The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-05-31


highway, on petition of Aaron Clark and ais
The respondents filed motion to dismiss, because
the appeal was Hnot seasonably taken. The Court
sustained the motion. Appellants except
Clifford for appellant.
Wells & Eastman and Copeland for respondents.
THURsDAY.-The Hussey will case which came up
In order in the forenoon was postponed motion of
the attorney of widow Hussey, on the ground that
she was unable to attend on account of ill-heath-
Counsel for contestant charged it on the part
of the legatees second attempt to avoid trial;
the first being a motion to remove the cause to
another county. Dr. Staples of North Berwick, was
commissioned to examine the patient who reported
favoraby on the state of her health On trial
Memorial Services.
The singular beauty of the day caused an I'M
usually large number of people to assemble at
an early hour to witness the ceremonies of dec
Grafton. At about 8 o'clock the members of
Post Sheridan formed at their Hall on Alfred
street in Biddeford, and escorted by Bonds
Brigade Band, of Boston, and a corps of horse
men, proceeded to the City Hall, Saco where
they were joined by the municipal officers. The
procession, with the children from the schools
of the latter city in open carriages, dressed in
white and bearing wreaths and flags, continued
on its way to Laurel Hill Cemetery. Here,
after prayer by Rev. Mr. Malvern, of the JEFF
ferson street Church in Biddeford, an address
was delivered by Judge Tapley, which was lis
tened to throughout with marked attention.
ADDRESS OF JUDGE TAPLEY.
We are unable to give but a brief abstract Of
Judge Tapleys eloquent address, as follows:
We are gathered here to-day to perform a
sad yet pleasant act 1t is always sad to part
from those we love. 1t is always pleasant to
recall their virtues. 1t is always sad to miss
the familiar voice, or view the vacant chair, to
tremble for the staff that has been taken away ;
but it is pleasant to remember that though dead
they are living, and that our loss is their gain.
As we gather around those last resting places
upon earth, where lie buried hopes and ambi-
lions of earlier days, and the heart bleeds anew
with the recollections crowding upon us, it is a
solace and satisfaction to gather up their vir
tues and do some act of kind remembrance
hoping that through some hidden channel it
shall reach the object of our affections.
While to-day paternal love may bring the tot
tering limbs of age to the last resting place of
fond and beloved sons, while that love which
ceases not till memory fails, brings the widow
to the grave where lies buried all her loves and
all her hopes, and where children strew flowers
upon the earthly receptacle of a loved and low
ing father thousands more gather around the
graves of those whose tie of consanguinity to
them is that of the common brotherhood of
mankind They are not drawn around them
by the mystic tie that binds the family circle,
but they come to seek the patriots grave, in
grateful recognition of the sacrifice he made for
US. They seek his resting place to do honor to
his name and memory, and to keep bright the
scroll of his fame. AS pilgrims gather around
some sacred spot toconsecrate themselves anew
to some holy work, these gather around the sol
dier's grave and pledge anew fidelity to and
vigilance in the cause they died to sustain.
1t is well that we do SO. 1t is well that we
thus keep them and their deeds in remembrance.
IL is well here to teach the young lessons of pa
triotism, and instil their minds with devotion to
liberty. 1t is well to come here, where no in
sigma of position marks rank or Glass; where
prejudices and animosities find no place, and
with the hand of charity and gratitude drop a
memento of kindly remembrance of the soldier
buried here, and his comrades far away, whose
resting places find no mark for the eye of man,
and is known only to their great Commander.
1t cherisheS the best sentiments of the heart.
1t invigOrates the best elements of man. 1t is
a practical recognition of the debt we owe to
those brave men, dead or living who SO brave
ly maintained the right.
Let us then meet these annual commemora-
lions, not as mourners who will not be comfort
ed, not as irreconciiable to those providences
which have deprived us of some cherished
hopes and desires, nor in pride and vain glory,
but as seasons of instruction and improvement,
and let our effort be to preserve the victories so
bravely won by those who upheld the flag of
their fathers.
The speaker then traced the cause and origin
of the rebellion to show the character of the
service rendered by the soldier and pointed out
some of its results as showing that its designs
and accomplishments were in themselves hon
orable to its actors and places their names high
upon the scroll of fame,
In such results we see something ofcompen-
sation for the immense and incalculable cost
expended in blood and treasure, and much to
endear to us the memory of those true and
tried men now sleeping in patriot graves
They fought in a righteous cause, and gave
their lives to noble end. History cannot fail
to enrol their names high in the book of fame.
Their work is of no ephemeral character.
When the stone and marble which now points
out their resting place shall have crumbled be-
meath the hand of time, their fame shall be as
fresh as now. While lives the American Re-
public, intact or in history, their deeds of valor
and conservation to liberty will be read with
gratitude and admiration.
'Thcy never fail who die
In great cause. The block may soak their gore;
Their heads may sodden with the sun; their limbs
Be strung to city gates and castle walls;
But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years
Elapse and others share as dark a doom,
They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts
Which overpower all others and conduct
The world at last to freedom"
Patriot soldiers, sleep on in your honored,
peaceful graves, while loving hands bedeck
them with flowers, and willing hearts respond
to grateful praise of your noble deeds. Not as
these frail mementOes of love and kindness
fade and wither, shall the memory of your sac
rifces fail; these are but symbols of that graft
tude and respect which shall be transmitted to
and inherited by our children, and their chill
dren's children, innumerable, in coming time.
Sleep on; your work is done, well done; nc
din of arms or scourge of war affiicts the land
That noble flag you bore in triumph waves from
sea to sea, and
''Floats the standard of the Free"
Sleep on; your blood the ransom paid for lib
erty to all, and every child of God walks in
freedoms light on every field on which yor
fought.
Sleep on; your children shall the rich inheri-
lance which you give maintain and, as to then
it comes, shall in all its glory give to theirs il
generations yet unborn.
Sleep on; in other lands thy fame is sung il
| other chimes the lesson thou has taught is be
ing learned, and truth there crushed to eartl
| will rise
| Sleep on; time is not long to when the tyrant'
| power shall cease in every land, and man shall
thralled.
| Sleep on; till the last great grand review shall
come, and times great host is gathered in from
sea and land then shall you hear from the grea
Captain over all, ell DONE
After the close of the address the school girls
under the direction of Mr.. Hubbard, proceeded
to the performance of their mourful duties-tb,
decoration of the last resting places of tn,
''heroic dead"
In the afternoon the procession formed as be-
fore and proceeded to the Biddeford City Hall
where it was joined by the Biddeford Cadets
the officers of the City Government and schoo
children, and from thence proceeded to Green
wood Cemetery. Prayer was offered by Rev
John Stevens. Col T. H. Hubbard then de
livered an eloquent and impressive address, t
which any brief analysis will not do justice
| After the usual ceremonies were performed il
the various cemeteries, the procession was es
corted to the City Hall, where it was disband
| ed. The observance of this day was more gen
eral than ever before and caused complet
suspension of business in both cities.
Ne Plus Ultra Collar Company Of Bidde
| ford.
Of the vast number of business men VIII
make use of the product of this mandatory
| but very few, even of those who reside in il