The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-03-01
News of Belfast and Vicinity.

city.
The date of the annual ball of the XII. Club at
the Belfast Opera House, is March 22d and not on
the goth. as before published
MIR. Herbert Morrison, of this city, has mounted
the head of a large buck for Mr. \. J. F. Ingra-
ham. 1t may be seen at II. II. Moody's.
Conant & Co. are buying apples which will
be shppedto Liverpool from Portland. Last year
they shipped between 5000 and 1000 barrels.
Mr.. Charles S Bickford, in the employ Of Swan
Sibley, wholesale dealers in groceries, etc,
on the road last week to solicit trade and made
very successful trip.
Mr.. Arson Gilbert, of Lewiston, formerly of Bel
fast was in town last week. He brought the re-
mains of his father, who died last week in Lewis
ton, and buried them at Searsmont.
A silver spoon, said to lie more than 100 years
old, was brought to I.ockes last week for repairs
The bowl was Worn down with long usage. The
spoon evidently had seen stirring times in the past
century.
Harry, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. j. F. fngralllm
of this city, has been very i'll with typhoid fever
and for days it was feared he could not recover,
but we glad to know that he is considered
out of danger.
Mr.. David Pierce, owner of iIayfoId Block, has
changed the doors at the street entrance to the
Opera House stage so that they swing outward. a
door has been made from the engine room into the
same entrance.
The Republican journal last week contained 1888
| local news items. The Prog. Age the same week
had but so local items The Journal gives all the
news of Waldo county, and in advance of all its
contemporaries.
Mr.. W. b. Rankin, of this city last week sold
10000 pounds of wool on private terms, to the
Robinson manufacturing company, of Oxford.
The wool was raised in Wyoming territory by Mr..
Rankin's brother.
Mr.. Snow, the mail agent, has fully recovered
from the measles and on Monday resumed his
place as mail agent on the Belfast branch railroad.
All are pleased at his recovery, particularly those
who receive much mail matter.
| The Odd Fellows assemblies in this city, which
| closed last week. have been very successful The
| management will give a masquerade ball at the
Opera House March 18TH \ costumer from Bos-
ton will be in town several days before the dance
| DR.. Small, NJ. W. Wclch and Nj. II. Knowlton, of
this city, went to Augusta yesterday, and not last
| week as before announced. Their mission is to
| help organize regiment of the Uniformed Rank
Knights of Pythias When DR.. Small returns home
he will be Major Small.
| Mr.. II. E. Mcdonald of this city, received Il let.
ter from Idaho territory last week, the writer stat
| ing that he had seen Mcdonald advertisement il,
the Republican Journa! and concluded he could do
| better by sending to Belfast for watch than by
;patronizng establishments in the territories.
! We have received from the Grand Secretary the
printed proceedings of the thirty eighth annual
cony vocation of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch
Masons, and the twenty seventh annual assembly
of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters
Of the State of Arkansas The proceedings con
| tain the names of every member in that state who
belongs to these branches of Masonry. Maine and
Arkansas have exchange representatives.
| A VETERAN OF TWO WARS. Mr.. Isaac Prince,
| formerly of Belfast now OF Lawrence, Mass, is
In town obtaining evidence in support of his claim
| for pension. MIR. Prince is Il veteran of two
wars, having served in the Florida war and in the
war of the Rebellion. In the latter he was drum
major in the Fourth Maine regiment. Mir. Prince
is now an aged man. but relates his experience in
the wars with all the visor of youth. Mr.. Prince
Is pleasantly remembered by the older citizens OF
Belfast.
