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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

sembes Mrs Mary Walkers pantaloons. They,
1.-THE brick | mean.) are third larger than ours,
and look as if they were made If coarse chopped
meat hash, when there was a good deal of salt
petre in the beet. The inside of the house was
said to be finished very handsomely and elegantly,
and the grounds were adorned with flowers of all
kinds, and orange, palmetto, magnolia and banana
trees. There also large conservatory, in
which he no doubt had pumpkins and snow balls
and other northern exotics This place said
to cost over 100000 but the owner had q wide
border of black paint around each window and
door, giving them much the appearance of well
dressed man with his eyes BACKED and detracted
about $50 900 from the looks of the place Paddy
O'Donnels house, on King St, was not quite as
elaborate an affair 1t was built years ago,
when they expected boom" there, but the boom
did not come and the house is unoecupied and
has been always / believe As an evidence of
how well built it was | was told that 200 brick
were used in the foundation up TO the level of the
street C. Q Wittee, Esq President OF the PEG
pies National Bank. also has beautiful residence
on Rutledge Ave- some little distance out OF the
city. He has fine grounds and several pieces of
statuary. One in particular noticed. It was an
Indian. in full feathers and war paint, and | sup
posed that il one he got in front Of a cigar
store, but vas told that it was 0eeola the Semi
mole, whose body can be found buried all over Sui
livaus Island
Mr.. Wittee is German believe and represents
that government as Consul at ChaIlestou--but l
hava dual 10 tiUht in, thirty ,oinutps and Won
must excuse me. OUR GEORGE.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

FISH AND FISHING Mr. W Horn. OF sullivan.
while fishing for frost fish in d breathing hole in
the ice, Lad the good luck to catch fine mink,
Mr. II thinks he has developed new industry
Frost fish very abundant this season. The
brooks are full of EN-. A Sullivan correspondent
of the Ellsworth American says When the ice
is first forming in the fall, and again when break
ing up in the spring, large quantities OF frost fish
and smelts occasionally kept under the ice by
large foe Ks of gulls until the tide leaves them
bare the flats and under the ice. Then it Is Of
course not very difficult to pick up the fish by
hand or in any other way. Sometimes boat loads
are thus taken -. The \. Y. Herald Of the 18th
reports oysters scarce in the market with an ad-
vance in price of fifty per cent. in a few days
Four-lolar oysters have been advanced to s. per
thousand ana 5 oysters to Sl2. CLANS are nearly
all out and sell as high a. = b ssket while
the price formerly - cents. Scaops, which
sold at 81 per gallon, have gone up to - Fish
has also increased in price. -. The Cape Ann Ad
vertiser says fishing Will be prosecuted with re-
newed energies from that port The coming season
1.-The Portsmouth, y. H., Chronicle says that
the fishermen who use travis decidedly object to
the new method OF fishing f,r cod by nets such as
is adopted by the Gloucester schooner Northern
Eagle The crew Of one Of the Portsmouth vessels
say they lost over three thousand pounds of fish d
few days ago by their lines becoming entangled in
the nets set across them --.- Schooner Cora Smith,
Capt Aaron Smith, North Island stocked so 600
in about five months, fishing, the past season.
Probably $1,000 a month clear, on total of
about $4,000 invested -. Henry O. Stanley Of DIX
field Fish Commissioner has been at Rangeey
lately looking after the Matching houses down the
Lakes The annual report of the Boston Fish
Bureau places the mackere catch of the Massa-
chusetts fleet last year at 30 $50 bbs and of the
other New England states at BOSS bbls the ag-
gregate increase over the previous year being 100
015 bbls The imports from the provinces were
l05, 80 bbs against Sl,2l3 bbls in 1879 The
herring imports were less than Ealf those Of five
years ago. and the New England catch much
smaller than in 1879 The Grand and Western
Bank codtishing fleet from New England number
ed 253 sail, the North Shore fleet 10, and the
Georges and Shore fleets 3l5; total catch 647 42G
quintals. 1t is estimated that p 800, 900 herring
were shipped from PASSPORT during the past year
-...Commissioner Baird is having arifcalv
Matched Goldfish brought from Woods Holl, Massa-
where he is confident that they can be grown.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

