The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-05-29

HE valuation OF Dexter l. = I9,G44. per cent
of taxation .OlN.
The Fairfield Village CORPORATION h;t. voted
to 90 back to the local time.
Lieut.. ID. G.. Mcittche L. 5. n. of Maine
Las been recommended for retirement.
The fair in aid of +. Jo.eph'> Roman Gatho-
lie church Of Bddetord Melted $4,000 in two
weeks.
Planting is about completed on the Insane
Hospital farm. Some 10 acres have been plant
ed in all
There were thirty-Seyen entries al the Ma
chiaS Baby show. May 18th. The receipts
were about Sl2o says the Union.
H. W. Eessenden Of Portland the chief clerk
Of the Court Of Alabama Claims, has an in
creased salary of 81 400 year.
The Lincoln mills in Lewiston are to stop
work on June I>t for an indefinite period.
over 300 hands Will be thrown out of work.
About $1,000 will be offered as premiums for
the trottn@ and other sports to take place at
MapleWood Park, Bangor, Oh the 81 and 4th of
July.
Congressman Reed was successful in getting
through the House the bill extending the court
OF Alabama claims until Dee. 3lst, 1850.
Abraham Colburn died in Orono recently at
the age Of - years. His grandfather was the
first white settler of Oron0 and his father was
revolutionary soldier
The Portland Packing Company is the largest
III the world. 1t has a capacity of 5000 900
cans annually, and has factories in Maine Nova
Scotia, New Brunswick. Prince Edwards Is
land, Cape Breton and New Foundlapd
Seventy men are now ut work at the Doug
lass Copper Mine at Bluehill. A party of
gentlemen from Boston, with Hon. f. NJ
Iaughion, have just returned from Il tour of
inspection. Ths owners soon expect to have
the property on paying basis.
The graduating class of Bates College this
year VIII depart from Il custom Of the past few
years III emitting the commencement concert
Bates VIII give a concert of surprising excel
la. f.l.
consists Of the Beethoven Instrumental Club of
Bost n, the Schubert Male Quartet
BdfnumS greatest show ON earth will be in
Portland. Biddeford and Lewiston the first
week in June. 1t looks as though Augusta and
Bangor Will be left out this wear.
In Bangor Thursday the Penobscot bar held
memorial exercises relative to the deaths, with
IN The past three months. of John L. Godfrey,
james ;. Rowe and w. +. Seavey.
Mr.. j.. 5. Metcaif, editor in charge of the
North American Review proposes spending
most of the summer with bis family and with
Mr.. Rossiter johnson at Monmouth Maine.
In the insolvency court at East Cambridge
Massachusetts, last week, the hearing on the
petition of the creditors of Shaw Brothers to
declare the firm insolyent, was continued to
June 18th.
DIR. Lapham Is arranging for the annual
press excursion to Old Plymouth, to come off
ON Monday the 18th day of July. The entire
expense of the regular excursion will not be
over $40 TO each member participating, side eX-
cursions extra.
A leading Augusta physician is of the opinion
that roller skating is "A healthy and invgorating
exercise when not carried TO excess, and be-
ieVes that no evil results follow. 1t is not so
Injurious as dancing, the motion of the skater
being even and smooth, while that of the dancer
Is 0ftentime unsteady ard irregular.
The ROckland Opinion saws that Thomaston
Is 10 be represented in one of the Boston dime
museums by two daughters of Mr.. Edward
Hysler, who have been engaged to appear as
natural curiosities." The girls are respective
ly IL and IA years, and weigh 1853 and 179
pounds. They each boast a supernumerary
hnger on each hand and supernumerary toe
on each foot, and they are of feeble intellect.
Jason L. Scribner convicted of murder and
sentenced to State Prison for life January both,
1850, has been adjudged insane according to
law and has been ordered by the governor and
council to be sent to the Insane Hospital.