The Republican journal., 1913-12-18

his own feelings without adding that the
green blanket which Nature kindly
spreads over her sleeping children never
covered a truer, warmer, more genial
heart than his.
On the 9th of January DIR. Palfrey de-
livered the last lecture before the Lyre-
UNI. Doctor Young commenced course
on Chemistry on the tenth; his second
was delivered on the evening following,
but for lack of patronage sufficient to
pay expenses the courseSswas abandoned.
Mr.. Holt of Bloomfield, gave highly
interesting and beautifully illustrated
lecture on Palestine at the North Church
on the sixth of February.-Dr. Josiah
Prescott, who had previously resided in
this place, lectured on Hydropathy, or
( the cold water cure, i'll the month of
March; but the mercury was quite too
low for success in the way of CONVEX
sions to the faith he held. On the 18th
of July colored man, John Randolph,
who claimed to be nephew of the cele-
brated John Randolph of Roanoke, lee
tured at the Unitarian Church to crowd
ed house. He commenced by tracing
| his geology" as he termed it, back to
| Pocahontas-dwelt at great length on the
achievements of his own industrious"
and concluded by satisfying his audi
ence that he was an arrant imposter,
| humbug and ass. He was followed in
! August by Henry Bib, another individ-
ual of the colored persuasion, who gave
two lectures at the Baptist Church, en-
bracing a narration of his escape from
bondage. He was far superior to his
predecessor in brains and honesty and
his narrative was quite interesting. All
the lectures with which we We're favored
this year, so far as remembered, are
embraced in the foregoing.
On the 18th of January Messrs. Josiah
N. White and Jesse Black announced to
, the public that they had become land
lords of the Farmers House, succeeding
Mr.. John Hussey.
On the same day the firm of Rowe and
Griffin, publishers of the Journal, was
dissolved. Mr., Griffin being about to
sail in the Suliote sold his interest in the
! paper to Mr.. George B. Moore, who be-
! came joint proprietor with Mr.. Rowe.
| On the 9Th of April following, Mr.. r.
sold out his interest to Mr.. Levi R. Wing
and soon after left for California by the
overland route.
Mr.. Moore continued to be connected
With the paper as editor or proprietor
until he removed to Camden, having re-
celved the appointment of Inspector of
! Customs at that place. After the expi.
ration of his official term he was for a
while a contributor to the columns of the
Eastern Argus, ard still later editor of
! the Portland Advertiser. While occupy
! ing that position he died on the fifteenth
I day of March, 1864, aged thirty-eight
! Mr. Moore was native of Searsmont
! and by trade a printer. He served his
| apprenticeship lnsthe Journal office. He
was a man of high order of talent,
1 welded the pen of ready writer, and
had he not been deficient in what is
termed worldly wisdom might have
reaped the pecuniary reward to which
his labors richly entitled him; but he
was welded to his profession and no alien
love was permitted to steal between it
and him. He left many warm friends by
whom his early departure was sincerely
deplored.
In the evening of February 10th a shop
in Mr.. S. c. Nickerson's shipyard at the
Upper Bridge was destroyed by fire with
its contents, tools, moulds, etc. About
midnight of the 18th small house near
Front street, owned by DR.. Cass, was
burned. In the evening of August 18th
a workshop in Carter's sbip-yard was
burned; supposed to be the work of an
incendiary. A house on the eastern side
of the river occupied by Bancroft Wy
man was burned in the night of the 18th
of June. In the evening of October 9th
a small house on Bridge street, then re-
Gently vacated by tenant of dubious
character, was pried from its foundation
tumbled down the bank and then burned
by company of Regulators who con-
stituted themselves the guardians of the
morals of the village for the time being.
No criminal prosecution followed al
though the act was regarded by ali re-
f1ecting men as an outrage on propriety.
Washington birthday was celebrated
under the auspices of the Temperance
Society at the Unitarian Church. An
address was delivered by Rev. Mr.. Cut,
ter. The patriotic boys of the village
closed the evening with a tar-barrel
illumination.
For two or three weeks before this
date we had very severely cold weather.
On the morning Of the 10th the mercury
stood at twenty-five degrees below zero.
The bay was 20 frozen over on the goth