The Republican journal., 1897-02-25

The regular meeting of the City Council
will be held next Monday evening, Mar. 1st.
Pine Tree Circle, Kings Daughters, will
meet with Mrs. W. wilkins on Bay View
street next Monday evening.
Meetings will be held at Peoples Mission,
So High St, (next door to American Express
Office this week as usua.
Sheridan f. Miller Command, Union Vet
Grams Union, will meet at G. A R. Hall
next Monday evening at o'clock.
On account of the absence from town of
Judge johnson the March term of Probate
Court will be postponed to Wednesday,
Mar, 10th.
1t is reported that the will of Mrs. HI. G.
(French) Penney is to be contested by a
sister, Mrs. Martha Warren, on the grounds
that Mrs. Penny of insane mind and
was unduly Influenced by her usbaud
Mr.. w. R. Chapm an of New Yor k, director
of the coming musical festival, Will be in Bel
fast Friday March 9TH to meet the chorus.
full attendance is desired at the rehearsal
tomorrow evening.
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at Memorial Hall Wednesday evening,
March 10th. Supper will be served at 6
O'Clock, to which all members of the parish
are invited Admission % cents Dancing
will begin at s, with music by Sanborn's
Orchestra.
Helping Hand Circle, Kings Daughters,
will meet with Mrs. Sanford Howard on
High street next Monday evening. The s.
cent sociabie, announced last week for to-
morrow evening, was postponed to Monday
and will be held after the close of the bust
ness meeting. The sociable will begin at
30, local
The Peoples Lecture Course for 1867
closed Tuesday evening with a concert by
( the Lyceum Stars at Belfast Opera House.
The attendance was large and the program
was well rendered. The performers were,
Miss Jenny Corea, Soprano Miss Edna
Louise Sutherland Reader; Miss Maud
Paradis, Pianist; Mr. Van Veachton Rogers,
Harpist, and Mr.. Felix Wiuternitz Violinist
, Miss Sutherland's readings and Mr.. Rog-
ers on the harp were specially fine.
There will be union service of all the
churches in the interests of Good Citizenship
, in the Opera House, Sunday evening at 7
o'clock, The meeting is to be addressed by
! Rev. w. F. Berry, pastor of the M. E.
church in Watervile. Mr.. Berry is an able
speaker, and has special interest in reform
| and educational movements. There will be
special music at this union service The
festival baQ TO- %
selection. An earnest invitation is extend
ed to the public to attend this meeting.
THE GIRLS HOME The Chlldren's Aid
Society of Maine acknowledge receipt
of the following contributions From Mrs.
Ira NJ. CODE of Chicago, per Mrs. Martha
F. Heating of this city, $50, Mrs. CODE was
form erly resident of Belfast and visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Austin Heating last summer
From Mr.. F. H. Beae of Augusta an
unabridged Webster's dlctlonary under
wear from the Kings Daughters of Scarboro
| and a barrel of flour from friend of the
Home. Any one wishing to adopt little
| girl, three years old, will please apply to the
| Children's Aid Society.
| STEAMER NOTES. The steamer Castine
went up to Bucksport last Thursday even
ing for party that came down from Bangor
| on the train, but was unable to land at the
steamboat wharf on account of ice, and took
the passengers aboard on the western coast
| of Verona. The steamer Hector has been
receiving complete overhauling at Bucks
port and repairs have been made on
her boiler and machinery :. Speaking of the
I ;olr
hands of the junk dealer, the Eastport Sen
tinel says
She has been faithful servant to her
| owners and the public. Her first ex-
| perience at sea was severe one. Coming
| out Of Portland she was caught in the cee-
! brated "cold Friday of February 8, 1861,
when dense vapor rose hundred feet
i above the rough water, and she came to
| anchor in pretty deep souniings off Mt. De-
sert. But then, and in all the buffetings of
! thirty-tive years, she escaped serious injury
! Her war service was important; she carried
the Twenty-Fourth Massachusetts regiment
to join the Burnside expedition on Alber-
marie Sound and was in attendance at sew
eral engagements in North Carolina waters.
Nv" OF the state rooms in her saloon We're
pointed out as General Burnsides and Gen
eral Fosters rooms A year later she car
ried the Tenth Connecticut Regiment of a
I thousand men on the long voyage to New
| Orleans TO join the Banks expedition, and
ran up the mississippi for exchange of pris-
/ oners. This patriotic service entities her
/ to an honorable place in the history of the
time. In her long and peaceful subsequent
/ career she had become Familiarity known all
+ along the coast between Boston and St.
/ John, and if the lighthouses at Thatcher
! Island Cape Elizabeth, Matinicus, West
Quoddy, Point Lepreaux and their fellow
guardians of the shore Were of the talkative
sort they would certainly give expressions
of regret at the final disappearance of the
old familiar craft with which they have ex-
changed so many friendly signals.
! WASHINGTON WHIsPERlNGs. General
Alfred Pleasonton, one of the most dis
tingui shed cavalry commanders of the
late war, died at his apartments in the
Greason House, Feb. 18th. 80. Hon. w. w.
Thomas and wife of Portland are here
to stay until after the inauguration.
Mr.. Thomas was at the capitol Feb. 18th
calling on senators and Others whose sup
port he has been promised for the mission
to Sweden.
The genuine "BELFAST" SC. cigar
has already found its way into nine diff
ferent States in the Union, also the Do
minion of Canada, and strange to say, it
is less than two years ago this brand was