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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14

Last week was very stormy one. 1t began
with heavy rains, resulting in serious floods
which caused good deal of damage in New
York, Pennsylvania and other States ant
carried away two railroad bridges in Maine
The week ended with a severe snow storm
obstructing Western railroads, followed by {
Polar wave bringing the coolest weather of the
season.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14

We hope the report is true that the Bos-
ton Advertiser has been taken out of the hands
of spectators and is to return to its former
political allegiance. Its late course doomed ii
to lingering death. With three Democratic
daies in the field there was not room for the
fourth in Boston, although as a Republican
paper the Advertiser will have formidable
rival in the journal. Still, the Advertiser will
no doubt win back many of the old friends
who parted company with it when the paper
went over to the enemy, and the position it has
held of late must have been very humiliatng as
well as Improbable
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14

Mr.. Horace +. Chandler has been obliged or
account of ill health to retire from the manage.
ment of Every Other saturday, the publication
of which has accordingly ceased, much to the
regret of all who recognized its eXcellen,
adaptation to the field il aimed to occupy. Bos.
ton Journal.
This announcement will be read with regret
by all who have had the pleasure Of reading
Every Other Saturday. 1t was unique publ
cation, and deserved a wide constituency, an,
this 1t would undoubtedly have had could its
merits have been more generally known. We
are sorry also to hear of the ill-health of Mr.
Chandler.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14
Insurance that lHSureS.


NNN0T
The only safe basis for life insurance organic
ton is the accumulation of a fund which shall b,
applied to thepaymeniof the certain obligations
policies which fall due upon the death Of members
The absence of such IA fund presupp0>cs the con
slant addition of new members to take the place ot
those who die, and failing to obtain the additions
members the concern itself must die Il naturs
death, with the added result that each member vii
be benefited, if at all in inverse proportion to the
amount which he contributes. The whole schemt
OF mutual Insurance by assessment, to be paid only
on the death of Il member, is outside of the prin
cipies which regulate the conduct Of sound insu'
ance companies, and the head of a family who I'm
deitakes To provide in this way for those who vii
be left helpless by his death may only substitute
one form of risk for another Life insurance is the
worst possible field in which to make experiments
and where there are many stable companies il
which to insure, there is excuse for trying thos
which are new, or doubtful, or certainly unsafe.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14
W. M. Rust and the State Steal.

Collector Chase of Portland. known as Tab
uator Chase has written a letter to senator
Morrill, chairman Of the Finance Committee,
before whom the nomination Of Chase is pend
ng. in defence of his course as member Of the
infamous Garceon Council. We have neither
time nor space to do full justice to the letter
this week. but it appears that Mr.. Chase had
doubts to counting out the Republican Repre-
sentatives from Portland, who had an average
majority Of 100, and asked the advice Of his
friends. Among others he names Hon. W. NJ.
Rust, of Belfast, as advising him to count out
the duly elected Portland Representatives. SO
it seems that W. NJ. Rust was one of the prn-
cipal advisors in the Garcelon count-out and
that Calculator" Chase acted upon his advice
and that of others. Now if the Senate rejects
Collector Chase for his part in the State steal,
and Collector Eben f. Pillsbury for acting as
legal adviser to the conspirators, it must also
reject VIM. NJ. Rust, if he is nominated for
Collector of Customs i'll the Belfast district.
The state stealers must 90.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14

That the Boston Herald has personal spite
against Mr.. Blaine was manifest long ago; but
what grudge can it have against Hanniba
Hamlin that prompted it to publish the hideous
wood-cut labelled with his name. The alleged
portrait does not bear the slightest resem
blance in any respect to Mr.. Hamin, whose
age and services to his country should protect
him from such pictorial lbels.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14
Like all the Lies About Mr. Blaine.

