The Republican journal., 1874-11-05

burned Ill tlle nlSHI VI OcIoDeI twenty
sixth On the 18th Of December at about
ten o'clock in the evening the Academy
was discovered to be on fire and was en-
tirely consumed. 1t had been removed
and repaired about two years before at a
cost of about two thousand dollars. These
We're the only destructive fires during the
year within the memory OF the compiler
In the month of November, about the
10Th, the schooner Enterprise OF Salem,
Captain John Shute of this place Master,
was lost at sea with all on board Two of
the crew, Sllas Reed and John Mcdonald,
belonged here. The wreck was seen by
two vessels and one man was discovered
on it dashed apparently between the pump
and the stump Of the mainmast The at
tempt was made to take him off, but as
the sea was running very high and the
wind blowing hurricane the attempt was
unsuccessful such was the report at the
time The wreck was afterwards boarded
Nov. 22d, by the keeper of the Mt Desert
Light who found no person on board.
Captain Shute had previously been master
of the President jackson and the Albert
of this port. Many still living cannot fail
to remember him.
In themonth OF May Mr. John Lord de-
livered a course of lectures on the Middle
Ages. They We're of high literary order
and exceedingly Interesting, but did not
attract a large audience. In October Doc
tor e. w. Ellis delivered course of lee
lures on Phrenology. In December Mr..
Springer, known previously to that time
as Editor Of the Maine Farmers Almanac,
delivered a course on Astronomy, which
was very we'll attended.
The interest in the temperance move
ment referred to in our last chapter kept
up and numerous lectures We're given dur
ing the year. The annual meeting of the
Waldo County Washingtonian Total Alb
stnence Society was held on the 18th of
December at the Unitarian Meeting house
In the evening there was a presentation of
prize banner, gift from the Ladies'
Temperance Society 1t was presented by
Miss Caroline NJ kimball, daughter OF
Hon. John s. kimball, now the wife OF
Charles P. Brown, Esq of Bangor, and
received by Mr. Samuel Thompson in be.
half of the East Belmont Society, to which
it had been awarded as the society which
had made the greatest and most efficient
progress during the year The presenta-
ton and reception Of the banner were ac-
| companied by very appropriate addresses.
| The Convention was then addressed by
Hon. Ether shepley, Judge of the Supreme
Court then in session here, and by other
gentlemen,
Among the vessels built and launched
this year were the brig Toplitf of about
175 tons burthen from the yard Of Master
Robertson, the brig Venezuela of about 200
tons from the yard Of Master Carter, and
| the barque Rio Of about $50 tons from the
yard OF Master Palmer.
AT the annual spring meeting Nathaniel
NJ Lowney, Benjamin + Blackstone and
Samuel Haynes We're reelected Selectmen,
David W. Lothrop, Clerk, and Timothy
Chase, Treasurer.
| At the annual fall meeting the whole
number of votes thrown On the guberna,
torial ticket was 64G; for Fairfield, Demo
405, for Robinson, Wing, PAL. Nehemiah
Abbott, Esq was reelected Representa-
| tive. This was the first election at which
the people voted tor Clerk Of the Court,
and County Attorney William II. Burrin
Esq. was elected Clerk, and Jonathan q
Dickerson, Esq. County Attorney.
| The volume Of our local literature was
enlarged by the publication in December
| of a pamphlet of fortv-seven pages, iron
| the press of Row" and Griffin. nntitla az
! ''New Views uponthe Bible and its Abuses
| by the Priests, by Jonas 5. Barrett The
views" OF the author were quite bevonC
the comprehension OF his fellow towns
men they We're a sort OF cross between
the doctrines of Emanuel SWedenborg anC
| the mysticism of the TranscendentalistS
MI Barrett was very honest man in his
business transactions and was very sincere
doubtless, in the opinions he entertained
and expressed in his pamphlet; but it is
very questionable ii he made many con
verts to his peculiar faith He resided
here for many wears and was q useful mem
| Der of society in his vocation. He removed
from this place to California where he diel
on the twelfth day OF September, 1864, al
Auburn, aged siXty-fve.
| In the same month of this wear dice
| Mr.. Samuel French, who came here tC
reside i'll the early part Of this century,
about 1871, aged titty-nine. The mention
of his name will recall to the minds OF all
| who knew him the name OF his lifelong
companion and friend. and for many years
copartner in trade, John lIaraden, who
died March Is, 1867, in his eighty eighth
| year. "Haraden and French is one oil
the names engraved on the memory Of all
who lived here when that firm was one OF
| the prominent business-houses in the
| place a firm whose reputation tor integ
| rity and fair dealing was without spot or
| blenish. They We're both born in Glou-
cester, Massachusetts, and were both house
wrghts by trade Mr. French was the
niaster-builaer Of the Unitarian Meeting
house. They both wrought at their trades
until 1928, when they formed copartner-
ship rs commission merchants and dealers
in general merchandise and commenced
business at a store standing at the end OF
Morrills wharf, then so-called, They sub
sequently occupied store on the site ofthe
one now occupied by Messrs W. b, Swan
" Co. The house on High street now
occupied by Mr.. Lemuel Il. Palmer was
built by Mr.. French he was occupying it
at the time Of his death. The brick block
at the intersection of Maine and Church
streets, now occupied in part by the Bel
fast Savings Bank, was built by Mr.. lEaa-
den
There was striking resemblance in
the character Of these two men. They
were both quiet and unassuming, with no
ambition to be known save as Industrious
members OF the community ana good CHI
zens, attending to their own business and
not intermeddling with the business OF
others. Neither Of them had any aspira-
ton for official position, but both Of them
We're repeatedly elected by their fellow
townsmen to occupy and perform the
duties Of important municipal Offices
There was quaint and quiet humor
about Mr.. Haraden not possessed by Mr..
French. At the time the Whittier Build
;ng, now occupied by Woods, Mathews
and Baker and others, was erected, Mr.
ii. was at work at his trade and employed
on it. He accidentally fell from the stag
ing; one of his arms was broken and the
other dslocated at the shoulder A neigh
Dor who called to condole with him re-
marked that he was very unfortunate in
meeting with such an accident "Untortu-
nate!" replied he, II think | was very
fortunate. | only put one arm out of Joint
and broke the other; | might have broke
my neck" He was part owner OF schoon-
er Bellino at the time she made very I'M
successful trip to the mediterranean bring
mo hack a carCn Of baanS tor which there