The Republican journal., 1874-06-18

Il raid had been made on somebody's
clothes-llne, on the principle that EEK
change IS no robbery" and that somebody
was minus hat better, probably, than the
one found.
There was no Fourth Of July celebra
ton this year, but the editor of the Gazette
glorified the place by the announcement
that on the Saturday preceding the fourth
there WAS "haulcd into the village on
teams, rs by actual survey. 1856 .0S6 feet
Of boards. 50 thousand of shingles, $3.50
slaves. l5l5 feet of oars: :" Il very good
show for one days work lilty-two wears
ago.
On the 30th of August. at his residence
on Main street now occupied by MIR. ~
ID. Chase, died Benjamin Whittier. Esq
aged thirty-niue He was the son OF
Thomas Whittier, ESD, Of whom mention
was made in one OF our earliest chapters.
tie succeeded his father as Postmaster
about 1913 and continued to hold the Office
10 the time OF his decease In December
following Joseph Williamson Esq. was
appointed TO tlllthe vacancy, and removed
lhe once to wooden building standing
on me site OF the store now occupied nv
MT ii. ii. Forbes; that building was
burned Jan. -, 1881 MIR. Whittier was
the fifth Town Clerk in order of time He
had held the office for several successive
years prior to his deceaSe Dir. Herman
Abbott was his successor. elected nj a town
meeting held ten day, after the vacancy
occurred
In November the office OF the Gazette
was removed from JohnSon's Building.
now the Phoenix House, to wooden built
ing which stood where the building occu-
pied ny Clark Il Fernald, Marble Workers,
now stands, 1T the intersection of High
and Market streets, and its publishers,
felloWes n Simpson. opened a book store
in the room fronting on High street. where
they Offered for sale I'm extensive assort-
ment OF school books. bibles, ana miscrl-
lancous works ut the sign of the Bible" II
was the first store opened in the place ex-
cluslvelN for the sale of books and station
cry.
Among the notable events of the wear
was the visit of the celebrated DR.. Nathan
Smith of New Hampshire, Professor of the
Theory and Practice of medicine in the
Medical School at Brunswick. The an
nounccment of his advent brought hither
from the region roundabout "a multitude
of impotcnt folk of blind, halt. and
withered.' The coming at this day of
DE-. BroWn-Sequard would not he the oc-
casion of greater excitement among inva-
lids. Dr, Smith was not a travelling empi-
TIC, such as have been seen here occasion
ally since his day. but was eminent in his
profession and visited this section of the
country ut the call of patients residing
here and at the east. There is an anecdote
Of him truly illustrative OF the frankness
with which he dealt with those who came
to him for medical aid Madam" said he
to a lady who had been for a LONG time
ailing and ''spent all her living upon ply
sicians, neither could be healed of any
81 cannot cure YOU; but YOU can cure
yourself Empty all those phials into your
slop- pail-stop making an apothecary's
shop of your stomach--don't SAY Il word
pains for six months at the end of that
time You'll feel better; follow the same
rule six months longer and You'll be WELL
The invalid. who fortunately for herself
had rs much faith in the Doctor as her
predecessors of nearly nineteen hundred
years ago had in the angel who troubled
the Pool Of Bethesda, adopted and carried
out the suggestion and lived until 1877
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the schooner Harriet and Eliza Of l2S tons
owned by John Angler and Salathiel
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year ana ll'lli'heu IN tile ill"liin Oh Hepleln-
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