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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-02-18
Only Temperance Men Wanted.

At the union temperance meeting on Sum
day the following petition was circulated
for signatures:
Believing that under existing conditions
OF society, nothing short of total disuse of
and finally abolish the evils of intemperance,
we whose names are hereunto affixed, refuse
to support by our votes or otherwise, as cam
didates for any municipal Office in the city
OF Belfast men who patronize the saloon,
fraternize with the liquor element, or whose
promotion to such Office is dependent upon
the rum power and we will use all honora-
Bile means to further good government by
seeking the advancement to Office of pure
and upright citizens.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-02-18
Obituary..

Mr.. Geo Cunningham, a well known and
Feb. 10th after a lingering illness. The end
was expected for several days and his son,
Judge o. p. Cunningham of Bucksport, had
been in constant attendance. Mr.. Cunning
ham was born in Swanville, Me-, and went
to Ellsworth about 10 Years ago. For many
years he was engaged in the furniture bust
ness but increasing years and i'll health COM
PEELED him to give up the active duties of
business nearly four years ago. Having
been rather feeble for long time he was
stricken down two or three months ago and
gradually failed until his death. The de
He leaves d wife and one SON
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-02-18

BROOKS Mrs. Esther Roberts has hceu very
sick again with her old complaint. and Mrs. bill
lah McTaggart is again dangerously i'll with a re
lapse of the grip Mrs Shadrack Han has been
confined to the house tor some weeks bat j. NOW
out again. Mrs SNiNra Lang has recovered
from her late illness johnny johnson has given
up his Job as nurse, Rufus Ward now being con-
health. Benjamin Leathers has been confined
to the house 49,. Rev David Bracket has put am
engine into his shop at Jackson and now runs his
machines by power. David has the business in
him and cannot keep still ... Emerson Davis is
improved in health, and Charles Pierce and
Mrs. Abbie Seavey is at home from Waterville,
where she has had dressmakers shop. VI j
Dow Esq, was in Portland last week as a witness
in the L. S Court Mrs. Will Emery of Pittstied
has been visiting friends in town. The patrons
of the journal pleased to the sermon of
Frank is really one of the most brilliant young
men hailing from Maine and is as good as he is
smart. We are all proud of him. Isaiah Bry
ant is of the driving business men of this Vi
cinity, and always has a job on hand in stone or
lumber He is getting out the frame for the
house that NJ. j. Dow is to build the coming sea
son. Mr.. Walter Hall and his brother Everett
have job on the railroad at Pishon's Ferry.
Waldo Hall is happy. 1t is boy this time and a
rouser, too. The Atherton Bro have two new
horses at their livery stable
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-02-18
Special to the Republican Journ

Special to the Republican JOurnall
WASHINGTON, ID. G., Feb. II. Just had hearing
ON Lapham bill. We shall defeat it and protect
Maine fishermen and sustain Maine laws.
S. L. MILIIKEN.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-02-18

Herman W. Hart died in Northpurt Feb.
4, aged y Years and months. He was a
son of Capt. Albion and Jane Hart and for
the past few years had lived in Lawrence.
Mass, where he was employed in a cotton
mill. 1t was there he contracted the dis
ease, consumption, that caused his death.
During all his sickness he never complains
ed, hut was always bright and cheerful and
making plans for the future. He came home
sick about one year ago, and remained until
his death. He was an honest upright man.
and had won many friends. His mind was
clear until the last and lie was willing to 90.
He gave directions as to what he wished
done. and taking each one of the family by
the hand he bade them good bye, saying
that all that could be done for him had been
done. He was d great sufferer the last week
OF his life, but passed peacefully away. Mr..
Hart leaves a wife and one child. The fun
eral was conducted by Rev. f. Nj. Preble,
Baptist, of Camden.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-02-18

Mr.. John kimball died at the residence ui
relatives in this city on Friday night last
aged 90 years and six months. He was Il
brother of the late G. c. Kimbal of Belfast
Mr. Kmball was born in Monmouth Me
and moved to New Hampton, n. H., Will
his parents while young. He came to Swan
willie i'll 1919, and until bis retirement was a
prominent citizen of that town, where he
kept IA store for many years. He had outliv-
ed all Of his immediate family-two dalgh.
ters dying young and his wife dying about
y years ago. Mr.. X. was notable for his
hospitality and for honesty in all his deal
ings, and had the respect of all his acquain-
tances. The funeral took place Sunday, and
the remains We're conveyed to his family lol
in Swanyillt.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-02-18

