The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-10-29
developing well bred Maine colts, and his
friends all wish that he may meet with success.
MAINE GENERAL HOSPITAL.

| developing well bred Maine colts, and his
friends all wish that he may meet with success.
! Bangor Commercial.
MAINE GENERAL HOSPITAL.
The annual meeting of the corporators of the
Maine General Hospital was held Oct. 18TH
! Reports show that the institution is prospering
but still has to depend largely upon charitable
contributions, although the bequest of Gov.
Coburn will go largely toward making it self
supporting The permanent fund has increas-
ed to $3.50. The total receipts for the year are
500 125. The current expenses at the Hospital
was 1923. 1913. A new Amphithea.re has been
built at a cost of $4,000. During the year 409
patients have been admitted to the Hospital
making 443 the whole number under treatment.
| The school for nurses, established last year, Is
officers were elected: President, w. l.. Put
nam; Secretary, f. X. Barrett; Directors, J.
| W. Symonds, Sydney W. ThaXter; Standing
Committee. l. T. Dana, E. II. Davies, Henry
| Deering, Sydney Perham. f. X. Swan. Mrs.
| Helen A. Gilman was elected associate cor
| porator.
| VERDICT IN THE CLINTON ACCIDENT.
In the case of Horace and Ellen Goodwin
killed by railroad train at Clinton village,
| October 10Th, the coroner's jury find that the
train was running thirty to forty miles per
| hour; that no flagmen, gates or other signal
| was maintained at the crossing; that the box
| cars on the side track obstructed the view of
| the track and the coming train and that Good
win was under the impression that the ap-
| proaching train was a mail train and would
| come to stop at the station before reaching
the crossing where he attempted to pass over.
| Five small children are LETT destitute and alone
| by this accident.
THE KNOX COUNTY LIQUOR CONSTABLES.
| An armistice has been agreed upon between
| the parties interested in the appointment Of
| special liquor constabes in Knox county and
an agreement signed by John 5. Case, may or of
| Rockland, and J. B. Loring, for the petitioners,
has been drawn up. 1t states that The marshal
and police Of Rocklmd having promised to
faithfully enforce the prohlbitory law, 1t is un-
| derstood between the petitioners for the ap-
| poinllnent of the conslabes that the petition
! shall lay upon the table in the meeting of the
Governor and Council, until ii may appear
| whether he officers perform their promise Il
| they fail TO do 80 the constabes to be appointed
rs prayed for.
! CUTTERS CRITICAL CONDITION.
| They have organized debating club in Cut
| rto discuss and determine the question wheth-
| er II II easier to gain Il living in that town by
| fishing than by farming. Whichever way the
thing goes il will he great blow to Cutter; tor
| if they should leave off fishing, there would he
| potatoes without fish and if they decide against
| farming. il viii be fish without potatoes. Cut
| Ter i passing through yely critical period of
| its existence. Ea>tport Standard.
PAY FOR HUNGRY DEMOCRATS.
The homesick eighty-ccnt dollars that find
| their way back TO the scenes Of their childhood,
tn L. >. Treasury, should be worked off on the
olce-holders. Pay them off q few months in
pot metal and there viii be no necessity Of tie
| "hungry Democrat" Wrechng his neghbor's
character to get him out of office. Try it, gen
tlcmen. Fairfield journal
IN GENERAL.
The salvation Army have hired Fishers Hall
| at BoothhaV for one year
| hat seems to be petrified negros head has
been dug up in Augusta
Twenty divorces were decrecd at the last
| term of the supreme Court iii York county.
II is said that the Posi- Office at DenMsvie
| has been in the hands of the kby family for
| 50 years.
Burnban 4 Morrill, OF Portland put UP 100000
cans OF sweet corn at their Denmark factory
| this season.
Governor Rohie has signed the death war
rant to hang Daniel Wilkinson of Bath for
murder on the 20h of November.
| The Boston x Maine railroad has given $3.50
fora free bed for one year at the Maine General
| Hospital at Portland.
| The Biddeford journal says Jack Spratt's
| driver says no race has been arranged between
| Pilot Knox and Jack Spratt, nor is there likely
| to be.
Caleb B. Lord, former clerk of courts in
| York county, and Il prominent citizen of AL
| fred, died Oct II 5th of Bright's disease, aged
| 66 wears.
Theodore l.. Page, proprietor of the Elm
wood hotel at Phillips, has been appointed
| keeper OF the Senate restaurant al the National
| Capitol
Miss Annie Iongfeow. youngest daughter
Of the late poet, was married at Cambridge,
Mass. Oct. II. TO Mr.. James Gilbert Thorpe Of
Eau Claire, " isconsln.
The Governor and Council took no action
| Oct, 18th in the matter of the communication of
Mrs. Barrows's sentence, because nobody ap-
| pearcd either for or against the petition.
| TINS Is the season when the Grand Army
| posts III the State undergo their regular in
| spection. Inspector A. A. Nickerson of Port
| land, Will have charge, assisted by Others
| DR.. j. w. North of Augusta, formerly of
Jefferson, has purchased the pleasant residence
of ManIey jackson, near the Lake House,
Jefferson, and will occupy it as a summer
| residence.
The store of Howard Staples, containing the
| Po>t-otiice at South Eliot, burned Oct. Is.
| Loss. S1,500; insurance and origin unknown.
| A. }. Libby of Oakland, recently sent to the
| WatertoWn yards y head of Hereford cattle,
| weighing from 400 to 800 pounds a pair.
| These are claimed to be among the finest cattle
| in New England.
Augustus Haskell was fearfuly, if not fatal
iy injured, Oct. 10TH at the Somerset Fibre Co.'S
mill at Fairfield. A carload of green edgings
was dumped upon him, crushing his hip, dis
| IOintlng il and otherwise mangling him.
| 1t Is emphatlcaly denied that there are any
eases of small poX at Brunswick. and DR..
Mitchell pronounces the ''sm4li pox scare at
| DfulSWlck.' which mas been reported IN Maine
dailies, as entirely without foundation,
The amount of lumber SURVEYED AT Bangor
| for the wear ending October | WAS al follows !.
| Dry pine II 400 $50 feet green pine 7.713 94S
feet spruce. 10 OyOS-4 feet. hemlock. erc
| l3S14,572 feet-a total of 1913 145.3-4 feet. an
| increase OF 3liS 2tS feet over 1884
| The Governor and Council have reported in
favor of paving $1,000 State ai,I-@5O0 eaci,-to
The Eastern Maine and State fairs TO be anpro-
| pritcd for the paymtnt Of special premiums At
| their recent exhibition on dairy products and
fat cattle.
Insurance Commissioner Smith has already
PAID into the State Treasury So. 100 in fees. and
! The receipts for The remainder of the wear will
| probably increase this sum 10 f9ur or five
| thousand dollars Last wear tn. total receiiyt,
were but S3.4G4.
10 avoid coutagion from small noX now pre-
lalent in Canada and some sections of this
| State the board of trustees have ordered that
all visitors except the municipal officers of cities
| md towns or persons having official business.
| be excluded from the insane hospital,
Quebec newspapers charge the Canadian
| Pacific railway with the intention of abandon
ing the route TO the sea through Canadian ter
ritory in favor of route through the United
States to be acquired by thp uurrLase of The
Portland and Osdensburg road,
j. W. SAWYER & Sons. of MibYidge. launch
ed their 10O-ton braantine on oct. 18th. and
she will be ready for sea about the first of next
month. saws the Calais Times. She viii be
| named the Nentur. and commanded hy Can't