The Republican journal., 1892-04-07


the Memorial building and expect all cti-
zens to give in the valuation of their estates
Mr.. Warren E. Marsh began Monday to
I'LL his cooler with eggs. This is much earlier
than usual. The price paid is twelve cents
per dozen.
The trustees of the Waldo County Agri-
cultural society will meet at the Court
House, Belfast, next Saturday at l p. IN,
standard time, instead of 10 a. M, as an
nounced last week
Brennan's Star Theatre Company closed
a weeks engagement at the Belfast Opera
House last Saturday eve, and is now play
ing i'll Bangor. The company well pat
roniZed here and gave good satisfaction. 1t
will return here next season.
The Postmaster General has awarded the
contract for carrying the mail between Bel
fast and Islesboro. to the Frenchmans Bay
Steamboat company, which means Mr.. KIM
ball. The service is performed by the Electa
and the mail is carried twice daily at $500
per year.
Saturday afternoon IA horse and wagon
We're standing on Church street near the
wagon Presently smoke was seen issuing
from the wagon, and a man hauled ont Il
burning bag. The dog never moved. Doubt
less the fire originated from match thrown
carelessly
a piece ofsheet music has been received here
entitled, "Only an Advertising Dodge The
music is by j w. Wheeler and the words by
HI. G. Wheeler, two Belfast boys. The mu-
sic is dedicated to the Boston Globe and the
words are popular .'take-otf' on the man
ner of testimonials in advertising. Good
judges of music say it is a happy hit.
MARCH WEATHER. From Mr.. l.. II. Murch
we learn that the mean temperature for the
month of March was 29o 97'-one degree
colder than March ~, and one and one-half
degree colder than the mean temperature
for March in the past 80 years. 1t showed
on eight days, about fifteen inches falling,
and rained on four days. There were but
PIT inches of rain and melted snow, max
ing the month an unusually dry one.
Mrs. j. G. Gates had quite an adventure
while in Boston last week. She stopped at
the Adams House and had room in the an
mex which adjoins Clark's Houel. Wednes-
day morning early Clark's Hotel was badly
damaged by fire. The smoke poured into
the annex of the Adams house and the occu-
pants were obliged to leave their rooms
Mrs Gates was awakened by the porter and
making hasty toilet adjourned to the par
lOr.
SALMON Mr.. c. F. Treat, of Stockton,
was in Belfast early Monday morning with
six salmon that weighed twenty pounds
each. Four We're caught Saturday morning.
The fish We're sent to Boston. The first
salmon to he caught in this vicinity howev-
er, was taken by Mr.. L. A. Dow, at Sears
Island, April 1st The fish was brought to
Belfast Saturday and shipped to Boston.
The first catch of the fish are unusually
large.
Mr.. Z. A Jones, of the Revere House, had
narrow escape last week. Mr. d. w. Dyer
was at work in the cellar of his stable on
Spring street leaving open a scuttle in the
floor twenty-one inches wide and five and a
his four wears old colt when the animal fell
through the scuttle dragging Mr. Jones after
him. The man and horse were all mixed up
in the cei ar but fortunately wereTnin iured.
a trench had to be dug in order to get the
animal out of the cellar
SERMON TO ODD FELLOWS Next Sunday
afternoon, at 30 o'clock at the Unitarian
church Rev. j. A. Savage will preach SER
mon to the Odd Fellows. Mr. Savage is a
member of Waldo Lodge and after his resig-
nation as pastor of the Unitarian church, the
odd Fellows, as mark of their great appre-
citation for Mr.. Savage, proposed to attend
his church in a body and the day was ap-
pointed as above stated. The members of
Waldo Lodge and all Odd Fellows in town
are requested to assemble at the Lodge room
Main street. next Sunday at 1.3o p IN. The
KebelahS are also requested to meet at same
time and place in a body, to accompany the
Odd Fellows to church. 1t is expected the
public generally Will attend the services
per Week Steamer Katahdin lay at the
wharf here Monday more than an hour and
took on board large freight, including 23i
barrels of potatoes, large quantities of tan
ned leather leatherboard, sarsaparilla.
veals, etc. Hon. f. 7. Walker, of Vinal-
haven, has chartered the Steamer Forest
Queen of the Casco Bay line to run from
Rockland to Ninalhaven, from now until
June LIST, when the new steamer for this
route will be ready. The Hinckley &
Egery Iron Company, of Bangor, has sold
the steamer M. 4 NJ, which has been rum
ming two or three seasons on the river, to
parties in Pembroke. She will be placed on
the route between Pembroke, North Lu bee
and Eastport. The Katahdin went up to
Bangor from Bucksport Monday morning,
and left the former port at the usual hour
for Boston. 1t was the first steamer arrival
at Bangor this season.
STEAMER NOTES. Capt. Crosby says that
beginning May 1st the steamer Castine will
make three trips per week to Deer Island
and vicinity. More business has been done
the past winter than was expected Capt.
Crosby says there are 1900 cases of fish at
Oceanville that will soon be shipped to Be-
fast. The frame of the new steamer, Gov
Bodwell, is now all up at the GiIchrest ward
at Rockland and master joiner Leonard
Hatch has got out much of the cabin finish
in the shop. -. The steamship Olivette, OF
the Plant Steamship Line, which is now run.