The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-01-11
THE NEWS OF BELFAST.

eatte from Belfast Saturday.
There will be rehearsal of the opera of
pnafore at the band room to-day j Thursday,
at 80 p. NJ.
The w C. T. U. will meet this, Thursday,
afternoon, at 80 o'clock with Mrs Eli Cook
Yu Charles street.
Mrs Annie M. Paul has sold her house at
r Cedar street to George W. Bartlett of
Waldo, who will move in next spring.
seph Williamson, Esq, paid Islesboro
tartes last week, over 700 for land bought
,,l PARTIES for summer cottage lots. The
late 81 900 per
a neighborhood dance was gotten up in
.Ae afternoon of Jan. 81, and held that even
ug at the house of Edward II. Davis,
tl4sons Mills. Twenty persons were pres
aut
The girl who was arrested recently while
uasquerading in male attire left last Thurs
t4v Tor Boston. She received help from
a-uevolent persons here and in Boston to
p4s ser passage to that city
SpIrpING ITEMS. Sch. Judge Low arrived
4 Wa iTOu pIpiduu W lUu oli lUT OUHu
Sannoru Sch. Senator arrived Sunday
'-a.,, Her fifth and final trip for the season
far MORRISON & Mcdonald, for whom she has
..--r arriving supplies and lumber to Dark
5l bar. Isiesboro,
N j. Clement have made extensive i'm
ro1e,ueubs iii their cooking department.
ItsN have sealed up the cook room with
uthrrn nine. torn down the old ice house,
5uJ nui. house for storage. They have
oult RI aew and improved refrigerator and
Also b, new ice house, whereby they will be
better equipped chan ever before for bust
Less Bar iiarhog Record.
Tlis refers to the Seaside Inn at Seal Har-
r Amos Clement OF this city is one of
ropretors.
If- annual meeting Of the Waldo Bar AS
stiou WAS held Jan Sd, and the follow
nf-ers elected: Pres, Joseph William
.l Clerk, James S. Hartman; Treas,
<. Johnson, Librarian, Tileston Wad-
Joseph Williamson, X. f, nunton and
N. Rogers were appointed committee
fire purchase of books Adjourned to
-4Iayl Jan. nth, to hear the report of
brari4n.
s-t Thursday finished the cold snap
had prevailed since the new year
.sen-bi. The mercury stood at from 100 to
I-l0w zero in exposed places at I o'clock
tne morning but rose to 12o above at
aaon, There was a heavy vapor ON the har-
b9r. and thermometers along the water front
ran 4 few degrees higher than those farther
away The weather moderated rapidly
Thursday night and Friday.
Tie funny play, Dad in Harness" was
resented ia Belfast Opera House last FRI
~ evening before a small house, The man
Ager Of the troupe on seeing the smaliness
It The audience refused to raise the curtain,
lus violating his contract. The managers
nd the Opera House, rather than disap-
r1iuC their patrons, made COMPROMISE with
IN, giving him much more than the CON
-rtct percentage. The play was presented,
IN, 80 the credit of the company was given
good style.
STEAMER NoTEs. The Penobscot was de-
wed in getting to Boston on her first trip last
Heekt and left that port on her return We'd
a-day afternoon at o'clock, arriving here
a. IN Thursday. She went to Winter
n"F' and returned the same day. .. The Cas-.
Iue got aground on the iats opposite Lewis
N-trt last Thursday morning, when re-
lrning from the knights of Pythias excur-
-luu To Camden. She went on at about
lock, the tide being about half ebb The
dent was caused by the thick vapor, the
-rs Of the boat not being able to see half
IA" vessels length. The passengers, 30 in
mher, were put ashore in a small boat,
nd The steamer came off uninjured on the
oad tide
ACCIDENTS. Henry W. Staples cut his left
llnb in peculiar way last Frid 4y. He
AZ cutting a board with haudsaw in
Mathews Bros mill, and it slipped from
9- board as he pushed downward. The !
-tw cut into the JOINT nearly severing tie
numb from the hand. Miss Helen E. Dill |
worth injured her right hand while sliding |
recently, Two arteries were severed and
The wound required several stitches. She
rrobably hit the thumb against sharp
}lece OF ice, as her mitten was torn and she
lid not know she was hurt until one of her
playmates spoke of the blood. The hand
was benum bed that she did not notice it
as more than a slight blow. Mrs. Thomas
q. Bartlett fell the sidewalk near DR..
Algores residence yesterday forenoon and
broke her left wrist. Mrs. A. j. Condor
had her left thumb crushed III a machine in
Thompson & Fosters clothin factory Tues
day.
SHAMROCK. A f1ower-lover OF this c;Jv ia
treasuring with the greatest care a pot OF
this interesting little plant. 1t was brought
directly from Ireland by Stockton Springs
captain and friend of its present owner
solicited for her few small pieces last sum-
ner, which have developed into a pretty
plant. 1t is priced not because it is the ma
tional flower of Ireland or from any of the
association of that country, but for it's in
trinslc qualities to please one who is inter-
ested in the study of plant life. This spec-
men is the three leafed plant, the Trifolium
repens. The original shamrock of Ireland
was claimed by many to have been the Oxa-
lis aceJosella or wood sorrel, and many of
the so-called shamrocks are the common
oxalis. The Trifolium repens has medici-
nal property and acts an anodyne in the
treatment of cattle. Its foliage is very pretty,
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