The Republican journal., 1888-11-22
News Of Belfast and Vicinity.

SHE PAID.
"a Local Lyric.)
Democratic she was, of a very sweet kind,
OF the opposite party was he;
And she wagered kiss that they both would soon
| find
That her party the victor would be.
That she lost on her wager had clearly been shown,
So he said ;-"I'll release you, my Pet"
She replied as she pressed her sweet lips to his
81 can never go back on bet"
The special policemen who have been on the
force for some time were discharged last week.
Mr. George I. Read, of this city, has put in a
bid for furnishing steam heating apparatus for
school house at Pittslied
The hunting and fishing party down the bay in
Yacht Nettie have been heard from. Up to the
18th their guns and fish lines had yielded no re-
turns and the weather was reported as decidedly
breezy.
The engineer of the steamer Haytan Repub lie,
which ran between New York and Hayti, and was
recently seized by the Haytian government is
Charles R. Malcolm. Mr.. NJ. we'll known in
| Belfast, where he was engineer steamers
Pioneer and May Queen. He married Miss Ella
sherman, of this city, who died several years ago.
CRUISE DOWN THE BAY. Messrs. II. E. Nc
| Donald, Albert J. Condor, Walter P. Carter and
R. G. Dyer left in the sloop Nettie Friday after
noon for weeks cruise down the bay. They
were equipped for great slaughter of fowl,
and provided with fish lines 10 help supply the
larier Their first stopping place was to be The
| Reach, where sea fowl are reported as plentiful.
| Gov. Marble made number of appointments
Nov. ID, and among them the following Justices of
the Peace and Quorum-.james D. Bartlett, Mont
ville; Alexander \. Beaton Rockland: Joseph ".
Harmon, Oldtown; Trial Justicc-Stanley ID. Gray,
| Brooksville; Notary Public-Elmer p. Spoffor,l,
Deer Isle; Dedmus Justice-A. b. Longfelow,
Palermo Fish and Game Warden, Joseph \. Mar
den, Belfast.
Charles Robbins, son of Mr.. Emery Robbins, of
this city, followed the Republican procession last
week, and gathered up lot of exploded rockets.
The next day he had a celebration of his own and
was attempting to fire them when some powder
flashed and burned his face quite badly. His
father, who is Democrat, thinks his son ought to
know better than to fool with Republican powder.
| BY some misunderstanding all the corn dealers
| in this city We're out of corn last week, except
Baker Shales, whose supply lasted but day or
two The large corn dealers loan corn to each
Sch. Ira Z. Wight arrived Saturday noon from
| New York with 400 bushels of corn for W. c.
Marshall and the work of discharging was begun
! at once The corn famine is over Monday the
sch VIM. McLeon arrived from Boston with 5000
bushels of corn for Swan Il Siblev Bros
THE lLLuMINArIoNs. In reporting the Repu,-
lican celebration last week our first intention was
merely to note the illuminatons, etc. along the
route of the procession, and two trips were made
one before the procession started, to insure accura
cy Later some OF the illuminations on the cross
| streets were added, but did not undertake TO
| maine every one. As was to be expected there
were some quite important omissions and among
them the following: Miss NJ. f. Simpson Mrs
Joseph Is. Thombs, Samuel Adams and Mr. Rav,les,
on Chlleh street. Mrs. Gorham Lancaster and
F. NJ. Barney on high street, the Misses Wells j.
| ii. Madtiocks, Mrs. Cox and Messrs. Bennett amt
| Roberts Bridge street. .Howes Il Co. sold over
5000 candles for illuminating purposes and with
those sold by other dealers it is plain that Belfast
was well lighted up.
