The Republican journal., 1896-05-14


Eddie La Barre, clown, with the Great
Hastern Shows. Here Wednesday, Nav 2Otb
Ihere will be dance this, Thursday
evening at Seaside Grange Hail.
Hutchlns Bros. have received an order for
large and handsome sarcophagus of Oak
I'LL granite for Searsmont parties,
Ihe predictions of the U S. Weather Bu-
reau are now posted at the most office each
evening" 1or the next twenty-four hours.
Ihe State convention of the Woman s
Ohristlan Temperance Union will be held in
belfast, September % and 80 and October /.
Chas. f. Stevens has m ade an arran ge-
ment with E. G. Roberts of Brooks, who will
receive orders and deliver work in that
| town.
followlng is list of unclaimed letters re-
naming in the Belfast Post Office for the
week ending May 9th: Ladies-Mrs. Nettie
D. Morse. Gentlemen-Mr. Jno. Brown.
The liquor seized at the premises of M.
Grant IN Frankfort has been claimed by a
poarder at the house, Mr.. O'Brien, who
says 1t was his private property The mat
ter is still pending.
A postal card dated and mailed st Win
terport May Sth, reached us by the night
mail Monday, May 11th. 1t has the Elling-
"oods Corner postmark of May 11th, in
oleating that it was three days in reaching
that place from the Winterport office.
The newly organized hose company has
taken the name and mum Der of the old one,
| Washington Hose Co., No. l. At a trial
| monday evening two streams were playing
IRON hydrant on Cross street IN one and q
/ half minutes from the arrival of the carri-
age at the hydrant.
| ACCIDENT. Cyrus f. Tibbetts had singu-
lar accident and narrow escape at Matll-
ews Bros. mill Monday, He was turning a
large stick on a small lathe when the chisel
canght and tore his left hand considerably,
| dlslocating the little finger. The chisel was
| thrown from the machine and hit him on
the left temple, inAicting a severe bruise.
The chlsel luckily struck handle foremost.
Had the point been the heavier end and the
| tool struck him in that way it would have
| penetrated his brain and killed him in
| stanty.
FISH FACTS. A. Burgess has the "al-
| luminum smets' invented by Fish Com
missioner HI. o. Stanley of Dixfeld for sal
mon and trout fishing. The device is said
| by fishermen TO work ike a charm, and to
| completely fool the most wary of our inland
fishes. %. g. Critchett recently caught in
! the Quincy stream a brook trout II .
inches long that weighed pounds, a re-
markably heavy ash TO: the length. H l..
| Woodeock went TO Eociland Friday to ioin
f, W. Palmer i'll fishing at Afford pond in
Hope, from which the big salmon were
taken by X. I. Rankin and others last year
The Cape Ann Advertiser reports that
the known Cape Shore fleet at present is
over 10 sail, with the prospect Of a number
of additions before the middle of the month
Should success attend the fleet on the Cape
Shore, the tIeet will surely be increased
| after that to over 100 sail, not counting the
hooking and netting fleet which will 90 to
North Bay, making the total number of
seiners larger than for some years. The
ice left Moosehead Lake May Sth.. Archi-
bald Mitchell of Norwich, CT. caught a II
pound salmon in Bangor pool, Friday, and
his companion, Charles Briscoe caught 2l-
FOUNDER. An Isle au Haut correspondent t
writes: "Our lobster fishermen have been
doing very poorly this spring. They report
Holsters scarce" 49,. The ice went out of the
Rangeey Lakes last week, and fishing has
begun. The mackerel are gradually work.
ing northward, and large schools have been
sighted between Delaware Breakwater and
Barnegat The outlook for the mackerel
fishery appears much brighter this year than
it did at this period i'll 1895. The pioneer
mackerel of the season was caught at Prov
incetown, Mass, May 9TH A few have az
rived at Boston from the traps off Chatham
and South Harwich. Walter H. West of
Belfast and II. E, Capen of Camden return
ed Monday afternoon from Moosehead Lake
with handsome strings of trout. They ar
rived at the Deer Island House Thursday
night and We're padded by an Indian miles
up the Lake. Friday they caught % fish
and Sunday party of four caught 116 fish,
weighing from half pound to four and
half. Mr.. West brought home 30 fish, which
were dressed at Bramhalls market Monday
evening.
STEAMER NOTES. The City of Bangor was
detained by storm in Boston May 9th and
| did not arrive here until o'clock Thurs
day evening. Her trip from Bangor to
Boston and return, however, was a record
| breaker. She left Bangor at 80 A. NJ Fri
day and had head tide to Owls Head
| which she passed at 3 90. She made no land
| ings on the river or bay Outside she found
| heavy swell which rolled her guards to-
| She arrived in Boston at 2.49 P. M. Her dis
| charging and reloading at Boston were
rushed and she left at 56, arriving at Rock
| land at 400, at Belfast at and Bangor at
| ia When off Boone Island Friday Capt
| Ingraham called the attention of the pas
| sengers to a school of five whales playing
! near by. When the steamer Pentagoet ar
rived at Rockland May 9th she was attached
by Deputy U. S. Marshal Smith on libel, i,
wherein Morse, Trussell & McLoon of Rock
land were the plaintiffs in a cause CT con-
tract A keeper was put on board, but Mr..
Atwood, the agent, with the captain, sue