The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-10-08
Correspondence of the Press.

trance at the Omitted States" where afte,
eighteen hours continual trauah we are kindly
cared for CAsco.
Correspondence of tho Press.
MAcHrAs, Oct. 8, 1869.
To the Editor Of the Press +-i"'-. +
Your occasional correspondent took the
steamer Lewiston for Machas Port Friday
evening. The fog and the approaching shades
OF evening compelled us to tie up at Jones'
port. Sunday morning brings us here and
sets us down for two days tarry for the
Tuesdays Court.
THE GALE DOWN EAST. ~ Oh
Monday night severe blow eliminating
about o'clock, blew in the judges window
upon his bed, broke the glass out of another
window, covering the carpet with broken pie
ces and upsetting the inkstand. This was treat
ed lightly by our party, enjoying the conster-
nation of the landlord at the little havoc of
his goods, when pretty soon came the tidings
that the son-in-law of Major Farrar, the sher-
i'll, had new house in process of completion
blown PROSTATE to the ground, and that some
calamity had befallen the Court House. This
morning Tuesday reveals that two of the
chimneys, some 20 feet high above the roof.
had fallen down, broken through the roof, one
OF them held up by the fragments of the roof
and the chamber timbers, only breaking
through the plastering of the ceiling. The 9TH
er chimney carried everything before it and
landed with broken fragments of brick, lime.
and lumber on the floor of the Court room.
This looks like possible prevention of an
early opening of the Court-but the Major
(Farrar,) prompt and smiling, early organized
force and promises speedy repair of dam
ages.
"REMINISCENCES.
Twenty years ago, "we' left post-office at
Columbia, in this county, and growing dock
ct at this Machias court, to make sudden rich
es digging California gold, assisted in organlz-
ing company, bought new bark, steam
boat, saw mill gearing, and two years provi-
sion for operation. Major Farrar was one of
our co-directors. Ask months voyage around
the Horn brought us to San Francisco, trip
which can be now made in as many days, with
occasional rests by the way. We held our
company together long enough to build and
sell one steamboat to run on the Sacramento,
and then sold out at a saving and all rushed
for the mines. was twenty years ago.
One OF our directors fell victim to the Afri-
can coast fever, on our outward voyage, and
rests at the bottom of the South Atlantic
Our president Burbank was cut short in a
prosperous career and lies buried at the Sand
wich Islands. Major F. and eve" are thrown
together after twenty years, near the spot
where our Belgrade company was organized
He for most of the time has served this coun.
ty as sheriff, which office he resigns for plan
tation in Florida, where he spent last winter
PROGRESS OF THE PLACE. Si'
Machias in twenty years has undergone
great changes. The old Machias Hotel then
OF average responsibility now looks small
seedy and uninvitIng and is no longer a hotel
Three new houses have taken its place. New
streets have been opened and filled with resi-
dences convenient and some of them elegant.
The village has doubled its area. Each politi.
cal party has a weekly organ, the Union
Democratic and the 9RennhLican" not Dem
ocratic
The county lot of ample dimensions enclos-
ed with an iron fence holds the court house
and Jail, both of brick, the jail the more ele
CANT of the two, the work of the Architect
Bryant of Boston, who has had a hand in
many of our finest public buildings in Maine.
not the least of which are the Auburn Cour,
House, with Auburn Hall.
PERSONAL. . . ?
Among the leaders there were Bradbury
Talbot, Lowell, Thatcher, Pike, Burbank
Fuller, Granger, Walker, and Whidden Bion
Bradbury was the recognized head of the baI
then, and still makes his regular professional
trips from Portland to attend the sessions
here. Thatcher is in Rockland, Fuller buried
in an office at Washington, Pike is travelling
abroad writing graceful letters for home news
papers George Walker and Whidden still
stick to the law, content with its professional
honors and emoluments. Lowell comes ovel
to pay his respects to the court at the open
ing of the sessions, but has retired from active
practice. Talbot shines as U. S.District Attor-
ney at Portland and as we are told occasionally
in the columns of the PRESS. The old Court
House has become house of merchandise.
Judge Allen whose finished and eloquent
charges we all remember has fallen the vic
tim to great destroyer; nil nisi bonum.
BUSINESS.
Lumber is the great article of manufacture
here and is supplied by growth nearly as fast
as it is required. Whitneyville, near by,
runs her lumber from her mills to Machias-
port some eight miles, on one of the first rail
roads built in the State. 1t was running
twenty years ago. How much longer we
don't know.
P. S.-Landord comes to say-two houses
blown down in Machias. Whitneyville has
lost church and barn, the fall of the latter
killing two horses. Many trees lie PROSTATE.
Another visitor brings tidings of numerous
chlmneys overturned, sheds and barns pros
trated, telegraph wires and poles on the
ground, piles of lumber blown about. The
dyke, q quarter of a mile or more. has been
broken over by the waters of the tide heaped
up by the winds, and is in danger of being
entirely destroyed. Large crews are at work
upon It, STENos.