The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-11-23

and are at - Church street.
The Holiday Souvenir number of the Sea
Breeze is partly printed. A few more ads.
can be taken. Call at the Office, 10 Main ST.
Rev. I. F. Jones of Bucksport will give a
stereopticon lecture at the Methodist yestry
to morrow, Friday, evening" subject 1.-THE
Life of Christ"
Remember the Universalist fair, which
will be held in Memorial Hall, Wednesday
and Thursday, Dec. 9th and It'll Fur Their
particulars next week.
The ladies of T. II. Marshall Relief Corps
will meet with Mrs. Robt. Waterman, %
Charles street, next Tuesday p M. for work
Please bring thimble, needle and thread.
1t seems rather late for sojourning at
shore cottage, but N. j. Pottle has received
for the use of the Pottle cottage at the Bat
terry.
The Non.Partisan W. G. T. Alliance will
meet with Mrs. E. A. D. burlington Friday
afternoon, Nov. oath, at 2 o'clock. Subject
to be considered, The Faith that makes
Faithful.
Geo. R. Angel, ZIG Woodward Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan, announces an exhibition
and sale OF water colors by Mrs. A R. Pierce
at his art galleries, beginning Nov Goth and
continuing one week. The exhibit compris-
es fifty of Mrs. Pierce's flower studies
A benefit concert to D. NJ. Higgins, the
Belfast blind boy, will be given at Brad
mans Hall, East Belfast Saturday evening,
Nov 18th. The entertainment will include
mirth, dancing and music. Admission Is
cents; children under 10 years, 10 cents.
Doors open at I; begin at s.
BURKETT's BARGAINS. Geo. W. Burkett,
Odd Fellows Block, is offering this week a
host of new holiday attractions, for particu-
lars of which the reader is referred to his
big advertisement on the 9Th page The
book department includes the leading nov
els of the day, and all the other depart
ments are Overlooking with up-to-date goods
at popular prices.
Capt. e. 0. Patterson he's at bis residence
on Church street the plans of dredging
steamer of 100 tons, on which the govern
ment will soon ask for bids The plans
were drawn by Capt. Patterson and some Of
the apparatus is of his invention The
steamer will be furnished with motive pow
er sufficient for ocean service, and will have
the tanks for the mud inside her hull, doing
away entirely with the use of scows. The
mud is pumped in through a suction hose
She will be fitted in as good style as an or
binary man-of-war and supplied with all
modern Improvements and appliances. The
estimated cost of the hull is 100000. Local
shipbuilders are becoming interested in the
plaus and will probably put in bids.
REAL CooSs. j. W. Germans Alabama
Troubadours appeared in the Belfast Opera
House, Saturday evening before a large and
appreciative audience. The members of the
troupe are all negroes. The plantation pas
times included nearly every variety of negro
amusement and were performed naturally
and without the exaggeratons of the aver
age white minstrel acting negro parts.
Master Phil, the dwarf drum major, was
every inch a soldier and although scarcely
larger than Major Robbins, the mascot of
the Belfast Band, he took the regu alton %
inch military step. The Rough Rider drill
was we'll executed by a squad of the troupe
and showed our youthful military men a
number of new features in the manual of
arms, introduced since the Bows Brigade
t1ourished here. If Bray & Maxtields first
attempt is a forerunner of the future,
career of success awaits them as managers
of the Opera House.
STEAMER NorEs. The Penobscot got
ashore i'll Searsport harbor last Thursday
afternoon and laid from o'clock until after
s.. Capt Otis Iugraham of the steamer
City of Bangor is circulating a PETITION
which is being signed by steamboat men,
sea captains and vessel owners asking that
a Fairbanks electric bell buoy be placed off
Sleepers Point, opposite the Sheep Island
buoy. There is one of these buoys on State
Ledge, opposite Castle Island in Boston
Harbor, and it gives splendid satisfaction If
Capt. Ingraham is successful in getting one
for Sleeper's Point he will earn the gratitude
of every body in local navigation circles.
The Boston & Bangor S. S. Co. will enter
upon its winter time table this week. The
Penobscot will leave for Boston as usual to-
day, and on arrival will be hauled off for
repairs. The City of Bangor will make two
trips per week arriving from Boston We'd
nesdays and Saturdays and leaving for Bos-
ton Mondays and Thursdays. at the usual
hours
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. The Dinsmore
store is selling, this week, wool soles for
women's slippers at Is cents. They are
very comfortable. See adVt.... Who says
turkey Fogg & Brown do; they will have
fine display of the festive bird at their
market on High street. corner of Main, Nov.
9th Call there and order your Thanks
giving dinner. 1.-The Brownville, Maine,
Slate Co. wants six good, reliable men to
work in and about their quarry Fred A.
johnson, Masonic Temple, has more lunches
of patchwork in half pound packages, and
offers a case for sale to-day at cents a
package. =. earle & Jones will make dis
count of 10 per cent on all cash sales of
lamps next Saturday, Nov. 18th. See what
they say of the last week of tDeir clearance
sale of surplus stock, and of their and 10
counters. .. Remember that next Saturday
is a special ira ding stamp day at the cloth
ing store of Fl. W. Clark, 50 Main street.