The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-11-19
ANNALS on BELFAST FOI HALF A CENTURY.
b Y A N OLD ETTLER.
CHAPTER XXNYIn. 1S43l

and until afternoon of this day. 1t was
estimated that the fall was twelve inches
at least in depth. At four p. NJ there was
not sleigh-track visible on Church street
The natural inference was that the good
people in that locality were complying
with the request of the Governor by de-
voting the day to Humiliation, fasting and
prayer, and abstaining from all labor and
recreation inconsistent with the usua! So
IDENTITIES of the occasion"
The Telegraph, Captain j. Is. Coyle,
was the first steamer to put in an appear
ance at our wharves this spring; She ar
rived on the first day Of April. She was
advertised to ply between this place and
st. John, N. B., but did not long continue
on the route. She was soon followed by
the Charter Oak, Captain S. I'll. Howes,
and the Huntress, Captain Thomas G.
Jewett. The first sailed under the adyer-
tised flag Of the "Peoples Anti-monopoly,
Anti-corporation Line !" and piled be-
tween Bangor and Boston, touching tor
awhile at Portland; the latter under the
flag OF the ''Steamboat and Railroad Line, ="
plying between Bangor and Portland and
connecting at the latter place with the
Eastern Railroad to Boston Competition
led to a reduction OF rates for freight and
passage until the fare from this place to
Boston was only one dollar and fifty cents
1t continued until September when the
Huntress was taken off the route and the
''Anti-monopolyH was swallowed by the
steamboat and Railroads. After that
our only steam connection with Boston
was per Charter Oak. Via Portland, and
Eastern Railroad There was no small
amount of growing here on the occasion,
and the proprietor OF The Stage Line be
tween this and Augusta advertised that he
would carry passengers tor one dollar and
arrive at Augusta in season to take the
steamer from that place to Boston on Mon
day and Thursday. The Charter Oak was
here on her last trip for the season on the
seventh of December The ne,r steamer
Penobscot touched here on the 10Th of June
on her way from Portland with passengers
to attend the Maine Conference OF Churches
at Bangor. On the 10Th she came down
the river on pleasure excursion called
here for passengers, thence to Castine
where she remained Il few hours and
thence back to this place and Bangor She
was intended to ply between Boston and
st. John, but was soon taken oil and put
on the kenncbec route
Many of our good people went to Bos-
ton on the steamers to unite in the com
memOration of the battle Of Bunker Hill,
June 18th, and to celebrate the completion
of the Monument Daniel Webster was
the orator on the occasion and among those
assembled were President Tyler and many
other distinguished national and state off
Gals 1t seemed to be a day when the ma
rn,o} TO hn oI+
national liberty to lay upon it the nation
Offering of gratitude to the Ruler of Ma
| tons for unnumbered mercies and bless
ings, and prayer that SO long as that granite
| monument pointed towards Heaven there
| might be ''Peace on Earth Our gratitude
was sincere; so was our prayer; but. as
| the honest old clergyman OF the oldcn
time said, ''What's the use Of praying tol
rain until the wind changes ~ The vari-
GUS experiences Of some of our unsophs-
| ticated toWnsmen on that occasion have q
| place in the memory OF their surviving
contemporaries the record Of them in these
annals might afford amusement to the gen
Grafton which has succeeded but-"L et
the dead Past bury its dead,'
The Fourth of July was celebrated under
the auspices of the Washingt0nian lem
perancc Associations. Fifteen societie.
were in attendance from different town,
in the county. Two military companies
the Hancock Guards, from Castine, ant
the Frankfort Artillery helped to swell the
large concourse of people. The literary
exercises Of the day at the Unitarian
| Church, were the reading of the Declare
ton Of independence by Hon Alfred John
| son and an Grafton by Col Charles w
| Gutter of Portsmouth, n H. A public din
| ner was served III the large chamber al
| Mr.. Daniel NlerrillS store house on the
| steamboat wharf, at which there Were
about six hundred guests. The Prize
| County Banner was awarded to the Frank.
fort Washingtenian Society and was pre-
| sented by Miss Caroline +. Alden, daughter
of Doctor j. 7. Alden, and received by the
late Benjamin Shaw, Esq. of Frankfort
now Winterport A banner was also pre-
sented to the Belfast Washingtonian So
ciety, the gift OF the "Martha Washington
Mans of this place, by Miss Abigail Mar
shall, daughter of Hon. Thomas Marshall
afterwards Mrs. F. W. Berry, now deceas-
| ed, and received by James H. Smith ESQ
A banner was presented to the Juvenile
Cold Water Army Of Belfast, the gift of
| the Misses Temperance Society, by Miss
Frances Towne, daughter of the late
Thomas Towne, now Mrs. Richard Briggs
of Boston, and received by Master Samuel
f. Burd, now deceased. The presentation
and receipt of the banner in each instance
were accompanied by appropriate remarks.
The day passed off very joyously and was
crowned at evening with Ladies Tenn
perance Picnic Party held at the house
Of Mr. Benjamin Hazetine, father Of O. b.
Hazeltine, Esq,
The 10Th of July was celebrated by Mr..
Jonas 5. Barrett, of whom mention was
made IN a former chapter, and his discip-
les, as the anniversary of the day when he
commenced writing his New views OF
the Bible" Heresided at the time on Peach
street, near High street. A grove of ever
greens was extemporised in front Of his
house and a flag staff raised from which
foated white banner bearing the inscrip-
ton ''Opening OF the Seven Seals" and the
representation of Bible with seven
clasps, three of them broken At nine
o'clock in the morning seven cannon
were fired, emblematic OF the seven
thunders that announced the opening of
the seven seals. A bugle, drum and fife
furnished music for the OCCASION and a
plain, substantial dinner was provided for
all who were disposed to partake Of it,
Sixteen sat down at the table; four more
than sat at the table with Him whose
second advent the new Evangelist asserted
had already occurred Mr., Barrett re-
ceived his numerous visitors very coWte-
ously and conversed freely with all dis
posed so to do on the peculiar religious
views entertained and promulgated by
him in his pamphlet.
During the month Of July there was q
very prevalent influenza, attributable
doubtless to very sudden and extreme
changes in the weather, but after the
fashion of all time attributed to the Ma
tional Administration. 1t was denominated
the "Tyler Grippe a grip which was
ettectually mloosed at the Presidential
election of the. year following.
A course Of Lectures on Phrenology
was delivered this month by Doctor a.
Bartlett The lectures were illustrated by
skulls, plaster casts and drawings OF
heads. and public examinations In Nov