The Republican journal., 1913-06-26

Remember the name-Doans-and take no
other.
Joseph williamson, County Attorney
Hugh J. Anderson, Clerk of the Courts,
Bohan P. Field, Chief Justice of the
Court of Sessions. Joseph Hall of Cam
den was appointed Sheriff and Nathaniel
M. Lowney of Frankfort, Register of
Probate. The Associate Justices of the
Sessions were Joseph Shaw of Thorndike
and Thomas Eastman of Palermo. Mr..
Anderson, afterwards Representative in
/ Congress and Governor of the State, is
the only one of the number now living
The steamboat Patent, Captain Cram,
commenced her trips early in May be-
tween P-rtland and Eastport touching at
this and other ports; her last trip for the
season was made in October The steam
boat Waterville, Capt. Porter, was here
September 28th and left the next day for
Bangor. 1t is not remembered that she
was here at any other time during the
season.
About the middle of May another
Caravan, styled magniloquently the
elephant Caravan" made its appear
ance and exhibited in the backyard of
the Eagle Hotel. 1t consisted of the
"Great India Elephant a camel, Loop
ard. lama and ''other minor animals, :"
music on the "ancient Jewish Cymbal. !"
/ This Caravan, like the one which pre-
coded it, was accompanied by "a new
ard elegant collection of Wax Statues.
! Our people and those in the back towns
had not forgotten the lesson they
lie armed two years before, and let The
India Elephant, minor animals, Jewish
Cymbal and wax statues" severity alone.
On the 23d Of May Robert MilIel died
aged sixty-six. He was one of three
brothers, James, Robert and David,
sons OF James Miller who came
here to reside in 1869 and died in 1894
aged eighty-two. James was for many
years the owner and occupant of the
Louise and land best known now as the
old rockingham place; before its sale
to Rev Mr.. rockingham known as the
Jimmy Miller place. He removed from
this place to Pine Township, now Per
rysville, Pa, in 1924 and died there in
$40. David resided he greater portion
of his life in Northport Robert always
resided here until a short time before
his last sickness. He was the owner of
Lot 81, the next Lot southerly from
Main street, on which now stand some
of the finest dwellings in the city, the
Unitarian, Universalist, Methodist and
Baptist Churches. the Custom House
and Postoffice, Hayford Block, the old
| Town Hall and the brick schoolhouse.
He was man of quiet, reserved habits,
regarded by many as unsocial, that trait
in his character may be attributed,
married; that he was a rigidly honest
man no one ever questioned. The fol-
| lowing incident in his early life is mar
rated in Whites History and in Rev. J.
L. Locke's Sketches of the early History
of Belfast, published.in the Progressive
Age in 1856.
During the Revolutionary War, in 1881,
General Wadsworth and Major Burton
were taken prisoners by the British and
confined in the fort at Castine. They
succeeded in making their escape and af-
ter wandering through the forest reach
ed this place. They made themselves
and their condition known to the elder
Miller, but declined to accept the hospi-
tally proffered by him at his own house,
through fear that they might be discov-
cred by their pursuers and that he might
suffer in consequence. His sons, James
and Robert, went with them about mile
into the forest where they built rude
camp of evergreens to which they car
ried food for the fugitives until the
search for them being abandoned they
left, and by the aid of pocket compass,
furnished to them by Mr.. Miller, found
their way through the forest to Thomas
ton, and from thence went to Portland.