The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-05-31

Lane. john X. Wood. Stiliman.
| Lane. Samuel 5. Woods, Charles A.
| Larrabee Simeon H. Wooster. Amos b.
| Lewis George W. Worthing, c. E.
| Lindsey Edwin. Wyman Frederick H.
Linscott, James E. Young. A. NJ.
| Littefeld Charles NJ. Young, Ezra.
LOthrop. Sumner p. Young George S.
Love- Fred j. Young, John.
| ! owney. .xel j. Hamilton, Chas. M.
| Jones. William. knOWltOn, Thomas.
Mace, Timothy L. Townsend. Leonard
| Returning, the line of march was down
Main street to Church, to Memorial Hall.
| where the parade was dismissed.
Anexcelent supper was served at O'Clock
in Memorial Hall
The evening services were held in Belfast
Opera House, which was crowded to its ut
most capacity. The Opera House was neat
ly decorated with bunting, flags, flowers and
| embems of soldiers life. The front rail
of the balconies was faced with bunting in
stars and stripes, with small flags arranged
at intervals. A rural scene backed the
stage, with large flags gracefully draped
above. Stacks of arms and banks of flowers
stood at each side of the stage, with a num-
ber of potted plants effectively placed along
the front. Beside the altar stood hand
! some floral piece, a gift of Col. W,eissinger.
1t was about 81 feet high, in the form of
harp, the frame of magnolia leaves and the
strings of smilax. Two large stalks of cycas,
a Southern plant somewhat resembling both
a palm and fern, extended across the front,
and bouquets of red and white carnation
pinks were attached near the base. Two
broad streamers of silk ribbon were attached
by bow at the top. one of red, lettered
Kentucky to Maine,' and the other of
| white lettered g Grey to Blue
The Journal goes to press too early to give
| a detailed report of the proceedings The Bel
fast Band rendered number of selections
very acceptably. and the address of Col.
| Weissinger was most heartily received
| The drill and marching by the children un
der charge of Miss Lillian G. Spinney was
very pretty and called forth applause. The
| North church choir rendered the popular
! patriotic songs most acceptably. Following
is the program:
Music, Belfast Band
| Prayer. haplaln W. I. luttle
Reading General Orders,
Adjutant NJ c. Dilworth
Address of Welcome,
Commander, G. f. Cobbett
Reading ''In Memoriam." by Request,
Miss Georgia Burrows
Music, Belfast Band
Exhibition drill, Miss spinney and class
| Music Belfast Band
''Old Kentucky Home, North Church choir
Address, Col. Harry Weissinger
Music. Belfast Band
Tenting on the Old Camp Ground,
North Church choir.
col. HARRY MESSENGER.
The Journal goes to press Wednesday
afternoon and is unable to report the exer-
cises in the hall last evening and the address
| by Col. WeisSinger. He arrived at Rock
land Tuesday evening, where the Grand
Army Post gave him a rousing reception,
was at Searsport yesterday the orator of the
day and the guest of Freeman McGilvery
Post, coming to Belfast in time to deliver
the Grafton before Thomas II. Marshall Post
in the evening. The Boston journal Of
Tuesday morning had the following inter
esting interview:
II came to be acquainted with the Grand
Army of Maine in a curious way said Col.
| Harry WelSSlnger to a journal reporter at
the Touraine Monday. 1.-The first reunion
of the Grand Army | hope it may not be
the last one-was to be held in Louisville.
every State i'll which there was a single
Grand Army post represented at the reunion,
and the further away the State was, the
more anxious we were to have the soldiers
there. Now in the case of Maine, it was
difficult to get them to come: indeed, when
made inquiries through a friend. found
that they had been told they could not get
quarters. So l invited them to stay on my
place. They accepted, and came. l had a
large tobacco factory, which j! cleared out
and cleaned up. 1t was a pleasant place
with trees all around it, and | put in bath
rooms and cots, and assigned them servants
from my own servants. Then | hung
blankets in the air shaft, reversed my dry
ing plant, and let ice water drip over the
hanging blankets The air was cooled by
the wet blankets, and when it was anywhere
| from 81 to 1O5 outside, it was down to so in
| there.
s'They were immensely pleased, and in
vited me to come to Maine. SO went there
two years ago to present the Maine posts
the peace flag. think it is a splendid
thing that there should be some visible
recognition of the unity which has
resulted since the removal of the only
thing that was different as an institution
between the North and the South /
feel it a compliment to be asked to speak,
and l have made this trip especially for the
purpose. | have divorced it entirely from
my business, though | have an agency in
this city,
Col WeiSSinger is a typical Southerner,
stout, courteous to the degree for which the
Blue Grass region has long been famous,
and with the soft accent of a man who has
grown up among the colored servants of the
South, and he has merry brown eye. In
the war he was in Morgan's Raiders and
was captured with them on their famous
ride through Ohio and Indiana.
He is a well known tobacco manufacturer
in Louisville.
In politics he is Mugwump who jumped