Olive Logan has been lecturing in
Maine In letter to the Philadelphia
Times she shows lamentable ignorance
of the geography Of this State. For ex
ample
am in the region of the great lakes with the
tremendous names--the Winnipseogee, Memphre
magog and the rest The White and Franconia
Mountains are near BY am almost within sound
of the waves that wildly sough in Penobscot Bay.
| could scale Mount Desert if liked
Olive must have been up in balloon
when she wrote this letter; and as the
Rockland papers say her lecture in that
city was very light she probably supplied
the necessary gas herself
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

An article entitled IA Swell's Christ
mas Dinner" written for the Journal more
than year ago, was Tepublished by a
Rockland paper last week, A recent
number of the Boston Advertiser also
contains d paragraph concerning a di-
vorce at sea which was published in the
Journal year or more ago. Moral
Subscribe for the journal.
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The schr. j. j. Clark, Of Gloucester. capt j L.
Anderson, recently went ashore on the southeast
point Of Little Cranberry Island and was cotton OFT
by the crew of the lite saving station at that place
under Capt. G. 7, Hadloek The Cape Ann Ad-
vertiser says Capt Anderson has called at that Of
flee and spoken in the highest terms of Capt Had
lock and his crew In just three minutes from the
time he fired his signal gun it was answered by one
of the crew Of the station, and in twelve minutes
the boat was alongside with her crew ready to give
assistance, and through their timely aid the vessel
and cargo were saved. At the time the Clark was
being cared for, sch Chocorua Of Gloucester also
came near going ashore, but was saved by prompt
action on the part of Capt Hadlock and his men.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

How does Fuller intend to divide him
self up between his two papers? We
exchange with but one, and want the one
that is the most Fuller. We have never
found the Courier too full Of Fuller and
he will not fulfil our expectations if he
does not fill it Fuller than ever
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

A Washington despatch of the 18th
says: "AIr. Blaine will resign bis sena-
torship to give the Maine Legislature an
opportunity to elect Mr.. Frye in his place
during the present session. But it will
perhaps be as well to await Mr.. Blaine's
own statement before accepting this re-
port as fact.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

Aside from the question whether Coy
ernor Plaisted has not violated his oath
OF office in his assaults upon the judiciary
and in his attempts to bring its decisions
into contempt, it is certainly in question
able taste for him to assal the Supreme
Court when it is remembered that but for
its decisions he would to-day be disap-
pointed office. seeker instead of Governor
of Maine.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

An Englishman who lectured recently in Lon
don on America and its farming, said that Eng
land could defy competition with all countries in
the world except America. He attributed the su
periority of Americans mainly to their greater en-
ergy and devotion to their business
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

"On the Fusion line" says Scion Chase,
"the Greenback party will go out of sight."
1t is pretty near the vanishing point now,
Scion, as shown by the election returns
we published week or two ago.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

"'ho7 "il thc SLIPPERY plates.
Mr.. kelley's evening school will commence at :
O'Clock on Friday evening next at the High school
rooms.
Judge Lamson has changed the days of holding
the Insolvency court. After January the term will
begin on the Thursday following the second Tues
day of each month.
There are to be more pauper trials between
the towns of Morrill, and Belmont concerning the
support of Harriet Chllds that much Irrigated fe-
male having dropped dead in Belmont last Satur-
DAY She was - wears old
Mr. Gorham is receiving potatoes from Aroostook
ana Is also buying hay. He says his potatoes re
celVed from Houlton arrive in Belfast in better
condition than do those purchased this side of Ban
gor. One car load from Unity was considerable
frozen
Mr.. II. =. tarrow civil engineer of Belmont has
just completed for the city of Belfast plans of the
two cemeteries in ward one, and the one in ward
four. The work is very accurately ana handsome
ly done, The plans framed and are hung in the
city government rooms.
Sch. Lizzie b. Gregg, Of Portland bound to that
city with coal from Philadelphia was passed on the
lst, one hundred miles northeast of Bermuda ahan-
doned The boats We're gone, in which evidently
the crew had escaped but the vessel was i'll good
condition. The Gregg was commanded by Capt.
Charles Hayener. formerly Belfast
Washington engine company, No >. will give
their annual leyce and ball. at uayfold Hall on
Wednesday evening, Feb ID. Good music will he
procured and the ball in every way will be up to
former ones. cur iiremen work hard, have yerv
little compensation and our citizens should patron
ne literally their Ieycr. see advertisement in
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

