The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-02-14
Maine Matters.
NEWS AND GOSSIP FROM ALL OVER THE STATE.


SENATOR FRYE ON PROHIBITION.
The following letter from Hon. William P.
Frye was read by Secretary Munson at the
recent meeting of the Maine Temperance Al
lance:
UNITED STATES SENATE,
WASHINGTON, d. G., Jan. %, 1884.
Rev. II. G. Munson, Secretary, &C.,
Dear Sir,-Gour kind letter inviting me to be
present and address the Maine Temperance
Alliance is received 1t would be great
pleasure to me to accept, but my engagements
here render it entirely impossible. Will you
please extend for me an earnest greeting to the
Alliance, and bid these determined workers TO
be of good cheer, for the response to their
organized and persistent efforts will be splen-
did victory in September. am entirely satis-
fed that large majority of the voters of my
State are decidedly in favor of prohibition; that
while there may be, and in fact is, difference of
opinion as to the efficiency or necessity of con-
st1tutlonal amendment, IA little reflection will
satisfy all that the defeat of the proposition
would be disastrous, not only to the cause of
temperance in Maine, but all over the country.
1t would be seized upon at once by the enc
mics of the restriction of the liquor traffic, as
the deliberate verdict of our people against
prohibition, after fair trial of thirty
years. The friends OF temperance have every
reason to thank God and take courage. The
spirit of this reform for years seemed content
to abide i'll Maine, but lately has refused to be
confined to such narrow limits. 1t has per-
vaded almost every State, in some engraftng
upon the laws prohibition, in others melting
earnest inquiry, conscientious investigation and
determined effort.
The advance in temperance sentiment has
been marvellous. Its strides have been longer
and more rapid than have been known in any
other moral reform. Washington is the polit-
cal centre of the Republic and the sentiment
best indicates that of the whole country. In
this matter of temperance. the Washington of
to-day hardly resembles that of twenty years
ago. Then on New Years Day" the open
house without the hospitalites of the side
board was almost unknown. Now is tempt
ing display of the Wine that mocks is almost
forgotten. Then the government official who
was not lavish in his offers of liquor to every
caller was looked upon a> oure-a fanatic un-
worthy of his high position. Now nothing
would be more dscreditabe. Then the pub
lie man who refused was regarded as eccentric
Improperly odd. Now the majority decline.
III this reform Maine took the lead. Surely
she will not now become weary in well doing,
will not now declare to the whole country that
her course for thirty wears has been mistaken
one. God forbid. The harm that might come,
not only to our State but to the whole coun-
try, from such defamation, who can con-
templateI Temperance men of Maine, ire
spective of party, casting aside partsanship
and prejudice. forgetting those things which
are behind, reaching forth to things that are
III
out petty strife or foolish chickering's to vico-
~, not of a bare majority, but so ovrrwhem-
ing that its voice shall reach the utmost limits
of the Republic, with no uncertain sound.
Yours Truly, WILLIAM p. FRYE.
DEATH OF AN OLD SEA CAPTAIN.
The New York Herald says: In the death of
Captain Leonard ID. Shaw, which was announce
ed recently, New York loses famous nayiga-
tor of former day. who for nearly half a cen
tury sailed beneath the American flag to the
East Indies and South America and who has
been intimately associated with American ship
ping interests ever sin g the war of 1872,
of which he was a participant Captain
Shaw was born in Portland, Me-, eighty years
ago. His father was considered the richest and
most ho>pitable man in the State, 50 much SO
that the name of Deacon Shaw was considered
>vnonvme for hospitality. The boy received
a fair education in Portland schools. Among
his schoolmatcs who have siacc grown famous
were General Neal Dow, of prohibition fame.
Rear Admiral Alden and Secretary Fessenden.
When the war of 1872 broke out Young Shaw
enlisted as Il cabin boy on the American gun
boat TeaZer. He was subsequently transferred
to the Enterprise and was on board of her
during the celebrated engagement with the
Baxter Oft Portland harbor. At the conclusion
of the war the young sailor entered the mer-
chant marine and rapidly worked his way up
to the masters position He inclined particu-
larly to the ''deep wafer trade, his port of
q IL
During the late war he again entered the SER
vice of his country. He was stationed at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard and was in charge of the
Dunderberg, which never Went into commits
sion. Shortly after the war he retired from
active life. One of the particular incidents re-
lated of him was his taking the first ccntreboard
schooner to South America.
DIR. QUINBY's REQUESTS.
The late Rev. DIR. Quinby of Augusta be
l,. ~ A.,...
Brockton, Mass, lot of land on MURRAY street,
worth 5000; to Westbrook Seminary, 500.
Deductng other small bequestS, he devi>es all
the rest and residue of his estate to his sonsin-
law, w. ID. Eaton of Boston. Mass, Hollis b.
Hill of Portland, and his wife COrdelia A.
Qunby, to be held by them as Trustees. for
certain purposes. The homestead and house
hold furniture and furnishings for the occupa-
tiOn and benefit of Mrs. Quinby, and she to re-
ceive the net annual income of all his other cS-
tate, to be by her expended for the use and
benefit of herself and family. This to continue
until their son Murray attains his majority,
when all the estate, except the homestead shall
be sold and distributed, one-siXth part to his
wife, and the remaining tivc->iNths to be equal
ly divided among, his five children-Mr A. 5.
Eaton, Mrs. Harriet NJ. Hill, John A. G. Quin-
by, Murray Quinby, ana Lule A. Quinby.
LoNGFELLow's BIRTHDAY.
Longfeows last birthday, February -
the State. There Were recitatons from Long
fellows poems by the pupils, and brief ac-
counts of Longftllow's life and works. Con-
trbutionS Were also made toward the erection
of statue to Longfellow in Portland, the
poets birthplace. Each scholar making il con
trbutlon of ten cents received from the Long
fellow Statue Association Il beautiful steel en-
craving of LOngfelloX ON a card acknowledge
ing the contribution. In many of the schools
in which the day was not observed last year
there Will be such an observance this wear. II
is hoped this may be the ease in all the schools
IN which there was no recognition of the day
last year sample cards and circulars will be
furnished to teachers on application to Thomas
Tash, Esq, secretary of tn. Longf, How Statue
Association, Portland, Me.
THE STANDARD TIME IN BATH.
The Bath people held a mass meeting the
other day to decide whether they would adopt
standard time, and got very much excited over
the matter. one speaker said that the Al
mighty had ordained that noon should come at
twelve o'clock and he did not believe in setting
it back twenty minutes. Another said that day
light fitted the old time best. A third r3mark-
ed eNciedy that the railroads had monopoized
almost everything in Gods creation and now
We're trying to gobbIe Gods time. These argu-
ments seem to have carried great weight, f0r
when the question was put there was, accord
ing to the Times. Il "thundering no. from the
throat of every man present.
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