The Republican journal., 1913-10-16
ct the North Church by Rev. Stephen
Thurston of Prospect

Oy tne BUSINESS ulen VI thdt udys GULF
menced running an express between
Bangor ard Boston on the steamer Tele-
graph this year. The business was con-
Quoted, and never more promptly and
faithfully, under the name of Spear &
Co.. the company being Mr.. David Bug
bee of Bangor.
The evening Of June 23d was eminent
ly Lecture evening. Mr.. Abbott, the
'.Sailor Preacher, lectured at the Acad-
envy on temperance, Mormon at the
Court House on the doctrine and creed
of the ''Latter-day Saints" and Mil
lerite at the Methodist Meeting house
on the millennium.
The Fourth of July was ushered in by
the ringing of bells and rain-storm of
short duration. The day passed off very
quietly with only one ROW" and very
marked decrease in the consumption of
rum There was no public celebration
here, but there were several-all on tenn
perance prlnciples-in different parts of
the county, some of which were attend
ed by large delegations from this place.
On the eighth of July the office of the
Republican Journal was removed to
chambers in the northerly end Of the old
Telegraph Building.
The United States steam frigate Mis-
souri,, under command of Captain John
T. Newton, arrived here from Castine
on the oath of August. She remained
until after noon of the Goth, when she
left for Camden. While here she was
visited by crowds-fve thousand people
according to the estimate of one of her
officers from this and towns adjacent.
She was the first ar-steamer that had
visited any American port on this coast
east of Boston and was said to be at the
time the largest steamship in the world.
She was subsequently destroyed by fire,
originated by the breaking of glass
vessel containing spirits of turpentine,
while lying in the harbor at Gibraltar
Among the young lieutenants on board
ner while here were Simon b. Bissell,
now Commodore on the retired list,
and John A. Winslow who was in COM
mand of the Kearsage when she cap
turnd and destroyed the Alabama, and
who died within the last year.
A Farmers and Mechanics Convention,
so called, assembled here on the 9th of
August; it's principal professed object
being to devise measures for the sup
preston of litigation. The projectors of
the movement overlooked the fact that |
human nature must be marvellously pu
rifed before man will conform his life to
the precepts of the Gospel his tongue is
60 fond of preaching. We should indeed
have Heaven on earth If men would
cease from contention and do unto others
as they would that others should do unto
them; but it is idle to look for that day !
until the prayer is answered, Thy king /
dom GOMEZ" - Litigation was neither
suppressed or checked by the convention.
One Harmon Quiggle relieved himself |
Ol lIG UuIluell u Wei -iiASSiNSAA
name and a charge of larceny by COM
hitting suicide III the jail on the 9th OF
September. 1t was somewhat question
able, however, whether the poor unfor-
tunate, who was of Incorporate habits,
intended suicide, or whether his death
was the consequence OF taking laud-
anum left in his cell by former occu
pant, as a means of eXhilaration. How
ever that may have been, there was no
more Quiggle. ;
The house and barn of Mr.. George
Durham on the Stanley road, the road
leading from Belmont Avenue by the
premises now occupied by Hon. Albert .
G. Jewett, were burned in the night OF .
October twentysiXth. On the 18th OF /
evening the Academy was discovered to
be on nre and was entirely consumed. /
1t had been removed and repaired about |
two wears before at cost of about two
thousand dollars. These were the only
destructive fires during the year within |
the memory Of the compiler.
In the month of November, about the
18th, the schooner Enterprise of Salem,
Captain John Shute of this place Master,
was lost at sea with all on board. Two |
of the crew, Silas Reed and John Nc
Donald, belonged here. The wreck was
seen by two vessels and one man was
discovered on it dashed apparently be-
tween the pump and the stump of the
mainmast. The attempt was made to
take him off, but as the sea was running
very high and the wind blowing a hurri
cane the attempt was unsuccessful; such
was the report at the time. The wreck
was afterwards boarded, Nov. 22d, by
the keeper of the Mt. Desert Light who
found no person on board. Captain Shute
had previously been master of the Pres
ident Jackson and the Albert of this
port. Many still living cannot fail to
remember him.
In the month of May Mr.. John Lord
delivered a course of lectures on the |
Middle Ages. They were of high literary
order and exceedingly interesting. but |