Prof. Lewis French Stearn>, OF the Bangor
Theological Seminary, died Feb . after Il
severe illness. He was born in New bury
port Mass. March 10, 1877, and graduated
at Princeton College in 1SG7 He studied for
the ministry at the Princeton Theological
Seminary in 1S697n, and ili the universities
of Berlin and Leipsic in 1S7O-71. He grad
Ilated from the l'non Theological Seminary
in 1872. He was pastor of the PRESBYTERIAN
church at Norwood, y. j., from 1873 to 1876.
and has been, Since 1850, professor of system
attic theology in the Bangor Theological Sem
mary. He has published a volume of ELY
lectures, delivered at the Union Theolugical
Seminary under the title "f '''Thc Evidence
of Christian Experience" His Life of
Henry Il. Smith, is now in press. He has
also written various articles in the Andoy el
Review, the New Englan,ler, etc. Lately
Prof. Stearns declined call to a professor
ship at the Union Theological Seminary.
New York. He leaves a wife and one child
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-02-18

Mr. Frederick Y. Dinzey. whose death at
Charleston. s. c., is noticed elsewhere, was
a cousin of Rev. j. Dinzey, late rector of the
Episcopal church, at this place. Mr.. Dinzey
was travelling salesman of large iewelry
house and was we'll known and respected by
a large circle of friends and actIllantanceS
in Eastport. Eastport Sentinel.
Mr. Dinzey was also we'll and faNorably
known in Belfast and is pleasantly relnen-
bered here by the traders and others he met
in his frequent visits.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-02-18

LIBFKIN. \ u. Mathews has bought
S. 7. Young'S large stock Of goods ;md
will takr possession of the store and
goods next Monday. The store = leased
for a term uf wears We have Net learned
what Mr. Young r"ntenplates doing. He
has Il fine residence here and is the village
postmaster. l.. L. Prescott has erected ON
his lot a small building which he will use
temporarily for a store. He has placed It
upon shoes so that it can be readily rrmoN-
ed when lie is ready to put mp the hg store
he contrmplates building. 49,. j ohm EtnundS
is seriously i'll with Bright disease. ohm
Il. I.amson has been very sick, hut is now
con >idered ont of danger Quarterly meet
ing at the Baptist Church in this village Feh-
2d and 24th.. La grippe has lost is grip
and the people are Improving along the
whole line, with hut very few exceptions.
+. w. Pitcher. of Belfast, spent few days
in town last week Inn NickerA of Brew
er, was in town Monday ... The Nenntbrr
Journals Liberty correspondent says: The
Belmont and Freedom mails lost one "trip
Friday. The Augusta and Waldoboro mails
did not arrive till Friday. p. m, hut the new
driver on the Belfast route VIA Sear>muut
showed thu best pluck Of tlther. He made
his "trip Friday returning an hour before hlS
regular Till, it ii- -!}t.. .,!;!m EAlmMnds died
at his home in this village Feb. 10Th, aged ii
years. Mr.. Edlnunds turnkey at the
Belfast Jail and deputy sheriff of Waldo
county under Sheriff Walls, back in the
'7OS. He came tn this village about twelve
years ago and has worked constantly for
MeSsrS. Hunt x Walker. He was a hruSQue,
but honest man, and was respected hN all
who knew him. He leaves a wife but no
rhildren The funeral VIII take place tile
Eth, and will he under the auspices ut the
Masoni bodies of this village.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-02-18

IN DRlEF lie TellSlOuS marriage Ol
the Duke de la Rochefoucauld and Miss
Matte Mitchell, daughter of Senator
Mitchell, of Oregon, took place in Paris
Feb. IL. The whole American colony
was present. Minister Reid gave away
the bride. .... The Boston & Maine railroad
officials deny that they have in contempla-
ton the building of a union passenger
station on Causeway street, Boston. The
property alluded to has not been bonded
by the corporation. go. The Japanese gov
ernment proposes to treat Chicago gener-
ously. 1t will put up stone building for
the worlds fair, lay out gardens around
it, fill it with works Of art, and when the
fair is over give the whole thing to the
city,. Voting took place at ST John, N.
B., Feb. 10 on a petition for the repeal of
the operation of the Scott Act in St. John,
and the petition was carried by majority
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-01
GIVING CHILE CHANCE.

