waa handsome and accomplished youna
lady belonging ton 1iehly respectable family who
have several relative, in Belfl4t aud in Newport
tAc Btpt,t lcyre ON Friday evening was "a VERY
onjovable affair the exercises consisting OF singing
readin ami acting An antiquarian supper wa,
among the features 1t Was announced that Il silver
trumpet would be presented TO the Tire company
that should receive the largest number Of votes
Owing to the non nIrIydot the trumpet the bullot
iu-; Wus postponed to Monday night when the
OF each company met in Plrrce's Hall
and measured wallets 1t resulted IN d victory tor
Ne. . that company receiving IN votes at ton
cents each To NO IS RI The trumpet cost about
30 but brought S73.a netting over 5uto tho 81
crty.
We are indebted to Mr.. Pitcher, OF the firm of
Pitcher 4 Gorham for the following statistics con
corning the shipment of POTATOES from Belfast dur
ins the past winter: The amount i, more than
three tunes that Of any other season, aud reaches
the unprecedented number of ljI 900 bushels nj
most wholly the product of Waldo county
considerable quantity, Of which we have no ac
count, hats been sent away by ears over the Muine
Central The price has averaged 81 cents per
buShcI making an aggregate uf Sl4S, $4,000 that
has been distributed among the farmers OF Waldo
county tor this product alone ihr quantity raised
Last year is not very much larger, perhaps. than
some former wears but owing to the high price
none have been fed tostock. Every sy.labc potato
has found market Grain has been fed instead
The price Of corn has ruled low and one bushol of
potatoes has purchased ono hushcl and half OF
corn. This ought To be known as the great potato
year.
Police CoCRl. Judge Johnson on Tuesday, is
snel warrant against John F. Gilkcy for an AZ
.yrayatcd assault upon his wife Martha T. Gilkcy
The parties live in Belmont On "Wednesday the
parties appeared i'll court with counsel but Gilkey
waived an examination and gave suretirs in the
SUN OF 500 for his appearance at the October term
Of the y J. Court The wife alleges that on Sun
lay night after they had retired, he charged hor