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Various News 1889
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Built for the cotton trade. Trufant, Drummond day night, will probably be caught by this duty attained to a ship while a young man.
& Co., also have on the stocks ship WM. cold snap and remain in the river. During the great Irish famine of 1840, he
Marine Journal the DEARBORN is the first TAPSCOTT, 1,524 tons. * * * * * * carried a ship load of corn from Philadelphia
American schooner to load for Australia. In the south part of the city, Augustus Hon. T. J. Southard, the veteran ship- to the suffering Irish. Among the passengers
Joseph Stickney is going to try a new Arnold, James T. Patten and G. & J. T. Donnell builder, says that he remembers coming from on the return voyage from Ireland was Mr.
patent propeller wheel on the steam yacht are building the ship PAULINE, of 475 tons. Wiscasset to Richmond, in a wagon, January O’Neil of Beattie township, and it was only
SUSQUEHANNA. It is only a few months Wm. M. Rogers & Son will soon launch a ship 22d, 1819. The ferry boat was running, no ice known to each other until a few years since.
ago that the yacht was given a new thin- of 1,138 tons, called the OTSEONTHE, for or snow, farmers were plowing in Dresden, Mr. O’Neil was relating to Captain White his
bladed wheel which proved too weak. Capt. Philadelphia parties, and commanded by and is seemed like May weather. voyage over and happened to name the ship
John M. Cushing, of this city, is commander Captain John Young. Larrabee & Robinson * * * * * * and master as above.
of the SUSQUEHANNA. launched the ship WALES of 800 tons. Cap- HISTORICAL ADDRESS. Voyaging to California during the gold
* * * * * * tain Luther Lombard commands her. Levi RUFUS KING SEWALL’S LECTURE OF excitement of 1850, Captain White and Jas.
A Stroll About Bath in 1852. Houghton, the ship NORTHAMPTON, Cap- TUESDAY EVENING. Hatch, his first officer, (now of Seneca) left
Read at Meeting of the Sag. Hist. Society. tain Wm. Reed, Willard Hall, the ship At the Common Council Room Tuesday the ship in San Francisco, and after following
We arrived in Bath on Saturday, June 19, SAGADAHOC, commanded by Captain evening, Rufus King Sewall delivered an mining a few years with varying success they
1852, and found the city shrouded in mourn- John Fisher; David Curtis built ship LISBON, address on those events which led up to the embarked in the lumber business in the Sier-
ing. The solemn sounds of a dirge, rendered 476 tons; S. D. BAILEY, ship ARAB, 467 tons, settlement of Pemaquid, of which the follow- ras. Being located near the famous Yosemite
by the band, accompanied by the tolling of Captain C. N. Delano; John smith, the ship ing is an abstract: valley they erected a hotel for the accommo-
bells, and the firing of minute guns, an- ALBERT GALLATIN, 533 tons, Captain On the 17
th
of May, 1605, George dation of travelers. After some years of suc-
nounced the moving of the funeral train, David W. Storer; J. H. McLellan, ship Weymouth, was cruising along the New En- cessful business a new railroad diverted
escorted by the Bath City Grays, to the cem- WALES, 790 tons; Jacob P. Morse, ship gland coast in his famous ship, the ARCH- travel from their stage route, so selling out
etery, where were to be deposited the mortal ELVIRA OWEN, 873 tons, Captain Chas. ANGEL, when at nightfall, in a gale of wind came to Kansas in 1875 where he has ever
remains of Maine’s first governor, the Hon. Owen, etc. That year 32,069.33 tons were and a high sea, he sighted land lying in a since been in business and has won the
William King. built. northeast course from the shoals of Cape esteem of all. Mr. W. has been blessed with
The ceremonies at the grave were sol- Steamer OCEAN, Captain E. H. Sanford, Cod. excellent health, stating during this last sick-
emn and impressive, the Free Masons in is running between Hallowell and Boston. In the morning it appeared as a highland ness that it was the first time he had been
regalia conducting the services. General Fare from Bath to Boston, 75 cents; John S. of the main, but it was soon discovered to be obliged to take his bed since sixteen years
King’s was a long, active and very useful life. Elliot, agent. Steamer T. F. SECOR runs be- an island some 6 miles in circumference. old.