| STEAMER NOTES. The Portland Steam Packet
Company has voted to build new steamer to run
between Portland and Boston as mate to steamer
| fremont. The contract for the hull was given to
| the New England shipb.iltling Company of Bath
and for engines to the Portland Company . The
new steamer Capt. Barbour, building at Cakes
shipyarl, in Brewer, is timiered out. Work will
ne continued on her through the winter. steamer
Penobscot on her western trip Friday had on board
very fresh lot of drummers returning from their
first trip down east. They were evidently under
the impression that the people down thi. way are
not more than half civilized, while it was only
necessary TO look at them see that they were not
nan baketi. Next month the steamer Electa will
oeSln to make two trips per week to Deer -le and
>edgWck. Residents of those places viii find
heliast good market in which to buy and sell and
the Electa good boat TO travel in
| BROKE INTO THE POSTAL CAR. At midnight
the l4th, Policemen Frisbee ana Bramhan liscov.
efeu light III the postal car at the iaine Central
station in this city. Thinking that something was
wrong the officers secreted themselves under the
car and awaited developments After waiting for
some time the officers entered the car and found
inside George Clarence, George Patterson and Ed.
| sylvester, all of this city. The Young men had
peen drinking and were engaged in dividing
quantity of liquor. There were jugs and bottles
twelve of the latter-all filled with whiskev The
| ofhcers arrested the men and lodged them in iail
Nothing was taken from the car. Patterson had
|
mad key to the car. 1t is not known where the
liquor from, whether they stole it from some
| other place. or found it in the baggage car. The
Jugs had been labelled, but the boys had destroyed
the labels. No one appearing against them, the
prisoners were discharged from the iail Thursday
1here are citizens who believe an offence had been
| committed and that some action ouglt TO have
| been taken in the matter
Personal. Mr.. John Dollof, of this CITY, is
| In Portland, In the employ of a telegraph com
| pany as line-man..... Mr.. Charles p. Bean OF
this city, went to Boston Friday, on vacation.
| Mrs J. Ii. Sanborn and children, who have been
| i'll Belfast for some time, returned to their home
| in NInaihaven Friday..... Miss Alice Bicknel
| went to Boston last week. Mr.. and Mrs A. b.
| Rawes have gone to Skowhegan to visit Mr.
| Rawies brother. The Bucksport Clipper saws
Mrs. Mason of Belfast, was the guest of
| the Emerys last week. Mrs. Mason had not
| visited Bucksport before in fourteen years"
| 1.-The referee In the drill contest at Lewiston
last week was Major J. B. Rawles, of the 4th L. 5.
Artillery, commandant at Fort Preble, Portland
| Harbor. Major Rawles is a BROTHER of Mr. A. b.
Rawles, of this city Mrs. &. F. Morson of this
city, has gone to Manchester, n. H., to spend the
winter with her daughter, Mrs. Phneas Adams "
| ~ D. HdZeltlHc ESD mas returned nome from BOS-
ton having given up his proposed trip to the Pacific
Coast. Mr.. and Mrs. David Pierce, of this city
entertained few friends and relatives at tea
| last Sunday evening, the 10th anniversary of
their marriage. Mr. c. j. Hall is in Washington
| on business Mr.. Alden Miller Jr, of Camden.
the former postmaster at that place, was in this
city Tuesday. Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Sibley expect
to go to Boston this week, where the latter will re-
| main for the winter Mr.. W. a. Faunce is in
town.
SHIPPING ITEMS. Sch John Girart, undergoing
repairs in Carters dock and to go on the railway
for further overhauling, is old Cape Cod fisher
man, but her model does not suffer by comparison
with more modern craft, and from the way in
which she came up the bay last week she is evident
ly something of flyer yet. The John Girar was
Dullt at Gloucester in 1852, is 81 net and has
history. She was wrecked in the great October
storm tn the bay of st. Lawrence in 1862 in which
eight Gloucester vessels were lost. She was then
making her first trip to the bay and was valued at
$4,000 and insured for $500 The crew were saved.
and the wreck was afterwards got of, repaired,
and sold to Newburyport, where she was owned
for thirty years or more and proved successful in
the fisheries. Finally she was sold to Rocklapd,
for lime freighter. About three months ago she
ran on the rocks in Deer Isle Thorouehfare and
was bought by Mr. Frank Warren and Capt.