The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-07-09
IN GENERAL


Miss Blanche Willis Howard, the author, is
at Wiscasset.
Mrs. Jane Wilson of Edgecomb will celebrate
her one hundredth birthday July 10.
The incoming freshman class at BOWd0in
College promises TO number 40 or more.
The various ice companies along the Penob-
scot report a small demand for ice at present.
Few sales are being made, but al good prices,
The valuation Of the city of Lewiston ha,
been figured at Sll ,29 ,126. OF this, 5000, S1I
is real estate and s.. l96,909 personal estates.
The old board of directors of the Maine Tcle
graph Company have been reelected, with
Hon. A. W. Paine as president, and John 5.
Kicker secretary and treasurer.
The prizes for the Junior exhibition at Colby
were awarded to Randall j. Condor and
Sheridan PIaisted, Of the gentlemen, and Bessie
K. White and Julia L. Wnslow. of the ladies'
Mr.. Walker Blaine, son of Hon. james &.
Blaine, Is to be married this summer, ii is
mored to Miss Elite, daughter of ex-Gov. ID.
d. T. Farnsworth OF Buckhannon, w. Va.
Farmers throughout the State are rejoicing
and congratuatiDg each other on the beautiful
rainfall of last week; but they complain
at the same time that the hay crop will be very
light, rain or no rain.
7. o. Adams of Maine, $500 clerk under
Paymaster Gen. Smith, whose resignation was
recently asked for, has addressed a letter to the
secretary asking the reason for the request of
his resignation.
The coroner's jury in the case of George F.
Harmon, supposed to have been murdered by
kOhler in Portland, February last, by admnis-
tering arsenic, returned verdict Friday night.
of death from causes unknown to them and
kohler was discharged
The $1,000 reward offered by the city of Bath.
Me-, for the detection of the murderer of Po-
liceman Lawrence, has been distributed among
six claimants, the city retaining $3.50 for the
services of the Boston detective.
The directors of the Edwards Manufacturing
company in Augusta have declared a dividend
of p per cent for the past six months. The
mill belonging to the company has probably
given better returns during the first half of the
year than any similar property in New Eng
land.
The Weston boom at Skowhegan, Maine
containing twenty million feet of logs broke
last night and the logs went through in an al
most unbroken mass, sweeping away the logs
at Somerset Mills and Fairfield. This is a seri-
Gus blow to Fairfield lumbermen.
The Secretary of War has requested Con-
gresham Dingley TO nominate a cadet from the
Second Congressional district of Maine to enter
West Point Military Academy, June 4. 1886
Mr.. Dingley will appoint board to meet at
Lewiston, Friday, September A. and examine
all applicants for the appointment, and he will
nominate the candidate whom the board recon-
mend as best fitted physically and mentally for
the position.
Speeches were made at the Colby Commence
ment dinner by Hon. Hannibal Hamln, Col u.
A. Smith, Gov. Robbie, Hon. Seth l.. Miliken
and many others. The two points most con-
spicuous in all the speeches were that Colby
should continue as ever heretofore. exclusively
and completely an American college; IA Puritan
college teaching American ideas by American
methods and that its alumni ought to be drawn
and bound closely together by representation
of the Board of Trustees.
Last Friday night, between s and o'clock an
man named Beals and his housekeeper were
sitting in their kitchen in Georgetown, when
door suddenly 10 lam
tinguished. The old gentleman was then pounc-
ed upon and severely beaten. The old lady was
also badly bruised and injured. Neither the
assailant nor the object of the assault is known.