The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-05-11
Letter From RockIand.
Correspondence OF the Journal.
ROCKLAND, May 5, Is

ROCKLAND, May $, 1871
There is very little local news here of interest.
The weather for the past month has been so I'M
favorable for farmers that very little progress
has been made with their spring work.
The ''dcad lock- in our city government in
regard to Road Commissioner, has at last been
broken, and the matter settled by the choice of
four Road Commissioners instead of one. The
result will be that the city will have to pay four
oafcrs instead of one, for the ensuing year, and
the roads and streets will not be materially i'm
proved. However, | am happy to say that an
order has been passed by the city government
to establish 4 grade for Main street, in the
locality called the Brook, and persons wishing
to erect permanent buildings there, can do so
without fear Of being at some time left in mid
air, or buried beneath the street.
The matter of public hall, in connection
with masonic building here, has, I am inform
ed, been abandoned, and our hopes in that re-
spect have been blighted. We are sadly in need
of large public hall in this place, for without
one we are debarred from having any amuse-
ments of high order. No fit place is to be had
in which to have them, and though this city is
said to be one of the best "show towns in the
State, our people seldom see here from abroad
anything but a Jim Crow minstrel troupe or
take part in anything of Il higher order than
"shndig dance and these are well patronlzed.
Messrs. Nathan A. Farwcl and Albert Ames
have purchased property at the Brook, recently
occupied by q. A. Clark and Colby Ellridge.
They intend to erect substantial brick block,
when the grade of the street has been establish
cd, and we are in hopes they may be persuaded
to build hall in connection herewith.
Ship building Will not be carried on to any
considerable extent, either here or in Thomas
ton, the present season. Two small coasihg
vessels are now on the stocks in this place.
Davis Tillson and others are building d small
steamboat to run between Rockland and the
granite quarres on the Islands.
Large corporations seem to be the rage IN
this locality. In addition to the Cobb Lime
Company, which was the subject of controversy
of late, another has recently been organized
called the Bodwell Granite Company embracing
the quarries owned by Bodwell, Webster Il Co.
on Nmalhaven, Davis Tillson's on Hurricane
Island, $50 called) and those of Cobb, Wright,
| & Co., on Spruce Head, South Thomaston, and
| others. Whether this is to be Il "gigantic mo-
noply' or not have not been informed
am yet unable to say whether we shall be
| favored with railroad communication with the
outward world this season on not, though
there seems to be little more activity mani
tested in pushing forward the work than there
was a year ago. The whole affair has been
under Mosaic dispensation since the start,
and it looks as though this modern Moses had
an eye to the welfare of Bath, as the one OF old
had to Israel. But one thing is certain; if the
latter had been dependent upon this modern
Moses railroad transportation of the Israelites
out.o Egypt, they would have had to remain,
unless he had been more active than he has
been in the construction of the Knox & Lincoln
Road.
am informed that the people of Camden are
now making an effort to build the portion of the
Bay e. River Railroad, between this place and
Camden, the present season, and that the Di-
rectors of that road have voted to eXpend the
money already subscribed for that purpose.
NONEN