A newspaper item is in circulation stating that
the old friends Of MIR. John Roach had taken little
notice of his misfortune and shown little svmpathv
for him. The item specifies particularly that Mr..
Roach had never heard from Mr. Blaine since the
day he was compelled to suspend When this state
ment was brought to Mr.. Roachs attention he de
clared it to be without foundation MIR Blaine"
said he was the first person heard from imme
diately after my misfortune happened Outside of
my family | have warmer friend than Mr.
Blaine" New York Tribune.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14

According to the Ea>tport Standard the Cal
ai> Times has Disco cred that President Clevc-
land is the chief actor in a conspiracy to ignore
the expressed wishes of the Maine Democracy
and TO permit Republican Senators to control
his appointments. The Calais Times, in fact
charges that Senator Hale made bargain with
the President last spring to the effect that if
Morton was not appointed postmaster at Au-
gli>ta Senator Hale would vote TO confirm all
other nominations when the nominee was NOT
''0f bad character and clearly unfit for the
place This discovery, by the way is made by
the man who saw sea Serpents in the woods of
Washington county; and, although processing
to publish a Democratic organ, it does not seem
to have occurred to the fat-witted EDITOR of the
Times that his discovery is an even greater
reelection upon the President than upon the
senator However, the PASSPORT Standard is
both able and willing to attend to that matter
and we quote its reply to the ines:
Now with all due respect for our indt pen
dent contemporary. we do not believe this
yarn. and we cannot imagine why the Times
should mi>represent the President even if il
cannot agree with his policy. Whatever may
have been his motive in the Augusta post Office
ease, we are certain that the President was moi
actlIatcd by any trade with Senator Hale OF
ANYBODY else.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14
A Cider COnundrum.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL: The question
as to whether new cider, apple juice, just it is
pressed, is intoxicating, was lately discussed IL
Half Moon Lodge, and after good deal of able
argument on both sides was decided emphatically
In the negative. But as we have since read in the
journal that IN Connecticut cows get drunk or
cider apples, we do not see why-if "thc proof OF
the pudding is in the eating'-it does not reopcr
the question, If cows can get drunk on cider ap
pies, why not men on new cider? p
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14
The Ohio SenatOrship.

Each branch of the Ohio Legislature voted sepa.
rately Tuesday the candidates for United State.
senators. In the Senate Allen q. Thurman receiv
ed 20 votes and John Sherman H. Democratic
majority of 3. In the House Mr.. Thurman recey
ed Al votes and Mr.. sherman 81, Republican ma
jority of &c. The two Houses were to vote in ioin,
convention yesterday, when Senator sherman wal
no doubt re elected.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14

In reply to the resolution of Senator Hale the
Postmaster General says that the exact num-
Der of places where Chairman Brown gave a
recommendation is Presidential and 81 of the
fourth class, which is a large part of the pat
ronage of the Post Office Department in Maine
Mr. Hale addressed the Senate on this mles-
ton Jan. 9th making an excellent speech He
said among other things that the charge had
never before been made that public office in
Maine had been sold for money under the
guse of expenses. The Republicans of Maine
expected to surrender the offices, but they
wanted to leave them in decency and in order,
and he thought it his duty to expose the hypo-
crisy i'll this matter, and he spoke not only for
the Republicans but the conservative Demo-
crats of Maine, who are indignant at the dis
closures. Senators Vest and Voorhees,, in re-
plying, avoided the real point at issue, the sale
of public offices, and their misrepresentation
called forth corrections from Senator Logan
and others.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14
A City Office Vacated.

When an officer of a city government, whose
duty ii i to enforce the laws, and who is bound
hy IN oath to faithfully perform his duty, goes
into hitting 10 eNade a summons to testify be
fore the grand jury, the duty of those who
made the appointment is 50 clear that it neet
moi TT pointed out Indeed. the position was
practica! vacated by the incumbent, without
the Formally Of a resignation, when he tool
''Ircnch leave Of the city, knowing that the
sheriff had Il summons for him. And. by the
way. it would be interesting to know where
the leak Is that enabled this official and a mum.
bet of private citizens TO get out of town be
fore the sheriff could notify them to appear be
fore the grand Jury
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14

The North Star, of Pressure Isle, announces
that it twill continue to be devoted, primarily,
to the interests of our glorious country" Now
let the effete monarchies of the old world
tremble.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14
These names may have stylish ring
But still Nnu'll eat the same old lhinn