The Philadelphia papers wisely decided that
Sara Bernhardts hat was indescrbable.
Well they might, when four New York
dallles described the hat, and each gave
to it different style, shape and color.
Probably some Of the reporters are color
blind.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

The list OF contributors to the North American
Review for February, contains many familiar
names Gen. Grant leads off with an article adj
voeating the Nicaragua canal route. Like his
speeches the article is brief and also like his
speeches it is very much to the point Contribu-
tons from DIR. Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jtdge 4
W. Tourgee, James Freeman Clarke and Walt
Whitman and others make up number OF I'M
usual interest
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

The annual meeting of the Maine State Temper
ance Society will be held in Augusta Jan 26th
and 9th, beginning at 10! A. NJ on the Goth, and
''all temperance men and women, who approve and
support the policy Of the prohibition of the man
utacture and sale of intoxicating liquors and are
in favor of whatever penalties Of law may be
necessary for their complete suppression" are in
vited to attend There will be the usual reduc-
ton of fare on the railroads
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

number Of Senatorial contests were decided
Tuesday Thos. F. Bayard re elected in Del
aware, Senator Mcmillan in Minnesota and Cock
rell IN Missouri. lu Michigan Senator Baldwin
was elected to ill the unexplreI term of Senator
Chandler, ending March eth and d Conger for
the full term beginning March It'll ten Jos R
Hawley was elected in Connecticut There vas
no choice in Nebraska Senator Paddock receiving
the highest vote. Senator Dawes undoubteI
ly reelected in Massachusetts yesterday. and cx
NJ c. Thos C. Plat elected in New York James
u. Fair has been elected in Nevada and Gen John
+. Miller in California. Senator Jones of Florida,
has been renominated. No choice in Tennessee
Postmaster General Maynard leading on the first
hallnt
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

There is a Congressman from Ohio. who, when
he speaks III Congress- is always Hurd.
Is it not more extraordinary that when
he does not speak he is also Iurd
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

Representative Murch, Of Maine, having occu
pied seat in the House nearly two years. never
learned until last Thursday that quorum is not
necessary in Committee of the Whole.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

The soldier vote to which Plaisted
catered SO industriously during the cam
paign, but without avail, receives scant
courtesy from him now. Another case Of
sour grapes.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

The Council are right in maintaining
that one Plaisted is as heavy burden as
the State can carry.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

Elk Gov Davis has removed his law business 10
Bangor, and formed partnership with Hon Chas
A Bailey Of Oldtown. The firm is Davis & Bailey
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law and they have
opened fine suite of offices at tie corner Ham
mond and Franklin streets, Bangor As the leader
OF the Republican party OF Maine in two cam
pagns, and as Governor during the past wear, Mr.
Davis has formed large acquaintance and has
most favorable impressed all who have met lin as
man Of ability, vigor and integrity The Junior
partner, MI Bailey, is also favorably known, and
the new firm cannot fail 10 meet with Gathering
success
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

Germany, it is said, is trying to revive
the hustle Germany had better keep
quiet. The move is no doubt in the in
terest of certain newspapers which find
their circulation seriously curtaiIed since
buStles went out
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

The Wing calls attention to the fact
that the Fusionist Governor who found so
much time and space in his Inaugural to
lecture Gen. Garfield on proprety, to dis
cuss the financial affairs of the United
States and to advocate the doctrines of
communism, had no word in behalf of
Temperance or of the great Educational
interests of the State
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