He was born in Scarboro about the year 1767. tween Hallowell and Portland. The TEASER At two o’clock a landing was made. The He was married to Miss Aroline Merrow
His father, Richard King, was a merchant of runs on the river. The K. & P. Railroad, Supt. island was found to be well-wooded, with its of Bowdoinham, Maine, in 1855, returning
that town. In 1794, William removed to E. C. Hyde, carry passengers to Boston on shores fringed with strawberry and goose- from California to consummate that event.
Topsham, where he engaged in building ves- accommodation tickets, for $2; from Augusta berry and wild vines, and wild fowl thick The fruit of this union was two children, a boy
sels, milling, trading, etc., in company with his for $2.50. Gay & Co., do the General Express among the rocks. Relics of fire with the and girl, the former dying in Maine when six
brother-in-law, Dr. Porter, and represented business, Henry Hyde, agent. charred bones of birds and animals lay years of age, and the daughter, the wife of
that town one or two terms in the General The ship carpenters of Rockland have around. This was Monhegan. George T. Blake, having with him at the time
Court of Massachusetts. He removed to Bath struck for the ten hour system. To take and occupy the Sagadahoc of his death. Mrs. W. died in 1859, at Mari-
near the commencement of the present cen- T. D. Robinson, David Bronson, and country, English vessels were fitted out with posa, California. In 1865 he again married
tury, and also represented Bath at the General Wm. M. Reed have been appointed commis- one hundred and twenty colonists, the “Gift while in California Miss L. Steadman who
Court, and to him in a great measure, the sioners on the new Custom House to be built of God” being the flagship of the fleet. accompanied him to Kansas, and died in
settlers of the District of Maine were indebted here. Sail was set early in June, 1607. The last Beattie, May 10, 1887.
for enlarged religious tolerat on and for the * * * * * * of July one of the ships sighted an island off * * * * *
passage of the Betterment Act, so-called by A REMARKABLE YEAR. the Maine coast, and, coming to in deep Captain H. H. Curtis, formerly of High-
which threatened internal strife and blood- Although this winter has thus far been water, discovered s shallop containing eight land Park, and well known in this city as one
shed in regard to land titles, were averted. remarkably favorable for out of door work it Indians and an Indian boy, off the shore. of the projectors of the city railroad, died
Mr. King was Major General of this Divi- is not unprecedented. On the 11
th
of Novem- Soon a larger boat, loaded with beaver for suddenly of heart disease at his residence in
sion 11 years. Collector of the Port, Commis- ber, 1852, Small and Bibber began work on the trade, appeared, in charge of three women, Orange, New Jersey, last night, in the sixty-
sioner on erection of the State House, and in keel of a 560 ton ship in the present Sewall who spoke many French words. Having been ninth year of his life. In early life Capt. Curtis
the discharge of the several duties of these yard. The weather proved to be unusually joined by his consort the following day the was a seafaring man and acquired a large
offices he exhibited an unusual degree of pleasant and the vessel was timbered out, ships cruised toward the Sagadahoc shores. practical knowledge of all kinds of marine
foresight and sagacity, and he has left behind ceiled and decked over before the snow came. Sighting a cluster of islands, they anchored property, his judgment being much sought
him the reputation of a high order of intellect. His work in those days occupied a much side by side and, manning a long boat with a after by purchasers. He was at one time a large
His house, latterly owned and occupied by longer time than now and fully two months Pemaquid Indian for a pilot, rowed westward vessel owner and supplied many craft to the
Jere. Shannon as a hotel, formerly located on had passed before winter set in – a record among the handsome specks of land until Government during the late war. His finances
the Custom House site, was always the abode almost equal to that of the present season. they came to Pemquid river, four leagues became crippled through heavy losses. He
of a large and generous hospitality. Although the winter was so favorable for distant. The Indians took them to a cove on was up to the time of his death, a dealer in and
Let us know examine the town and locate builders, only one other vessel was on the the main land, where the men landed and, agent for vessel property. He was also a
some of the active tradesmen and merchants. stocks at that time and this was in the yard of marching across a strip of land, some three promoter of Prof. M. N. L. Hussey’s electrical
Major Thomas Harward is building the ship the late Johnson Rideout. The ship on which miles in breadth, came to an Indian village. clock, now being manufactured in this city.
