The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-10-15
Partridges are very plenty on the Maine
coast. A party of three persons recently
secured ninety-three birds in one day on Deer

| Partridges very plenty on the Maine
coast. A party of three persons recently
! secured ninety-three birds in one day on Deer
| Isle.
The Dexter wooden mills are rushed with
orders and report brilliant outlook for good
| winters business.
George McCue of Portland is known to have
| passed his 105th year and Is thought to be at
| least two years older.
Eighty thousand dollars have recently been
expended on new houses in Gardiner, and a
| large sum on improvements.
Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Sprague of Lowell, Mass.
celebrated their golden wedding recently. Mrs
| Sprague is a native of Bluehill.
President Hyde of Bowdoin has been secured
| for an address at the coming State Sunday
| School Convention to be held in Auburn, Oct
2l-23.
Judge Baker and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Leigh
and DIR. and Mrs. Chase, of Hallowell, are
making their annual carriage tour through
| Franklin and Oxford counties.
Isaac d. Cushman has been appointed Pos
| tai railway Mail clerk for special duty in Port
land, in place of Hon. H. Sayward removed.
| September "a Hon. Sumner Whitney ana
| wife of Presque Isle celebrated their golden
wedding at the residence of their son, Mr.
James F. Whitney.
The Maine Farmer says that from one acre
of greenSward which he turned under. Mr.. J.
| Ii. Bean of Sidney harvested 2S bushels of oats
| from one bushels sowing.
! The National Board of Health has established
| an Inspector at Moose River. 20 examine all
| persons passing through to this State and see
| that they are vaccinated.
| There are but two or three sections of the
| country that compare with the State of
| Maine in quality and breeding of horses, and
| this fact is becoming more apparent every
| year.
The State Board of Health has issued
| circular to the manufacturers of the State ask
| ing their cooperation in obtaining protection
| from smallpox by vaccination.
The removal of Hon. S. T. Pullen from the
! surVeyorship ia so g'aring violation of the
| President, reform professions that even the
| Mugwump Boston Herald is constrained to
| condemn it.
GOV. Robbie has appointed as delegate to the
| national cattle and horse growers association at
| 81. Louis next November, Hall c. Burieigh of
| NaNsaboro, and alternate, John Best of
| Portland.
| Notwithstanding the new railroad the Bangor
! and Bar HarOor Steamboat Company have
| done a very satisfactory business this season.
The Cimbra is now hauled up. while the Queen
| City does the fall business
Hon. W. W. Brookings, a Woolwich boy
| who went to Dakota some twenty years ago
and who has been both territorial ludge and
| Governor, has been nominated for L. 5. SEN
ator from the embryo new State OF southern
| Dakota.
| Burglars blew open c. ?. McCrillis' safe at
| Dexter depot. Wednesday night. but secured
only twenty-five dollars. They also entered
e. NJ. Sawyers store, but left the safe, con-
| tanning considerable money, untouched. There
| Is no clue to the burglars.
| Horace q. Jacobs, assistant supervising ar
| chect of the treasury, has rendered his resig
| nation, 10 take effect Oct 3lst. His action was
| entirely voluntary, and was taken in order that
| he might accepta business offer from Wash
| ington firm. Jacobs is a native of Maine, and
| has been in the treasury for nearly % years.
Maine horses hitherto popular, are becoming
better and better known and appreciated an
| nuaIly. The average value of Names hundred
| thousand horses is increasing by an appreciabIe
| percentage annually. The number of horse
| buyers in Maine from other States is yearly
reinforced.
The annual meeting of the Maine Pedagogical
| Society will be held on the 10Th, 10th and 11th
| inst. at the COburn Classical Institute Building
in Watervile. A highly interesting programme
| has been arranged and reductions in railroad
| fares have been secured
| On and after the 10th inst. all scholars rot
| vaccinated Will not be allowed to attend the
| Augusta public schools and pupils of the vii
| lage districts must be vaccinated after this
| week. Nearly all those attending in the dis
| trict have been vaccinated, however.
Mr.. John May says that he shall winter
| Pilot Knox in Augusta. He has been offered
| $4,000 for the stallion, but refused it. When
| il Is known that the famous animal has earned
| $4,000 for its owner this season, his refusal
| does not seem strange.
| John Mllbury, u years of age, employed in
a Houlton mill, caught his arm in the cogwheels
| of shingle machine last Thursday and com
| pletely Wrenched If from lis socket The
| youn9 man fingered two hours in great agony
| when death came to his relief
| In the race for the 2,21 class at the Roches
| ter II fair lack Snratt owned hy William
| SnelI of Portland yon in 81 n,inntes In
thp race for thp stallion rnn nj Wv.tir mark
| Boston. Pilot Knox. owned bv !. ii. NAV. Of
| Augusta. won in 2.194.
Mrs. Priscilla Sweetzer of Saco, attempted
| mide. A physician was summoned and she re-
| covered through the administration of restora-
tiyes. The cause was Martial INSANITY caused
me skatin@ rink At Richmond and contents
| owned by I. j. Southard, A. &. Thomas. }. l..
i'snalu, ana tle sloTe mouse owned pl lihrfi- IA,
nesdav. Both ult The loss on the rink is 81
| 23O. Insured for $1,000. Springer has an inslr-
F ,ha t;r IL r',n 'ii' 'o'' i"' Vi y"
Men from Megantic arrived in Phillips. Sept
%, and say there are Is cases of small poX
@ ,r felt - hs", tiii3 pa p,I;, III t'ie
citizens propose to appeal to the State Board Of
| Health to do something to prevent the spread
of the disease AS many Canadians come here
from the place
A member of the q. A. II. in Maine. who
| was in New York at Gen Grants funeral and
| stopped at one of the hotels run on the Euro-
| pean plan, preserves one of the bills rendered
him as a genuine curiosity. The bill contains
| such items as the following: For one cucumber,
| - cents; ears of corn. 81. lie does not be-
eye New York hotels are the most economical
| places to live.
The work of dredging Bangor harbor under the
last appropriation of $4,000 will be completed
about November first when 45 900 cubic wards
| of gravel and bpulders will have been removed
| water 6eDth made from the CITY Point 10 onno-
| lite the Maine Central depot. The contractors