The Republican journal., 1913-11-27

about the first OF July by Capt. T. G.
Jewett. The Secor, Capt. T. B. Sanford
ran between this place and Ellsworth
from early in May until November, anc
then from Frankfort, after the river
closed, to Portland.
Our Collection district was raced il
March by cutting off Bangor and Frank
fort and making them part of new dis
trict of which Bangor was the Port Of
Entry.
Judge Thayer's official term as Judge
of Probate having expired by limitation
Joseph Miller, ESQ.,, of Lincolnville, was
appointed to succeed him and held his
first Court here on the first Tuesday ir
April.
At the annual spring meeting, March
22d, Nathaniel M. Lowney, James Gam
mons and Abraham N Noyes were chos.
en- Selectmen, Nathanel Patterson. Clerk,
and Samuel S. Hersey, Treasurer. The
monies raised were $1650.0O for schools,
$500. 90 tor paupers, $1,000. 90 for inciden.
tai expenses, $4,000 for roads and
bridges, S5000 90 in labor and materials,
and 100000 for payment of debts.
Excelsior Encampment Of the l. O. Of
0. F. was instituted on the 18th of April,
and the following officers were elected
Ansel Lehman. C. P, David W. Lothrop,
H. P, Benjamin Griffin, S., Benjamin F.
Barker, l.. Darius D. Pmkham, S. W.,
Benjamin Sargent, 7. W., Abram Jor'
dan. S., Martin P. Townsend, G.
On the 18th of May Capt. Palmer with
his company of infantry left on the
steamer Penobscot for Fort A ans, New
port, R. l., en-route for Mexico.
In the morning of the first of June q
young man by the name of Marden com
mitted suicide in his room at the Ameri-
can House. He was found suspended
from the bedpost by silk handkerchief
round his neck. He had been in the EN-.
ployment of the stage proprietor as
hostler.
On the 18th Mr. Bird. the "famed wiz
ard of the East gave an Exhibition OF
Mirth, Magic and Ventriloquism at
Washington Hall.
This month, for the first time in our vii
lage ice became mark etable commodity.
1t was sold at the rate of one cent pei
pound delivered at the purchasers house,
or half cent al the e-house The ice
house stood in rear Of the wooden stores
on high street now occupied by Charles
H. Mitchell and Andrew D. Bean, anC
the dealers in the article were CharlesU.
and Lucius E. Burkmar.
The Fourth of July being Sunday, the
day following was celebrated in its stead.
In the forenoon there was parade OF
the Calathumpian Band and Fantastic
Guards, and another of the Firemen,
who marched through the streets pre-
coded by our new Brass Band and after
wards practised with their engines. In
the evening there was fine display OF
fireworks on the Common to the great
qualification of hosts of men, women
and children and the great grief of one
little fellow, a son of Mr.. Roger Meri-
thew of Belmont, who came very near
being fatally wounded by the falling
shaft of an exploded rocket which struck
him on the head. American Hall, the
new hall in the American House, H. N.
Lancaster landlord, was opened with a
public Ball and supper.
About this time there was an exhibi-
ton at Washington Hall of Historical
and Scriptural Dioramas and Panoramas
on 5000 feet of canvass" One of them
was panorama of Bunyan's Pilgrim s
Progress.
The first number of newspaper, the
New Planet, William L. Avery, ESQ.,,
and Horace K. Kimball publishers, 49,
sued on the 18th of July. 1t was folio
sheet, with seven wide columns on each
page, and was published weekly. After
sixteen numbers had been issued its
proprietors purchased the Signal and on
the 4th of November the State sigma
and New Planet, united, made its first
appearance. In January, 1849, Mr..
Kimball dissolved his connection with
the paper, and Mr.. Avery continued to
publish and edit it until March 8, 1858,
when he sold it to Mr.. D. P. Prime who
changed it's name to the Belfast Signal.
Rockwell and Company's New York
Circus, with Fannie Ellsler the most
sagacious pony in the world" exhibited
here on the 22d and 23d of July, and on
the second of August Sands, Lent and
Co.'S american Circus Company, with
the India-rubber man and the English
horse May-fy, who dances in an incon-
ceivable graceful style" gave US ian
Olympian Festival for one day only"
Rev. M. A. H. Niles was installed pas
tor of the Unitarian Society on the 18th
of August. The services were as fol-
lows: Introductory prayer and Charge
to the pastor by Rev. Mr.. Wheeler of
Topsham, Installing prayer by Rev. Mr..
Cole of Hallowell, Sermon by Rev. DR..
Gannett, address to the people by Rev.
Mr.. Miles of Lowell. Right hand of Eel
lowship and concluding prayer by Rev.
T,,ll IS A,,r.,~e~ AEA.- Al. T.