GOV. Piaisted might have omitted from
his inaugural the mock-modest estimate
Of his own abilities. He could not posi-
bly, rate them lower than the public do.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

recent number of Harper's Weekly has tell
ing cartoon entitled Sowing Diphtheria" The
picture represents small country house at the
door OF which young woman is emptying the
dish water we'll near by, it is evident, must re
ceive more or less of the filth thus careesslv dis
posed of. The harvest produced by such sowing
has bneD reapod in sorrow by many families the
country over.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

Ladies will be glad to hear that ''huttered frog
is the name of the last new color: it is rather
lighter than the enlightened toad" or angry
mouse"
The statistics of the department of agriculture
show that the total yield Of the wheat crop in 1880
was 4SO, $40, 7 bushels as compared with AS, So
lis bushels in 1879 gain of 3209l. COS bushels
There is an increase of y 900 bushels in New Eng
land
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

Congress is dull nova days. Where
is Jones Of Texas 1t is time that emf
nent statesman, who was thirsting for
gore during the Sparks Weaver war Of
words, was beard from again.
Ice dealers are happy over solid North Ken
nebec journal.
You mean that they are unhappy over
a solid South, don't YOU? That expresses
the situation here.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

Green is fashionable color this season.
A good many people will be in fashion,
uncOnSciOuSly
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

In deciding to use pIasteds inaugural
as a campaign document, the Fusionists
have saved the Republicans some trouble
and expense. We know of nothing bet
ter calculated to make Republican votes
than this demagogical address,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

Gen. Plaisted had hardly warmed the
gubernatorial chair before he began a
quarrel with his Council. A point was
strained to declare him Governor, rather
than have it appear that the public will
had been thwarted, but that should be
the end of concession. Now his hands
and feet-and, if possible, his tongue
should be tied by every constitutional
means. Accord him the courtesy due to
the office he holds, but show him mo favor
personally. He is entitled to none
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

Ice NOTES. The Bangor Commercial says that
Chas DoIans ice house at Bangor Is nearly fin
ished and it is thought that cutting Will com
mence there early next week 4 fire field has
been scraped and about 900 tons will be cut
Messrs L. Ii. & Ii Rollins have large crew of
men and several horses engaged i'll scrapng their
ice fields, at Bangor Mr. Frank C. Bracket
began Thursday afternoon to cut | 900 tons OF lee
rols the field opposite the Sanford Steamship Cos
wharf About 400 tons u this ice is for the
Sanford line, and the remainder for the Maine
Central Railway Co.. and others Mr. Bracket
has already cut 1000 tons on the keuduskeag
Stream, and will cut 900 tons more there 1885, D
Sargent a Sons have began cutting at Brewer
village the ice there is about IL inches in thick
ness. Aaron Robinson and j. L. Trggs are both
cutting on the kenduskeag and will ret FROM 600
to > 900 tons each The Ninalhaven Ice TO have
an order from Gen. nlson for 1000 tons Of Ice. to
be delivered at hurricane for next summers fish
business. The kennebec Reporter says: The
wages for workmen On the ice now ranges from
81 . to 81 30 per day but It is stated that Il 30
Will soon be the ruling price owing to the scarcity
ofprocuring experienced hands 800 The kennebec
ice companies are brlskly engaged in filling their
houses with ice OF an exceptionally excellent
quality 1T is expected that from - 900 to 80
900 tons of ice Will be harvested on the PeDobsc0t
this season
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

Articles on the fashions about as integbe
to the average man Greek to a back woodsnan
but no one can fail to see the extreme absur lity
OF some fashion gossip we find in recent
issue of Boston newspaper. For example "Of
all limitations defend me from a New Yorker who
tries to play the part of the BostoniauH Defend
US from the reverse, by large majority. But for
a specimen Of "culchaw, high art aestheticism
or whatever it may be called IL Boston I've should
call it the silliest sort Of gush-the following para
graph takes the prize
You make nice tea gowns in Boston, Clarissa
said gently. You wear great deal of plush and
wear it well, and the other day was at one Of
those houses with southern exposure, and saw a
girl who looked as ii she had just stepped off fan
that might have been painted for BeatriX Esmond
She had hair of ii soft dull gold and pale pink
bloom on her face and the gown was OF pc ach-
blossom satin brocaded with white plush and it
was made tight in NE back Int opened in front
over vest OF peach blossom almost hidden bv
cascade Of vermcelli lace that fell to the hem Of
the skirt. | met the same girl at dinner few
days later and she wore a black silk brocaded
with red and having an apron that seemed carved
out of jet but she did not look 50 pretty as She
did in the pink and white, although the let stuff
was 50 yard. Reason: The first gown was
English, the second French in design"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

