The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-07-02

evening, but the SPeelat taking plays were
Queena and the Hoop of Gold, presented
Friday and Saturday evenings and at the
Saturday afternoon matinee. Miss Tucker
has good company and our theatre-goers
will be pleased to greet her again.
The names of all those entitled to the
New York Weekly Tribune under our club
bling arrangement, who had their names en-
tered up to last Saturday noon, have been
sent to New York and they should receive
this weeks Tribune. The Tribune is sent
for full year from the receipt of the first
number, and is mailed direct from New
York.
The Universalist and Unitarian Sunday
schools will unite in an excursion to Bucks
port by steamer City of Bangor next Tues
day, July 18th, leaving Belfast at o'clock a.
N. and returning at p. NJ. The inmates of
the Girls Home will be guests of the Sunday
schools. Fare for adults, IS cents, children
40 cents, tickets coed only one day. Let all
Sunday school members with their friends
attend.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. The hose COM
pany was out Monday evening for time
race. The hose carriage was set 200 feet
south of the High and Market streets hy-
drant, and the men lined up at the hydrant
At the signal the run was made to the car
riage, back to the hydrant the connection
made, 100 feet of hose run off, and the wa
ter turned on. The younger contingent
made the run and got water in good shape
in just 10 seconds The older boys got wa
ter in exactly the same time. but blew the
hose from the hydrant, and lost the stream
The missionary yacht Alert, Capt. Allen
which recently visited this port, was at Port
land last week collecting clothing, etc, for
destitute people on the outer islands. The
captain says that the season has been very
hard upon the fishermen whose sole reliance
is upon shore fishing, and specially Holsters
Many families are already suffering, and
others will be. Capt. Allen has sailed the
Alert single-hauded, but at Portland he
from Demarara, British Guiana, fine manly
youth, just arrived, needing Just such a
place. Capt. Allen friends will be glad to
know that be has secured an assistant in
handling the yacht.
The general program of the Maine Chau-
tanqua Union at Fryeburg, July 2Sth-Aug-
ust 10Th, IS published on the 9th page. Miss
Charlotte I. Sibley is to give two platform
lectures and five round table talks before
the Womans Clubs. On recognition dav
City on the Golden Horn;'' and Aug. 5th
she will deliver her lecture cover Palestine
Hills On Horseback" Her round-table talks
Will be given as follows: Aug. Sd, "Chii-
dren and School Life in the Orient;" Aug.
18th, Ivy Leaves from English Castles =
Aug. q, "Pctures of Scotch, Welch and
Irish Castles Aug. 18th, ga Nineteenth
Century Miracle-The Congress of Reli-
gions;" Aug. 10th, 'The story of Chicagos
Great Parliament Hon. S. L. Miliken of
Belfast Will speak for the Republican party
on Political Day.
The SUICIDE IN THE BAY. The Journal
published last week an account of the find
ing of boat containing a suit of mems
clothing, off Northport Camp Ground Last
Friday City Marshal Hammons received a
letter written i'll Bangor and signed c.. G.
Perkins, stating that the writer's son had
been absent from home a week and the
clothing he wore answered the dissertation
OF that found in the boat. Monday Mr. Per
kris came to Belfast and identified the
clothing. He said his son Luther R. Perkins
1aft hprnt m S1.v
borrowed bicycle to look for work in the
pulp mill in South Brewer He did not re-
turn that night, and the next heard from
him was the item in the papers giving an ac-
count of the finding of his clothes in the boat
hen it was learned at Castine that he had
d bicycle a search was made and the wheel
was found in some bushes ON the cape Mr.
Perkins says the young man was generally
known by his middle name, Ross, which ac-
counts for the initials r. on his clothing and
handkerchiefs.
SHIPPING ITEMS. Schs Sarah L. Davis,
Geo. B. Ferguson, Fannie & Edith and
Marcellus made short calls here the past
week bound from river ports west Sch.
Omaha arrived June 10Th with 5000 bushels
of corn for l.. A. Knowlton from Boston
Sch. A. w. Ellis arrived June 25th from
New York with coal for F. G. White . Sch.
Jonathan Cone arrived Friday in Is hours
from Newburyport. She created some ex-
element along shore by flying her burgee
at the main peak. Being an unusual man
ner Of carrying flag it was interpreted in
several ways. 1t was merely a signal by
the mate to relatives living along the shore
...Sch. Minetta arrived Sunday to load hay
for Boston for A. M. Carter . Sch Rescue
was in port Monday loading general cargo
for Brooksvlle. Sch Aida has been sold
by the F. A. White estate to Capt Fred d.
Pattershall, who is fitting her for the coast
ing business. Sch. Pocasset completed re-
pairs at Carriers & Co.'S and sailed Saturday
for Green's Landing. Sch Cox & Green
sailed Friday for Somes' Sound to load
granite for New York or Philadelphia. .
Sch James Holmes was launched from the
marine railway last week and is loading
hay at F. G. Whites for Boston. Negotia-
lions are pending for the purchase of SCH
Marcellus by Capt. A. A. Larrabee of Sears
port Sch Maria Webster loaded casks
from Nickery of Morrill, and sailed Tor
Rockland Monday. Captain A. j. Hall of
RnalYl a, has AZ l.