The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-10-30

M. Anderson was the successful C1nol-
date; it was his first election to the Office.
Our fellow citizen Joseph Bean, of the
firm of Furber and Bean, was elected
Representative to the Legislature; he
was then known as Joseph Bean, ID.
there being another townsman older than
he of the same name.
In October the erection of one story
building IN the rear of the Unitarian
church was completed: it was known as
the Unitarian Vestry. Religious services
were held in it for the first time on the
evening of the fifteenth of the same
month. 1t was removed some fifteen
years ago to Bridge street, near Waldo
Avenue, and is now a school-house.
The business of ship-building was not
so brisk.this year as in the year preced-
ing. The only vessels built and launched
so far as the compiler remembers, were
the ship Lady Arbella of about 400 tons
burthen, the brig Mazeppa. of about 200,
and 1.-THE barque Ralph Cross of about
300; they were all launched from the
yard of Master Robertson.
The Mails arriving and leaving during
this year were as follows: to and from
Thomaston and Bangor daily; ur'West-
ern Mail" then went by the way of
I homaston; to and from Augusta and
Ellsworth tri-weekly; to and from Al
bion and Dixmont semi-weekly; to and
from Gardiner weekly; our Western Mail
left at four O'Clock in the morning and
arrived at from s to II in the evening.
Post Office open every day except Sun
DAY, from { a. n. to $50 p. m. Sum-
day was a day when, it was presumed,
no one cared to receive or mail letter
How is it now? Have We become less
scrupulous in our observance of the Sab
bath than we were then? or, have We
become more thoroughly appreciative of
the truth that 1.-The Sabbath was made
for man. and that man therefore may
III axe such use of it as his taste or in
clinations suggest? or-perhaps for our
own credit it is better that we should not
pursue the inquiry.
The annual meeting of the Waldo
County Washingtonian Total Abstinence
Society was held on the 18th of Deem
Der. Prior to this date harmony had
pervaded all the councils of the Society
and great and good results had followed
its labors. The time had come at last
when the apple of discord was to be
thrown into its feast by the introduction
of resolution that ''all who retail ar
dent spirits as beverage in the county
Of Waldo are a nuisance" After
long and earnest discussion the resolu-
ton was adopted; it was the death blow
to the original Washingtonian movement
in this locality. The status Of the bust
ness of retailing ardent spirits at that
time may be gathered from the report
made to the County Society by the sec
rotary of the Belfast Washingtonian So
ciety. from which report it appears that
1--WE have sixteen licensed retailers, two
taverns, fourteen stores and dens under
ground. The report proceeds, that
We are happy to add that Belfast village
is blessed with an American House,
kept by the present landlord, Mr.. Lam
caster. on total abstinence principles. "
It is gratifying to know that the House,
although its proprietorship has been fire.
quently changed, still maintains its we'll
deserved ard established reputation.
Among the noticeable deaths OF this
year, in addition to such as have been al
ready named, were those of Captain
John Doyle, who for many years ran
packet between this place and Eastport,
who built the house on Main street now
occupied by Cyrus Patterson, and died
at Eastport in August aged thirty-five;
Mayo Hezeltine, brother of our fellow
citizen Paul R. Hazeltine, for many
years merchant in this place and of
whom mention has heretofore been made,
who died in Boston, December 9Th, aged
thirty-elght, and whose remains were
brought here for interment; Alvan Ed
munds, son of Asa Edmunds, father of
Charles C. Edmunds, who died June 9Th,
aged sixty three, and Ebenezer Colburn,
one of the earliest settlers here in this
cen fury, grandfather OF our fellow citl-
zen William T. Colburn, who died JAN
airy 18th, aged eighty-tive.