The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-09-10

water near and the fire gained such Roadway
that it got beyond control. The engine house
and wood shed were saved, but the depot burned
to the ground. The depot was q building
2O0x100 feet and cost $4,000. One passenger
car, new one, costing $500, a mail car and
six freights. carload of corn, 225 barrels of
flour and other freight were destroyed. The
total loss is estimated at about $4,000. The
building was not insured. A portion of the
flour belonging to Portland firm was insured.
.. r. Grant, occupying portion of the depot
lost everything. 1t Is not known how the fire
caught.
FIRST REGIMENT OF NORTHERN MAINE.
The annual reunion of the First Regiment of
Northern Maine was held in Houton August
10th and 18th. The weather was cool, the camp
pleasant and the old boys had Il fine time. This
regiment is composed of the Grand Army Posts
of Aroosiook, with two Posts from Penobscot,
making twelve in all. 1t meets annually for
drill and social intercourse. The field officers
for the ensuing year are: H. o. Perry, Colonel;
b. Ill. Putnam. Lieutenant Colonel; A. j. Luf-
kin, Major. Staff, N. H. Martin, Adjutant; A.
W. lngerso. Quartermaster; j. IL. Syphers,
surgeon; j. v. Tabor, Assistant Surgeon; j. S.
Vail, Chaplain; W. E. Freeey, Sergeant Major;
F. w. Pearce, Quartermaster Sergeant. The
regiment will meet at Houlton again next year.
BURGLARIEs IN BANGOR.
The residence of Benjamin F. Adams, State
street, Bangor, was entered by burglars Thurs
day night. who broke into the stable, went into
the house and took Mr.. Adams pants and vest
frcm his sleeping room, carried them out into
the kitchen and took from them gold watch
and chain worth one hundred and seveuty-five
dollars and IA few dollars in change. There is
no clue to the robbers. Thursday the job print
ing establishment of T. S. Smith & Son was
entered and the open safe robbed of 800. Fri
day officers arrested John Fahey, who was found
secreted in a cupboard of house mile and a
hD nrfy l
IN GENERAL.
The bean crop for canning purposes has been
greatly injured by rust.
There will be more building at Bar Harbor
this winter than for several seasons past.
Senator Frye and family have returned from
Squirrel Island to their Lewiston home.
The islands in Boothbay Harbor are nearly
deserted. An Improbable season is reported
by the hotel men.
A Boston Globe correspondent writing from
Augusta, dominates Mr.. Blaine for Governor
on the Republican ticket.
Tourists from other States carry home with
them punches of swamp cat-ta as trophies of
their visit to the Pine Tree State.
The annual reunion of the Fourth Maine
Regiment and Second Maine Battery will be
held at Hurricane Island next Thursday.
The plans are drawn for Mr.. Bane's cottage
at Bar Harbor. 1t will be three stories in
height, and will probably be erected the present
fail.
Clarence Stevens of Smithtieid put into his
barn 80 tons of hay the past season, all the help
he had being his wife and little boy eight years
of age.
A loan and building association vii! soon be
organized IN Bangor. Two are now in success
fu operation in the State, one at Richmond
ana another at SkoWhegan.
A good Union soldier has been turned out as
Postmaster at Oldtown to make room for NJ
NJ. Folsom, who had charge of the Fusion army
at the State House in January, 1879.
Hon. Thomas Drummond of Chicago, cX-
Judge of the United States Court, is now visit
ing Mr.. Washburn OF Illinois, at the NorIands,
LNermore. Judge Drummond is native of
Maine and has held the office of judge for 80
years
J. Frank Walker of Embden, who was found
guilty. OF murder in the second degree is to have
new trial. Judge Foster has drawn an opin-
ion sustaining exceptions and a new trial is
granted.
An engine in the Grand Trunk yard at Port
land, colIided With the freight ears and shifting
engine, Thursday morning. Two freight cars
were smashed and three men bruised, but they
were not seriously injured.
