The Republican journal., 1896-02-06

to the winter carnival at Quebec.
Miss Charlotte T. Sibley will lecture
March 9th under the auspices of the Baptist
Y. P. S. G. E. on "Constantinople, the City
of the Golden Horn"
To-day will be devotional Day" in the
w. c. T. U. The next red letter" day O f
the organization will be Washington's birth
day, which will be observed the Thursday
previous, Feb. GOTH
The drama sour Folks which was to
have been given Jan 22d, at Hall St. George,
Liberty, under the auspices of Georges River
Grange has been postponed to next Monday
evening. There will probably be seighing
parties gotten up here to attend
Herbert j. Morrison arrived home Monday
from Boston. where he bought for William
Haugh horse-car to be rebuilt for lunch
wagon. 1t will be ready for use in two or
three weeks and will be located on High
street, opposite Swift 4 Pauls.
The daily papers recently published an
obituary notice which was noted by Belfast
people as something of coincidence.
Charles w. Haney died in Oakland, and was
reported as prominent in Masonry, Odd
Fellowship and the Grand Army and every
body's friend,
A telegram received yesterday afternoon
announced that on account of illness of some
of the members the Ariel Quartette will be
unable to fill its appointment here to-mor-
row evening. The closing entertainment of
the Peoples Course is accordingly postponed
until further notice.
A hearing on the libel of liquors seized by
Sheriff Norton recently was held in the Po-
lice Court Tuesday. No one appeared to
claim the liquors and they We're ordered dis
posed of according to law-the hard liquors
held by the Sheriff until sold out of the
State, and the beer spilled.
l. Y. Miller made his monthly shipment
of fur to Boston Monday. The trade this
year is not quite up to former years. He
has shipped in all thus far this season about
5000 skins, principally fox, skunk, mink
and nluskrat. In January the price of musk
rat advanced 10 per cent. Bear dropped 40
per cent and skunk 40.
RocKLAND, Jan. 30. At the Spring street
skating rink tonight in the presence of 500
Knox county sports, Dick 0 Brien of Lewis
ton Knocked ont Joe Donovan of this city in
Just one round. The Lewiston man was in
the pink of condition, while Donovan was
outclassed from the start. He was knocked
down four times and counted out in one min
ute and thirty seconds.
A number from Belfast drove to RockIand
to see the sport
1t is reported that young man giving the
name of B. +. Plummer and claiming to
have been proprietor of the Johnson House
Gardiner, has been swindlng Bangor peo-
pie with bogus checks. He got a little
money and then got out. Bangor Daily
News.
he is said to have given check here which
was sent off for collection and came back
protested.
Fred G. White has another new dump
cart, and one that looks as though it would
hold up load under very trying circum-
stances. 1t has patent-hub wheels with
inch tires made of 81 inch steel There are
Is spokes in each wheel, each spoke double
riveted. The woodwork was made bv w,
II. Walker and the iron work by W. H.
Sanborn.
The Kings Daughters met with Mrs. S,
b Fletcher, Bay View street, last Monday
evening, with full attendance, and held a
pleasant and profitable session. The rooms
We're very prettily decorated with pines,
emblematical of the name of the Circle pine
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pieces in her usual elocutonary manner,
and several members contributed literary
offerings.
JANUARY WEATHER. The weather record
of Mr.. l.. Ii. Murch shows the month of Jan.
uary, 1896, 10 have been remarkable in a
few respects. The average temperature for
the month was 1S.110 against p SO for JAN
uary, 1895, and 10 90 for the average of 81
years past The high, st was 1872 on the 81
day and the lowest 16o below zero on the
9th. The mercury was below zero on
days. Snow fell on 10 days, on only of
which was there enough to measure. The
total precipitation was 8 inches, which is
the smallest amount recorded in 20 years.
No rain fell during the month. Sleighing
began Jan. 25th.
The Registration Board finished its sit
tings prior to posting the voting lists for the
spring election, Saturday evening There
We're SO names stricken off, as follows
Ward 1, Is; Ward 2, "a Ward 3, 10; Ward 4,
Z; Ward 5, 10. There were So changes from
one ward to another. The names of all who
have died or moved away have been stricken
off, but no additions are made until the ses
sions just prior to election day. A voters
residence in a ward is determined by his
place of residence on the first day of April
preceding. Hence each voter is registered
in the ward in which he lived April 1st, 1895
A spirited contest at the spring election will
probably bring out enough new voters to
keep the number nearly or quite up to last
year.
The Bangor Daily News published Tues.
day sensational story from South Brooks.
vile concerning young man named Dan
Ryan, who is said to have come to that place
last spring from Isesboro and to have work
ed for Capt Eells in his granite quarry dur
ing the summer. He was very attentive tc
a young lady of the place, and when it was
umored that he had a wife and child in
lsesboro he positively denied it. The select
men of BrOoksville, however, learned tina,
he was married in Islesboro in 1892 and had
a wife living in that town, and notified Ryan
| to appear before them at p. IN. Jan. %. A,
| noon Of that day Ryan left the house OF
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