The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-06-14

lay in receiving Steam-heating apparatus.
A gents gold ring was lost at or near the
Base Ball ground last Saturday afternoon
The finder will please return it The Journal
composing room.
The Western Union Telegraph Co. is using
in this city IA horse % years old, that has been
owned by the company 10 years. Lineman
Angus McIsaacs bought the horse for them
for 5000
The County Commissioners have received
a petition from the municipal officers of
Northport to re-establish the bounds of the
road from the Camp Ground to Saturday
Cove, through Temple Heights.
The Belfast w. c. T. L. observed last Sat
urday as Flower mission day" among the
poor and sick at home in this city. The poor
at the aims house will be visited as soon as
practicable after they are fully settled at
Mr. Nights.
Advertised list of letters remaining in the
Belfast postotfice June 18th: Lades-Louise
Field, Mrs. Charles Giles, Mrs. Louisa Nc
Kinney, Mrs. A. j. Peirce, Miss Alice Rich
ards Gentlemen-Mr r. S. Elwell, Leon
ard Lane, Mr.. Harry Taylor
A. Leavitt of Portland, foreman of this
division of the Western Union Telegraph
Co., was in Belfast Tuesday to arrange for
changing the wires on account of the work
on the bridge. The line will probably be
changed via the upper bridge
The assessors are nearing the end of their
work and have fixed the tax rate at III mills,
an increase of one-half mill over 1899, but
still lower than any city in Maine, and a
new bridge across the harbor is to be built
and paid for the present year
The graduating exercises of the Belfast
High School class of 1900 will be held in Bel
fast Opera House Saturday evening, June
fast Band The class motto is ''Ne cede
malls" class colors, garnet and gold flower,
jacQueminot rose The class ode is by Har-
old Elmer Bailey
FISH FACTS. Capt. A. A, Daley of Vinal-
haven was in Belfast the past week in his
sloop Bessie May with a small lot of dry
fish, which he sold for cts per pound He
caught 1900 pounds of fish one day and
they dried out 500 pounds. go. The Rock land
Star says: 81. II. Duncan of Lncolnville
drove into town Saturday with load of
handsome Penobscot river salmon. They
weighed from ten to eighteen pounds, and
sold readily. Last Sunday morning,
while walking along the shore in Winter
port. F.. b. Page and daughter of that place
saw a large fish floating in the Water BY
means of stick they drew the fish ashore
and found it was a large cod, measuring
four feet in length and weighing 265 pounds.
1t is supposed that the fish was killed by
being struck by the propeller of passing
steamboat.
CHAR The annual reunion of the 26th
Maine Regiment, will be held in Blue
hill Thursday, Aug 9th.....H. NJ Stew
ems is to move his lunch car to North
port Campground this week -. VIM H.
Thomas has repaired and painted his house,
No. 66 Union street, formerly the Eaton
house,. Emery O. Pendleton had peas in
full blossom June 18th. The stalks stood -
inches high. F. l.. Macomber sold new
rowboat last week to the captain of sch.
Oliver Ames. Ruttercups and daisies are
in blossom, and ripe field Strawberries are
reported "A recent visitor to the straw
berry patch of A. B. Stantial in Brooks
says there will be a big crop there this sea-
SOIL. "A blackboard party of twelve, with
Dana holding the ribbons went to Wrights
Point, Northport, Sunday, and had shore
dinner, with Holsters the principal dish.
Last Friday City Marshal Sanborn re-
ceived instructions from Bangor to arrest
one Carrie Everett, who was to arrive here
on the Boston steamer that afternoon. The
woman came, accompanied by little child,
lug money in Bangor AS there We're then
two drunken men in the city lookup Mr.
Sanborn allowed the woman to 90 to the
Windsor Hotel with man to keep watch
that she did not escape Next morning the
woman was missing, and it was learned that
she had hired team and a man to drive her
to Bangor. She drove directly to Bangor
and gave herself up. The matter was set
tied so far as she was concerned. 1t was
shown that she was robbed of her money
Just as she was ready to start for visit land
she used money which she held belonging to
another. Her money was recovered and she
repaid the person whose money she used
SHIPPING ITEMS. Sch. Sarah l.. Davis
is loading granite at Frankfort for Perth
Amboy ....Schs. Emma S. Briggs and J. V.
Wellington arrived J une 10th from Hoboken
with coal for the Belfast Fuel 4 Hay Co...
The Belfast Light & Power Co. loaded schs
Marinda, Oliver Ames and n. Fl. Skinner
with ice for New York the past week
Some of the ice-laden schooners make poor
work of getting out of the harbOr with a
fair wind and fair tide. They put on the
after sail too SOON They should take les
sons from our coasters, who only hoist their
mainsal when the wind blows straight
down the harbor, until they are off, or below
the Camp Ground. Seventeen cargoes of
ice have been shipped from Bangor thus far
this season. Sch. f. S. Briggs got becalnl-
ed Saturday off Tenants Harbor, and the
tug Ice King came along and made an offer
of towage which Capt Osborne accepted.
She arrived here just ahead of another
schooner consigned to the same firm, which
had considerable start of her, and thus
secured the first berth in the dock