Nobody should object to the administra-
tior's circumspection and avoidance of
haste in treating with Chile. There were
earlier chapters in this serial wherein the
United STATES was falsely placed by pre-
cipitate action. All through the Chilean
civil war tins country, as far as the mass
Of Chileans could see anything of it, lent
its sympathies to the Basmacedan party,
which, if il had triumphed, would
have erected a despotism in place
of a republic in Chile. Since then
our people have taken the trouble
TO learn little more about their neigh
bors to the South, and while the unfortu-
nate Valparaiso episode has given us
considerable grievance the comprehension,
here of the trying crisis in her home at
fairs from which Chile has barely emerged
undoubtedly has prevented the growth of
a desire for war in the United States. The
rumors of wariike preparations in our
shipyards have not found an echo IN the
national heart, and the authoritative de-
nial of these rumors by Secretaries Blaine
and Tracy has been welcomed probably
everywhere except among the officers of
the army and navy. whose only hope of ac-
tivity and rapid promotion lies in a war.
Though no determination of the ques-
tion is in sight the probabilities are all in
favc- of a pacific one, and the whole
affair may prove beneficial if only in the
light OF a practical Illustration of this
country's need of navy, such as is being
create. 1t is instructive to note that
Chile's navy will shortly be reinforced by
one of the most powerful ironclads afioat,
which is already af1oat in French port
and in process of armament But it no
longer seems likely that the White
Squadron will have the lively task of
intercepting FL Captain Prat, as the new
Chilean war vessel now lying at TOulon is
called
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-01
Obituary Notes.

MARQUIS DE PENAFIEL, Portuguese Minister to
Germany died at Bcriia Wednesday of influenza,
SIGNoR CARLO A. CHIzzoLA, the veteran oper-
attic manager died in Paris Monday of consuInn
tion.
X. AUSTIN ROBERTSON, one of the founders of
the American Art Association, died late Tuesday
night in Paris.
GEORGE ". WALLING for many years SHperin-
tepdcut of the New York Police Department die,
Yesterday morning III his home i'll Keyport.
FREpERIck +. WRIGHT. the well-known artist,
died Tuestirv in South Weymouth, Mass. aged 40
years He excelied especially in crayon portraits
PROF NATHAN PERKINS SEYMOUR, LII. D.
for wears professor in the Western Reserve Col
lege. ohio. died of the grip Mon,ay at the resi-
dence of his son, Proi. T. ID. seymour, of Yale in
New Haven.
Minnesota died of Bright's disease Wednesday
evening at the age of e. years, at Albert Lea. He
served in bpt,i HOUSES OF the Legislature, and was
an influential Republican,
CAPTAIN NJ. J.. VIRpEN, one of the few remain
ing pioneer steamboat men, died at his home in
Louisville, "Wednesday. aged 81. The last boat he
commanded WAS the Tom sherlock in the Cincin-
natl and New orleans Trade
= s. CopE Miciigan's first Railroad Commis-
sjoner died at Kalamazoo Wednesday of pueu-
nouia aged Il years. He was widely known Eas
and West and u capitalist of public spirit. His
raiiroad reports were deemed an authority by the
United States ana were sought III England, France,
Germany and KuSs1a-
EDMUND T. BROOKS, descendant of Henry
Brooks who was connected with Oliver Cromwell's
army and who after the succession and restora-
tjbn of Charles ii. In 1863 10 America was
buried in Cheshire, Conn, Wednesday. Henry
Br,,oks Ird descendants hive resided in Clesh r,
since Il o. AHA the log crbiu occupied by s:.c Brooks
la,.iiir before the evo.;i .;iiiJn Is VI the land
marks OF thai part of the state.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-01
THE GAR IN TROUBLE.

ANOTHER plot TO nssassinatc the Gar has
been discovered. If crops were as abundant
as pIots. Russia could feed the world.-Cht-
cdao Globe.
If the Gar should insist on using some of
his ministers as dynamite shields he would
serve his subjects well.-Ne1O Iork CONNER
cidl Advertiser.
LET us all nope that the Grand Duke Ser
gius is suspected of treason" 1t may mean
a leader for q formidable revolt against
Czarism. and tlat would mean IL freer and
kinder government for the Russian people.
Boston Globe.
RUSSIAN officials at Warsaw report the dis
covery of a conspiracy to remove the Gar.
MANY students and prominent citizens are
implicated. The great weakness of Russian
consp;racies is their liability TO be dis
coyered.-Bufdo Express.
TIE report that the Gar is about to Danish
his own brother from the realm Indicates
that he is q good deal like the man VINO
didn't invite his brother to his wedding. He
had to draw the line somewhere, and he
drew it there.-Bosfo7t Herald.
WEnote with regret that the bomb throw
ers are again after the Gar. Has the Gar
noticed that the New York style of frustrat-
ing a nitro glycerinist is to draw portly
clerk into the imminent deadly breach just
i'll the nick OF time?-Ne1c York AdreTtiser.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-01
PEOPLE OFFEN TALKED ABOUT.