The pogonip is the name the Indians
give to a fog which occasionally prevails
in the vicinity of Salt Lake City. 1t is
not really fog, but fine particles Of ice
floating in the air Not any of that kind
OF a nip for US. A regular down-east fog
is much to be preferred.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

They have counted Plaisted ont in Name :;
whether they will keep him counted out has not
yet been decided Lancaster, Pa, lnteiligencer.
This is an altogether unwarranted as
sertion Plaisted was not counted out at
any time, and butfo giving him the ben
eft of the doubt could not have been de
cla1ed elected.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-01-20

The exports Of apples from Boston for the week
ending Jan. A. were l2,24l and for the week be
fore lo5il barrels The first cargo of apples left
that port Aug a. since which time the exports
have been BOO Al barrels. These apples are en-
trely New England product, and may be est
mated at a total value of at least $500 coo The
total exports of apples from that port for the fiscal
year ending June 3d. 1880, were 1880 bbls
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SHIPPING ITEMS. Mr.. Harry Hall of the L S. Cen

SHIPPING ITEMS, Mr.. Harry Hall of the L s. Cen
sus Bureau, is in this State engaged in the work
ing up Of facts and information connected with
Maine shipping, especially in regard to the use Of
Maine ship timber, its resources in this State and
the extent to which it is used in the construc-
ton of Maine built ships He expresses the pin
ion that the ship of the future not the war vessel
but the merchantmen, will be ship of iron. .
test case regarding the validity of the New York
pilot laws has just been decided by the United
States Supreme Court as follows This Court holds
first that the pilot laws of New York are valid and
constitutional second, that the distance of the
schooner from the coast when the pilot boarded
her did not deprive the State Of its jurisdiction
that the pilot on board the schooner fifty miles off
the coast had the same authority from the laws of
New York to tender and demand employment, and
the same legal consequences followed the refusal
OF the master to take pilot as if the vessel had
been at point where the local jurisdiction was
complete and exclusive. Mr. j. G. Maddocks
the light keeper at Owls Head, reports to US that
the whole number of vessels that have passed that
station for the year ending Dec 81, 1880, have
schooners, 1868; sloops, go; steamers, 2,357-
Total, u $40. In 1879 the record stood ships o.
barks, 81 briggs, 10 schooners, II SO sloops
931 steamers, 3, l6S-Total, u ,;l3D This shows
an increase in the total of all classes of vessels OF
III AT a recent meeting of the stockholders of
the Bangor d Bar Harbor steamboat line. it was
voted to increase the capital stock of the company
to $1,000 making three hundred 500 shares The
affairs OF this company in excellent condition
and the outlook for the coming season is very en-
couraglng The House committee Oh WAYS ana
Means have instructed Congressman FRYE to pre-
sent an amendment striking out the words 'or
seize" from the Senate bill providing that no yes
sci shall be subject to seizure forfeiture unless
it shall appear that the owner or master at the
time Of the alleged Illegal act was a con.entug
sert and Sullivan Steamboat Co. have lie elected
the old board of directors. John s. Case Presi-
dent ohn Love Joy, Secretary and Trt asurer 1t
is probable new boiler will be put into the Mt
Desert at cost of s. 600 In the crew list of the
lost sch. Nathaniel Webster, the name given as
John J. ilson of Name should have been John l.
Wilson Of Darlington, S 49, The House Com
merce Committee has agreed to report tavorably
the Ross bill for the abolition Of Compulsory Pilot
age fees at He'll Gate, in which the New England
coastng trade has much interest
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