The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-09-01

in GENERAL
! The Wing says that Mr. A. Shorey, OF Lowell
| lost two cows last week in consequence of tbeil
! licking Paris Green, expiring in a few minutes
The Post Office at Deer Isle which was dscon
llnued for short time, has been re established
INT Portland Company has had an offer Of s. 0Ot
| from an ONO road for another locomotive and de
! lvered - ton one to the Canada Pacific, Satur
| day. Saturday the Fay roll amounted to the
| largest sum ever disbursed in a month S:}6 900
| Miss Blanche Willis Howard is at Wiscasset
| buSlly engaged on the manuscript 10 her move
soOr to be published She will visit Bangor tins
month and intends during the fall to return to
| Europe.
The Press says that among the veterans on the
| camp ground, Wednesday, g. l.. Pierce ESD
| OF W lton - years Of age. He served under Gen
| Winfield Scott, (who then COLONEL in the
Black Hawk war and was present at the surrender
| of the Black Hawk chief Mr. Pierce was in Capt
! Carneys company IN that war.
LONDON, August % The dory City of Bath
! which is at Falmouth, lost her only compass over
board week ago The crew had not had dry
clothes since she left America They intend to q
| to Hamburg and recross the Atlantic IN her
| farmer IN Penobscot county who has a large
held OF potatoes, recently dug thirty bushels and
| out OF the lot got scarcely more than one bushel
Of sound ones They were planted on low land
Elmer Chapman of Damariscotta, has a bull Ii
months Old that weighs 1925 lbs; measures ) feet
from nose to tail grth SIT II in, height it 6 in
lie proposes TO take the animal to the State Fair
| The Lewiston Journal says Every respectable
machine shop and manufacturer of iron machiner,
| In the New England States is full of work, and
many Of them running night and day The Lew
lston Machine Company has TO turn away work
| Before anotheryear several machine works in Lew
| IstOn will have to be enlarged
Negotiations are now pending between the Ban
gor Bucksport Railroad Company and Provincial
engineers and it is probable that surveying party
VIII soon commence to lay out the route of the
| proposed railroad extension from Bucksport to
! Ellsworth
An old gentleman, residing in the Second Con
gresslonal District visited Squirrel Island recent
| y who has seven sons and ten grandsons They
cast IL votes for Garfield, last November and next
September they propose 10 go to the polls and put
IN Is votes for ex Governor Dlngley for Congress
The Bulletin says East Sullivan is t1ourshing
There are general complaints of potato rot and
grain rust
Several apple trees in the vicinity Of Houlton
have broken down from overload of fruit
VIM NJ Davis of Bangor thrown from his
carriage Thursday, and severely injured
The Observer says that typhoid fever and sum
mer complaints are quite prevalent at Dover
W. o. Fletcher, A. NJ has resigned his position
as teacher of the Blddeford High School, and will
remove to Nebraska
Five hundred dollars have recently been expend
ed in repairing the Catholic church in Ellsworth
The odd Fellows in Maine claim to have initiated
more new lodges the past year than any other
jurisdiction.