The Republican journal., 1881-12-15
News Of Belfast and Vicinity.

Every member of the Belfast Choral Society is
requested to he present at the regular meeting next
Tuesday evening.
We acknowledge the receipt of some very hand
some calendars for 1882 from the enterprising firm
OF Heating Il Field, of this city.
Leon H. Tibbetts got his hand caught in modng
machine, at the Belfast shoe factory on Wednes
day, badly jamming two fingers
At meeting of Names Reformed Men at Au
burn last week, Mr.. D. Cobb, of Searsmont, was
made committee man for Waldo county
One day last week, five tons of mutton carcasses
were received at the depot in this city. They came
from Clinton and were for the Castine Packing
house.
Since business people have combined against
punched coin, sharpers are plugging the holes
Some are very nicely done and almost escape de
lection.
correspondent writes 'If any of your readers
are afflicted with throat, lung trouble dish of
hard pine chips is recommended to give immed
ate relief" But how are the chips to BE taken
plain so, or roasted, fried or stewed'
Mrs. Gilmore & Babcock, at their millinery shop
at the corner of Main and High street have put in
large stock of fancy articles for the holiday trade
which they will regularly advertise next week. In
the meantime Just look over their stock.
The estimates for improving the harbors of Maine
have been submitted. We find no mention Of Bel
fast. Improvements were begun in this harbor a
few years ago and then dropped. Our enterpriSjng
Congressman can see nothing beyond the Rockland
breakwater.
The Grand Jury at the United States District
Court, Portland, on Thursday of last week, found
an indictment against David W. IIofses for assault
ing David Murray with dangerous weapon Hoff-
ses pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one day in
Portland Jail and to pay fine of $50.
The pink eye" the new horse disease, has made
its appearance in this vicinity. 1t has proved fatal
In a number of cases, while in others the animals
have recovered. The Journal of the lst inst, con
tanned, in the Farm and Garden department,
count of the disease and best mode Of treatment.
The Rockland Gazette has the following concern
ing new directory
Agents of Messrs. Greenough 4 Co., publishers
Of the directory of Rockand, Camden ana Belfast,
are now canvassing the city for edition of
that work-the last having been issued four wears
ago. We hope they Will do the work thoroughly
and give US an accurate directory To this end all
VINO furnish Information shouit he it is given
CORRECTLY, anu ClS dSStfS should be they
names right and make their "copy' plain. Thor
oughly done, the work will be benefit to the bust
ness community.
Mrs. III. f. Mcdonald, of this city, has returned
from Boston, where she has been perfecting herself
In crayon and oil painting. Some of her crayon
work Is on exhibition in this city, and evidences de
cided talent. The crayon head of q. W, Burket.' ;
little daughter on exhibition At his store, is gem
and reflects much credit on Mrs. Mcdonald. Her
finest work is oil painting and the samples at her
rooms are worthy of being exhibited any where.
Belfast is displaying much talent i'll this direction.
The city of San Francisco has again favored Bel
fast with complimentary copy Of the reports of
its municipal officers The book contains $50 print
ed pages and is nicely bound with gilt edged pa
per. One page contains the portraits Of Mayor
kalloch and the Supervisors. Among the latter is
Mr.. Erastus n. Torrey formerly of Belfast One
thing that strikes Maine forcibly is the
amount of drunkenness recorded. In the last year
there Were in that city 49, 64 convicts for simple
drunks.
STEAMER NOTES. The Sanford steamship Co.
will petition the Massachusetts Legislature for per
mission to change its name to Boston and Bangor
Steamship Co... The boilers have been placed in
the new steamer PenobscOt, now building in Bos-
ton for the Sanford Line between Bangor and Bos-
ton and she will go on her route early III the spring
....Steamer katahdin laid at her wharf in this city
Tuesday night ON account Of bad weather. Capt.
RoiX remained on shore t. attend the funeral of his
mother who was buried ON Wednesday.
Rev Thos. B. Topper, who died Dec. list, aged "a
years, at North Berwick, was well known in this
section, as his ministerial labors were within the
East Maine Conference of the NJ. E. denomination
For nearly forty years he was engaged in itnerant
work. from which he was finally compelled to retire
by impaired health. In Oct. 1850 he removed from
Searsport to North Berwick and engaged in the
hardware business with his son Frank B. He died
universally mourned and respected, and all places
of business were closed on the day of the funeral
The telegraph Office Of the Mutual Union in this
city, will be open about Jan lst. Mrs. Mcdonald
has begun to make preparations for the instruments
In the jewelry store of her husband in Masonic
Temple, where the new Office is to be located. Tht
messenger boy is to be handsomely uniformed
Among other improvements the company Will put
call boxes in the stores and offices Of its patrons
By pressing knobs on these boxes, as on the tele
phone line bell is rung in the telegraph otlce and
your number is registered. \ messenger boy will
then be Immediately dispatched to you.
Massachusetts, shoe men are occasionally looking
to Maine for business facilities. A firm Is making
negotiations with Rockland people to manufacture
shoes in that city another year. To any one who
wishes to engage in the business Belfast offers e&-
ira advantages. There is a building near shoe
factory, expressly fitted for the manufacture of
shoes, where business can be done without extra
expense. Power can be had from the shoe factory
building and the present proprietors will aid such
a movement. The Belfast factory is now a sub
stantal footing, is increasing its work from sale to
SALE and is, we believe the only factory in Maine
outside of Auburn, that has proved successful
We call attention to the advertisement Of the new
book Farm Talk, by 6. +. Bracket, of this city
which is now being extensively noticed by the
press of the State. The Home Farm, of Augusta,
speaks of the work as follows;
Thirteen years ago, Mr.. Geo. f. Bracket OF Bel
fast published little volume with this title, which
consisted of twenty sensible ESSAYS, written in
colloquia style, illustrating various common farm
subjects. 1t was gracefully dedicated the editor
OF The Home Farm, as his "friend and fellow
worker" Mr.. Bracket now publishes second Vol
ume, much in the same vein the first though the
essays more mature in thought, but are written
in the same quaint style. Mi Bracket has since.
that time been a cOpious writer FOR the agricultural
press, and for many years one of the members Of
our State Board of Agriculture. His new volume
COMPRISES twenty ESSAY OF chapters, on
many homely subjects of farm life; and they con
tain not little sound advice, quaint descriptions OF
persons, places and conversational genuine farm.
ers' book. The portrait shows the author to be q
young man STILL and now, Years ago. our friend
and fellow aborer in the best of all fields that of
agricultural literature.
The book may be found at our bookstores or may
be ordered direct from the publishers
MARINE NOTES. Ship Cora, of Belfast, Capt.
Joseph $. Thombs arrived at Yokohama Dec Sth,
l16 days from New York. .Schrs. Mary Farrow
and Brunette arrived at Belfast last week, each fiji.
teen hours from Boston, They Immediately loaded
hay and sailed on Saturday for Boston,. The Jour,
nal last week stated that Capt George r. Carter
mad been given command Of schr. A. W. Ellis, of
this port. The captain was too ill to leave home,
and the vessel is commanded by Capt George Ma.
honey, late Of schr. NJ. W Drew She sailed sun
day for Jacksonville with a load of hay. Ship
David Brown, at Melbourne from Boston, encOun
tered heavy weather in the southern Ocean, losing