The Republican journal., 1896-12-17
The Republican Journal Thursday Morning. December H. 1885,

t ing OF Seaside Hose Co. Monday evening
A and the meeting was adjourned two weeks
Staples & Cottrell have the agency for
novelty IN gentemen's cuffs, made in such {
manner that they are reversible and can be
+. used either with the plain or link buttons.
"A meeting of veterans to organize a Com
mand of the Union Veterans Union will be
held at W. b. Cliffords hair dressing rooms
tomorrow, Friday, evening at o'clock To
be eligible for membership man must have
served at least six months continuously at
the front, unless sooner discharged by reason
OF wounds. All eligible veterans are invited
Ihe County Commissioners are holding
i+ir regular December term at the Court
House for auditing the term bills and the
years accounts All persons holding bills
against the county should present them by
Dec. Ath. A petition has been receiv-
ed to locate highway in Thorndike, the
Selectmen having refused to do so.
The Boston Globe is conducting voting
contest in which ten New England teachers
are to enjoy trip to Washington and wit
ness the inauguration of President McKin-
ley Votes are recorded for the following
Waldo Coun ty teachers: Nancy A. Parker,
Monroe; Sibyl Mariner, Belmont; Sadie A,
Russ, Belfast; Mary A. Bickford Belfast :;
Emery d. Bickmore, Northport.
STEAMER NOTES. The Penobscot was de-
tanned in Belfast Monday more than an hour
taking freight. There were Is tons of leather
board from Sherman & Co., 3 tons of leather
from the Liberty tannery, 300 barrels of
apples from various shippers, IS pork barrels
from Hatch Bros, and the usual miscellane-
GUS freight. go The steamer State of Maine
OF the international line is at Portland for
repairs. 1t is said that the ST. Croix will be
the only boat on the route during the great
er part of the winter. She will leave Bos
ton every Monday and St. John, Thursdays
The steamer Salacia, recently damaged
by fire, was lowed to Bath from Portland
Monday for repairs.
State Constable Mears searched the nlaces
OF +. E. Nash and w. NJ. Cottrel last week.
but found nothing hat could be seized under
the liquor law. Saturday he made a search
| at the Ocean House without an aid
| When the proprietor, S. W Freeman,
saw the officer coming up the back
| street he ran into the house and fas-
tened the doors, and Mr.. Mears was obliged
10 break down two doors to gain admit
| lance. When he got in he found Freeman
breaking bottles of hard liquor into a tank
OF water, but he arrested the man and took
charge of portions Of the broken bottles and
some OF the mixed liquor and water A
hearing was held in the Police Court Mon.
day at which Freeman was found guilty and
sentenced to fine of 800 and costs and 90
days in Jail, from which he appealed
SHIPPING ITEMS. Sch. Mantonomah ar
| rived Saturday from Boston, and has haul
| ed up for the WINTER. Sch. Leander v
| Beebe sailed Monday for New York with
ice from the Belfast Ice Co.. Sch Maria
| webster loaded hay for Mt. Desert at F. G.
| Whites last week. Schs. Accumulator
Laughing Waters and Western Light came
to Belfast the past week from the islands
for general cargo, and there were several
arrivals of small craft with fish Sch p NJ
Bonnie arrived Dec. IS from Vinalhaven.
Sch. Hattie S. Collins is having d new cen
trtboard put in at Portland. Sch Rabboni
| is loading ice from the houses OF D. Sar-
gents Sons, Bangor. Sch. Mary Langdon
arrived Monday from Elizabethport, with
phosphate for M. G. r. r.. Sch Mary
| Augusta arrived Monday from Boston with
| feed for Swan & Sibley Co. and L. 7, Shales
| EAST BELFAST. Those who attended the
dedication and entertainment of the Odd
Fellows and Mason's new hall at Searsport
were Mr.. and Mrs. George Leav lit, Mr.. and
| Mrs Fred Slavery, Mrs. Francis Murch, Mr..
George Clark and Miss Sarah Mason Mr..
Eugene Achorn and little son Walter were
thrown from a road wagon one day last
week. The little boy ran to meet his father
who was returnin from his work, and the
father got out of the wagon to get him and
had got back in again but did not have time
to get hold of the reins before the horse
whirled clear around throwing them both
out. Mr.. Achorn was somewhat bruised
but the boy not hurt. There will be a
tree at the Smart schoolhouse Christmas
eve and all are invited. The tree will be
large, so as to hold all the presents that
Santa Claus may bring.
Mr.. MILLER's LECTURE. The lecture by
Jahu De Wit Miller at the Belfast Opera
House last Tuesday evening, the first in the
Peoples Course, fully met expectations, and
that is saying great deal. Mr.. Miller's lee
ture here last season is still recalled with
pleasure, and large audience gathered to
hear him tell of "The Uses of Uginess"
The lecture was wise, witty, eloquent, pa
thetic and cynical, but one might as we'll try
to report an electric current. The lecturers
subject was embroidered with character
sketches, illustrative anecdotes and quaint
sayings. Never was John Chnaman more
| interestingly or more accurately portrayed.
DE Witt Talmage, ex-pastor of the Brook Ign
Tabernacle, was analysed, described and
represented in action. Henry Ward Beecher
was shown under an intellectual Nray. Lin
coin, the martyred President, received an
eloquent tribute; and Attorney General
Brewster of Arthur's Cabinet illustrated the
fact that the lack of physical beauty is
no bar to advancement. There was no ap-
pause, but laughter rippled through the au-
dience from the beginning to the close of the