The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-02-04
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Belfast Post Office for the week ending
Jan. 80, 1897: Ladies-Miss Edith B. Pen
dleton. Gentlemen--C. A. Duome.
THE GIRLS HOME. On the second page
of this issue will be found some interesting
extracts from the little paper issued in the
interest of the Girls Home One of the
wants therein mentioned has been supplied.
The managers acknowledge the receipt of a
barrel of oil from friends The Children 8
Aid Society extend thanks for dictionary
from Mrs. Gertrude Sargent Bucksport,
Ne, and $40 from Augustine Thompson,
M. D., Lowell, Mass. The next regular
meeting of the executive committee will be
held at the Alliance Parlor, Feb. 9th at 3 80
p. N .... The receiving and placing out COM
mittee will meet at the Alliance rooms,
Main street, Feb. 9TH at 40 p. M
LAST WEEKS STORM. The first heavy
snow storm of the season occurred last
Thursday, accompanied by high wind
which drifted the roads badly. The freight
train Thursday afternoon was cancelled and
the engine and snow-plow sent out about 8
line were late and the passenger train on the
Belfast branch was hours late out of Burn
ham. 1t arrived here hours and ) minutes
late. The trains ran on time the next day.
The schooner Fannie & Edith parted the
line by which she was moored to the lower
bridge, but her anchors held her and no
damage was done. The mail stages all made
their regular trips Thursday except the
Stockton Springs stage, which did not go
out after the arrival of the evening train.
The Liberty stage did not arrive Friday
The two Castine and Islesboro steamers re-
manned here Thursday night but went over
early next morning in time to make their
regular trips.
RAILROAD MATTERS. The thirty eighth
annual report of the Railroad Commission
ers of the State OF Maine is at hand. Itgives
comprehensive review of all the business
of the railroads, both steam and electric, in
the State during the year, and the official
acts of the Board on petitions, etc. Among
the latter the following: Petition of
the Municipal Officers of Belfast relating to
Central tracks at the foot of Main street.
petition dismissed by the Board the petit
TONERS failing to show that the street had
been legally located" Petition of Select
men of Waldo relating to a highway cross
ing in the town of Waldo over the Maine
Central Railroad Dismissed for want of
jurisdiction
ACCIDENTS. Mrs. Julia Nickerson met
with a peculiar and serious accident last
Saturday forenoon. She lives with her
daughter Mrs. Henry Written, near the
easterly end of the bridge, and going into
Bradman's store to make some purchases.
she accidentally walked into an open scuttle
n the floor. The trap door was turned up
and held by chain, and in her fall Mrs
Nickerson caught hold of this chain, which
closed the door. Her right hand was caught
under the door and crushed 80 badly that it
was necessary to amputate three fingers
She was also quite badly bruised By the fall.
The tendon of one of the fingers was pulled
from the arm up to the elbow where it broke,
remaining in the jamb of the door when
she fell into the cellar. Hon VIM. C.
Marshall was thrown from his sleigh while
driving on Northport avenue Monday and
his horse got away from him, but was stop
slightly bruised.
SHIPPING ITEMS. The annual report, re-
Gently issued, shows a total net tonnage of
425 tons for ID vessels built and launched in
he "n16 G;o<r;
half the shipping built in 1895, which was
the lowest ever recorded in the district.
During the year there were 473 foreign en-
frances and 451 clearances, and ~ American
vessels from foreign ports in the DISTRICT.
Sch. Mary Farrow, Belfast for Boston with
for over two weeks. Capt. G. A. Erskine
arrived at his home in Bucksport last Thurs
day. His vessel, sch. Hattie H. Barbour is
at Delaware Breakwater, bound up, but de-
tanned by ice. Sch. Hattie E. King sailed
Jan. 29th for St. John, N. B., to haul up for
the winter. 49,. Sch. Sarah Hill arrived JAN
10th with corn for Swan & Sibley Co. and
some general cargo after long and stormy
passage from Boston. Sch. Maria Webster
arrived Saturday from Mt Desert and load
ed lime casks for Rockland Monday e. Sch.
Jennie Greenbank, reported last week cap
sized off York hubble, has been righted and
towed into York harbor. The vessel is not
badly injured. The hull of sch. Robert l.
Carter was sold at Portland last week at
public auction to James Hughes of New
York for 81 900, and will be constructed into
a coal barge. Two of the spars sold for 800
apiece, and the rigging was knocked down
to junk dealer. Capt. T. NJ. Nicholson OF
photograph of the dismasted Bucksport
schooner, Arthur V. s. Woodruff, Capt. S. S.
Heagan, showing her exact appearance on
her arrival at Bermuda. The photo also shows
the big iron ship Tillie E. Starbuck in a
damaged condition, which put in shortly
after the Woodruff arrived, with loss of
many spars and sails. The Woodruff will
remain at Bermuda until the spars and sails,
now ready at Bucksport, reach her. Sch.
Elizabeth Foster, Capt. Evander Hartman,
which left Gloucester nearly three weeks
ago with general cargo for Belfast and Bucks
port, is missing. The vessel is AZ years old,
registers IS tons, and is owned by Nathan
F. Powers of Bucksport. Sch Jas Holmes |
is loading for Boston, with hay from F.
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