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

The Woman's Alliance will meet with Mrs.
E. H. Conant, Church street, this, Thursday,
afternoon at $50 o'clock.
An inquiry was made last week of one of
our merchants i'll regard to apples. He said
they We're quite plentiful and We're not worth
over 81 per barrel
Trout and pckerel fishermen in this city
keep bait alive in casks of running water.
One man has several hundred live sinners
that will be used in fishing.
Mr. and Mrs. E. NJ. Dolloff We're called
upon to part with their infant daughter this
week. The funeral services We're held Tues
day. [Pittstield Advertiser.
Mr. w. E. Hamilton, Belfast's florist, says
he has raised as many flowers as usual, but
that the demand has been greater on account
of the large number of funerals. AS soon as
his plants blossom they are stripped.
Mr. W. H. Priest who has been at work
with MI Henry l.. Lord, has opened Gus
tom tailor and repair shop in the rear rooms
over c. O. Poor's drug store. formerly occr-
pied by the city government.
Five years ago last Saturday Swift & Paul
started in the grocery business in Masonic
Tcmplt block. When asked if they had held
their own, the senior member of the firm re-
piled that, "TheN did not complain
CHEAP SUGAR. The Dana Sarsaparilla
Company last week received a car load of the
best quality of graduated sugar that cost
less than four cents per pound in Boston.
After the freight and all other expenses We're
paid, il cost just four cents per pound, deliv-
cred al the factory.
Judge Whitehouse stopped at the Crosby
Inn while here, and was much pleased with
the house and its situation. He said he had
fine room, and that the table and attend
ance We're excellent. He thought the Inn
should be filled to over-tlowing in the sum-
1uer time and no doubt it will be. The new
proprietors are deserving of patronage.
He LIKED IT. II was glad to see the old
head-letter to the new Journal. said Bel
fast subscriber last Thursday morning. He
recognized the letter as the same that ap-
peared ON the paper fifteen or twenty years
ago Many others expressed the same
opinion, while few did not like the
change.
Messrs Bradbury & Jones are preparing
their new quarters in the Belfast Livery
huildine and Will soon move their steam
laundry there. Mr.. Fred Cottrell is doing
the work new front is being put in, and
when completed the rooms will he well
adapted for the business. The rooms above
recently occupied by the Rheumatic Oil Co.
will he occupied 10y the new proprictors.
Some time ago the Journal reported a ref
cree ease between Mr.. A. G. Burgess plh
and the Belfast Coliseum Company as delft.
Mi Burgess is a tenant in the Coliseum
building and sued the company for damage
to goods caused by excessive heat in the base
lnent and the overflow of water from the els
term W. II. Foglrr and George f. johnson
EsuIs. were the referees. The decision wa,
last week rendered to the court here. They
award Mr.. Burgess $50, and interest 81 fo
the water damage. but none for the steam
damage.
The Biiou Club. recently organized, Will
rooms in Hayford Block, elected officers las
week as follows: j. A. Ntkeen president
Heryrv Howes vice president: George Yea
ton. secretary George Pendleton, treasurer
They NOW number eighteen members, bu
will increase To twtnty-four. About the las
of this month this club viii give Il conctr
aud ball at the Belfast Opera House Fo
music they have engaged the Fadette OrcleS
ira. of Boston. composed OF light ladies
This orchestra gives excellent music and al
WAYS draws fuFl house.
WANTED \ DICTIONARY. \ man from
neighhoring town recently subscribed for
paper that gives a dictionary as premium
in order to sell the paper. The man neve
before owned dictionary and was inpatien
AT its non-arriyaI. He called al both expires
offices in this city, and made consderahl
stir because The book did not come. II
could not get along without dictionary
The express agent said Il Viii tell yo
what 10 do. You 90 home and borrow
dictionary until yours arrives. 81 neve
thought of that. said the man, "bv thunde
will do it, and he Went away satisfied
AROUND THE W oRLD IN 81 DAYS. W j
Fleming and company will present at TIL
Belfast Opera House, tomorrow, Friday
evening, Jan. 18th a dramatization of julie
Nerne's "Around the World i'll Eighty Days.
The scenery, costumes and effects are first
class, and the company one of great merit
The Boston Globe says of the production c
the play in that city:
1t will be remembered that Mr.. Flemin
was the original Phlneas Fogg in this coul
try and with the original situation, strikin
tableauX and the support of a strong compf
nv, it can be understood how easy it was fl
the actors to win the hearts of those preseI
last evening. The play was we'll staged an
the shipwreck scene was very realistic. Th
opening scene finds the members of the "Et
centric Club of London engaged in a frien,
" game of cards, where wager of f50, 0O
is made that Phineas Fogg cannot circun
navigate the earth in the period of eight
days. His trip to Suez, Calcutta, San Fran
cisco, Kearney station on the old Union Pr
citic railroad, the attack on the snow boun
train by Sioux Indians, the trip across TIL
Atlantic attended by the disaster at sea, an
the arrival of the tourist safe and sound i
the Eccentric Club" one second ahead
time, holds the audience from the time til
curtain goes up until it falls on the last &C
STEAMER NOTES. Hon E. p. Walker, {
Vinalhaven, is said to be preparing to put
boat. probably the May Field, on the Ca