The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-09-01
Note and Comment.

NOte anu comment.
DIR. j. III. Lombard had an unusual caller
Tuesday. A mink came up through the hole
around the water pipe. After smart chase
it was captured and Gagged. Brunswick
Telegraph.
As the Doctor is brother of Dr. G. p.
Lombard, of this city, we should not be sur
prised to hear that his next capture was a
whale. Luck runs in some families
Some of our subscribers are paying in adj
vance to December, 1894, and others for
seven years. Quite a number of new sub
scrptions have recently been received. The
best of it is they are wholly unsolicited and
for that reason, more fully appreciated.
Ellsworth American.
Same here, Bro. Chicott. Last week we
entered six subscribers in one day, all of
whom called at the office, al renewals and
new subscribers continue to come in at a
rate that shows the Journal is appreciated
by the people whose interests it strives to adj
vance.
A happy propensity for looking on the
bright side of things is exhibited by the
Brooks correspondent of the Belfast Journal,
who furnishes thai model newspaper with
the following soul-refreshing item: Crooks
is at last provided with nice hearSe, and
our citizens can be conveyed to their graves
in decent shape. This is something that has
long been needed here. Brooks. without
doubt, is one of the towns that is likely to he
benefited Ivy a few trst-cass funerals fRich-
mOnu Bee.
Our bright contemporary of the Bee does
not know Brooks. Brooks is booming. Rents
are scarce, new buildings going up. new en-
terprlses starting and old ones tiourisling.
There is nothing the matter with Brooks, or
its people but when. at the appointed time
which, sooner or later, must come t. all Of
us, Death removes a citizen, it is felt that the
departed should be duly honored and that
the finest of hearses is none too good for
them. We do not believe however, that
Brooks wants to part with any of its people
prematurely.
And now comes Bro. WIN. H. Looney one
of the chief apostles of the Australian ballot
system, to disagree with the Secretary of
State as to the eligibility of municipal officers
as candidates for the legislature Looney
SAYS that they are ineligible, the Secretary
OF State that they are eligible Their names
will 90 upon the official ballot. but they
must take their chances before the Governor
anu Spuncil anu the courts. But let no I'M
regenerate corruptioniSt venture to intimate
that the new voting system isn't ''simple"
and easy of compre henSioni Brdgton
News.
1t was announced some time since that Mr.
Looney Lad been engaged by Republican
State Committee to travel about the
State giving il strilctuns III the art Of voting
under the Australian system, with practical
illustrations Now it is said lie has complet-
ed his tour and returned to Portland. Waldo
county has not been favored with a visit,
and 10 effort has been made SO far as we
can learn. to instruct voters in this compli-
Gated method of voting. Whether this is
intended as compliment to the Intelligence
of the voters of Waldo county or otherwi se,
we are unable to say.
The letter If Chief Justice Solnerbv of the
Iron Hall, il, which he alleged that 1t cost a
big sum to get through the Maine Legislature
an act permitting the Order to do business in
Maine, is being paraded is some newspapers
as evidence that Maine legislators were
brlbed That, of course, is a possible inter-
probation, and perhaps it is the one that Mr..
Somerby wanted given it. But to our mind
1t is altogether more probable that most of
the money Went to benefit certain members
Of the Order, and that comparatively little
of it was expended for the benefit of the
Order itself. AT any rate the letter cCnst-
tItes Very insignificant foundation for a
charge of bribery. Portland Press.
Mr.. A. G.. Kinds, of the Portland Press.
who is no doubt the author of the above par
agraph. represented the Press at Augusta at
the time referred to, and his view is no
doubt the correct one The men who were
running the Iron Hall had too good thing
to share the spoils Of their victims among
outsiders