The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-01-04
Local Review of the Year 1882,

Local Review of the Year 1882.
Eighteen hundred eighty-two took its departure
on Sunday, and on Monday was ushered in the be-
ginning of the new week and year of 1888 This is
season of retrospectiona time to glance backward
over the twelve months that are gone-to note the
errors made and to resolve against them in the fu
ture and also to emulate all that is commendable |
AS has been custom for number of years we
give local summary of the year in Belfast. Our |
old
INDUSTRIES
have closed season of prosperity Some new ones |
have been added and or two have ceased to ex |
ist. Mathews Bros sash and'blind factory one of |
the best in New England has had an unprecedent- |
ed rush of business, manufacturing into doors, sash
and blinds 100000 feet of lumber and working |
forty men. The shoe factory has doubled its work |
in the past year and enters on the with glow
ing prospects, Mr.. c. j. Hall has opened stone |
yard,-a new bu5iness-and is employing - men. |
This industry is but in its infancy and at the end of
next year. probably, the business will be doubled.
His foundry business is also in good condition Mr..
ISAAC A. Murch has begun the manufacture of
ships blocks, another industry, which is also
in very furnishing condition Fernad Bros
business
factories of b Kelley & Co.. sherman & Thompson
and Geo. Hardy have all had a good of bust |
ness. Durham 4 Hall. manufacturers of boxes, |
doors, sash and blinds. have had good years |
work and their business is already too large for
their present quarters They cut up probably more |
feet Of lumber than any concern in Waldo county. |
All the minor industries are prospecting.
SHIPPING.
The sbip-buiI ling interest has been very brisk |
Eight vessels have been launched during the year. |
three in process of building and there are
tracts for several others. OF the eight launched |
three hail from Belfast, while the Others are in part
owned here In addition to these the sch. Abraham
Richardson, fine coaster, and the sch. Gazee |
have been purchased. The ship Louis Walsh has |
been sold to Searaport parties; the ship City of |
Brooklyn was recently sold at san Francisco, and |
the schrs. 5. j. Gilmore, Tamihroo, Stella and MAJ
zIrka have been disposed of. Sch. stephen +. |
Woodbury., hailing from Belfast, but mostly owned |
by Jacksonville parties, was run down and sunk |
Feb. lst, OF Race point, and sch. $ d. Hart hail
ing from Belfast, but owned at slesboro, was lost
June cath, on Chatham beach. A cargo of hard |
pine owned by q. W. Cottrell was lost in January |
in Rockland vessel, while VIM. Pitcher 4 Son lost
cargo of coal in a vessel not owned here.
FIRES.
Iherc were no serious fires during the year |
Four small dwelling houses were burned-John w. |
Nash's on Vine street Corbett's Lane, Harvey |
H. smalleys, on Bridge street, small house on
the east side owned by F. z. Games, and house in
South Belfast owned by VIM. IL. Hall. \ fire
started in McClintocks block at the corner of Main
and High streets but was eXtnguished with small |
loss. The heaviest fire was the burning of Woods |
& Cos store house with sixty tons of hay, Sept
18th.
MATRIMONIAI.
The state Of the matrimonial market is sure
test of prosperity. When the outlook j. hard Gu
pid is shy, but when season f prosperity is as
sured there is much giving in marriage There
We're ffty-sX marriages in Belfast in the year |
lSs2, against fortyslN in 1881. January furnished
eight brides, February five, while March gave but
one, April five, May four, June four, July five, |
while iii the sultry month of August the wedding
bells did not once ring; September started in with
five weddings, October five, followed by Noyem- |
ber the banner month in the year, when ten blush
Ing brides were led to the altar; December closed
the year with five marriages OF the fty-siN mar
riages, twenty-four couples We're Belfast people; |
IN nineteen cases Belfast ladies' overlooked the |
charms of our manageable Young men and took
husbands from abroad, while thirteen young men |
We're caught by the charms of out Of town ladies.
MORTALITY.
The city sexton reports 81 deaths in 1884, against
81 for 1881. While the number is not 50 large ls in
some former years it embraces many prominent |
citizens, such as VIM. IL. Simpson, Hiram o. Al |
den, William Otis, A. B. Mathews and NJ. $ |
staples Three persons were drowned during the |
year-Peter Larey, John G. Hervey and Banch |
Pattershall. OF the So deaths this year 4G were !
women and 80 men. Fifteen were under 10 years |
of age. between 10 and 20, II between 20 and 30
between 30 and 40, between 40 and 81, between
30 and Co. between 50 and 10, 10 between 20 and |
50, and between 80 and 80. Thirty-six have died
of consumption, 10 of pneumonia, 6 heart disease
= old age, 3 drowned; of Zero spinal meningitis,
apopleXy, lung fever, cancer. Brights disease !
and inflammation two each; and of paralysis, men
inGetis Of BRAIN diphthcria, insane, canker, whoop
ing cough, cholera infantum, typhoid fever, rheu
matism dropsy of heart and unknown. one each,
REFCNUING.
Last spring the Tay Payers party carried lh. |
city for Mayor by a large majority One of thgir
promises to refund the citys debt To tli- |
end the city's interest in the railroad Vas mort
gagged As security for new four per cent Ioln /
with which to refund the outstanding six per cent
bonds While the work Of refunding has not |
progressed rapidly a. we could wish, Il very
promising start has been made, The war loan of
500 900 has been called in ana enough of the long
bonds exchanged to place the whole amount re.
funded at $4,000. 1t is confidently Relieved that
at the end Of the municipal year sl0o0oo viii have
been refunded.
RELIGIOUS
A deep religious interest has been manifested in |
the churches. Last summer protracted revival |
added many members to the churches. one society |
has changed pastors, Rev. MI. Gooienough ltay- |
ing the Cniyersast church and settling in Cali |
fornia. The other pastors remain the same. y |
temperance wave, rolled on by J. X. OS-ood, visit |
ed this section in early summer, which has some
what receded but which accomplished much good. |
MISCELLANEOUS.
There many business changes during the |
year and many improvements made. Business |
places have been renovated that now Belfast |
can boast of some of the handsomcst stores in the |
state.
The early season was favorable , the ice crop |
while the summer was blessed with large growing |
crops. More hay was raised than ever before in |
one year
The following the principal events of the
year
Ist Very mild not a particle Of snow ON the |
ground, little or no frost, vegetation green and |
growing Mrs. Joseph II kaler served dandeion |
greens picked IN the open air.
q. slight fire at the Methodist parsonage
9Th. First seighing of the season.
18th. House of John W. Nash, Vine street, des-
troyed by fire.
Is. The celebrated foundry cases settled the |
foundry company becoming the owners; work be- |
gun in Hals granite yard.
18th. Train struck the team of \. A, Lcss;m, of |
Winterport at Railroad crossing lower bridge |
smashing sleigh and nuring Mr.. Lessan
18th Sheriff Baker, at Freedom, captured George |
Spear, the Searsmont shooter.
sd. AXel Hayford begins the manufacture of
barrel heads.
24th. cola day. Thermometer twenty two de-
grces below zero.
18th. Mrs. Ann NJ, wife Of the late eN-Gov.
Crosby, died at Boston.
18th. Sch. Warrenton Of Bangor, lowed to This
port water-logged.
3lst. The Belfast Block Company began to man
ufacture ships blocks
FEBRUARY.
LIST. Sch stephen E. Woodbury. run down and
sunk eighteen miles y. Y w. of Race Point hN sch.