The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-01-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

I'VE Mai. Thomas Howard. disposes of
ter 500, 900. The following public be
uests were made: American Tract So
iety. Bangor Seminary, Maine Missionary
society. American Board of Foreign Mis-
>ions American Bible Society and Seaman
friend Society of Portland. 5000 each:
3rooklyn City Mission and Tract Society
md Ladies' Home of Bath, $1,000 each....
The Garcelon and Fairweather legacies
viii about double Bowdoin colleges re-
sources. No plans have yet been made as
"a what special use they will be put. The
cortland Advertiser prints d cut and
,ketch of the Wassuc, an iron-elad moni
or built at Portland in 1S64. She was a
,ingle turret craft, 225 feet long, 10 wide,
lit. Gin. deep. She had one $50 pound
Parrot gun. and was propelled by two
wheels. Her fate is not known. Fhe
Maine state fair will be held at Lewiston
sept. 6 to 9, 1892. ..... Rev. o. III. Tracy,
vcently of Biddeford, now of Lewiston,
has been elected State Secretary of the
Free Baptist Association, of Minnesota,
With headquarters at Minneapolis. Oil
yer Freeman, prominent Saco cltlZen.
who had been in business there for fifty
years. died Jan. 4th aged rs. He has serv-
I'd in the city government. He leaves
Maine Central for the quarter ending
January 1st. were SO, 900 above the CORE
,ponding quarter last year....A At the annu-
Il dinner of the Bowdoin college Alumni
Vi New York last week, B. b. Foster was
-ccted president..... Rev. G. W. Hinek-
lev has 30 boys at his Good VIII Farm at
present The oldest is 10, the youngest !
and the average age is 11......I 1t has been
decided to hold the next encampment of
tle Maine militia in June, the Goth of the
month having been fixed upon as the OPP
ening date. The companies are now drill
ing in the new tactics. ....G Great damage to
lumbering operations in Maine has been
done by the recent rains. All the swampS
and low lands are flooded. ..... The West
Paris Manufacturing Company have as
signed The assets are $50. .0OO liabili-
ties. S5S, 600. The business will be run by
The assignee with view to manufacturing
The stock now in hand, preparatory to fin
al disposition of the property. A corpo-
ration was formed last week to build a mile
track at Old Orchard. Frank G. Staples
is president. .... John S. Coburn, one of
Rockland' Oldest and best known citizens,
died Thursday morning, aged 81 years.
His business was that of a contractor and
builder. He was prominent Democrat.
He leaves widow and two daughters. 80.
Andrew J. Morrison, a section hand on the
Maine Central r. R.. was struck by the
first eastern train, Thursday morning, at
West Falmouth and was instantly killed.
lie was young man, unmarried, and lived
in West Falmouth. HI. Nelson is
said to have made a deal with Beverly
Mass. )parties for his favOrite stallion, Col
onel Osgood, receiving the neat little sum
Of $4,000 Colonel Osgood is brown stall
lion, - II hands high, sired by the fam
ous Wilkes. Mr.. Edward H. Trafton died
recently at st. Raphael Hospital, Trini-
dad. CAL, after an extended period of ill
health. He was at one time city editor of
the Bangor Wing. After leaving Bangor
he was connected with New York and Chi
cago papers and more recently had edited
one of the Allen publications in Augusta.
He was a son of Mr. E. H. Trafton, form
erly of Augusta. Gilbert Longfellow,
ESD, of Machias, recently donated to the
Maine State College at Orono. a valuable
collection of mounted birds and animals,
among which were beaver, fisher and
sable, very rare in this section of the
country. and as fine specimen of loon
as is seldom seen. Two of Mr.. Longfel-
lows sons, now deceased, were students
at Orono. Little David Vigue slid into
the river at Waterville, and although Sam
uel King made heroic efforts to save him,
he was drowned. 49,. The directors of the
Shore Line Railroad in an adjourned meet
ing, have voted to give John n. Greene
no further time in which to make con
tract to build. This is understood tC
mean that the chance is now open to any
party wishing to contract to build the
road .. Rev. r. w. Jenkins of Gardiner
has accepted the call to the Congregation
al church in Rockland. .....A Farmers In
stitute is to be held at Augusta in Febru
ary, when the day and evening will be de
voted to discussion of milk production
..... Gov. Burleigh has made the following
nominations: Railroad Commissioner, A
W. Wildes, Skowhegan; State Superin
tendent of Schools, Nelson A. Luce, Vas
salboro; Charles w. Jones, Augusta, in
spector of prisons and jails, in place O
Mark F. Wentworth Kittery, resigned. +.
The third surveying party on the Bango
E. F. Stetson andtewelve assistants, hav,
completed the preliminary survey from
Fort Fairfield to the junction with tn,
main line. They are to return on the lin
and make the permanent survey. The,
claim to have found very easy route .. {.
President Hyde of Bowdoin College an
nounced in chapel that fund of $11OO hat
been given the college by the heirs of Rich
ard w. Shapleigh, of Brookline, Mass. ...
The committee to select a candidate TO
West Point for the Second Congressiona
n