The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-08-25

Straw hats and oyercoats are not a pleasing com
bination, but it the prevailing costume yester
| day.
\ boiler and engine for the Cape Roster mine,
were received in this city last week They came
| by rail from Springfield Mass.
We are pleased to learn that business at the Bel
fast shoe factory is the increase, and hands
are being added. The firm is receiving orders daily
The Maine Central gang at work filling in at the
bridge in this city, struck last week, and work is
| suspended. The crew went to Water, lille Satur-
| day.
w. IL. Mcclellan has chartered in which to
pack his household goods, which will leave here
| next week for Kansas City direct. Mr.. Mcclellan
will follow His house in this city has been
sold
| There very cousininS time ut Il cottage
| the Camp ground last week. Twenty three people,
| all cousins, assembled, among them the Ingrahams
of this city The remainder principally from
| Rockland
Hon Fred Atwood, of Winterport, is one of the
| Maine trustees of the New England Agricultural
Society, whose eighteenth annual exhibition will be
held this year iii Worcester, Mass, opening Sept.
| 9Th and continuing four days.
Capt. French of sch Charley Bucki, of this city.
has just completed contract which will give him
| employment all winter. The vessel will make
coal trip north, when she will proceed To the Gulf
of Mexico either to Apalachicoa, Pensacola, Pas
cas"ula or Pass Christian, and carry railroad ties
to Arkansas, Texas, at - Der thousand. She will
take six loads in all.
j. J. Fernandez x Son, large business firm in
New Orleans have written to j. W. Frederick, Of
this city, to know if the SCH Nellie :. Pickering is
for sale and the cost of such Il vessel. The firm in
some way has learned of the Pickering, and are in
want of such 4 schooner, and possibly such
| sci may be built for them here. This must be
| -idered a. very complimentary 10 the Mes-rs. Car
ter the Pickerna's builders and Ia Belfast vessels
in general.
! sheriff Baker has the finest garden i'll Belfast, if
not in Waldo county. lie has one fourth acre plant
Ell to onions, from which he expects to harvest from
| seventy five 10 one hundred bushels Last season
the sheriff took the fist premium on onions at the
| county fair The vines from Two hills of suashcs
have covered large piece Of ground and now have
| twenty five large ~'luashc- growing upon them. His
potatoes cabbage~ corn, tomatoes, &C., are equally
prolific,
The Jacksonville, Florida Uaion reports the con
iition of the bar at tie mouth of the (. Johns,
| follows
During the week Capt johnson pioted in three
vessels aud took out two, and reports at high tide
thirteen feet of water. Capt. Latimer piloted out
one vessel and reports twelve feet of water on the
| bar at high tide.
Very satisfactory progress has been made on the
ettie- and it Is proposed during the present fiscal
year to extend the south iety Seaward, to raise it
higher where it ROSES icep water, aud to begin
the north etty, the work on both jettes to consist
mainly in mattresses oyerlaid with rip rap stone.
The estimated cost of HE Improvement is 81 ,:ioG
loa: amount available July !, ISL, SIS, 70S.0s;
amount required for the ncAl fiscal year, s5o0,ooo.
Hon. I. G. Mcclure, Of St Cloud, Mimi, whose
death was announced last week, was native of
| Waldo. where he born March l., 1921, At one
time he taught the Grammar school in this city.
| The following Is from q Minnesota paper
In the death Of Hon. H. g. Mcclure Of It. Cloud,
| announced in brief telegram TO the Pioneer Press
| of yesterday, Minnesota has lost one of the most
notable of the later pioneers who laid the founda-
| tiOhs OF its prosperity. Always among the fore
most men of st Cloud since lS5 and leading spirit
in large business enterprises, DO one stood higher
in the general esteem of his neighhors, and he was
recognized throughout the state representative
| man of northern Minnesota. His high character of
| prominence i'll business and political circles III
| which tie active without being obtruSive or
| ambitious has often suggested mi, name for high
| political distinctions. Few men in the State were
| more widely known "r more highly respected, and
| his death will be deeply regretted By wide circle
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: Walls Is finishing 4 ne" stable on the Grounds
near The Observation-Disclosures, shaw Is anu W"olehS
have been IN demand the past week. .Ihe liquor
| seized last week, was not landed from the Boston
steamers but came from Bangor on steamer Ralph
Ross. Wednesday 81 lat week, WA, great eN-
cursion day. Seven steamers and barge We're at
the wharf at one time....Mrs II. n Lancaster, OF
Belfast entertained about forty Of her friends at
the strickland cottage, ont day last Week.'..The
Breeze puts in a plea toJ the regular residents to
remain into september 1t is truly the loveliest
month in the year...Ihe Breeze takes a look fifty
years into the future and sees wonderful things
Belfast il then city Of 10000 inhabitants North
port l3,oo0 \ double horse track connects the two
places, besides numerous lines of steamboats, and
railroads such obscure resorts rs Bar liarbor and
0d Orchard had been forgotten forty Years. b. p.
| Palmer, Ell of the Boston Globe, with family, is
spending hi vacation here at Burbank cottage, cor
ner of Broadway and Clinton ay.....A little son of
| q. /. F.tIrand of Rockland. was quite seriously
bitten by vicious dog Tuesday. Hon. Josiah
| Nye, OF Augusta, has been stopping short time
here. Hon. Orren Learned and family, Burnham
Is spending his vacation here. Reuben y. Rch
Pres. of the Association, has charge of tent lot mat
ters and parties having business in that direction
| are referred to him
| PERSONAL. NJ W. Drew, of Jacksonville. fla,
Is the guest OIL o. b. laAeltlhc III TINS city anu VIII
remain here for two months. The business rela
uonslllp between bcltast ana Jacksonville Is due
t" the enterprise OF MI, Drew, who almost weekly
receives a cargo OF zee and hay from this port Mr.
! Drew Is It native OF H"uitoh-. 'heN. hoDt T. Bis