The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-05-10
News of the City and County.
MORNING. [Original.1

with matln songs the WOOD responsive thrills
Adown the west nights mantling shadows fly
As rosy dawn ascends the eastern sky.
Now Phgbus, joyful, leaves his cloudy cave
To beam in splendor DER the dimpling wave
The verdant fields with countless Jewels blaze,
And blowing censers scatter fragrant praise
Light, gladness, hope and JOY on all around,
Peace, purity and harmony abound.
How strange that man, insensate, blind, should
choose
To turn his pillow for another snooze.
Shall Belfast celebrate the coming Fourth of
Julyl
The first straw hat of the season appeared last
week.
The Jehus have begun to make race courses of
the streets.
The Supreme Court adjourned finally on Thurs
day morning
The price of peanuts has not yet been visibl, at
fected by the Turkish war
This is the season to be careful very careful
about putting off your undertaking
The labors of Moody and Sankey have not been
without fruits Hod the Fort is now played
for waltz
Belfast manages to struggle along with twenty
clergymen.
The Manning girl that 50 mysteriousy disap-
peared from Searsmont recently, is believed to be
at North Union
| Some editors faint away at the mere thought of
having their papers used as bustles. Prog. Age.
| Bring EN- to with Sal Volatile
| The low price of coal is inducing consumers to
| lay in their supplies for next winter. A good
many cargoes will arrive this month
An advertiser in to days paper offers i've dol
lars for copy Of Whites History of Belfast und
liberal price for copy of GOV Crosby's Annals
| Mahan was once Sunday school teacher Prog
|
Hope he didn't direct the children in the path
that he has travelled himself
| The wooden buildings now on the site of the
| Masonic Temple will undoubtedly be moved to
the Pote or Morrison lots on Main street They
will be bricked up on the outside making an i'm
| proyement all round
| Eugene Aldus, boy about - years of age. fell
| overheard from Carriers wharf at the shipvald ON
! Saturday afternoon, and was rescued III a drown
ing condition by John Frazier who jumped, in and
| swan ashore with him
! Thursday last woman in Winterport who WAS
| quite All imbber of liquor could not succeed i'll
! getting any Of the precious fluid, and therefore
mixed up u punch Of chlorotorm and kerosene
| which she slipped from time to time during the
! day, By night she was Frustrated and in a short
time the dose proved fatal. Bangor Commercial
| The finding of double length hair on a fellows
shoulder will not convict him, prog Age
| 1t might not, if found on the shoulder of his
coat, because accidents will happen; but the
| shoulder proper II would be strong cireuulsnntAl
cyidenee-yery.
| The brig II. c. Sbley, Capt Colson, from Hayre
about which some anxiety was felt concerning her
safety, arrived last week after passage of 81 DAYS
Bad weather i'll the English channel made the pas
sage long She will undergo some repairs
particularly in spars.
Capt, William Burkett is building yacht ill the
barn his place about mile ont Of town She
will be of five tons burthcn, p feet long, 9 feet
wide and feet deep, with trunk cabin She
will be finished in about four weeks, and hauled
| to the hurbor on trucks
| Among the persons divorced at the session of
the Supreme Court Just closed in this city, were
! two brothers whose wives We're separated from
them. They are Samuel and John NJ. Clifford Of
Belfast 1t is the old story of marrying i'll haste
and repenting at leisure
Tho Belfast military company was ont Saturday
for target shooting Tho distance to target was
200 yards three shots each rifles held at shoulder
without rest. Fred l.. Carter made the best shot
and William Crockett. second. hitting the target
| twice each i'll the three shots
Last week two petty and smart girls did profit
ablc business for couple OF days in this city. dis
posing Of Brazilian Pertumed Stones from the
perfume cave in Southern Brazil" at twenty five
cents per stone. The perfume was an undoubted
humbug, but the smile that they be,llned ON pur-
chasers worth the money.
As the sch. Brunette was hauling through the
draw of the lower bridge on Friday d small hoy
named George l.. Young attempted TO take Il line
from the schooner. III jumping to the pier he fell
over board and was only rescued by man going
down on the spiling and holding on to him until n
boat came up aud took them in.
The first news has been received from the Bel
fast parties who recently left for the Black Hills.
They had arrived 1T the railroad terminus and
We're contemplating stage ride of 200 300 miles
over the snow that every where aboundcd in that
vicinity. They had confidence, but said :, man
needed lots Of money,-to ret back with lndoubt
eddy.
| Among tho Masonic doings ut the recent session
of the Grand Lodge are the following relative to
Waldo county Unity lodge at Freedom, was
| given permission to change its location to Thorn
dixie Station, and Trojan lodge, ut Troy. to remove
to West Troy. John H. Gordon, of Brooks and
George r. Merrill, Of Searsport, appointed
District Deputy Grand Masters for the seventh
and Eighth Masonic districts respectively.
1t is quite remarkable circumstance that the
brig II. e. Sibley, OF this port here for re
pairs, has every long voyage that she has made,
lost man overheard live il number. They were
i'll every Instance knocked overheard by the main
boom, or some gearing about the mainsail. IVES
sells of tho Sbley's size are better and easier
handled bark rugged, thus doing away With the
heavy mainsail of a hermaphrodito brig.
An illustration Of the danger Of pipes WAS had
i'll hay storehouse few days ago Capt. Baker
engaged man to work ut handling bales On
reaching the building the man put his pipe in his
WAS strong odor Of burning cloth, and in few
moments the coat was in flames persons hadn't
been near by tho fire, the storehouse would have
been DESTROYED The insurance people estimate
that fifty per cent Of the mysterious fires proceed
from the practice of smoking.
Mr. b. +. Tucker, keeper of the New England
House, left this city secretly by the afternoon boat
AI,r al has mot rntnrupl or ,riE, in
formation of his whereabouts There are some
| ugly circumstances connected with his disappear
anco which render it probable that he has no i'll
tention of returning. Having become indebted
to Burgess Alexander, provision dealers. he gave
them Il mortgage bill of sale of horse carriage
harness, &c, property TO be signed by Mrs. Tuck
er who owns them. Since his disappearance his
wife says She did not sign the papers, and com
parison Of them with her genuine signature seems
to bear out the assertion. There at the Savings