The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-07-16


destroyed, but the fact is well authentica-
ted that the boys abandoned coastng when
the ground was dry enough for them to
play ball.
With the commencement Of the year
Arnold and Whittier commenced running: |
tri-weekly mail stage between Augusta |
and this place con the new road called the |
Eastman road;'' so named in honor of |
Thomas Eastman. Esq. who was one of its
originators, who was quite Il prominent |
man in the county, one OF the Associate
Justices Of the Court of Sessions, and who !
kept !. tavern for many years in Palermo
in the vicinity Of Eastman's corner. That
corner will be remembered by some OF
our elderly people, probably, Us being in
the vicinity of the field where the ancient
"Perlarmo Musters'' We're held
On the 9TH ofFebruary the act ncorpor-
ating the County of Waldo. constituting
Belfast its shire town, was approved by
| the Governor--Enoch Lincoln. At a town
| meeting held on the 18th q committee con-
sisting Of William Crosby, William Avery,
| Alfred johnson Jr, Thomas Bartlett and
| George W. Webster was unanimously
chosen ito carry into effect a vote passed
at meeting held September 18th 1926
relative to finishing the Town House tor
| the reception of the Courts tor the County
of Waldo q vote was also passed "toraise
the sum OF six hundred dollars to defray
the expenses of finishing said House"
The vote of September | 18th referred to
was, in substance that if the Legislature
should establish the county the town
would at its own expense, and without
charge to the county, suitably finish and
prepare the Town House for the use and
occupation of the Courts-and that the
same might be used gratuitously so long
as the Courts should be held there. The
second story was accordingly finished tor
court and Jury rooms. The first term of
the Court of Common Pleas was held there
on the fourth Tuesday of July then
next. Judges Pcrham and Smith presid-
ing the last term of the court held there
was on the first Tuesday of October 1893
Judge Appleton presiding; the next term,
in January 1891. Judge Rice presiding,
was held in the new Court House; the old
one was converted into 4 school-room.
) By the act OF incorporation the new
County did not become organized as such
until from and after July Sd then next, =
but provision was made for the appoint
: ment of county officers in advance; the
lions share fell to Belfast The following
named persons residing here received APP
pointments, as follows; Alfred johnson.
.Jr., Judge of Probate, Joseph Williamson.
County Attorney, Hugh J. Anderson,
Clerk of the Courts, Bohan p. Field, Chief
Justice Of the Court of Sessions Joseph
Hall Of Camden was appointed Sheriff,
and Nathaniel NJ. Lowney of Frankfort
Register of Probate The Associate Jus
: tees Of the Sessions We're Joseph Shaw
) Of Thorndike and Thomas Eastman OF
l Palermo. Mir. Anderson, afterwards Re
preventative in Congress and Governor Of
the State, is the only one of the number
now living.
5 The Steamboat Patent, Captain Cram
commenced her trips early in May be
2 tween Portland and Eastport touching al
this and other ports; her last trip for the
: season was made in October The Steam
boat Waterville, Capt. Porter, was here
1 September 2Sth and left the next day fol
: Bangor. 1t is not remembered that she
l was here at any other time during the
L season
| About the middle OF May another Cara
: van, styled magniloquently the "Elephan
: Caravan" made its appearance and eXhi
. bited in the backyard of the Eagle Hotel
5 ltconsisted of the Great India Elephant,
, a camel, leopard, lama and ''othcr minol
animals; y music on the ''ancient Jewisl
? Cymbal" This Caravan, like the ont
: which preceded it, was accompanied by
1 "a new and elegant collection Of Wan
= Statues" Our people and those in the
5 back towns had not forgotten the lessor
they learned two years before, and let the
India Elephant. minor animals, Jewisl
5 Cymbal and wax statues" severely alone
On the I'D of May Robert Miller dice
: aged siXty-siX. lie was one of three
: brothers. James, Robert and David, sons
5 of James Miller who came here to reside
? in 1869 and died in 1874 aged eighty-two
t James was tor,many years the owner and
occupant of the house and land hest known
now rs the old rockingham place; before
its sale to Rev. Mr., rockingham known
! as the Jimmy Miller place. He removed
from this place to Pine Township. now
| Perlysville, Pa in 1924 and died there in
1910, David resided the greater portion
-, OF his life in Northport Robert always re-
sided here until 4 short time before his
last sickness. He was the owner Of Lot
"a, the next Lot Southerly from Main
street, on which now stand some OF the
J finest dwellings, in the city, the Unitarian,
, un!yerSalist. Methodist and Baptist
. Churches, the Custom House and Post
office, Hayford Block, the old Town Hall
and the brick School-house. lie was a
man OF quiet, reserved habit regarded by
many as unSocial: that trait in his char
acter may be attributed, perhaps, to the
fact that he was never married; that he
was a rigialy honest man no one ever
questioned. The following incident in his
early lite is narrated in Whites History
and in Rev. j. l.. Lockc's Sketches of the
early History OF Belfast published in the
Progressive Age in 1896.
During the Revolutionary war. in 1881
General Wadsworth and Major Burton
were taken prisoners by the British and
confined in the fort at Castine They sue
ceeded in making their escape and after
wandering through the forest reached this
place. They made themselves and their
condition known to the elder Miller but
declined to accept the hospitality protf'er-
ed by him at his own house, through fear
that they might be discovered by their
pursuers and that he might suffer in CON
sequence. His sons James and Robert
went with them about a mile into the for
est where they built q rude camp of ever
greens to which they carried food for
the fugitives until the search for them be-
ing abandoned they left, and by the aid of
a pocket compass furnished to them by
Nh Miller, found their way through the
forest to ThOmaSton, and from thence went
| to Port land
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