August 2, 1881 Machias Union Date: 97-09-01 16:38:54 EDT From: ctyankee@bigfoot.com (Ken) (c) 1997 by Kenneth A. Dill please send corrections to: e-mail ctyankee@bigfoot.com or snail mail: Kenneth A. Dill 581 Crown St #27 Meriden, CT. 06450 Fact and Fancy During the Crusades a curious law was enacted that "he who kills a man on ship board shall be bound to the dead body and thrown into the sea; if the man is killed on shore, the slayer shall be bound to the dead body and buried with it." __________________________________ Summer tourists and guests who put their names on the hotel registers would confer a favor, if they would not try to write left handed, and with their eyes shut. Such specimens of chirography as the most of our hotel registers show would make excellent material for a curiosity shop. It would seem that the least a person can do is to learn to write his name so that experts may read it. A black bear in Idaho undertook to hug a young lady, and she punched out one of his eyes with her parasol. It will teach him a lesson. An old gentleman of 80 summers recently married in Maine a lady of 75 years of age, and the brass band of the village serenaded the happy couple with "What shall the Harvest Be?" Four survivors of the Dartmoor prison are living in Marblehead, all of them being over 84 years of age. A young man from Maine, in a spirit of jest, registered at a Leadville hotel as from Texas, and in less than two minutes they had him in jail as a matter of precaution. Folks learn a thing or two when they've been west a while. Sitting Bull and 200 of his people have surrendered. [There has been an ongoing story in the past few issues about the shooting of President Garfield, The following was in this issue] If the President lives he will need a duplicate term to get through with all the old, high wines sent him by the sympathising. His cellar is nearly full. The news of the attempted assassination of President Garfield was a great shock to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, and for a day she was almost prostrated. When the news was announced she exclaimed: "Oh, can it be that the President of this country is no longer safe from assassins? Oh, how terrible! Who did it!" With eyes suffused with tears she repeatedly murmured: "Poor Mrs Garfield!" and she retired to her room, remaining there until the next day. The Calais Times don't like Lynch law, and thinks it will do for the "lawless regions" of the West, etc. We never met a person yet who liked Lynch law. The offender don't like its execution and the offended shrink in horror from being a party to its execution, still at times it has had a sobering, purifying influence in very many communities. We confess to no love for hardened criminals and willful murderers; always rejoice when they dangle whether the hemp be furnished by verdict and sentence of a legal tribunal, or improvised bt the honest yet earnest convictions of an outraged community. When Courts are "afraid" and hesitate by reason of threats or political influence to deal promptly and justly by the hardened and abandoned, what then? One wounded suffering President; three brutal murders in one week in Maine, one tarred and feathered person in Massachusetts, and a multitude of divers crimes bordering on murder and arson, are suggestive; the remedy or correction is dormant and slow of resurrection! There must be a quickening, otherwise law and order will have no parentage, or household! The Harmon Family Benjamin Harmon one of the early settlers of Machias married Sarah Hill; children were William who married Mary McAllister; children-- Daniel, Almira, Stephen, Mary. Japhet married Sarah Getchel; children-- Abagail, Hiram, Nathaniel, Marshall, Lousia, Joseph, Abner, Silas, Sally, Hill. Nathaniel married Lydia McAllister; children--William, Henry, George, Betsey,_______, Hannah. Samuel married Mercy Fisher; children--Lucinda, Mary, John F, Sophia, Samuel H. Henry married Sarah Berry; children-- Emery, Sarah, Loring, Elmira, Leonora. Stephen married _______ Butterfield and settled near Woodstock, N.B. Hannah married Wm Albee; children-- Sally, John, Deborah, William, Benjamin H, David P, Lydia, Uriah, Nathan, Lucinda. Rebecca married James Bean; children-- Louisa, Benjamin, James, Lucy, Henry Sally married Aaron Seavy; children-- Benj H, Drucilla, Mary A, Geo W, Hiram H, Jane, Abigail, Leonard, John, Loring, Sarah, Jabez. Lydia married Daniel Whittemore; children-- Wm, Mary, Samuel, Andrew J, Maria, Eben, Sarah. Betsey