The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-08-28
ton Of his misfortune. The contract
price for the organ was six hundred dol

lars.
Captain Nathan Swan, father of Mr..
William B. Swan, died on the 30th of
June, aged fifty-two. Capt. Swan came
to the village to reside about 1919; prior
to that time he had resided at Poor's
Mills. He was a Deputy under Sheriff
Adams, and several of his successors,
held various municipal offices. and was
captain of the Militia company at the
time this place was occupied by the Brit
ish; he was the first captain of infantry
who appeared on parade armed and
equipped with a spontoon. Our vener-
able fellow citizen, Ralph c. johnson,
was ensign of the company at the time.
He established a Bakery in a building
which stood on the site of the Sanborn
House, and from 1928 until near the time
of his decease he kept a restaurant in
the building at the junction of Main and
Washington streets now occupied by An
son E. Durham.
The celebration of Fourth of July was
under the exclusive auspices of the DEM
ocratic Party, which held County Con-
vention here on the same day. The De-
claration was read by Albert Pilsbury.
ESQ.,, and an GRAFTON was delivered by
John W. Frost, Esq; both young men
just admitted to the Bar Mr. Pilsbuly
studied law in the office of H. 0. Alden,
ESQ.,, Mr. Frost in the Office of Judge
johnson. Mr.. Pilsbury soon afterwards
opened an Office in Calais, and Mr.. Frost
in Bangor. In 1858 Mr.. P was men,
Der of the Executive Council and in the
year following was the Democratic can
didate for Governor of the State He
was subsequently for eight years U. S.
Consul at Halifax where he died in June,
1872, in his fifty-seventh year. Mr..
Frost after leaving Bangor, where he
edited newspaper for awhile, establish
ed his residence in Brunswick, Georgia.
From thence he removed to New Orleans
in lS47, where he was the editor of the
New Orleans Crescent In 1851 he be-
came involved in some political difficulty
to which a DR.. Thomas G. Hunt was a
party. 1t resulted in a duel between
him and the doctor. the duel was fought
near New Orleans, and Mr.. Frost was
killed. Escort duty was performed on
the occasion of the celebration by the
Belfast Light Infantry under command
of Capt. Alexis Morrill,. a brother of
Philip Morrill,, who after leaving here
resided for many years at Norwalk,
Ohio, near which place he was killed by
railroad accident in October, 1872 There
was a public dinner at the Town Hall
prepared by Mr.. Herbert R. Sargent,
who died in March. 1913.
On the evening of Sept. 4th the EVAN
dering Piper" as he was styled, piped at
the Court House; he was apparently
about forty years of age, tall, athletic
and Scot. There was an air of mys-
terry about his movements; he piped for
money but bestowed in charity the
greater portion of his receipts. One
theory was that he was an eccentric
nobleman travelling in disguise; another
that he was testing on a wager the hos
pitallty and liberality OF the American
people as compared with the people of
some other country. He travelled on his
mission, whatever it was, throughout
ha 'pin 70 x1rbi Io boI
received and expended for charitable
purposes up the time of his arrival here
was SAID to have exceeded thirty five
hundred dollars. Two Female Benevo-
lent Societies We're the recipients of his
bounty in this place, to each of which he
gave five dollars. 1t is not known that
discovered.
during the summer our people were all
agog on the subject of a railroad to
Quebec. A reconnaissance and partia!
survey of the route was made under the
supervision of Col. S. H. Long of the U.
S. Army corps of Typographical Engi-
ICe1o. ANuHlCIouo meetings were uSlu,
speeches still more numerous were made,
resolutions adopted and even the prophe.
tic authority of Scripture invoked to
prove that railroad from Belfast to
Quebec was one of the hidden things to
be revealed; the revelation has been for
long time delayed. 1t may come at
last-''line upon line-here little and
there little''
The steamboat Patent arrived here on
the morning of September 10th, having
been purchased by company of our
townsmen to ply between this place and
Bangor. She made her first trip to Ban
gor on the 2lst in four hours and half;
she was six hours making her return
trip. Her engine had contracted very
bad habit of "falnting away" as the
stage driver said who ran in opposition
to her. The truth was that she was an
old, worn out, broken down affair, and
the whole enterprise resulted disastrous
ly to all concerned.
Coupled with the foregoing movement
was project to build steamboat wharf
500 feet long commencing at the end of
Durham's wharf; little south from the