The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-03-12
NEWS OF THE WEEk.

MAINE MATTERS. Governor Cleaves
add eouncil met March 9TH and confirmed
M limitations. The report of the fish
H0 game commissioners was submitted,
showing excellent figures on deer, caribou
iuH moose killed during the past season,
bu- double that of 1894 The expenses
Tue commission have amounted to S24,-
" Ae appropriation having been S25,-
IFu of the expenses, so, ,55S was paid
Iv Ae warden account; So, 29O on unpaid
O- m 1894; Auburn hatchery, 81, 324;
Ihou hatchery, 81, 46S, and the balance
various hatcheries and fisheries ac
lls and expenses o. the commission.
INST annual report of the board of
3.l~-ation of medicine was also sub
HraG, showing that the number of ap-
..-runs received was 1,275, of which SO
Np.o Iefused. The next meeting of the
Governor and council will be held at 4 p.
tIiil 9th. 49,. Bangor has social sensa-
\ prominent society young man
paid 500 in a breach of promise case,
t-i han spoil his prospect of winnings
4some and wealthy young woman, for
. axe of whose face and fortune he had
'r'u over an equally pretty but penni-
I- -lrl..... The Orono Pulp and Paper
lu iiJS taken possession of the pulp and
IIl mill plant at Basin Mills, which it
'Sed to the Bangor Pulp and Paper
which recently assigned. One of the
ST owners in the Bangor Pulp and
%. will return from Europe in a
ays, and it is not believed that he
"0usent to see the enterprise slump
use all the money that has been put
j for the lack of little working
.u....... The appointment Of Capt
"uam p, Hurley of Rockland to the
3acy on the Democratic Congressional!
umlttee existing since the death of
a.- 4, MacNichol OF Calais, was anoth-
seycre blow for the Maine plum trust
Ellsworth tie vote for mayor be-
tween The Republican and Populist candi-
lirs viii be decided April 9th. when
o.s will be strenuous endeavor to get
more than a third of the 300 voters
-ht city,. The internal revenue col
IONS for the New Hampshire district
,rh comprises the States of Maine, New
iHalpshire and Vermont, for the month
February. were $50 Sol. This is an in
ease Of nearly 81, 600 over the CORE
ending month of 1895. The State
Eaard of Trade will hold it's semi annual
neeting at the college hall, Waterville.
mmeucing at 2 O. clock p. NJ, on We'd
nesday March 18th, and every board is
cordially invited to send delegates. .... Col.
asPer Hutchings died March 5th, after
aa iiness of four days of pneumonia. He
Vas the leading criminal lawyer of the
tnobscot bar. He had been county at
Nney several years and mayor of Brewer,
q which city he had lived for years. Col.
hAtchings was commander of two color
regiments in the war of the rebellion.
Nd caves wife and three children, one
l, l,,.y e1
Years of age. March End, when there was
uo iirect communication with Portland
Bangor man sent a despatch to that city
"a England. 1t was telegraphed from Ban
to North Sidney, c. B., then to
Heart's Content, N. F., thence to
y alencia, Ireland, thence to Lands End,
England, thence to Dover, thence to
bfest, France, thence to ST. Pierre,
Mequeton, thence to Duxbury, Mass,
iAence to Boston, and thence to Port
land.....It was a good thing for him
self and for everybody that the devilish
prute who murdered the two Irving
women in Old ToEn should finish his work
by shooting himself dead -. illustrating
Fhe severity of the winter storms along
lhe Eastern Maine coast the Machias
nlon says that the salt spray has dashed
upon the roofs of houses over $50 yards
from the sea in such quantities as to salt
l'e water in the cisterns and spoil it for
lamily use. .... The Cape Elizabeth farmers
nave been getting an average of $40 a ton
Lon their cabbages this winter. If the
daty of so a ton had not been taken off
'hey would be getting an average of $40 a
Ion. They have raised about 1000 tons
~ cabbages on the Cape. That makes a
Loss of $4,000 to the Cape farmers be-
ealse of the taking off of the tariff on
cabbages.. P. Baxter was inaugurated
mayor of Portland Monday for the fourth
ume. In his inaugural his illusions to
the enforcement of the prohibitory law
we're pungent He declared it an impos-
Slbility to thoroughly enforce the law I'M
Ger the existing conditions. He scored
The Civic League and the bumptious
critics who assailed from the pulpit the
administration for alleged non enforce
ment of the liquor law.
IN BRIEF The iOint rasOlutiops of tho