The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-12-02
NEWS Or IHE EEK.

MAINE MATTERS. Preparations are
now being made for the shipment of both
Canadian and American apples rom Port
land to Great Britain. The shipping
agents are arriving and the wharves will
soon be the scene of activity. The Cana
dian apple crop is proving little better
than anticipated, but it is nevertheless
very short. Good No. l Baldwins are
selling, SO it is said, at $3.50 a barrel on
the other side of the line. Activity in
creases all along the line of the Washing
ton County Railroad, and the work of
actual construction has commenced at
both ends and the centre of the line. ....
The Franklin and Megantic Railroad has
been sold to Weston Lewis Of Gardiner.
It's officers are Josiah 5 Maxcy and =. II.
WinsloW of Gardiner; Horace f. Horton
Of Providence, K. l., and Leslie c. Cornish
OF Augusta. 1t is said that the road will
be much improyed..., The factory OF the
Bruokliu Packing Go. has been closed for
lhe winter...~T The New England Go. of
Bath are to build for Capt. Lueius J.
stevens, Of Clinton, Conn, an leo ton
tour- maSted schooner ut the following
Dimensions: length H. 1eet; breadth, 40
feet. depth, Is feet. She is to be a centre
board with all the modern improvements.
The poop is to take in the main mast.
The work on the vessel will commence
Ihs irst of this month and will be com
rleted about May President Butler
uf Colby University states he has received
within the past two weeks three gifts of
-. 900 each for this institution. This
would seem to insure the $40 600 promised
hy Jhe American Baptist Educational
Association if $50, 600 could be raised by
January l, lS9S...News was received in
Dexter Nov. 10Th, of the death OF Dr.. 0.
Fitzgerald at Allstou, Mass, at :. 45 A. NJ.
Dexter always has been his home, though
ot late years he has been there but little.
His aged father and step mother live in
Dexter; also a sister, Mrs. Dana Barker.
Another sister Mrs. Lucretia Sanborn,
lives in Lawrence, Mass.,... William II.
Whitney committed suicide last Friday
night about $50 at the Knox county jail,
where he was serving term of 60 days
fo1 selling liquor. Whitney was proprie-
tor of the Warren hotel at Warren. He
leaves a wife 49,. General orders just
issued from the headquarters of the De-
partment of Maine e. A. r., announce
that posts will elect officers and represen-
tatives to the Department Encampment at
the first regular meeting in December.
Zach post is entitled to elect one repre-
sentative for each additional fifty men,
berS. Posts will elect as many alternates
as representatives. The newly elect
ed officers of posts will be installed
the first regular meeting in January.....
Ii is reported that the once famous and
busy copper mine at Bluehill, known as
the Douglass mine, will be again in opera
ton in the near future. Word has been
received from Mr.. Dunn of Bluehill, who
has been in New York in the interests of
the property, that his efforts have been
successful and that before long parties
from that city will be on the spot pre-
pared to get the mine. into working order.
The mine ceased operations twenty years
ago owing to the low price in copper, but
now the price is up aud thus the revival of
interest. go. Information from the National
Soldiers Home, Togus, is that a mild +
and less arbitrary policy is to be pursued
by the new governor than that of the late
dministration. Nothing will be left un-
done to render the institution home and
make the life of the veterans as pleasant
and cheerful as the surroundings will per-
nit. But at the same time, the necessary
discipline will be exercised and good order
maintained. "a pleasing drama entitled
the House Party, was presented in Meo-
nian hall in Augusta last Friday even
ing. The piece was written by Robert
Treat WhitehOuSe and Florence Brooks
Whtehouse of Portland, and the perform
ers were well known amateurs Of Augusta
and Portland. .... Petitions are in circula-
ton among the lawyers in some sections
of the State for the reappointment of Judge
Enoch Foster to the bench, his present
term expiring March "a, 1898. Judge
Haskell's term expires March 31st, and
after that there will not be another expra-
ton of terms until 19O1.... Harriet Shaw,
the Maine harpst, played Thanksgiving
day for the prisoners of the Charles street
Jail in Boston. Miss Shaw is reported as
taking this way of showing her thankful
ness for the recovery of her sight. 1t will
be remembered that she recently seriously
injured one of her eyes, splinters from her
broken eye glasses wounding it,. The
terms of Office of five members of the State
Board of Agriculture expire in January
and election must take place previous to
the annual meeting of the board in that
month, to fill the vacancies. The out
going members are Aroostook county,
J. W. Dudley, Castle Hill; Franklin, G. E.
Wheeler, Chesterville; Knox, E. E. Light,
Union; Penobscot, George N. Holland,
Hampden; Piscataquis, W. Fl. Snow,
Milo. Mr.. Dudley is the president of the
board and w. II. Moody of Liberty the
vice president. ..... The official terms of