CARDINAL GIBBONS is very fond of
children.
LYMAN j. GAGE, of Chicago is now out
of danger.
Mrs. ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS
WARD is seriously ill with influenza.
SECRETARY ELKINs has six of his
children with him all the time. His eldest
daughter is married.
PRINCE GEORGE OF WALES has recov-
cred from the typhoid fever, and has gone
to Norfolkshire, where the Prince of Wales
will reside during the winter.
PRINCE HENRY OF ORLEANS, the eldest
son of the Duke of Chartres, who has already
acquired some reputation as an explorer
has gone on another expedition to Asia.
Mrs. TALBOT, widow of the late Cover
nor Thomas Talbot, of Massachusetts, has
presented to the Lowell City Hospital an
endowment of 5000 in memory of her hus-
band.
NINE. TATENo, wife of the Japanese
Minister at Washington can talk English
well enough to go shopping, and she spends
just as much time over it as her American
acquaintances.
WILL CARLETON does not look like the
broad-shouldered and ruddy- faced. Garlic
ton works for money, with fame as sec.
ondary consideration.
HON ROBERT I. LINCOLN, the Amer
ican Minister, Mr.. Henry White First Secre-
tary of the American legation and Major
j. C. Post, the American military attache,
are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. William Waldorf
Astor at Taplow Court Maidenhead in
Berkshire.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-01
WHERE Is WINTER?

Here we are in January and as yet we
have hardly so much as shaken hands with
winter in recognizable shape. A few light
touches of frost, trifling furry of snow,
hardly enough TO whiten the ground, are
all that we have had outside of the alma
macs cold print to remind us that two
winter months have come and gone. The
sun is already weeks stage back from
his Southern journey, and the days will
begin very soon to lengthen palpably.
The absence of frcst and snow
might he borne with considerable
cheerfulness if any certainty about
The weather this month and the
two following it existed. But if we make
up our minds that the ''icy grasp of win
ter" is obsolete to-day, tomorrow may
freeze our newborn plans to death. There
is still plenty of time for winter to pay
this continent longer visit than anybody
on it cares about. That's the uncomfort-
able reflection for those who must regard
extreme cold and snow as enemies, at
tacking the health and the p0cketbook,
and they are in the majority. In the great
wheat-growing districts, on the other
hand, the absence of snow has already i'm
periled large portion of next years crop.
Perhaps among the good gifts of 1892 will
be an assortment of weather to suit all
parties.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-01
Z SUPREME COURT VACANCY.

attention is being given to the
ne Judgeship by a few other coun-
1 the State which have candidates to
T. If the Republican leaders have
u notes of the situation they will, how
he likely this year TO turn their atten-
70 Allegheny county when choosing a
ldate Heretofore in several instances
rejected the claims put forward on
f OF Allegheny county candidates of
pguished merits and possessing strong
.dar support: and for considerations of
fctical politics" took mp others of less
1L In two of these instances they lost
ensuing election. Now, when an op-
unity arises anew 10 make some reeog-
" OF the metropolis of the West, they
hardly he likely TO give Allegheny
90 the cold shoulder.
lH great interests of Western PennSyl-
Ia may well be represented on the
eme Bench by an adequate proportion
iHdgeS familiar With them. As pro
Id and capable iurists of the law can
be selected ia this section as Else
re. The political situation is such
we expect Allegheny county to re-
mUre favorable consideration in the
state Convention than has been its
many years past
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-01
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Bishop samuel Adjai Crowther.