UNION, 550 tons, at the old yard at the north this record was made, was the LADY The natives sprang to arms with a wild cry, He was one of the organizers of the Five
end, and where the King’s ships lay in 1774. FRANKLIN, and on the 26
th
of the following but the guide, a friend of the chief Nahanda, Points’, New York, mission, and gave liber-
Dummer Sewall was chosen a committee to April, she was in St. John ready for her cargo, made peace for the Englishmen. ally to its support. He leaves one sister, now
order them all and they left. a fact which shows that the favorable weather Saturday, the 8
th
of August, the boats living in Maine, and one brother, Daniel
Further down the river, the spot in 1888 was not entirely confined to the first of the returned to the ships in Monhegan island Curtis, of Brunswick. Previous to his removal
occupied by the N. E. S. B. Co., - Johnson year. harbor. Thus these colonists visited for the to Orange, he resided for the past five or six
Rideout, a veteran ship builder – carrying on * * * * * * first the fertile land of Pemaquid. years on the Phillips property in Highland
that business, has the ship DIRIGO, 608 tons, Work at the block shop Jackson & Son, * * * * * * Park, and was well known, and much re-
laying at the wharf, ready for sea. She will sail Commerical St., is suspended for the day on Two Bath built ships, the WILLIAM F. spected in this city.”
the first favorable opportunity, in charge of account of a broken shaft, which gave way at BABCOCK and the GEORGE STETSON, * * * * * *
Captain Cyrus Casper. He has also on the one of the main joints yesterday. The break sailed from San Francisco on the 13
th
instant, BOWDOINHAM.
stocks the monster ship ARIEL, of 1,329 tons, will be repaired as soon as possible, as there wheat laden for Europe. They are both com- Tonight the citizens of this village were
the largest every before built on the is a large amount of work on hand. The blocks manded by a Murphy, brothers, and each again shocked when the startling report was
Kennebec. She will be commanded by Cap- for the two steamboats now underway in the captain is determined to beat the other. The circulated that Capt. J. O. Given was dead. It
tain I. Q. A. Reed. New England yards are among the orders on race will be a close one. The STETSON was was but about two hours before this report
The fine ship COMMERCE, of 1,085 the books of this firm, and work on those for built by Albert Hathorn and the BABCOCK that he was on our street, apparently in good
tons, is nearly completed, and will be the Kennebec boat is already begun. by Goss, Sawyer & Packard. health. It was about 5:50 this afternoon when
launched in a few days from the yard of Clark * * * * * * * * * * * * he and his daughter Minnie, (Mrs. Given
& Sewall, the next south of Mr. Rideout’s. The tug ADELIA, which has been en- BOWDOINHAM. bring in Bath at the time), had finished tea, and
Captain John H. Lowell will command her. gaged by Richmond ice men to clear the river The Beattie (Kan.) Star brings news of he arose to walk across the room, when sud-
Geo. F. & J. Patten, in the yard adjoining, of drift in order that good fields might result the death in that town of Mr. Dexter White denly he staggered and fell to the floor.
have recently launched the fine ship from the first freeze, is again at her old wharf, formerly a Maine shipmaster, at the age of Minnie, becoming alarmed at this, ran out and
MARSHFIELD, and she has sailed for New and shows the marks of service. The paint is seventy-two years. called Mr. T. W. Fogg, who immediately went
Orleans in command of Captain Joseph H. entirely gone about the lower part of the bow, Mr. Dexter White was born in to the house, where he found the captain as
Torrey, to go into the cotton trade. the copper is torn away in places the wood- Bowdoinham, Maine, February, 1817. Had before stated. Mr. Fogg lifted him to the
In the yard next south Messrs. Wm. V. & work is somewhat chafed. But worst of all it two brothers and one sister living, one of sofas, after which he breathed but a few times.
O. Moses are building a large ship of 1,000 is to be feared that her work will prove to have whom is Mrs. Cordelia Brookings of Capt. Given has been a life-long citizen of this
tons, to be named the AMERICAN UNION, been in a measure vain, since the drift ice in Lewiston, Maine. He entered upon a sea- town and for many years followed the sea,
to be commanded by Captain William M. Otis. the river, with the snow which came on Sun- faring life while a boy, and by attention to retiring about six years ago. He was the heavi-
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