The Republican journal., 1874-11-05
ANNALS OF BELFAST FOR HALF A CENTURY.
B Y A n I'D S b TT L Z II.
CHAPTER XXXvI. (1S42.)

Turn about is fair play" is an old ad-
| age, but was rather an unpalatable one to
the otfice-holding Wings about this time
The Democratic party was again in the
ascendancy. John Fairfield having been
! elected Governor The political guillotine
was again in motion. Israel Cox, of Sears
mont, now of this city, was appointed
Sheriff in place of Joseph Muzzy, remov-
ed; William H. Burrill, Clerk of the
Courts. in place of Solyman Heath Chas.
Palmer, Register of Probate in place of
Bohan ?. Field, Jr., and Jonathan e.
Dickerson, County Attorney in place OF
Joseph Williamson. Hon. James White
| was elected Treasurer of State.
In the month Of February Messrs. Town
ly and Burnham gave two concerts OF
vocal and instrumental music at Phoenix
Hall. Mr.. Townly had before that time
| resided here tor awhile, and during that
| time otllciated as organist at the Unitarian
| Church.
| Prior to this year our connection with
the outside world through the medium of
steam had been limited to one steamboat,
making at the most two trips per week
| between this place and Boston. This year,
| during large portion of the simmer sea
| son, we had a steamboat at our wharves
| every day in the week save Sunday. Since
| that time we have been, like Oliver Twist
| in Dickens story of that name, constant
| ly asking for more" The old Bangor
led off in the early spring, but soon re
tired from the field She made her last
cal and fired her parting gun on the 25th
of April. A change took place in her
ownership and in the month OF August
following she left Boston for the Alediter-
ranean where she was to be employed, as
| contemplated by her owners, as a tow
boat She piled for awhile as a freight
and passenger boat between Smyrna and
Constantinople under the name of 1eni
Demia, sailing under the Turkish flag. She
was first put on this route in 1884 and had
continued to make her trips to this time
between Bangor and Boston with remark
able regularity, never having met with
| any serious accident
i She was followed, April 9th, by the Ex-
press, Captain j. B. Coyle, and by the
| Telegraph, Captain S. Ii. Howes, on the
18th of May. These boats ran in OPPOSE
| ton for awhile. The fare to Boston was
reduced to one dollar. On the third of
June eighty-seven from this place took
passage on both boats for Boston, on the
| sixth, seventy. and on the tWenty-eighth
between eighty and ninety. A large num-
Der Of our good people avalled themselves
of the low fare to visit the metropolis of
New England who had seldom, if ever be-
fore visited the shire town OF the county.
Marvellous were the tales told by them on
their return; among them, that there We're
"taverns enough in Boston to accommo-
date thirty-ive hundred people
The steamer Huntress ran tor awhile be-
tween Portsmouth and St. Johns, touch
ing at this place on her return trips, and
connecting at Portsmouth with the rail-
road to Boston.
Among the beneficial results of the
steamboat opposition OF this year were
the discovery of the wonderful fact that
steamboats, could come to our wharves
and the construction by Mr. Daniel Merrill
of the wharf now known rs the Upper
Steamboat " mart Mr. Merrill fitted up
rooms for bathing at the end of his wharf
on a scale altogether beyond any thing
ever attempted here. The men of those
days, however, had.not learned that there
was any affinity between cleanliness and
goodness, and for lack of patronage the
enterprise was soon abandoned.
The Rev Elbridge q. Cutler Nas or
dained Pastor of the First Congregational
Church and Society on the fifteenth OF
June. The exercises on the occasion We're
as follows: Invocation, reading of Scrip
ture and prayer by Rev. James z. Stone Of
Prospect; Sermon by Rev. Dr. Tappan of
Augusta; Ordaining prayer by Rev N.
Chapman of Camden; Charge by Rev
Isaac Rogers OF Pennington; Right hand
of Fellowship by Rev Uriah Balkan of
Union; Address to the People by Rev. l..
Wiswan of jackson; Concluding prayer
by Rev R. Page of Levant.
NJ. Cutler was born at Pennington and
died at Reading. Pa, whittier he had gone
for the benefitof his health, April %, 1916,
aged thirty-tour. He was eminently sue
cesstul in his labors in the ministry while
residing here and left behind him name
which is still kept as precious treasure
| in many hearts, On the receipt of the sad
intelligence of his decease funeral dis
course was preached at the North Church
by Rev. Stephen Thurston Of Prospect.
Mr.. Charles Spear, well remembered by
| the business men Of that day, commenced
running an express between Bangor and
Boston on the steamer Telegraph this year
The business was conducted, and never
more promptly and faithfully, under the
name of Spear and Co.. the company be-
ing Mr.. David Bugbee of Bangor.
The evening of June Esd was eminently
a Lecture evening. Mr. Abbott, the ''Sailor
Preacher lectured at the Academy on
temperance, a Mormon at the Court House
on the doctrine and creed of the ''Latter-
day Saints and Aillerite at the Metho-
dist Meeting house on the millennium.
| The Fourth of July was rtshered in by
the ringing of bells and a rain storm Of
| brief duration. The day passed off very
| quietly with only one row. and a very
marked decrease in the consumption of
rum There was no public celebration
| here, but there We're several-all on tenn
perance principles-in different parts of
the county, some Of which were attended
by large delegations from this place
On the eighth Of July the office of the
Republican Journal was removed to cham
bers in the northerly end Of the old Tele-
graph Building.
The United States steam lrigate Mis-
souri,, under command Of Captain John L.
Newton, arrived here from Castine on the
24th of August She remained until after
noon of the Goth, when she left for Cam
den. While here she was visited by crowds
five thousand people according to the
estimate OF one OF her otfcers-from this
and towns adjacent She was the first war
steamer that had visited any American
port on this coast east OF Boston and was
said to be at the time the largest steamship
| in the world. She was subsequently de-
stroyed by fire, originated by the breaking
of a glass vessel containing spirits OF tur-
| pentine, while lying in the harbor of Glib
raltar. Among the young lieutenants on
board her while here We're Simon b. Bis
SELL now a. Commodore on the retired list,
and John A. Winslow who was in COM
mand OF the Kearsarge when she captured
and destroyed the Alabama, and who died
within the last year.
A Farmers and Mechanics Convention,
80 called, assembled here on the 9th Of
August; its principal professed object be-
ing to devise measures for the suppression
Of litigation. The projectors of the move
ment overlooked the fact that human ma