The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-02-04

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out also displaying the stars and stripes....
The Rev. Charles Spurgeon, the noted
English preacher, died Sunday in Men
tone, Italy.
POLITICAL POINTS Jan. 9th the
Third District Congressional Committee.
+. W. Hovey of Pittstield, Nathaniel Mea-
der of Watcrville and J. w. Black of Sears
port, Hon. John Hopkins not being pres
ent, met in Augusta and fixed the date for
holding the District Convention for the
nomination Of delegates and Electors on
April 2Sth the day following the State
Convention. The coming District Con
vention for nominating a candidate for
Congress was discussed informally, and
the sentiment of the committee was to
hold it at the usual time, the very last of
June or first of July The committee call
ed on Hon. Seth l.. Milliken and Govern
or Burleigh to get their views, and those
gentlemen did not dissent from this pro
gramme. One of the candidates for Con
gress has already taken steps to lease the
whole OF a Waterville hotel for the day of
the convention. The old basis of repre-
Sentation will he followed. .. The Repub-
lican State Convention tor the election o1
delegates-at- large to the National Repub-
lican Convention and Electors will be held
at Bangor April 27th.. Mention has been
made of a movement to secure pledges
from one million Prohibition voters. Wal
do county has thus far contributed l.; out
of her quota of 44S... At the annual meet
ing OF the People l'rohibitory Enforce
ment League in augusta Jan. 18th. about
- members were i'll attendance. Presl-
dent John E.. Stewart of York delivered
an address in which he discussed the reso-
lutionS passed at the hotel keepers con-
vcn1ion saving thai Sev.,,al OF them
lies and others lbelS on the fair fame of
the state. They are also direct DECLARE
ton OF Intenl to violate the law. MIR.
Stewart reviewed the address ot President
Partridge OF the druggists association at
length. The league has been engaged in
organization during the past year. having
done but little in the way of AN enforce
ment of the law. There are 300 share
holders. 49,. Portland Democrats are going
to celebrate Washington ) birthday with
big supper, which is tn be the first gun in
the municipal campaign. and for the cleo
tiun of Darius H. ln%raham mayor..... At
a meeting OF the Republican state central
! committee OF Indiana Thursday. it was
| learned that that organization was solid
| for the denomination of Harrison. ... The
| secret of Senator Hills confidence in his
control of the State democracy is believed
| to be the fact that MesSrs. Manning and
| Herlick have determined to take no part
| in the movement for Cleveland. ..... The
| territories of Itah, Arizona, New Mexico
| and Oklahoma hope to be admitted to
Statehood by this Congress. The course
of lectures to be delivered before the Au-
gusta Blaine club this winter by the can
didateS for Congress in the Third district
| nnapaJ lact xXAaE with Inv tho
Hon. 5. J.. Milliken on the tariff. The
speaker discussed the question very clear
| ly, explaining the difference between Il
tariff for revenue only and a tariff for pro-
lection, and pointing out the superiority
| of the latter as a means of fostering home
| industry.
FISH AND GAME. The Megantic FISH
and Game Corporation had their fifth an
nual banquet at Hotel Brunswick, Boston,
last Thursday evening. 1t was a grand
affair and many notable sportsmen were
present. Among the after dinner speak
ers was Mr.. Jock Darling, the Maine guide
ana game warden. who told how he
| brought load of seven moose and 40 deer
to Boston years ago. The marketmen put
up a job to get his game cheap, but he out
witted them by himself selling from a
cart. He told how he once srooped in tiS5
caribou, or thereabouts. at one fell swoop
Iaughter.) There was a woman who
| when She first saw Jock exclaimed: ''Why,
you look like an ordinary man. | expect
| ed to see horns. hair and a forked tail.
| DR.. Bishop suggested that Jock WASH so
much Of a sinner as he had been painted.
..... DR.. W. NJ. Haines of Ellsworth. takes
a great interest in fish culture. probably
few in the state being better posted on the
subject than he. AS there has been an
immense amount of controversy over the
question whether land locked salmon
| spawned each year or not, DR.. Haines had
fifty salmon weighed and tagged in the
fall of 1890 and the winter of 1891 at Green
Lake. There We're three caught with tags
on them in the fall of 1891. None came
up the brook to spawn. that were tagged,
and DR.. Haines has been convinced they
do not spawn every year He went to Il
great deal of expense to have the salmon
tagged but it was certainly worth some
thing to have the question settled......
l.obsters took a drop of 81 a barrel last
week, due to the incoming of the Nova
| Scotia catch In the Provinces Holsters
can be caught and sold from January l to
July l, and these fish are now being ship
ped into this country free of duty. The
Mainicus Fishing Co. have closed opera
tions Tor the season. having fairly pros
porous business. They will start up about
the mitslle of May. Representative
Lapllam, O Rhode Island, has introduced
in the National House bill providing
that any citizen of the United States may
at all times take nAnhaden and mackerel
with purse seines .long the sea coasts
and shores Of the Unites States and along
the shores of the several Islands thereunto
adjacent, and in the bays, lftYbors and es