The Rt. Rev. Samuel Adjai Crowther,
d. D., Bishop OF Niger Territory. died to-day in
London. He was native African, and his his
tory, extending over 20 years more from a state
of abject servItude TO the Eplscopate, is a very
romantic one. His original name was Adja and
his family lived ut ochugu. in the Yarubu country,
100 miles inland from the Blight of Benin. He was
carried of in 1921 by the Ego Mahometans; was ex-
changed for horse; was again exchanged at Dahl
dahduo, where he treated with great cruelty:
was then again sold slave for some tobacco;
was captured by al English man-of-war ana landed
at Sierra Leone in 1872. He was baptized in 1925
taking the name OF the Evangelical Vicar of Christ
Church, Newpatc street. Samuel Crowther. In
1879 he marie native girl who bad. been taught
III the same SCHOOL with him. Then for several
years he served as schoolmaster of Regents Town,
and subsequently accompanied the first Niger ex-
pediton. After arriving in England and studying
at the Church Missionary College at lsiBgton. he
was ordained by the Bishop of London. He was
alterward an active clergyman at Akessa, trans
lated the Bible into Iorubu. and. undertook vari-
ous other literary works of religious character for
the benefit of his African brethren. He con-
secrated first Bishop OF Niger Territory, West
Africa, June y, 1864.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-01
a MOST REMARKABIE REUNION.
Five Men Mst at Dinner Annually for
Forty Eight Years.

Hivo Meu Iust at DfuHef hnhuaAiy hOr
Forty Eight Years.
NEW YoRK, Dec. 3l.-tSpeciaL IA remark
able reunion took place ut the Everett
House this evening. Forty-eight years ago
hve young men, at that time residing in
Concord, N. H., agreed to meet on the last
night of the year for an annual supper to be
given by each one in turn, according to age,
and at snch place as he might designate.
The compact by which they were bound to-
gether was II very short and slight one.
Their principal object was social enjoy
ment, but they were serious enough to agree
that they would not use Intoxicating
liquors Us a beverage, or engage in games of
chance They were all, in time. married,
and pursued their different business call
ings in different parts of the'coUntry. But
the annual meeting was never omitted, and
tonight they celebrated their forty-eighth
annual festival.
All we're present and in good health.
There is only five years difference in their
ages, the youngest being 81 and the oldest y.
They are inclined to believe that such II
record Is unmatched III club history. where
the original members have all survived so
many years. There has been but single
death in any. of their immediate families in
all that time. The gentlemen composing
this mystic five" are Hon. J. G. A. Hill aud
George A. Blanchard of Concord, y. H.:
Hon Charles a. Tufts, of Dover n. H.;
Joseph S. Abbott, of Washington, and DIR.
William W. Hurd OF this city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-01
AMERICAN POETS sNUBBED.

The selection of Sir Edwin Arnold rs
the Chicago Worlds Fair poet has called
forth the very natural query: What is
the matter with American poets? To
this Chicago replies that there is consid-
cradle the matter with them, or more ex-
plicitly that they are not extant to-day
Holmes and Whittier are not to be thought
of because both are past working with
the vigor that would be expected in poet
laureate on exhibition. About the
other men who would be included in list
of American poets the general opinion
seems to be that they are not heavy
enough. 1t is hardly hypercritical to
hazard doubt about Arnolds weight.
The New York Ad06rttser rather un-
kindly disposes of one American candidate
with the remark: "Mr. Stedman never
was much of poet, except in his mind.
he may have stirring, poetic thoughts,
but he has hot been able TO express them
up to date" What about Thomas Bailey
Aldrich, James Whitcomb Riley, Richard
Watson Glider, and two or three other
gentlemen with or without three
harreled names, who have been ac-
cused of writing poetry? Are they
all too light compared with the stocky
Britisher who turned the light on Asia? 1t
would seem that the Worlds Fair people
think so.
The process by which the selection of
Arnold was arrived at has not been re-
vealed, but it is not unlikely that the
choice of a foreigner was forced by fears
of the jealousy of his brethren if one of
our native bards We're taken. What
special fitness Mr.. Arnold has for the post
is rot very clear, but it is at least certain
that his appointment will not sow discord
amcng the British poets Tennyson and
Swinburne will regard Sir Edwin's ele-
vation with cOmplacency at all events.
1t is too late now, but good plan would
have been to intrust the poetic destinies
of the Fair to an amalgamated association
of poets, as it were, preferably all native
born. Then the work could have been
parceled out comfortably among them.
Thus the metaphysical side of the Expo-
sition might have been given TO Mr.. Glider:
Mr.. Aldrich could have penned sonnets on
the lake pier and the Venetian canals:
MIR. Riley might have found inspiration
for new dialect matter among the live
stock and agricultural exhibits and pos
sibly among the visitOrs-while E. c. Sted-
man and half a dozen other poets could
have been turned loose on the various de-
partments. The product of verse; if not
poetry, would have been mighty interest
ing reading, and would rot have needed
anything like the glossary and footnotes
Sir Eiwin's mcubrations are sure to re-
quire.