The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-10-30
Annals of Belfast tor Half a
Century.
BY AN OLD SETTLER
Hon. VIM. G. Crosby.)
CHAPTER XXYVIl. tl8.l

night and until afternoon of this day. 1t
was estimated that the fall was twelve
inches at least in depth. At four P. NJ
there was not sleigh-trach visible on
Church street The natural inference
was that the good people in that locality
were complying with the request Of the
Governor by devoting the day to ''humil-
iation, fasting and prayer, and abstain
ing from all labor and recreation incon-
sistent with the usual solemnities of the
occasion.
TIE Telegraph. Captain ]. B. Coyie.
was the first steamer to put in an appear
ance at our wharves this spring; she ar
rived on the first day Of April. She was
advertised to ply between this place and
St. John, \. B., but did not long continue
on the route She was soon followed by
the Charter Oak, Captain 5. H. Howes,
and the Huntress, Captain Thomas c.
Jewett. TIE first sailed under the ad-
vertised flag OF the Peoples Antl-nlo-
nopoly. Anti-corporation line :. -, and
piled between Bangor and Boston, touch
ing for awhile at Portland; the latter
under the flag OF the steamboat and
Railroad Line" plying between Bangor
and Portland and connecting at the latter
place with the Eastern Railroad to Bos-
ton. Competition led to reduction
Of rates for freight and passage until
the fare from this place 70 Boston was
only one dollar and fifty cents. 1t con-
tinued until September when the Hunt
ress was taken off the route and the
monopoly" was swallowed by the
Steamboat ana Railroad After that
our only steam connection with Boston
was per Charter Oak, via Portland, and
Eastern Railroad. There was no small
amount Of growing here on the occasion
and the proprietor of the Stage Line be-
tween this and Augusta advertised that
he would carry passengers for one co.
lar and arrive in Augusta in season to
take the steamer from that place to Bos-
ton on Monday and Thursday. The Char
ter Oak vas here on ner last trip for the
season on the seventh of December.
The new stesmer Penobscot touched here
on the 18th of June on her way from
Portland with passengers to attend the
Maine Conference Of Churches at Ban
gor. On the 18th she came down the
river on pleasure excursion, called here
for passengers, thence to Castine where
she remained few hours and thence
back to this place and Bangor. She was
intended to ply between Boston and St.
John, but was soon taken off and put on
the Kennebec route.
Many of our good people went to Bos-
ton on the steamers to unite in the COM
nemoration Of the battle of Bunker Hill,
June 18th, and to celebrate the compile
ton Of the monument. Daniel Webster
was the orator on the occasion and among
those assembled were President Tyler
and many other distinguished national
and State officials. 1t seemed to be
day when the nation went up to the earl
lest altar of Our rational liberty to lay
upon it a nations offering of gratitude
to the Ruler Of Nations for unnumbered
nlercies and blessir gs, and prayer that
SC long as that granite monument point
ed toward Heaven there might be ''Peace
on Earth" Our gratitude was sincere;
so was our prayer; but, as the honest
old clergy man of the olden time said,
"What's the use of praying for rain IN
til the wind changes." The various ex-
periences of some Of oar unsophisticated
townsmen on that occasion have place
in the memory Of tneir surviving contem-
poraries; the record of them in these
annals might afford amusement to the
generation which has succeeded. but
LET the dead Past bury its dead"
The Fourth of July was celebrated
under the auspices OF the Washingtonian
Temperance Associations. Fifteen So
cieties were in attendance from different
towns in the county. Two military
companies, the Hancock Guards, from
Castine, and the Frankf fort Artillery
helped to swell the large concourse of
people. The literary exercises of the
day, at the Unitarian Church, were the
reading of the Declaration of Independ-
ence by Hon. Alfred johnson and an
GRAFTON by Col. Charles W. Cutter of
Portsmouth, N. H. A public dinner was
served in the large chamber of Mr..
Daniel Merril's store house on the
steamboat wharf, at which there were
about six hundred guests. The Prize
County Banner was awarded to the
Frankfort Washingtonian Society and
was presented by Miss Caroline F. Alden,
daughter of Doctor J. P Alden. and re-
ceived by the late Benz amin Shaw, ESQ.,,
of Frankfort, now Winterport. A BAN
ner was also presented to the Belfast
Washingtonian Society. the gift OF the
"Martha Washingtonians" of this place,
by Miss Abigail Marshall, daughter of
Hon. Thomas Marshall, afterwards Mrs.
F. w Berry, now deceased, and receive
ed by James H. Smith, Esq. A banner
was presented to the Juvenile Cold
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