The Republican journal., 1900-11-15

Johnson building, High street, for cleaning
and repairing clothing.
RAILROAD SPARKS. Conductor Sullivan,
| Baggage Master McTaggart and Brakeman
Morrison went to Waterville Friday for
examination on the air brake Conductor
Cook had charge of the passenger train dur
ing their absence. -. The freight train was
nearly hours late Thursday on account of
| work along the line. -Four carloads of
machinery for different parties arrived at
Belfast station last week
FISH FACTS. Mackerel were in the Bay
again last week, and large quantities of
| small mackerel and thinkers were caught in
Castine. Nov. Sth Capt. w. +. Wech caught
a good supply of small ones, and one No l
mackerel, in his nets along the western shore
OF Belfast bay. A number of boats from
| the islands have been in Belfast with fresh
fish the past week......The sch. Rozella,
Capt. Peter Benson of Manset, arrived at
| Ellsworth Nov. 8 from the Grand Banks
with 81 600 pounds of cod The schooner is
only 30 tons, and is so years old; built at
| Essex, Mass, in 1910. She made the trip in
something over month and rode out some
severe storms. The cargo netted over 81 700.
The high line share is $50, while that of
| the cook amounts to SOL.
| Miss Helen U. Bachelor, formerly of
| this city, was a member of the 'sZephra"
i cast in Belfast, taking the part of 'U MIS-
Fred g. Spinney, former Rockland boy,
was s'Solon,' captain of the Decius' Guard.
! Rockland Courier Gazette Nov. 6.
Although number of Rockland people
witnessed the presentation of Zephra in
Belfast this is the only reference to the
event we have seen in the local papers.
This is surprising after the representations
of failure in what our esteemed contempo-
rarieS were pleased to term the ''Sleepy
City" When Rockland wants good music
she sends for the Belfast Band, and last
season we mopped the earth with Rockland
on the ball field; but why should she dis
parage the musical and dramatic talent of
Belfast. Good judges, including the man
agement, say that Zephra as given here was
far in advance of the presentation in Rock
| land, and as to the drills and dances this
was admitted by some of our visitors from
the LIMERICK City.
| SHIPPING ITEMS. A scarcity of small
vessels at Bangor last week, and a largely in
creased demand for craft Of that class to
| carry lumber to Boston, has caused sudden
| rise in the rate of freight, which for good
part of the summer was as low as $3.50 per
| NJ, lately advancing to S1.7O and 50, and
now having reached $2.25 per NJ, which is
as much as has been paid most of the sea-
son to New York. There has also been
scarcity of sailors at Bangor, and the schoon-
ers Levi Hart and Grace Webster were de-
tanned several days, awaiting the arrival of
| crews from Boston. Capt. A. l.. Kent of
| Brewer, who arrived at Philadelphia few
days ago in command of the schooner Thai
| lium from 1vigtut, has been assigned to the
command of the schooner now on the stocks
at Bucksport, to be launched about Christ
mas, by Mckay & Dix, the owners of the
Thallium The new schooner is a four
master of about 1900 tons. =. Sch Harriet
Rogers loaded coal and hay at the Belfast
| Fuel and Hay Co.'S for Seal Harbor last
week Sch. E. S. Wilson discharged lum-
Der from Bangor Nov. Sth....Sch. Leonora,
Capt. Saunders, sailed Oct. II from Boston
| for Belfast and .IslesbOro. She had on board
about $3.50 worth of lumber for j. C. Dur
ham, and some confectionery stock for
Mayo, White q Carter. She was reported
| at Portland this week. William Beazley of
Bucksport was in Belfast last week to give
his final examination to the schooner Pen
dletOn Sisters prior to launching. She will
be rated A 1 for Is years. -. Four three
masted schooners and one two-master, lum-
Der laden from Bangor and bound to the
westward, came down the river Saturday
afternoon, but were unable to get to sea
and were anchored in the lower bay Monday
morning .....Sch. S. L. Davis is at Bangor
loading lumber for Elizabethport. ....Sch.
Annie r. Lewis is dScharging phosphate
from Barren Island for L. A. KnOwlton &
| Co.. The Belfast Fuel & Hay Co. is ship
ping lot of wood to Islesboro by the bay
coasters. -. Among recent charters are the
following: Sch. R. F. Pettigrew, St. Jago to
Baltimore, ore, 50 and discharged. Sch.
Eagle, ElZabethpOrt to Bangor, fertilizer,
15c. per Dbl. Schr. Helen G. Moseley, Pas
cagoula to Havana, lumber, $3.50. Sch.
Daylight, Philadelphia to Bath, coal, 30
| cents.