The Portland daily press., 1885-08-10
Memorial Services in the State.

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! FRYEBURG, Aug. s.
At p. M to-day memorial services in
| honor of General Grant were held in the
| Congregational church-the bell having been
previously tolled for half an hour. Address
| es were made by Rev. Mr.. Stone Of the
Swedenborgian church, Rev. Mr.. Greenhalgh
of the Methodist church, Rev. Dr. Mason of
the Congregational church, and by DR.. W.
G. Towle of the G.. A. R., who were repre-
scented by quite delegation. The pulpit,
gallery and organ were appropriately decor
ated with flowers. The chants and hymns
were selected and executed with taste and
skill by the choir, and a large congregation
manifested their interest in the exercises by
remaining two hours until the close.
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RICHMOND, Aug. 8.
Today has been duly observed in honor of
the memory of General Grant. Flags were
placed al half-mast, bells tolled, and stores
and residences draped with mourning en-
blems. In the afternoon business was gen
orally suspended, and memorial services
were held at the Opera House. A large au-
dience was present and listened attentiyely
to the following order of exercises:
Memorial Mareh-"We Honor the Brave'' Band
Opening Remarks by the Chairman. .........
Prayer. { SsI t. v u SSG SSlsB
Music Double Qnartette
Scripture Reading. Rev: d. Church
ADDRESS. ......... Rev. w. G. Curtis
Address. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Rev. d. Church
mr gSG poa;,, Double Quartette
Address /. ........ Rev MI Crosby, Dresden
Memorial Hymn Better Land III 4. . Band
Benediction. -. Rev. M. H. Wellman, Dresden
John Merrill Post, G. A. r., and Sagada-
hook Gommandery, K. of P, attended in a
body and marched into the hall to the music
of the opening march.
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WINTHROP, Aug. 8.
The memorial services at Winthrop were
largely attended and the decorations were
more elaborate than anything ever attempt
ed at this place before. The church bells
were tolled at sunrise and noon for half an
hour and struck the dead hero's age-63-at
the close of the services. Business was
entirely suspended in the afternoon, and the
factories, including c. NJ. Bailey & Sons
oil cloth factories which, with the exception
of Sundays, have not been stopped for
years, were shut down. The memorial SER
fANSo NOAS liVAN III luC OUHSItSdblOndl
Church. The address was made by Rev. j.
B. Halves and remarks were made by Rev.
Messrs. G. E. Springer and Fl. S. Loring. A
poem written expressly for the occasion was
read by Miss Eta Snow and music was fur
nished by the Winthrop Cornet Band and
the choirs of the Congregational and Metho-
dist churches. A. II. Frost Post, G. A. R.
attended in a body. The church was elab-
orately decorated
AUGUSTA, Aug. 8.
The memorial services for Gen. Grant in
this city were a success The venerable Jas.
w. Bradbury acted as president of the day.
Mr.. Bradbury is the oldest eX-United States
Senator now living in New England, if not
in the country. The principal speakers were
Hon. James G. Blaine, ex-Gov. Plaisted.
Hon. j Manchester Haynes and Attorney
General 0. d. Baker. A procession was
formed in Market square, and marched to
the soldiers monument, thence to the Stone
church, where the services were held. Fol
lowing is
MIR. BLAINE's ADDRESS.
The public sensibility and personal sorrow over
the death of Gen. Grant are not confined In ono
continent. Profound admiration for great mali
ties, and still more profound gratitude for great
with deep sympathy; increased even to fenaer
emotion by the agony of his closing DAYS and tba
undaunted heroism with which he morally con-
quered last cruel fate.
The world, in its hero worship. is diseriminat |
ing and practical, if not indeed selfish. Eminent |
qualities and rare achievements do not ALWAYS in |
sure lasting fame. brilliant orator attracts and
enchans his hearers with his inspired and insnir
ing gift but if his speech be not successfully nsed
to some great public worthy end, he passes soon |
from popular recollection, his only reward heinz
victorious general in a war of mere ambition |
receives the cheers OF the multitude and the cere
monia honors OF ms government; but if he bring |
ing place in the centuries that follow The hero
for the ages is he who has been chiefand foremosf
in his day in contributing to the moral or nnafarsi
TO the grandeur and glory Of the snc-
ceedlng generations. Washington secured the /
freedom OF the colonies and founded a new nation
Lincoln was the prophet who warned the neonie /
OF the evils that were undermining our free gov