The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-03-26
The Republican Journal Thursday Morning, March e. 1885,

LIE meeting of the Board of Trade called
Ior March 24th was postponed to next Tues
day evening.
Inc store in johnson Block High street,
formerly occupied by II. II. johnson & Co.
may be rented on satisfactory terms. For
further particulars enquire of Poor & Son.
List OF letters remaining unclaimed in the
beiiast post office for the week ending Mar
Il, 1896: Ladies-Miss Carrie M. Brier :;
Miss Lizzie Jackson Miss Alice Newell
ST PAUL, March 90 Mrs Jennie Kimball
OF Philadelphia the we'll known opera man
ager, died here to- day. Her remains will
be taken to Boston.
Mrs klmball was the mother co of Little
Corinne, who was favorite with our thea
tire goers some years ago
| The Lillian Tucker Company is booked for
Belfast Opera House for Monday evening,
April 9th This company has PLAYED two
| very successful engagements in Belfast and
our theatre goers will be pleased to greet
them again. Further particulars next week.
| We have received some sheet music from
the Montague Music Pub. Co.. AZ Fifth Ave-
nue., Brooklyn, N. Y. including waltz,
"Across the Waves" by j. Harry Gould.
with portrait of the composer on the title
page. Mr.. Gould is secretary and treasurer
of this publishing company and is Belfast
| boy. We have handed the music to ?. A.
! Sanborn, leader Of Sanborn's Orchestra
| The County Commissioners visited the
Jail Tuesday and made arrangements for
| missioners ask the city to make some
changes in the culvert near the County lot,
on Miller street, and offer to supply tramps
enough to do the work. The tramps will
also be put into the cellar of the Jail house
to grade and cement the floor They will be
put at ditching on the county garden when
these Jobs are finished.
The Fisk Jubilee singers, who are to give
a concert at the Methodist church Friday
evening, April Sd, have just returned from a
tour of six years around the world, during
which time they sang in all the principal
cities of England, Ireland, Scotland, Hol-
land, Germany AUSTRIA Switzerland, Aus
trala, New Zealand, India, China and
Japan. No concert company ever before
awakened such worldwide interest, drew
| such numbers of people, or received such
praise through the press of all lands. The
Daily Telegraph of Melbourne, Australia,
in which city they sang eighty consecutive
nights, places them beside the three best
ehoirs Of Europe in accuracy of information,
and finished graduation of tone. They will
doubtless give the finest musical concert
ever given in Belfast
| CHAT. l. Y. Miller has a pet mink at the
i West End Grocery Store. Three Boston
men have been camping ON Butter Island.
One Of them IS Interested in the island and
proposes to make it a summer resort.
| Every where there is a call for legislation TO
| keep bicycles off the sidewalk, and Mayor
| Beal of Bangor hits the nail on the head
when he hints that the best wav to get rid
| of them is to build good streets alongside
the walks Capt. w G.. Butman Of steamer
| Grace Morgan recently killed two seals on a
floating cake of ice in Penobscot bay with
one bullet. -. The Deer Isle Gazette reports
that Holsters are selling for 30 cents at At
lantic All the hay i'll the country was not
| hauled i'll on runners and it is coming now
on wheels. The Waldo Bar Association
has received, from the press of Geo. W.
| Burgess, the printed copies of the docket for
the April term of S. j. Court. Work began
Monday morning on the electric wiring in
be replaced 10y porcelain ones.