Tea and coffee were the only liquids dispensed,
beside water, and there is noteworthy absence Of
the adjective 'cold before the tea. This is well for
a banquet within rifle shot of the state House,
where is deposited the prohibitory constitutional
amendment Boston Record.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14
The Railroad Question,


neethg OF the STOCKHOLDERS the following vote was
cast
That tho renrasan+o+iro Of +bi. boorl ~ fro
siI one f ~ tis 9oalu " tMc
T. r r a." ra7,od W no bnen NJ tbn r,,r, H.
IN RaIfat ~ Wt, - t 30 s,i V i IVY livuo
lssf At IN o;ai,, =, ~ ~ o't 81 ~ ''n
eo " st - 40 IL ,h W. ~. ~ ,I iI, ~ a.
ize fhe dirrctors H issue I hn"d uG thn m
morteae of tbe w. ] ~ e ~
whole nr in nart tho HI mort Eara Innd ,,,atr
ing in 1890; and if in part to what amount-be and
ne Is hereby instructed to cast the votes for the
by the city of Refast in said meetin,r p;nnr INV
and all parliamentary motions that may be made
1efG,' SO as 10 ptig lunl actoh Oh sia meeting
votes in said premises negatively upon the main
question OF said article or upon any division there
70 ,,innn said ne"tin ,ith"t ,tt ft t
~ 1'iu ,nJNis "iViou' V''c' 'ltoi d't"i
% "ioiee'i'' e'''ii nave poe ''hoil'
IN regard TO the second Stockholders meeting the
following vote was taken:
1l,+ +lo .,,,..;,., e +,t. l,l IL .t
sneniaI nnctini, Of thc Stock hnhinrs Of the r & n
!, y II 10, wy ", h NJ th ", Ct f
IN Holfnt ~ Wios,iA, me t2t ~ 'i, ~ ia,
Issf a. ~" .lo'ir ~ ~ ort 80, tf .,rtrl -
a.,,,ioi ~ IL I'M s, ~ =, ~ .i,, H. ~ a. 49,
h ~ t lt iDi lt iu y, ,,t - II,
;t I, w ti1 w @ i '''
~ '''' "tV0u' ' 'o' va CO.. "a ''9
The following preamble and resolution was then
passed:
vr,,ao rrt e. ! ,,1 ,4 ~ .,
d 81 ~ ! T. ''i p Y Wy
& VI ~ -. " ~ - -. ~ ~ -, ~ ''"N'
would therefore necessarily and were 50 intended
to, prevent recourse to future mortgages or in
nnrnnsc yb,t.,nr and tbareh ~ rroIn,tf ua,,,,;
IF III It's in(chtetinrrs NJ ,n,trit Ind yy6arc
hoth ~ eaid ,nnr+oao... y,,c.ro Nan sd ii ,,
nanv throngh H. ins,rnnentaittv NJ III r,r.semt
teasI Of lis rairnad ana Nv a Chanpe of ne ,a
lations of its preferred ana non preferred stock
holders u manner Justlhea "nly y thG necessity
madr af. mi ,t,irnt nrovsiIn for th.
of all its Indebtedness, including the first mort gage
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14
News Of Belfast and Vicinity.


this city will be given next Wednesday evening by
James Kay Applebec.
A Progressive Euchre Club consisting of ladies
and gentlemen has been formed in this city. The
club will hold one meeting each week.
The Mathews Bros, of this city, have received
orders to make the windows and other nice work
for the Hon. James G.. BIainc's house at Bar Har-
Dor.
The base ball grounds in this city have been
leased for another year aud the boys are deter
mined that the national game shall not languish in
Belfast.
Mrs j. c. Gates opcne, her store in McClintocb
Block last Saturday. The premises are very HASTILY
fitted up and the proprietor cannot fail to make it
a popular resort for ladies'
1t is not generally known that the twine used on
the salmon wers in the Penobscot is imported from
scotland. j. W Frederick 4 Co. import large
quantities for the purpose.
The night watchmen are vgiant Twice within
a week have lights been discovered in stores and
the proprietors notified. Gas and lamps are FIRE
quently left burning through negligence.
In the report of the city government meeting LAST
week we spoke Of !. W. Frederick settling his
resident taxes, 1t should have read J ". tenwick,
The former has no nonresident taxes to settle.
Mrs. Lydia Larrabee of jackson, indicted for
murder last week, is the first person in Waldo
county be indicted for such an offence since john
7 Gordon, of Thorndikc, murdered hi, brother am
family in 1873.
The Odd Fellows Register and Masonic journal,
for January, is received. The paper is published
at Portland by ". II, smith, and is well hlcd with
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14