He NOSE MORE Now. Mr. w c. futile of this
city, one evening last week, before retiring, went
prowling about in the dark after his night shirt
With outstretChed arms he felt for the closet door
The door stood ajar, and Tuttlc was first made
aware of its presence by running his nose against
the edge his hands passing by on either side He
wore a pealed nose and black eye for several
days. Tutte says he lid not know before that his
nose was longer than his arms.
| LOCATING A RESERVOIR. Every one in town is
familiar with the large reservoir in Custom House
Square, and knows its exact location. "Whv
can walk right to it and place my foot on the
cover,' said the knowing ones Friday morning
when Engineer Mcdonald was endeayorins to To-
cate it to clear away the snow. Several spanned
| off the distance and of course knew it was ''righ,
here" but when finally located the knowing ones
were way of in their calculations.
| Last Wednesday night tramp that had been
| sheltered for several days by Mr.. \. +. Murray,
of Burnham was caught in the act of setting fire
to the buildings. 1t seems that Mr.. MURRAY was
| afraid of the fellow, and made move against
him more than to tell him he could not keep him
any longer, and to buy ticket and start him for
| Bangor the next day and it is said that he arrived,
| here on the mixed train. Such fellow ought to
be followed, and it is hoped that some steps will
| be taken to find him and shut him up. In Mr. Muir
rays case, the escape from serious loss of proper
| ty and perhaps life was very narrow. \ pile of
straw. saturated with kerosene. was found all
| ablaze beneath the carriage house which contain
ed his carriages, farming tools, etc, and some very
lively work was required on the part of Mr.. Muir
ray to get the fire under control. lie lost time
however, rushing to the scene without stopping t.
pull on his boots. Bangor Commercial.
ANEW LOBSTER TRAP. Mr.. j. II. sanborn OF
| Ninalhaven, a son of Mr.. Joseph Sanborn of this
city, has invented and patented a lobster tran
| mod nyfira -,,c
ing, and is now seeking for capital to develop his
patent. Several of these traps, which are more
than twice the size of the ordinary lobster pot
have been made The Vinalhaven Echo says:
1t is almost if not entirely an assured fact tina,
| he has something in his invention that will in a
| few years make him big bank depositor. VIVA,
we have seen of the patent it looks as if it might
| be expensive to fishermen unless a company is
| formed to manufacture the traps and let them to
lobster fishermen, the patentee to receive royal
ty on all traps used. He keeps his schemes Very
close and will not say what he intends to do unit
| he has made all arrangements.
| BREAK IN THE WATER WORKS. Friday morn
ing the stand-pipe was empty, the water having
run out the night before. Mr.. Will Follett dis
covered that something was wrong and drove to
Little RIVER Thursday midnight and notified those
in charge. The leak was finally discovered un.
der the entrance to the pumping station. The
| elbow where the pipe connects with the works
had blown off and the standppc cmpted itself
into the river. Repairs were made Friday, but
when all was ready it was found that the pumps
| would not work. Friday night Mr.. Geo T. Read
machnst, made the necessary repairs, and at two
| O'Clock Saturday morning the work of filing the
| pipes and stand-pipe was begun. BY Saturday
noon everything was again in good running order
! Such acci1ents are not uncommon with new works,
and if anything Belfast has had less than her share
of them. As a precautionary measure Engineer
Mcdonald had the snow cleared away from the
reservoirs Friday morning, so that they could he
| readily got at in case of fire.
FIRE. The first real fire since the completion of
| the Belfast Water Works occurred "Wednesday
evening, Feb. 22, in the I1ervey building on High
street. The upper portion of the building was oc.
| cupied by Mrs. Adams, hair worker and the fire
was in the attic over her kitchen. The fire was at
first supposed to be in the Wells building atljoin-
ing and the hose taken up the stairway of that
Some glass was broken In the Wells building and
slight damage caused by water When located the
fire was soon drowned out. Hose was laid from the
hydrants corner of Main and High Streets and the
| one near the Court House. The origin of the fire
is mystery. There are no chimneys in the build
ing, the smoke ues being built in the walls of the
johnson Block adjoining. There was no one in the
tenement at the time, Mrs. Adams having left home
one hour before the alarm was given and was ut