The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1882-12-21

| chunks of wisdom. Read what he has to say. And
don't overlook Atwood's characteristic petition to
| the Legislature
The Clerk of Courts has received rescript in the
| case of Trask petition for review VS. Inhabt-
| ants of Unity This is the old Trask case of eight
| years ago. where he sued the town for damages
The case has been tried twice, with verdcts in ia
vor of the town. The court now denies his petition
| for review, with costs for respondents.
shipping items and matters relating to shipping
heretofore published in the local columns will be
| found in the Ship News department, which we pro
| pose to make an interesting and useful feature of
| the journal, Reports from captains and agents of
vessels and Information from any quarter with re
gard to our local shipping will be gladly received
| Mr.. l. W Parker of this city will go to Bridge
port, Conn, next week, where he will put up a
| house for Mr.. +. Z. Bassick MIR. b. owns consid-
cradle land in that city, and win build quite num-
her of houses on il to rent 1t is probable that Mr..
Parker will erect nine ten houses for him before
| he returns; some of them will cost from three 10
four thousand dollars, the others viii he cheaper.
| BrRSHAM. Howes 4 Fletcher llad Il men in the
woods cutting lumber last week. aul this week
intend putting in 20 teams to haul the lumber ont
to the stream .sleighng is quite good in this
|
| their golden wedding Wednesday the 18th nst.
The Lake is frozen to the depth of6 or inche~..
Wells are very low and farmers have to drive their
stock to the Lake to drink. one day last week
! r. Dodge ami two others caught n pfrkcrrI
| through the ice
swASvILLE. The farm building, of charles fl.
| Black in this town, destroyed ty tire at $50
O'clock on Monday evening last Workmen were
| ono a,rpIi in, mi,
of a lantern suspended from the beams just as
the men left the barn they heard the lantern cN.
plode, and soon the barn was in flames The dwell
! ing joined the barn and soon ali We're DESTROYED.
The stock and part of the furniture were saved.
! The barn contained fifty tons of hay which was
| burned. Loss, $1,000; insured for : 800.
JACKSON. Horatio Twitchel received a severe
injury one day last week In getting town from
the scatlod in his barn he caught hook that
had been driven into Inc beam for hanging UP
sheep to dress; the hook, being pointed, caught in
his thigh and held him suspended in mdlir for
some time, but he finally eNtricated himself and
fell to the Moor, bleeding profuseIy The wound
! thus made is inch in length but The hook puuc-
| trued the flesh to the depth If about rour ircLr-
Idea. Ahram Fletcher Of our aged resi-,
dents, is very sick The following are tine Oil
49, Cit't III NttI " IIpSitSH orange NJ, TX, H.,
Page; O., Z. L. Dodge; L., Mrs. D. X. Drake. :.
| Willie Gould; A. s., W. Gates. Chap, Mrs. b. y.
Taskrr, See J. W. Wallace; T. Mr.. A. IL.
Fletcher, q. X, Daniel Pattee; Ceres. Mrs. II. L.
| Page; Pomona, -; Flora, Miss Eliza D.ni-:
L. A. s., Miss Eugene Grant.
WINTERroRr. Our village il putting on metro
politan ar- and has on its streets some sixteen
expensive and well lighted lamps The most brill
liant light in the village is the in the front win
dow Of the Try goods store kept by the Misses Nor
rill 1t sends its rays the street and in every
direction. An application viii be made to the Leg
lslature this winter for village ineorpo ration..
Capt. J. +. Hutchings is 10 take command of tft
sch, Mary A. Hyer, as soon some needed repairs
are completed. Rev George Il. Palmer ala Rev
Mr.. EIoisngton have been holding meetings in the
Methodist church th, week, Rev. W. f. Chase
Of Rockport, is expected to preachin the Methodist
church on sunday neXt....Mrs. Ellen X Peirce,
wife Of Charles II. PIERCE Esq, was burie,i last
Saturday. The funeral service was conducted by
her son, Rev. Webster X. Peirce of Massachusetts,.
Mrs. Mary Atwood, widow Of the late Capt
Thomas Atwood, was buried on sunday last She
was the only child of the late Capt. Richard Rich,
of North Winterport. The willow of the late De.
| Ezra AIanter is in very poor health.