A Texas editor acknowledges the receipt of
ga valuable hat" as q Christmas gift. Probably
plug.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14

a tribute to the memory of the late Mrs.
Joanna Carter, of Unity, will he found on the
first page Of this issue. Also, the first of the
series entitled "Way-farings," and letter
from Jacksonville, Fla.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14

The New York Herald says that Speaker
Carlisle's committees ''seem to be so framed as
to produce but little useful legislation' and
that III Is to be 'go-us-yOu-please,' Congress
except 50 far a. the Republicans may control
it," The Herald consoles itself, however, with
the conclusion that, "neXt fall new House
will be chosen, and from present appearances
it will have a handsome Republican majority y
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14

One-half much corn was canned in Maine
TINS year rs two years ago. 1t cannot be that
twice As much has been transmitted into corn
juice. Boston Transcript.
No, it cannot be in Maine, thanks to our
prohibitory laws, and 50 the surplus corn is
fed out to stock upon Maine farms, better
use than turning it into the Juice that inebrl-
atcs.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14

100 Doses One Dollar is true only of Hoods
SarSaparilla, and it is an unanswerabte argument
as to strength and economy.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14

If, as Secretary Whitney and his Democratic
''eXperts" declared, the Dolphin i, "structur-
ally weak" and therefore unsafe, what sort Of
an order was it that sent her out with full
complement Of officers and men to encounter a
gale: The gale was encountered and the Dol
phin rode it out trumphantly, as every one
cause he is Il Republican believed that she
would.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14

The Boston Record, in commencing Senator
Hale's recent speech. in which he said that
"above all the country desires that we should
have pure civil service" takes occasion to say
This is good. particularly as coming from
Maine, where the spells idea is supposed to
have retained more or less firm hold This
"suppostion,' like much of the stock in trade
of the nugwump press, is a Pigment of the i'm
agination. The people Of Maine are certainly
a. intelligent and As patriotic as those of other
States, and in no other respect are they INFER
Tor. Maine has supplied Massachusetts, with
Governors and Boston with mayors, which
shows that the people Of our sister state appre-
| ciatc Maine stock; and this should offset the
silly >urs of the mugwump press.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14

The Maine legislators, in reunion assembled had
bill of fare for the banquet which shows that age
cannot wither the Maine appetite. some of the
details of the menu also eNempfy the humor
which makes the verlure in the Pine Tree State
more luXuriant and the ice crop cheerful.
The roast pork reinforced with ''Solon sauce"
a delicate alusion which Scion Chase doubtless en-
joyed The boiled fowl, "Manleys selected" sug-
| gested another political leader. And long list
ends with the words:
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14
THE BANQUET IN GRANITE HALL
SPEECH OF HON. JAMES q. BLAINE

Hon. James &. Blaine spoke as follows
81 congratulate all those who are present upon
the first reunion of our legislative university.
| am sure it has been brilliantly successful,
and trust 10 may be repeated at stated periods
In the future. My personal connection with
the Legislature of Maine was for eight wears,
from 1o-54 TO 1862. -Four years was a report
err and four years | was a member. ] have
never been able to tell in which capacity |
learned the more. | remember when Col.
Benton wrote his thirty years view of the
senate, Jack Downing proposed to follow it
with thirty years outside of the Senate, IA much
more extended field of observation.
The four years was in the Legislature re-
call with as great pleasure as any other field of
my public life. | received at that time i'm
pressions of the character or Maine men which
made me proud that | was a citizen of the
State. ] recall with especial pleasure the Leg
islature of 1862. | see gentlemen present who
remember that the constitution of that body
after the war which broke out in 1861 was a
union of Republicans and war Democrats. In
electing the Legislature of 1862 in cities where
two members were elected one was given to
each party and thus the prominent men OF
both parties were chosen, making a Legislature
never equalled, surely never surpassed, in the
history of Maine.
] recall prominent men of both parties who
were there John A. Peters, now Chief Jus.
tice of the Supreme Court; Bion Bradbury
who has grown old in the service of the party
his fidelity; William p. Frye and Nelson Ding
ley both young men at that time; A. P. Gould
then as now, eminent in his profession; George
p. Sewall and Shepherd Carey; Nathan Far
well, an old Wing and later jealous Republic
can. 1 might give long list Of men who tool
anew departure from that Legislature. Sever
of these were elected to Congress within a few
years.
/ cannot bring to mind those days withou
regretting that our good constitution, whicl
His Excellency has so fittiDgly eulogiZed, has
been changed in one important Tespect-that o.
instituting biennial for annual sessions of tn,
Legislature. | believe that the moderate ex
pense of $4,000 to $4,000, which attends
session of the Legislature, cannot be NOR,
wisely incurred than in bringing together ano
educating annually class of young men fol
public service. l believe it is a mistake for
Republican government to get rid Of frequen
elections. Perhaps we need not yet fear thu
beginning of the tyranny of which Samue
Adams warned US that we should see if W.
dropped elections, but am persuaded that W.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14


