The Republican journal., 1912-04-25

A VERY OLD Com. Mr.. L. Willis Pearson
of this city. collector of rare coins and
curios, has shown US what must be very rare
coin. 1t is of copper, about the size of the old
fashioned cent, and has on one side the head
of the Saviour surrounded by halo, and on
the reverse the words, Christ, King of
Kings" in Greek capitals. This coin is illus
trated in an article by William H. Ingersoll in
Harper's Magazine for May 1886, entitled
PORTRAITS of Our Saviour. Of this coin, Mr..
Ingersoll says that it is assigned to the sec
ond or third century, The coin has been
closely compared with the illustration and
there can be no question as to its identity.
SEARCH AND SEIZURE. Deputy Sheriffs C
o. Dickey of Northport and Ira D. White of
Winterport searched the premises of Carlo
Guido of Frankfort last Friday afternoon and
found 105 quarts of whiskey. Mr.. Dicsey went
by boat to Winterport where he met MrWhite
and accompanied him to Frankfort Mr..
Dickey returned to Belfast by team, bringing
the whiskey and Guido's check for $3.50 as
surety for his appearance Saturday before the
Municipal Court. The case was heard Saturday
sentenced to pay fine of 500 and costs and
serve 60 days, in Jail with 90 days additional in
default of payment. He appealed to the Sep
TENDER term of the Supreme Judicial Court,
with C. W. Wescott of Belfast and A. B. Beve
of Bangor as sureties
| THE MEMS CLUB BANQUET. About seventy
| five men attended the banquet given by the
Mems Club of the Universalist church last
Friday evening, to their members and invited
guests. Supper served at o'clock. Seven
long tables were spread, each with center
piece of carnation pinks, members of the club
serving BEANS cold meats, salads, hot rolls
pickles, cake, doughnuts and coffee. Judge
George F. Haley of Biddeford was a guest
After the banquet Rev. Arthur A. Blair the
pastor, presented the speaker of the evening,
DR.. Henry W. Miller, superintendent of the In
sane Hospital at Augusta, who gave an ad-
dress on Mental Deficiency. DIR. Miller spoke
for over an hour, holding the close attention
of his hearers. He spoke of inherited insanity,
of the change in the methods of treatment, of
the wrong impressions current in regard to
the treatment of people confined in the Insane
Hospitals and of the efforts made to check the
spread of the disease, which in the near fu
ture will result in a law governing marriage.
His address was illustrated with charts and
diagrams and was both interesting and instruc-
tive.
STEAMER NOTES. 1.-THE way things look at
the present time Bangor may not have any
| steamboat service with Penobscot river and
bay points during the coming summer, except,
of course, that of the Eastern Steamship COM
pany," says the Bangor Commercial. The
steamer fremont will not run on the Bangor
and Manset route this season, Capt. w. D. Ben
nett has given up the Bangor Brooksville route
and has sold the steamer Rockland to New
York parties, and the steamer Anna Belle,
which ran excursions on the river last season.
has regular route, land mail contract, between
Belfast, Islesboro and Castine. :. The steamer
Rockland, Capt. Bennett. left Camden Tuesday
morning, April 18th, for New York. expert
enced rough sea and fog and put into Port
Clyde for the night. She arrived at Portland
Wednesday noon and left there Friday. {. The
Eastern Steamship corporation has bought the
steamship line of the Dominion Atlantic Rail-
way Co..which is operated between Boston and
Yarmouth. N. s., which gives this corporation
control of practically every line of importance
running east of New York except the Plant
line between Boston, Halifax and Charlottetown
The steamer Rockland, mentioned above, was
built at Boston in 1883 for the Eastern Steam
ship Co. for service between Bar Harbor and
ports on Frenchman's bay, and has since been
variously engaged. at one time running from
Belfast down the Reach and later on the
Bucksport and Camden route