The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-10-19
MUNICIPAL COURT.

MUNICIPAL COURT iaal
ss.H JUDGE KINGsBUEY PRESIDING.
THuRspAy-Thomas Armstrong search and
seizure process, paid $22.26. fe% go
John Lorette and William II. Galen for larceny of
earpeting from John Crockett & Co., were fined $40
each and COSTS. Committed. . a
Samuel Tucker was convicted of drunkenness and
disturbance but sentence suspended for ten DAYS
and he was put on probation. M
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Dedication of the Soldiers Monumcn,
a't.E at Gorhnm yilinse. R
Yesterday was the moss serenely beautiful of
autumnal days. Cloudless, calm, warm, vet
with tingle in the air, as if the sunshine had
been iced, nothing was wanting which goes to
the making up of perfect weather for outdoor
demonstrations. The train which was to have
left Portland at half past II consisted of three
box cars, a baggage car, three passenger cars
and dummy, and moved out of the depot
about 10 minutes after the time announced
The cars were full when they left Portland.
They were fuller when they left Westbrook
and fullest on leaving Cumberland Mills At
Saccarappa we found crowd large enough to
fill the whole train and took good part of
them on board, on the platforms, on the tops of
cars, wherever human beings could stand OF
cling. Cousens, coming through the cars to
collect tickets gentlemen" was a spectacle to
behold, walking apparently like fly on the
root, and really, as you saw when he came
nearer, on the backs of the seats it being quite
impossible to get nearer the floor Some laugh
ed; some swore in a mellow, good tempered
way; one morose fellow declared it was an i'm
position, and hoped the Press would give it to
em" Cousens was jollity personified; it is
possible the crowd might have been little
more inpatient, but for that infectious laugh
and CHEEKY red face of his.
As we approached Gorham we began to no.
tice many wagons from the surrounding coun-
try converging thither 1t was evident that a
| great multitude were gathering to witness the
| ceremonies of the day. AS the train entered
the depot a Major Generals salute of fifteen
| guns was fired from the hill near the town
house in honor of General Chamberlain
When the train got unpacked we discoved i'm
prints, Company NJ, Sd regiment artillery, U
s. A, from Fort Preble, commanded by Major
Bartlett The company turned out about fifty
men. The Army and Nav, Union of Port
land wearing white badges in their button
holes, fell into line, Col. John NJ Brown Pres
ident of the Union commanding. Sixty-six
members were counted in the ranks at the de-
pot while there were stragglers enough to make
up the number to nearly a hundred Chan
dler's band, resplendent in their new uniform,
accompanied the regulars. Many ladies, like
wise respondent in attire, accompanied the
'stragglers" aforesaid. The martial music of a
| drum corps echoed down the street, notifying
us of the approach of our escort of returned
| soldiers of Gorham. There were forty-six of
them dressed in a half uniform of dark clothes
and glazed caps, and armed with English rifles
from the Arsenal or Fort Preble, no matter
which. t.sss s.svs1,.'s : ..ti,sr,aB
| The GOrham soldiers conducted their guests
to the common and there and then ensued a
| delay of nearly an hour. "One o'clock precise
| ly' turned out as usual to be about two, at
which hour the committee of arrangements
walked quietly up, with the orator, poet, chap
| lain, the selectmen of Gorham, and such of the
relatives of the deceased soldiers as were able
to witness the services of the day. The pro-
cessiOn was formed as indicated yesterday, the
artillery company from Fort Preble and the
returned soldiers of Gorham acting as escort
followed by the orator, poet and chaplain, the
committee of arrangements, the selectmen and
aged citizens at Gorham, families of deceased
soldiers, the Portland Army and Navy Union,
officers and soldiers from other towns the Har-
mony Lodge of Freemasons of Gorham, visi-
tors and citizens generally. Among the aged
citizens of Gorham was one especially the mark
of observation on this occasion-a white haired
man, rather below the average height, slender
and bearing easily his weight of years. with a
face expressing much refinement and enliyen
ed by dark, quick eyes, which seemed to take
in every movement around him. The figure
the face, the bearing and in some respects the
dress, were those of an old fashioned gentle
man. This was the Hon. Toppan Robie, who
gave to the town from his ample means the
monument which this assembly had gathered
to dedicate-Captain Robie, who in 1912 COM
manded a company in Portland, and who now
in his eighty-seAenth year raises monument
to commemorate the virtues of the soldiers Of
another generation.
The procession moved up South street under
the direction of Chief Marshal E. T. Smith,
and Marshals Stephen Hinlley, Jr., Roscoe G..
Harding, j. Q. Winsh,p, Edward Hasty, Geo.
w. Crockett, Rufus A. Fogg, Wm H. Murch,
and Samuel Dingley. Geo. B. Emery and L.
III. f. Smith acted as aids to the Chief Mar
| shal. On the corner of South and Church
streets stands the little store in which Can't.
Robie traded for fifsy-two years, laying the
foundations and building slowly and safely
the fortune which he uses so we'll Eyarywhere
are found traces of his hberality. The process
| sion marched down Church street. and there a
gentleman pointed cut the pleasant parsonage
built by Capt. RObie for the Orthodox Congre-
| gationalist church of which he is a member
! A few steps below was Judge Waterman's
house, like many others decorated with the
| American flag, which hung at half mast on al
most every prominent building in the village.
Through Factory, Portland and State streets
| the procession moved, and as it moved the
booming of the gun from the hill near the
town house echoed through the village. Fifty
seven guns were to be fred for the ffty-seven
soldiers whose names are inscribed upon the
monument Turning up Maple street, the
procession marched directly to the town hoase
and saw the monument before them, draped in
the national colors. The whole population of
the village seemed to have collected in the
street and on the hillside -.
The monument has already been described
in these columns. 1t stands in front of tbe
hall, on spot which was recently mere rouoh
outcropping ledge, now raised by means Of q
wall along the street, filled in with earth and
sodded. The sides of the pedestal are thickly
covered with inscriptions, and the obelisk, sur