The Republican journal., 1896-01-02
Christmas Chat.

| first time in thirty years.
| Rev. j. F. Tilton of this city married three
couples on Christmas Day.
A Norway man passed Christmas in iail
rather than pay tax of 81 so.
One of 2. "A. San born's Christmas gifts was
framed photograph of his cat Scamper, f.
T. Chase was the artist
The boarders at the Revere House gave
their landlord and his wife, Mr. and Mrs e.
A Jones, each valuable Christmas present
| L. B. Seekins of st. Albans entertained
| family party OF 43 on Thanksgiving Day and
| the Bangor Commercial would like to know
if any one beat that record at Christmas.
Ten of the oldest members of the Kenpe-
| bee bar presented Judge W. p. Whiteho,lse
on Christmas day, with a beautiful gold
watch, valued at 500, as token of their
| friendship ami esteem.
| Belfast could not have had a more accep-
| table Christmas gift than the announcement
| that the shoe factory has received orders
which will ensure running full time with "a
full crew fiom early in January.
| Baltimore had Christmas tree trimmed
with mice, jugs of milk, raw beef and catnip
for her aristocratic eats. Some Belfast cats
| had catnip in their stockings and one which
has 'sWeet-tooth.' had candy also.
| Mr.. Gladstone sent this Christmas mes
sage to Rev. Joseph Parker of City Temple,
| London, Wednesday: ~ humbly pray that
| Christians many grow more and more in
that unity which the Lord gave us life to
| promote and which all earnest PRAYER tends
| to forward"
| Two unusual events occurred in this city
| Christmas day. Thomas B. Dinsmore and
| friends played croquet during the after
noon, and Henry W. Mariner moved
| his lawn on Congress street with a lawn
mower, finding plenty of green grass to
| make the machine work we'll.
| Christmas was happily celebrated for the
| inmates of the insane hospital at Augusta.
! About 400 of them Tuesday evening enjoyed
| Christmas tree laden with donations from
| the institution and many friends and rela-
| tives. There was no lack of light refresh
| ments and nothing occurred to mar the com
| plete enjoyment of the occasion. On Christ
mas Day special dinner was served
| The letter carriers delivered their Christ
mas packages by teams Tuesday and We'd
| nesday and made remarkably quick dis
| patch. Everything was sent out as fast as
received. The free delivery system is prov
ing great convenience to our citizens, and
our carriers, Carol H. Thompson, H. Ii.
Carter, Jr., Chas. b. Eaton and Percy Y.
Folett are prompt, accurate and reliable in
their work.
The mask ball al Belfast Opera House
Christmas night was not a success as a mas
querade there being but few dancers III cos
UutAe, quo au onJ ,yauie ,uutai tiauGe was
held Prior to the dancing al entertainment
was given, including a "Puneh and Judy"
show by DR., Lewis Turner; sougs Wv e. W.
Hart, tenor soloist; skirt dance by Miss
Minnie French, and shadow pautoluime Ny
Bert Stevens and company. The music was
by Havener's Orchestra.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the dean
Of st PauPs, the dean Of Westminster, and
the preachers of London, AT the Christmas
I ,
the Venezuelan crisis They all cleplored
the idea of and expressed the belief
THAT such an outcome of the controversy
was impossible. They enlarged upon "Peace
and good viii" Reference to q sympathet-
ic feeling with the Armenians was general.
Here is Gov Cleaves' Christmas greeting
to the people @f Maine: "rhe people of
Name have every reason to enjoy happy
Christmas. They are possessed of one of the
noblesr States in the Union. Her people are
prosperous and contented, and should be
happy in the thought that they are part and
parcel of the old Pine Tree State, which has
shone throughout the history of the nation
with luster never dimmed. | extend to
each and every dweller within her borders
the heartiest greeting of the festal season"
There is one man in Belfast who thinks it
is possible to get too much even of a good
thing. For many moons he has had two
wishes in his heart, namely, that he could
be Il boy again and get lots of Christmas
presents, and that he could either have a
| night-cap or raise a new crop of hair in the
place where now there is but barren
SmoothntSs. Both these wishes were
realized to a greater or less extent on Christ
mas morning. He did receive lots of pres
ents-twenty-on of them-and they We're all
night caps.
The members of the Maine delegation pass
ed Christmas very quietly in Washington
and received few friends. Speaker Reed
spent the day in work 18th a little leisure
for his family. They dined alone in the
evening at the Shoreham. Congressman
Dingley worked diligently all the day, for he
was preparing his report on the emergency
revenue bill for Thursday. Tuesday even
ing all callers We're ,enled admission to his
| rooms at the Hamilton and few were admit
ted Wednesday. Senator Frye passed the
day at his hotel, but dined out i'll the even
| ing accompanied by Mrs. Frye
The Christmas enterta nment on Tuesday
evening, Dec. 24th, by the District No. 10
| Club, at Citypoint, was very pleasant af-
| fair. The Mother Goose tableau by the lit
| tie ones, in quaint and charming costumes,
| with recitations and music, was novel and
| very prettily presented. Mrs, +. E. Crow
| ley kindly presided at the piano, and her