The Republican journal., 1883-09-27
News of Belfast and Vicinity.

issue in October enabling us to increase the read
! ing matter about one fourth. There will be no
change in the subscription price. Send in your
| subscriptions now.
| The Belfast post-oflice has received the new two
| cent stamps which will be issued Oct. lst.
| Jonathan Knowles while unloading pressed hay
| from team got his right hand caught in a bale
| breaking his thumb.
Mr.. Jesse Frye, Of East Knox, has left at this of
| flee some apples one year Old which are in re
markedly good state of preservation.
| Twelve hundred casks of lime were landed here
one day last week, and shipped over the railroad to
Watervillc, Fairfield and Skowhegan.
Samuel Rackline has purchased the house on
Commercial street owned by Capt. Fred A. Gilmore
| and occupied by Capt. j. A. Partridge
| new mutual Insurance company, known as the
| Bay State Beneficiary Association, has been or
ganized in this city 1t is similar to the Legion Of
| Honor and Royal Arcanum.
| The Boston and Bangor steamboat company will
| continue their daily trips until about Oct 18th
where the Penobscot will be hauled off. The steam
ers have done a good business this season.
The much needed rain came on Monday night
| From dark to past midnight the rain fall was
| heavy, and the wind very fresh. Csterns were
| filled, but the wells will not derive much benefit.
| A Belfast farmer, who has just begun business
has this season sold $500 worth of produce besides
| living off the place. In few years he will double
it, and yet there are those who say farming will not
| pay.
| IL. A. Trip, Of Bluehill, inspected Thomas IL
| Marshall Post g. A. r. in this city Friday eve
| ming. About thirty members were present. The
Post is IN good condition, the present commander
| G. W. IIaney, being very efficient
| The town Of Belmont is without a preacher. Last
| week Rev. Mr.. Tufts, of this city, WAS at Halls
| corner and gathered audience and preached
Much interest was created and in future Mr.. Tufts
| will visit that town as opportunity offers Sab
| bath school will probably be organized.
A forest fire broke out last week on the land Of
Mr.. Howard near Masons Mills, Belfast, and had
burned over seventy-f five acres up to Friday night
| The houses Of p NJ. Staples and Albert Stinsor
were endangered, when the people turned out and
| fought down the flames. The fire was still burning
| on sunday but was extinguishet, by Mondays rain
Since Hiram Chase struck water in his store cellar
On Main street, John Garlic, whose store adjoins
Chases, has dug down three feet in his cellar bot
| tom and the water runs in freely, giving him
an abundant supply. Originally the sites of the
journal building and of the stores in this vicinity
| was a marshy bog where flags grew in abundance
| There is plenty of water beneath the surface any
| where in this locality.
The Morris Warbiers gave their first perform
ance in Maine at the Belfast Opera House in this
city on Monday evening. Owing to the rain the at
| tendance was small. The company is much better
| than the AZ erage, the music and dancing being es
| pccialy good. The trip around the world was
| given in series Of panoramic views, and was q
| very attractive part of the entertainment. The
| company deserves success.
The steamer kntahdin landed Mt Belfast on Thurs
| day, twenty sacks of peanuts-eighty bushes-fol
| q. g. Pierce On inquiry we learn that Mr.. Pierce
who is Il large dealer in confectionery, &c, sells
| 1900 bushels of peanuts every year. He buys the
| Virginia nuts. which he says are superior to any
| ether Peanuts now sell for about So per bushel
but range in price from 80 cents to 81 per bushel
| The consumption Of the peanut increases every
| year
True words from the Dexter Gazette 1t is tho
| custom Of some Of our people to send out of towr
| for what they wish to buy. This policy is suicidal
| unless we encourage home Institutions, home re
tail stores, home mechanics, we cannot expect thai
| our real estate and demand for rents can be kept
| up. Resolve to patronizc your place if you
| would flourish like green bay tree. Our loca
traders are now about purchasing their fall stock
of goods and can probably offer as good goods an,
| as much for the money as out of town dealers
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT THE JAIL. Monday
night Levi Walker, of this city was taken to jai
| w m nf ljriu t1,n 10,
| drunkenness He placed in the poor debtor:
room. In the morning the turnkey found him ~
| ing in one corner Of the room with blood flowing
| from 4 wound in his neck. DR.. Fletcher was call
ed ana examined the wound, and it was found tina
Walker had with an ordinary pocket knife attempt
| cd suicide, making Il cut one and half inches long
on the right side Of the neck directly over the mali
artery. The wound was sewed up and Walker vii
| probably recover.
The launching of the miniature sch. Wandere
at the Belfast Opera House, Saturday Afternoon
| and evening did not attract much attention as
deserved. 1t was worth more than the price of ad
| mission to examine the little schooner. She slid
| from her ways into the tank very gracefully
| About 100 persons witnessed the evening perform
| ance- Chester W. Cotlre, the builder Of the Wan
| derer, has gone to Boston to make arrange
ments tol exhibiting the little schooner at the Me
| chanics fair. We hope this will be done, as /
| would be Il good advertisement of our shpyarCls
Mr.. Cottre has been offered and refused 800 fo
| his little craft.
| On Thursday of last week, City Marshal Gates re
| ceived telegram from the Rockland City Marsha
| asking him to arrest Morton Hail. Charles Snow
| dell and Whitney Rhoales, three boys who wer
| supposed to be in this vicinity. On Saturday Mr.
| Gates found Hall and Snowlell and learned tina
| Rhoades was at Lincolnvc. Taking Hall in hi
| team the Marshal drove to Lincolnville wher
| Rhoades was found In the afternoon MI Crockett
City Marshal Of Rockland, drove up to Belfast AM
| carried back Hall and Rhcades. Snowdell was pu
| on board the Boston boat Monday and sent to Bos
ton, where lie belongs The boys had been guilty 0
some petty theft and had run away from home
TELEPHONE. The wire of the National Bel
| Telephone company of Maine reached this cit
from Rockland ON Friday, and at O'Clock in tn
| evening communication was had with that city. |
was an event for Belfast, as this was, we think
the only city in Maine, that had not adopted thi
wonderful invention. The present line extend
| from Bar IIarLor to Rockand, and as soon as tn
| wire reaches Bangor we shall be in communication
With the towns along the route. The wire will al
50 be extended from Rockland to Gardiner Chas
| !. Collamore or Bangor, superintendent of thu
eastern division, arrived in Belfast on Thursda,
| evening and at once made arrangements for thu
reception of the wire which reached here next day
The telephone Office is at H. f. McDonad's jewel
| cry store IN Masonic Temple, and Mrs. Mcdonald
has charge of Lhe office Mr.. COllamore will try t
Interest our business men and others in establish
| ing local exchange and if sufficient encourage
ment is received will put in instruments on the fol
! lowing terms: Business places, $40 per year; pri
vate houses, $50 per year. The rates for the pres
| ent line arc twenty five cents for an orlinar,
| business conversation, ana ten cents extra for
| messenger to hunt up the party you wish to con
| verse with.
| OBsTkrCTING THE TRACK. On Thursday of las
week, James Bowen, a boy fifteen years old, livin.
| at City Point Belfast, was before Trial Justic,
Greer charged with placing obstruction on the tract
| of the Belfast railroad. The complaint was mad,
| by John McTaggart, section man on the railroad
| The afternoon down train one day last week wheI
| short distance above Waldo station struck an Oh
struction on the rail which jumped the engine suf
| ficienty to throw the engineer from his seat bu
| fortunately the engine kept the rail and no injury
| resulted When the train arrived at Waldo piece
| Of plank found lodged near the steam chest