married ______ Sawyer; settled near Houlton. Phebe married John Seavey; children-- Henry, Susan, Hillard, Joseph M, Elijah, Ellis, Webber, Joanna. Benjamin married 1st Lovina Hanscom; children-- Ellis, Andrew J, Hannah, Leverett, Laura, Mary, Lizzie; 2d Hannah Blackman. William, Nathaniel and Rebecca lived on the St. Croix, at Calais and Milltown, N.B. S. Hill Harmon son of Samuel is a lumber manafacturer at San Francisco. Mary, second daughter of Samuel is the wife of C.H. Allen, Esq. Cincinnati,Ohio. Local and Miscellaneous Items A day recently Mr Parker Gilson of Cutler ate dinner and laid down for a rest; he died in a few minutes. His name is Wm H Bradford, not A Y as we reported recently, who has charge of keeping the Telegraph line in repair and who recently removed his family from Cherryfield to Machias. News of the death of Capt Marcus H. Handy was received at Prospect Harbor July 25. He died of yellow fever at Cionfuegos. He was master of brig Marena; and only son of Joseph W. Handy of the Firm of Deasy & Handy at Prospect Harbor. The news was telegraphed from New York by Marcus Hunter and Co.;a sad bereavement to friends and the neighborhood. Capt. Cates, of the brig Motley, of Machias was with Capt H. in his sickness and kindly attended to the burial. MARRIED In Pembroke, July 9, by Rev A J Lockhart, John C Wright of Pembroke, and Miss Perdita L Turner, of Londonderry, NS. DIED In Columbia, July 22, Aaron Allen, about 61 years. In Steuben, July 26, Abbie S, wife of A J Parritt, Esq., 56 years. In Minneapolis, Minn., July 3, Eben S Hanscom, aged 83 years, formerly of East Machias. In Edmunds, July 26, Jessie Y Little, aged 27 years. In Charlotte, July 19, Mrs Roxanna, wife of Enoch H Fisher, aged 84 years. In Steuben, July 28, Miss Annie Farrin, aged 23 years. In Harrison, Minn, July 20, Mr Ransom Nash, formerly of Columbia, aged about 64 years. In Jonesport, July 28, Seward Tinker, of Eastport, aged about 20; Miss Lottie Wilson, aged about 17 years. To the Hon. Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court next to be holden at Machias, within and for the County of Washington. SARAH J. BAGLEY, of East Machias in said County of Washington, libels and gives this Honorable Court to be informed, that at Cutler in said County, on July eleventh A.D. 1867, she was lawfully married to Samuel A. Bagley of said East Machias; that after their marriage they resided in said Cutler, East Machias aforesaid, and at Machiasport, in said County, until the month of May A.D. 1877, when the said libellee went to the state of California. That up to that time she had ever been a chaste, affectionate and faithful wife, yet the said Samuel, unmindful of his marriage vows and duty, since going to California aforesaid, has become dissolute in his habits and, without reasonable cause, has wilfully deserted and abandoned your libellant. Wherefore your libellant prays that the bonds of Matrimony between her and her said husband may be dissolved. And your libellant avers that it would be reasonable and proper, conductive to domestic harmony, and consistant with the peace and morality of society. SARAH J. BAGLEY Machias, Aug. 6, 1880 The Libellant, having had leave to amend, further avers that the residence of the Libelee is unknown to her; that she has used due diligence to ascertain his present residence and has failed to find it. SARAH J. BAGLEY Machias July 7, 1881 Subscribed, and sworn before me this day. John F. Lynch, Justice of the Peace. _______ STATE OF MAINE Washington, ss. Supreme Judicial Court, April Term, 1881 Upon the foregoing Libel it is ORDERED by the Court, That notice be given the said Samuel A, Bagley of the pendency thereof, by publishing an attested copy of said Libel, with this order of Court thereon, three weeks successively in the Machias Union a newspaper printed at Machias in said County, the last of said publications to be thirty days at least before the next Term of this Court, which is to be holden at Machias, within and for said County, on the first Tuesday of October next, that he may then and there appear in our said Court and shew cause, if any he may have, why the prayer of said Libellant should not be granted. Attest: P.H. Longfellow, Clerk. -- Kenneth A. Dill ctyankee@bigfoot.com ctyankee@home.com http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/7229 (c) 1997 by Kenneth A. Dill please send corrections to: e-mail ctyankee@bigfoot.com or snail mail: Kenneth A. 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