The Republican journal., 1881-02-17
Under the new apportionment Waldo county loses

| one Representatives
| ship Levi q. Burgess, Capt. Henry A. Starrett,
| arrived at Norfolk on Monday, after passage of
| siXtyfve days from Liverpool
| 1t has been very sickly of late in Belfast The
new hearse has been out nearly every day since it
arrived. One clergyman in four days last week at
| tended six funerals
| The attention of farmers is called to the adver-
| tisement of the Meadow King Mower, by Fred At
| wood. When a farmer wishes to purchase a ma
| chine he should buy of standing, and from
| sponsible parties. Atwood has had the Meadow
klng in the market for long number of years and
its popularity is steadily increasing.
THE THAw Last week we were treated to Il
genuine thaw. Thursday and Friday were melting
| days; water ran freely and the snow disappeared
| rapidly. Saturday afternoon a rain storm set ill.,
and in the evening the wind blew heavily from the
northeast. large amount of rain fell filling wells
| and csterns. Sunday it cleared off cool.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. j. L. Moody of Sears
mont, in another column, adyertises his stock at
cost for the next thirty days. Mr.. Moody has
very fine store ut Searsmon village, and friends
in that vicinity can do no better than to give him
ca...F. b. Knowlton of this city, offers for rent,
very desirable photograph rooms and hall in his
| building High street. Daniel Lane offers for
sale 5chr. Nathan Clifford, It coaster well found in
everything The spring term of the Eastern Nor
NAL school, at Castine, began March Sth. See
notice in another column.
The Boston journal says that in the spring Geo.
[. White, of Belfast, with gentlemen from Massa
chusctts, will erect in Brockton foundry and ma
chine shop The facts of the case are these-Mr.
White owns lot in Brockton, upon which parties
wis tn b1iIf limo tbp ahn \
ter much negotiation Mr.. White made q proposition
that lie would erect suitable building providing
the company would lease the same for ten years.
As the company are honorable and practical men,
it is thought Mr.. Whites proposition will lie accept
ed. Brockton is smart place Of IA, 900 Inhabitants
with some seventy manufactures and no foundry.
| Mr.. White owns about two acres of land in
tral part Of the town, opposite the depot and one
double tenement house.
MOTHER smrroN. Concerning ''Nother Ship
tons Prophecy" beginning
| Carriages without horses shall go,
and ending
England shall ut last admit a jew;
The world to a end shall come
In eighteen hundred and eighty one-
there Il good deal Of groundIess alarm and anxiety
This prophecy, though often exposed as a fraud,
goes the grand rounds of the papers with singular
frequency, 1t originally appeared in the edition Of
Mother SYMPTOMS prophecies issued by MIR. Charles
IIindey, of Brighton, England, in 1862, book puY-
porting to be an exact reprint of Il chapbook YER
sion issued in l64l but really as Old as has 1t did
not take long to expose the fraud The earliest
edition to be found in the British Museum proved
to be of l64I, and neither that nor any Of the later
ones contained line of any Importance, being
vague tumble of local predictions, and not long
after Mr. Hindley confessed that he mad fabricated
the above "prophecy' and ten others, as to make
his book sell If there is no better reason for fear
ing that the end of the world will come this year
than this attempt of an INSCRIPTIONS man ~ de
ceiye the public people may - on and make their
plans for lss3.
WILLS. As or less interest j. manifested i'll
the wills of deceased persons, we give below those
before the last OF the Probate Court. The first
one is that of the late Jonathan Elwel, of Norlh-
port Mr. Elwe lived in Il very frugal manner,
, and accumulated snug little property. GOOD
Judges place his estate from $4,000 to 100000. The
following arc the requests of the will
First Mr. Elwcll wants all his Just debts paid.
Second. He requests his executors and trustees
to have a suitable tomb, PLAN, neat and permanent,
erected on Il suitable spot near where persons
are buried on the casterly part Of his home
stead farm in N0rthpUrt. 1t i also his Wish that
the remains of hs children and their lincal descend
ants Shall be buried there if they wish said tomb
and Improvements not ~ be eNtravagantly con-
structed and not to eNCeed IN cost 5000.
Third give and bequeath to my beloved daugh-
ter, Camilla Miranda Elwel, my homestead farm in
NorthpOrt containing about 100 acres, subject ~ the
, following condtions-that the said Camilla NJ.
Elwell i to have the Use and income OF aald farm
Immediately at NV tIecease hut shall have no power
authority sell dispose of it, or any part of
it, strip make any waste OF any of the
growth or improvements ON the same While either
of her parents SHAH live; but after the event of the
death of both of her parents it shall be her own sole
use and behoof forever, and to her legal heirs amt