The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-11-06

after the failure of their attempt to
able property saved through the instru-
mentality of our rev engine furnished a
very convincing argument in answer to
the reasons assigned by our people in the
eastern section of the town why they
should not contribute their portion of the
money paid for it.
About midnight of the eighth of July
an old tenement, then recently occupied
by Asa Day, was burned; the handiwork
of some sportive incendiary; it stood on
the street leading to the bridge, An I'M
occupied house and barn at Mason's Mills
were destroyed by fire in the night of the
nineteenth, and on the night of the
twenty-sixth an old barn, the property
of widow Alden, was burned; it was an
ancient local landmark, being the same
temporarily occupied by the British
troops when they were here in 1914; this
fire. doubtless, was the work of some of
the "gay and festive cusks" of our viii
lage. [ouite a number of whom were rum
ming at large between July and Deem
Der Of this year.
At the annual spring meeting, March
18th, Thomas Marshall, Benjamin F.
Blackstone, and Samuel Haynes were
chosen Selectmen, David W. Lothrop,
Clerk, and Timothy Chase, Treasurer.
The only representative of the Wing
party on the Board was the chairman of
the Selectmen. The largest number of
votes thrown was $50. The monies rails
ed were as follows: for the support of
schools $500, for support of paupers
$500, for incidental expenses $500, for
repairs of bridges, &C., 500, for pay
ment of debts $500, for highways, in
labor, $4,000. A vote was passed by
very large majority to instruct the Select
sprituous liquors.
The first steamer OF the season was
the Portland, who made her appearance
at Saturday Cove on the 18th of March;
it was as near as she could come on ac-
count of the ice; she reached our wharves,
! for the first time on the second of April.
The Charter Oak followed her before the
close of the month and continued 10 run
| through the season, connected with the
| Eastern Railroad at Portland; the fare
from this place to Boston was So. so. She
/ 10, off bo IN tri,N
June, to convey delegates to the Wing
State Convention in Augusta, and the
steamer Frank took her place; very much
/ to the annoyance of certain people then
styled Loco Focos, who were saved from
/ bursting only by giving vent to their in
I dignation in the columns of The Journal.
The Portland was again on the route in
| the fall of the year but suspended her
trips on the 18th of December.
A schooner of about 80 tons burthen,
named the Squirrel, built by MIR. William
Tiden, was launched on the 18th of April,
and brig of about 200 tons, named the
Maria Spear, from the yard of Master
Robertson, on the 2Sth of September.
Mir. A. H. Park. nephew of the late
Capt. Andrew w. Park of this town, who
died in September 1867, aged eighty one,
man blind from his birth, delivered
course of lectures at the Court House in
the month of May on Astronomy! 1t
was one of the last topics on Which it
would be supposed that blind man
could discourse intelligently; yet his lee
lures were very interesting and evinced
that he was master of his subject. He
is now living in Massachusetts engaged
in the business of milk farming.
In the same month Mr.. B. S. Foster,
firm in that faith which is ''the SUBJ
stance of things hoped for" re-opened
the bathrooms on Merrill's wharf.
There is no evidence on the Valuation
book that he derived any income from
the enterprise.
Mr.. Daniel Ring became landlord of
the Phoenix House the same month, and
in December following Mr.. John Hussey
became landlord of the public house at
the foot of Main street, then called the
Farmers House, afterwards the Farmers
Inn.
On the 29th of the month one John S.
Traitor, about twenty five years OF age,
was found by some boys who were play
ing in the woods about half mile from
the village suspended from the branch of
tree with a rope around his neck. From
the appearance Of the body, and various
circumstances, it was inferred that he
had been hanging there for several days.
A Lodge of "Odd Fellows" called the
Passagassawaukeag Lodge, was insti-
tuted here on the 29th of June, and the
following officers were elected: David
w. Lothrop, N. G., Samuel G. Thurlow,
V. G., Ansel Lothrop, S., and George R.
Lancaster, T. The meetings of the
Lodge were held in Phoenix Hall which
was thereafter known for many years as
Odd Fellows Hall. The old Anti-ma-
sonic feeling against "secret societies"
had not become entirely extinct, and on
the 9th of December the Rev. Richard
Woodruff, of Thomaston, delivered a
| lecture at the BAPTIST MeetinQ-houee in