The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-02-26
Clippings.

1t Is as good as settled that the Mcgantic rail
road shall build a bridge arro~s Moosehead
lake. The new road can advertise as one of it,
advantages that trains VIII be run slowly 50
that passengers may fish for trout from The ear
windows. Hooks, lines and bait furnished by
the conductor. Boston Post.
Carl SchurZ is making speeches in the South
IN favor Of education. In other words. having
helped the Democratic party to elect Il pre>i-
dent, he now turns about with characteristic
trtacherv and advocates a policy which j.
directly inimical to Democratic safety and
prosperity. obeDemocrat.
Some of our contemporaries remark that
elections III Maine will continue to be held in
September because the judiciary Committee of
the present Legislature has decided. The
Constitution OF Maine declares that the State
elections shall be held the second Monday in
September forever. The Constitution must be
changed to get rid of September elections
Boston journal.
An PASSPORT correspondent of the New Age
says there are three candidates for the Pa>sa-
maquoddy colectOrship-Gen 5. ID. Leavitt.
Robert NJ. Burns, and Charles h. Whidden of
the Calais Times. He adds that the contest is
warm, but friendly. A Thug of India" then,
which one of the candidates calls another. i,
reckoned a term of endearment on the ST.
CroiX. Press.
The story about Hannibal Hamlm having
made Il life long enemy when he was first III
the Legislature. by a practical joke, and that
this enemy after several years defeated Mr.
fiamlm as a candidate for United States Sen
ator, would be more entitled to credit if it
could be found that Mr.. Hamlin was ever de
feated as candidate Tor the Senate. The
narrator probably manufactured his story for a
foreign market. kennebec journal.
In Maine there are 50 federal offices, the in
cumbents of which are appointed by the Pres
ident. OF these 81 are post offices and 13
colleclorshlps. The terms of only seven post
masters and three collectors expire during the
present year most of the commissions having
one to three years to run. There is reason to
believe that every man of them would give Il
months salary to know the exact latitude to
| be given to that famous phrase "offensive
| partisan" Portland Advertiser.
FISH AND FISHING. The committee on
! fisheries and game have considered the petition,
| for a repeal of the law protecting seals in
! CascO bay, says the Augusta CORES pondent OF
! the Portland Advertiser Judge Goddard al,-
peared in behalf Of the seals and Of the pros
| porous Portland folks who have built villas
| along Falmouth foreside. He explained to the
| committee that the seals are great attraction
that they are hunted only by set of semi
| barbarians who make fifty cents a day trying
| out the oil when they could earn two dollars
| by saving wood; and the constant shooting in
| the neighborhood of these summer establish
| ments disturbs the quiet and endangers life.
| Maio Richards, of Gardiner, confirmed Judge
| Goddard's statement to the danger of such
| indiscriminate shooting. But no sooner had
| the Judge retired from the room than member
| of the committee, who appeared to know the
| capacity of hungry seal for fish, arose and In
| an impassiOned speech denounced the seal as a
| miserable, low-ved critter," who was harder
| than a caribou TO shoot, and so fendshly cum
| ming to put to naught the most ingeniousy
contrived traps In short he was of the opin-
| ion that the seals (and probably also Judge
| Goddard and the nabobs of Portland) could
take care of themselves. The committee voted
to report bill repeating the law which has for
some years prohibited the shooting of the Sc
animals in Casco bay. A bill to protect The
seals of Saco bay met with a cold reception.....,
Says the Bangor Wing: If the road from
for which the Legislature is asked to grant
| an appropriation, is constructed it will cause
! fine country for sportsmen and tourists 10
| be easily accessible. The new road will pass
the northern end of MoXie Pond, body of
" ater ten miles long and full of fish. Beside
| this pond, there are many other lakes, ponds
and streams within short distance which
swarm with fish......A party of Bangor fisher
men have been stopping for few days ai
Lambert Lake and succeeded in getting about
| one hundred pounds of nice trout. Mr.. Ed.
ward f. Walker ''took the prize" when he
caught large speckled trout weighing nine
| ana one quarter pOunds.....Uhe Bangor Com
mercial says: An anglers journal is publishing
| series of letters to prove that brook trout
| weighing "a pounds was caught in Maine In
1S49. There is nothing very remarkable about
| il. AS a trout generally increases in weight al
| the rate of one pound an hour after being taken
from the water by an angler, the Maine fish OF
1S49 should now weigh about 100000 pounds.