The Republican journal., 1896-05-14

Judson 2. Pendleton has been app ointed
postmaster at Dark Harbor, Islesboro. vice
David H. Smith.
A New Bedford, Mass, despatch of Nav
7th says: "Dilworth pitched great ball for
Augusta to-day and New Bedford could get
only scattering hits: The game was slow
and tedious" The score-Augusta s. New
Bedford,2
This young Vinal of Belfast, who has been
accusing his father of murder, affords an in
teresting subject for psychical study, Port
/ land Press.
OF Winterport, if you please Belfast has
enough to answer for Of its own.
| Fred j. Stephenson, who is at work for
Fay Il Scott, machinists and founders, Dex-
ter, Me, has ordered Columbia wheel of
Geo. I. Read, and it was shipped to him last
week. AS he had worked for two years
with Read on bicycle repairing his choice of
a Columbia is significant.
Mrs VIM. B. Conant received dispatch
yesterday noon announcing the death, at
Atlanta, Ga. of her son William B. Rivers.
A letter received about week ago reported
al well. anu bub HtWS Is Il surprise and
shock to all the friends and relatives The
remains will be brought home for burial.
Forrest Fletcher's bull dog recently took
an involuntary bath. He was eating some
food which he found in the shipyard, and
suddenly showed signs of pain and jumped
overheard. a s he swan for tire opposite
side of the river it was some time before he
was rescued, nearly exhausted. AS he is
not water dog his action in jumping over
board is strange.
The Rockland man who declares that the
best band IN w Washington is inferior to the
organizations in Belfast and Rockport, Me-,
advertises himself as an ass. He belongs in
the same school with the Bangor man who
declared not long ago that there was not a
building in Boston OF handsomer or more
elegant appearance than one recently erect
ed in Bangor. Local pride is all right but
let us not descend to downright foolshness
in praising our own town. Bangor Daily
News.
This was evidently written when our es-
teemed up-river contemporary was not feel
ing very WE'LL The best band in Washing
| ton is the Marine Band, of course, while the
one referred to was local organization, and
no doubt inferior to the thoroughly instruct
ed and excellent musicians who compose the
Belfast Band.
MEMORIAL DAY. The arrangements are
nearly completed for the observance of Me-
mortal Day. The services on the Sunday
previous, May 24th, will be at the North
church, by Rev. Geo. s. Mills The uni
formed Odd Fellows and knights Of Pythias
the Post Sons of Veterans and Co. B of the
Boys Brigade will appear in the parade.
Belfast Band will furnish music for the pa
rade and at the Opera House in the evening
The address will be by Rev. Chas H. Wells.
A quartette led by Mr., E. s. Pitcher will
sing in the evening. The committee of ar
rangements of the Post request that all who
will contribute flowers for decorating the
graves, bring the same to Memorial Hall
Friday forenoon, May 29th The General
Orders of Department Commander are pub
lished on our 7Jh page, and Commander
Wilkins General Orders, giving full pro
gram, will be print ed next week.
SHIPPING ITEMS. Sch. Mildred May az
rived from Rockland last Thursday and was
taken on the marine railway Friday to have
a shoe put on. This vessel was built last
year in Sedgwcl1 by Curtis Durgin for the
Bagaduce Steam Milf Co. She registers 53 Sc
tons net and is rigged as a two-masted
schooner, witt two topmasts and three jibs.
She viii be used in carrying roofing gravel
from eastern ports to Portland and general
cargo back. Her commander is Capt Au-
gustus Condor of Brooksvile. May 2Sth
II. Nj, Bean will launch from his yard in
Camden the four-masted centreboard schoon-
er he is building for Capt. j. 6. Crowley OF
Taunton, Mass, who will command her.
Dimensions are: keel 214 feet, over all 250
feet: breadth of beam A feet, depth II feet
Mr.. Bean has material i'll the yard for an
other keel vessel to be finished Sept. |, for
Capt. Joseph Holmes of New Jersey. .., The
four-masted schooner Daniel B. Fearing,
whose loss is reported III another column,
was launched from the yard Of McDonald u
Brown in this city i'll 1891 She was one of
two coasting vessels designed by Burgess,
the noted yacht designer. The other was
| the John II. Buttrck, of 596 tons net, built
at New buryport, Mass, the same year as the
Fearing, but launched at an earlier date.
The Buttrick had the Burgess yacht rig. 1t
does not appear that either vessel has dis
played remarka BILE sailing qualities, although
the Buttrick was recently credited with
some good round trips in the Gulf of Mexi-
co. These, however, might be due to a
hustling captain. The old schooner Polly,
Capt. Mcfarland, attracts attention wher-
ever she goes. Last week she was at East
port with general cargo from Boston, and
the Eastport Sentinel gives her the regula-
| tion notice. Ship Charles r. Flint, Carver,
which was burned at sea April 81, while ON
voyage from New York for Shanghai, was
| abandoned by her crew on the date mention
ed in lat. S. Ion. 81 w.. The iron shipen-
| tine May Flint Qate steamship Persian
MONARCHY will take a cargo of general mer-
chandise from New York to San Francisco.
| -. 1t is expected to have the rev barken-
tine Josephine ready for sea by the last of
next week. The riggers are making good
progress. Bark Thomas A. Goddard is on
Burnham's railway. Boston, to be stripped
calked and newly coppered. She has been
chartered to lead lumber at Parrsboro, N. S
! for Buenos Ayres at SIS per 1000 option of
Rosario at So. Sch. Serena S. Kendall ar
rived May 9th from New York with fertiliz-
| er for the Maine Central Railroad Co. -. Sch.
| T,a1v utriIn arrived from Roothba Satur-