Personal. MIR. Willis Gates, of this city, left
| ON MONDAY for NaltM'm, Mass. where he viii en-
Ter me WaI'h factories to finish the trade. Mr..
Clarence H. Luther, Belfast boy, is employed in
thr drug store Of :. y, D. sheppard Y Co.,. Wash
mE'on street. Boston,. capt. &. W. Conaut has
gone To- New York to take command of bark JOHN
"'th '"i some years IN command OF Capt. j, L.
N''''"' WI" VIII remain ashore Tor time. The
""rh recently returned from Japan. --lhc speak
eF mas placed Hon : l.. SIilikenat the head Of the
''N h'un'lhSS ana Grounds ana {" Il Ike position
ON the committee Of Investigation IN the Depart
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14

The treasurer, Hon. L. q. Burlcirh gave the
following statement Of the receipts and eN-
pcnerH of the reunion: The total amount re-
cciyed from all sources Wa - .03N 90; the total
amounts expended for printing, postage. the
banquet. music and decoration was S2,029.49,
leaN ing balance of SOL in the hands Of the
treasIrNr.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-01-14
The Reunion at Augusta

4 NOTABLE GATHERING OF NAMES LAW
MAKERS. THREE DAYS FESTIVITIES. THE
GOV ERNOR's RECEPTION.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-02-12
THE SMALL THINGS OF A DAY.
Minor Occurrences In and About the
Cttv nriadv Pint.

Minor Occurrences In and About the
City Briefly Put.
Tooth filling made painless by the use OF
cocaine by 8. H. Mason, dentist, 2l3 Four.and-
a-half street northwest.
DR.. Nicholson, resident, graduate, 1905 F
street. Electricity in nervous diseases ape.
cialty. City reference.
Lyons" silk umbrellas sterling silver
heads, s2.25, Stlnemetz d Son, 1887 Pennsyl-
vania avenue
Private Peter Barry, Of the police force, was
yesterday dismissed by the commissioners.
Jno Cammack was yesterday excused, for
the remainder OF the term, as juror In the
criminal court
The bill for divorce filed by Agnes r. Con-
don against Jno. II. Condor has been dis
missed at her request.
The number of deaths last week was los, an
increase of % over the previous week; 30 were
white and 80 colored.
The Sisters in charge of Providence Hospital
stated last night that William +. Martins con-
dition was slightly improved.
Frank Lees stable in alley near Twenty.
second and l. streets was damaged to the
amount of S5 by fire about o'clock yesterday
morning.
The increase OF the salaries as police surgeons
OF Drs. McKim, Bayne, Klelnschmidt, and Ma
gruder from $3.50 to 5000 pei. year has been
recommended by the commissioners.
Messrs. George Duff, Edward Thornton
0rtway Nicholas. Henry Bolden, and Solomon
Basey have filed with the recorder q certificate
Of their election as trustees OF the Third Bap-
list Church
A certificate of the incorporation of the
Washington Theatrical Mechanical Associa-
ton has been filed with the recorder. The
object Of the organization is mutual benefit
and improvement.
| The Chattanooga Daily Commercial has been
| placed on sale at the following hotels in this
| city: Ebbitt, Willards and Metropolitan. The
| Commercial will be found of great interest TO
| those who desire 10 learn something In refer.
| ence TO southern Republicanism.