CAMDEN. stmonton II Rich have iu-j purchased
q safe for their Office i. The Geo. = Cobb,
| Post G. A. il. No. IS, have leased Cleveland hall
| for term OF years, but viii continue for SON. e
| months to hold their regular meetings ut Temple
of Honor hall. The mumps are raging in Rock
port, and a few cases are reported in Camden....
The young folks are having a fine time coastiug in
our streets. The frames of TWO vessels are now
on the Stocks in II. NJ Beams shipyarl.. Repairs
| SrhO1u,1. Har at 4
| Days yard nearly completed. ...La-t week
there shipped go casks lime. MI Tui~Da
will build house his place Tor tine u-r of hi-
| hired man and family Robert ana Andrew WaI-
worth have the job Those OF onr merchants v ho
deal in holiday goods have unusually large stocks
this season.... The Baptist society are erecting an
carthen glazed pipe chimney the south side Of
their church. One Of the furnaces is TO be movel
70 tile east corner of the ycstry.... Ngrcellu,
Prince has built two story shop for his Increasing
| business. Horton Brothers, painters, have NOV
| ed into Whmore \ Ayers building on BayvieW
| St....Ayer 4 Mullin have just moved into their
new fish market. schooner Flora Rogers is tJk
| ing in ballast preparatory 10 sailing for Bureu
| Ga
/ >EARSMoNr. Christmas serl ices at the VI. +.
church next sunday and Christmas tree on Mon
sunday there will be a quarterly meeting at ,he VI.
| +. Church Mr. Nat. Written hus been repairing,
his mill and putting in circular saw for board
| saving. The firm of Dickey 4 Brown have their
| factory running agau....Mrs. Chas F,uroW.
| formerly Mrs. koiN, of Belfast is in very poor
health. DIR. \. T. Bean remains about the same
and grave fears entertained as to his recovery
| - Mr. John Paine has bought out the stock and
trade OF James Moody. MIR. f. l.. Bean has just
| returned from Boston with full line of Christmas
| and New Years goojs....A few days since Mr.
John Paine and wife were surprised by the appear
ance of about thirty Of their Young friends who
called on them TO spend the cy cnin@ and who had
| hearty welcome. Within short time there has
| been great improvcmentin the appearance" of our
streets caused by the setting If trees which VIII
eventually be an ornament to the village ..JamcS
| Barker Is now running hi- business with fun
crew numbering in all about fifteen hsn~. Nh
| Barker i very enterpri~ing man.... More water
seems to he what neei at the present time. The
wells are getting very low and some of them are
dry. Mr. Albert Clement has resumed labor after
an illness of about three months.
BROOKS. Cold wintry weather 4 foot of snow
| in the woods. Annual meeting Of Marsh River
Lodge, F. \. NJ The movement on foot lp az
| range Old Fellow Lodge here is taking shape
| ....Gco. &. Davis Post, g. 4. r., was mustered in
| here Monday night, Dec llth, With y. II. Rose
| commander; John johnson, : ". g., Wan. {.
! Rowe j. V. c.; j. W Lang, adiutant; Benz. john
| son, Chaplain; L. Rowe, surgeon; :. Foss. Jr-,
| Quarter-master; James Howard, Ohiccr of the
day. The carpenter shop of VIM. n. Crosby took
| fire Thursday noon and was burned with contents
Of lumber and tools 4 part of the latter We're
saved. -. Henry Foss, formerly Of this town, died
| recently of diphtheria. at his home in Waldo....
| Mrs. &. V. Munr0c will soon occupy her new mil
| linery Il fancy goods store. Emery O. Ntlutial
| had his year old colts leg broken in attempting to
| jump horse Sled. Mr. ). has the colt slung
| up, the leg nicely set and doing we'll. Tuesday
eve, 26th, will be annual election of officers in IIa
vest Home Grange. The w. NJ, j. w. Lang, is at
| tending State Grange in Lewiston. The clothing
factories doing good business. Doctors re-
port considerable sickness. W inter schools all
keeping. One school in town has an attendance of
only two scholars Otis W. Lane, recently estab
lshed here in the stove and tin ware business has