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

The Maine Beet Sugar Company had TO make
,22l separate contracts in four different States
last year, to get 1000 tons of beets
The select men of Kittery have offered reward
of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the hgn
wayman who robbed r. Il. A. Freeman of Bangor
on his way from Kittery to York.
Judge VIM. Allen who has been nominated in
the Supreme bench of Massachusetts, in place of
Judge Colt deceased, was born in Brunswick in
1922, where he spent his early life.
Horatio Gates, Esq prominent merchant and
postmaster at Lincoln Centre, had a severe attack
| of apoplexy Aug %. His physicians think he will
recover
There is an unusual amount of sickness in Gar
The Wilton Record is making its mark as a
newsy local paper
Mrs. Edward Spencer whose terrible accident at
Pushaw Lake on the night Of Aug. t has been
chroniced, underwent amputation of the leg
above the knee but died after the operation
was performed
Neal Dow has gone West, and is to make twelve
prohibition speeches in Indiana
Five hundred thousand bricks will be required
in the construction of the Bangor opera house
The Bar Harbor Post Office has recently been
made money order office. The first order sent
from that office was sent by Passamaquoddy In
dian to PASSPORT.
The farm buildings at Vest Mills, Industry.
owned by Jno Willis, of Madison, burned Friday
night, together with several cows, forty tons Of
hay and farming tools Loss $1,000 Insured
$500 caught in the barn.
Secretary Blaine is coming to the front the
model despatch writer. Nobody who ever presid
ed over the State Department said much in so
few words HIS sentences are terse epigramnatc
and eloquent beyond anything that has recently
been written
The Bateman Mining Company, Just organized
in Cape Roster, near Brooksve, presents the an
omaly OF a mining company composed entirely of
ladies' with the exception of one director W lillian
X. johnson, OF Gorham
Fuller and Mosher of the bark Western Sea-
were arralgned before the Municipal court in Bos-
ton Friday and the continued one week The
bail was fixed at $40 900.
Thursday night Thomas Coleman, living IN Cam
bridgeport Mass, found young girl in the Charles
river, near the bath house at the Grand junction
Railroad crossing, she evidently being intent on
committing suicide She was taken from the
ter, and gave her name Alice Chase, saying her
home was in Bangor
Samuel Peare eighteen years old employed i'll
W. f. Morgan Il Co $ shoe factory, Richmond,
was caught in a belt, Friday afternoon and carried
around the shattng, receiving injuries which
proved fatal,
1t has been decided by the sportsmen of Maine
to have their grand tournament in Augusta this
month under the auspices of the Cushnoc Club.
The match will begin about the 10Th and will con
hnue several days There will be four bird shoots,
and some 100 birds will be required The dead
birds will be sent to Boston where they will be sold
in the markets.
Thursday night AS the schooner Adde Jordan
came into the mouth of the Saco river the captain
and crew discovered the body Of an unknown per
son floating in the water, but failed to recover it.
No clue to identity.
The whoopng cough and measles, for few
weeks past, have been quite prevalent in Calais
among the children.
1t is SAID that an unusually large amount of bark
has been peeled in the Maine woods during the
present season.
The heirs Of John Dutfied Of Goya, Argentine
Republic are wanted. They are supposed to reside
in Maine
Camp-meeting John Allen has attended $40
camp meetings
The Douglass furnaces, Blue HILL on Saturday
last turned ont their first refined ingot copper the
run consisted Of l60 ingots or bricks weighing
from II TO Is lbs, and is fine grade of copper
Each ingot has the word Douglass in large letters
across the bottom
1t is estimated that the reunion, during the three
days it was held al Portland. left over $50 600 III
that city.
Wesley farmers selling oil their sheep in con
sequence of the ravages OF bears
But one fourth many blneberries will be
canned IN Washington county this for
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