Miss Ida NJ. Bickford, of Newburg, aged %
wears, WAS drowned at Hermon, Thursday
morning She went out alone in boat after
pond lilies and fell in. The pond was dragged
and the body recovered six hours afterwards.
Geo. f. Davies of Watervile, has taken
contract from the Maine Mfg Co., of Fairfield,
to stripe and varnish $4,000 hand-sleds to be
completed in three months. He will at once
have men upon the job, to paint about 200 per
day
senator Frye has received from distinguish
ed artist very fine oil painting on birch bark
"a reproduction in color of the superb salmon
which the Senator caught on his fishing trip in
the Provinces. The picture has been framed
On account of an advance in the price of tel
ephones at the Augusta and Gardiner exchange
ENGLAND ,hnp md
egrauh Company about one hundred instru-
ments have been ordered taken out BY sub
scrbers. This is more than half of the total
number in use at those exchanges.
The County Commissioners of Hancock
county have decided to erect a new Jail on the
same lot With the new county building at Els
worth. The old lot will revert to its former
owners. but 1t is expected the county will be
paid $500 for the betterment
Cyrus l.. Edgerly of Orrington, chief mate
OF the schooner Grace Cover, of Sedgwick
fell into the hold while the schooner was load
ing mahogany at the entrance OF the San Pedro
River, on the Mexican coast. receiving injuries
from which he died in fourteen days, and was
buried Aug. B.
The process of making sugar from potatoes,
recently discovered by MeSsrs. ALBERT and Gil
raud, continues to be discussed in the technical
journals as possibly one of vast importance.
Aroosfook county may soon have sugar as well
starch factories.
new slate quarry has been opened at Gull
ford. The location is especially convenient,
being only fifteen rods from the line of the
Bangor and Piscataqus railroad. The vein
which is l05 feet wide and so feet long has been
opened some time and indications are that it is
one of the best in the State.
Addison Carter, of Bristol, who, with his
family have been camping on Ragged Island
for several weeks, went to Matinicus, one mile
distant, Thursday, to purchase provisions. He
left Mainicu> at noon in small sail boat. since
which nothing has been heard of him. He is
probably lost. Search is being made.
Assistant Quartermaster Gen. Beals, of Au-
burn, says that business in his department of
the q. A. X. is slack at present. The first of
October the work of organizing new posts will
be begun again, and vigorously. A number of
posts will be organized in small towns in the
eastern part of the STATE.
The following ship property was sold at
auction, Wednesday, at Wiscasset, by Joseph
Tucker. assignee of a bankrupt estate in that
place: Three-siXteenths of the ship Fannie
Tucker to Capt. Richard II. Tucker one-eighth
of the ship McNear to Capt. Baker McNear of
Boston, one-eighth of schooner Annie z. Chase
TO Capt. Poole and one-eighth of schooner
Idewid TO f. B. Tucker.
The initial steps have been taken to form a
law and order league in ROckland, says the
Free Press. This movement arises on account
OF the dissatisfaction existing at the confirmed
inetiicency CT the local police and the county
w
able to state that those who will take pars in
the organization of a league are not confined to
one party, but will embrace democrats as well
AS republicans.
In Portland recently an ingenious device was
unearthed for evading the liquor law. A lead
pipe was carried up chimney to the second
story of the house, and investigation showed
that 1t was carried beneath the ground across
the yard to another building fully 100 feet away
Here beneath the floor in the second story were
two barrels of beer, the pipe running up the
wall to connect with them. This beer pipe was
1873 feet in length, composed of lead, with the
exception Of some 10 feet OF rubber hose on one
end.
The Union church at Phillips celebrated the
seml-centennlal of its dedication, Sept. 2, with
appropriate exercises. An eloquent sermon
was preached by Rev. A. II. Hatch of New
Bedford Mass. Remarks were made by Prof.
\. G. Brackett of Storer College, Harper's
Ferry, W. Va. Prayer was offered by Rev. NJ.
E. Hedding. There was an immense audience
present.
Pillsbury and Mullin.