The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1894-01-04

rd~n ANH t.ANG. ratMc commissioning.
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gHtSet la1t sitnGNy lia~ Mestl \ NsiS ~s
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NiM# Ati#3u4h ai~H ItfWWS tA nlANN ,I tate.
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so'ut lidiH- ali eaN~tlTiDjian IlalnS iil4
aAt, iiig Aa,M~r tit Nit Mintsp 4, 5t leeeiye
4o0, ta@ Small tiout and - ,o04 tanH look
81 Salmon within a few jaSs, tgam tlf.
state hatchery HE fish VIII bt ,tepoSit-
"a in Mptsele;ld lake WIscn able to take
calc ot Themselves and the fishing must
be grea1ly improved thereby. twenty
six Tears is not 4 bad record tuF one
hutliSman IN season. jonathan l.amli-
Spll NJ Jaeknan claims this record 4. FISH
and same commissioners Wentworth
ana stanley were il Augusta last week for
the purpose ot adjusting tile accounts Of
IAer department. Ihc regular arplopri-
atian for the purpose of fish and game
protection and propagation in i~s. WAS
81 300, 10 which was added a surplus of
y, 6Ti3 left over from 1872, and II. ~ in
lines collected and paid into the State
treasury thus far in 1888, making total
OF SD, 5,965. OF this there remains an un-
expended balance of 81 :5:}4 i2 which, it is
thought, will be bout enough to cover
the December bills which have not vet
been rendered or approved. The year has
''een a very satisfactory one in all respects
y the commissioners. the amount Of fines
collected being larger than in any previous
YEA while the poacllers have been prose
cNlet with greater vigor than ever before.
! mes let to be paid will bring the total
amounfup to S2. 600 or more. i. The Janl-
ary cent4ry has an interesting article on
he ihshing Moose. The writer
says; - Is really appalling to compare
the eholmons amount of game on this
continent atthe beginning OF the century
with the wre eclled remnant OF to-day At
that time n American buffalo roamed
the plalles il countless thousands, ana
was probably r,e most numerous large
animal N the M,rld and now-hut all
Americans know tle shameful srv,y of its
| eNterminafion Little more than i hun
dred years az" great AerCs Of elk swarned
IN the Kentucky ano Illinois hunting
grounds. and even as ate as 1920 Il few
could be found IN the district north Of the
| Ohio River To-day then ast-diluinish-
ing bands are confined to tre mountains
of the Northwest. The same ,.,a stovv of
| fast approaching extinction is hue of the
other game animals. the antel,ue bio
morn, mountain goat. and the sarious
| kinds Of deer: in fact. it is true of all
ON larger mammals. Many person. liz
Ing f. day viii sec their final disappear
| ;ifle IN 4 wild state.
PeLlrIcAL POINTS. Mrs. Mary A
Lease w;t> Thursday removed from tile
state board NJ charities by governor Lew
cling, Il Kansas. Mrs. Lease objected to
the appointment of a Democrat III one of
the State institutions and said he would
have ~ be dismissed OF She would have to
90. Ihe governor promptly removed her.
The removal created sensation in the
P"puli>t palty..... The kennebec Demo
crat says that a. Il. Yates and Hon. w.
for the Republican nomination for nlayol
Of Waterville.
TURF Tories. There was much interest
in the sale Of stock at the Colt Farm Au-
burn Dec. 18th, and thirty five horses bred
from the best blood in New England were
sold. Over one thousand people were in at
.ndance. The best price realized was
80, for Royce, sired by Warrener, and
o.1r sales ranged down to a few less than
'no undred
,,,rh 1Y Mrs. Caroline H. johnson. a
na, 2dtpecttd citizen, died Wednesday,
h,nd NJ ged 10 years She leaves a hrs-
thr.. d,uel. johnson, and three sons and
ri,,nle fpfs, one Of the daughters being
al,aur that the The town clerk books
srtv the past ylave been recorded in Lib
: ,,.rragas. u deaths, IS births and II