The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-01-07

Seaside Hose Co. has reelected its old
board of officers
l.. L.. Gentner has a new and improved
Housekeeping machine at the Phenix House
stable.
Unclaimed letters remaining in the Bel.
fast post office for the week ending Jan. 2,
1897: Helen d. Carver; Miss Flora E
Drake
The Christmas entertainment at the Girls
Home was repeated New Years eve in the
presence of number of visitors, and as be
fore the children aquitted themselves finely
At the Childrens Festival in Memorial
Hall Friday evening the Unitarian young
people will present the laughable farce en-.
titled, "Aunt Charlotte's Maid" General
admission twenty-five cents.
Chandler r. Merrill of Winterport has en-
tered an appeal to the Supreme judicial
Court, April term, from the decision of the
County commissioners on the land damages
$500, awarded him on account Of land taken
for the Winterport Water Co. He alleges
that the amount is Insufficient
BAKED Pig. Messrs j. p. Sipp of New
York, w. S. lin and John Salter of York,
Pa, who are putting in the new bank vault,
gave supper to a party of Belfast friends
at the Ocean House IN Northport few days
ago The principal dish OF th;' occasion was
a baked pig from the pen Of Michael Collins.
BARGAIN SALE. Staples & Cottrell II
Main street, have inaugurated a great bar
gain sale, and for the next sixty days will
sell winter goods regardless of cost to make
room for their large stock of spring goods.
They guarantee all goods and the money
will be refunded if not satisfactory. They
can only quote prices on part of their
stock, and invite the public to cali and see
for themselves.
MRS. PENNEY DEAD. Mrs. French, former
ly of this city, whose marriage to H. c.
Penney a few years ago created such sensa-
ton, died in Lewiston Dec. 81, aged about
81 years. Penney, who survives her, is about
40 He is at present going through insol-
vency. The deceased was noted medium
in years past and at the time of her marriage
to Penney had comfortable fortune. She
has always said that her husband treated
her kindly and that she was satisfied with
her choice.
Two tramps, fearfuly and wonderfully
drunk, We're arrested Tuesday by police Of
hcer Jlpson. They went up town in the
forenoon and as they We're apparently steer
ing for other parts We're allowed to 90 on.
About noon they got into wrangle after
taking a few extra drinks from bottle, and
one picked the other up and threw him into
pool of water by the roadside Mr. Jipson
was called and the larger of the two men
showed fight, but he was placed in a grocery
wagon with his companion and hauled to
the cooler where they spent the night The
men We're dis charged without hearing
Wednesday NOR ming on condition that they
leave the county.
A TRAGEDY IN CLINTON. At 6 O'Clock last
Monday afternoon John l.. Webber shot his
wife and then himself. He is dead and she
will die. Mrs. Weber sustained three
wounds-two in the right breast and one in
the right shoulder. She renal ned conscious
after the shooting. She gave the alarm and
MIR. Weber was found in the room occupied
as a dining room-dead-with a bullet
wound in the right temple. The cause of
the tragedy was jealousy. The couple had
had several separations, the woman leaving
home recently with three children, who saw
the father shoot their mother. Weber was
far -,
He was about 80 years old, and prior to his
marriage was always considered sober and
respectable citizen.
"SUNsH1NE.' The third lecture in the
Peoples Course is to be given next Tuesday,
the 18th, in the Opera House, by DR.. A A.
Willis, for many years one of the foremost
lecturers and writers on the platform His
subject is Sunshine or How to Enjoy Life
Among the many choice testimonials bv
the public press is the following from the
Boston Post:
The lecture was He'd with apt illustrations
and fellcltouS anecdotes; and the audience
was one moment moved to mlrth and an
other to conviction of the good sense that
was so profusely uttered. The lecture was
one OF the best that has been given in Bos-
ton for years, and should be heard eyerv-
where.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Poor & Son have
quick relief for headache, safe, effective
and cheap. They are selling fancy art cal
endars at cost. and are prepared to repair at
omizers at slight expense. . Burkett has
big clearance sale. The fire, smoke and
water sale is now on at the White Store. 81
Main street. Big bargains for the next 60
days at Staples 4 Cottrells, u Main street.
IA seven octave square piano for sale or
to rent. Apply to G. o. Poor. W. A.
Clark, next door to Phoenix House, con-
tinues his manufacturers sale of clothing
See advt. of Dalton's Imperial Almond
Cream and Dalton's Coraline, with special
offer to buyers. At Bailey's you can get
good trades in all kinds of hardware. See
prices quoted for special bargains. You can
buy good sleigh for 1876, and use it on the
first snow. Clark, the clothier and tailor,
Is Main street, is having special clearance
sale of ulsters, overcoats and REFERS. There
is plenty zero weather ahead of us, when a
nice, warm garment will be needed, and
now is the time to get them at way down
prices. ...See card of Samuel Adams, Jew
eler to the People. rs Main street.. New
ton S. Lord & Co., sailmakers, and success
ora To T w Fradar;nlr &, 10 chin ,bondl,,.