The Portland daily press., 1869-12-20

day evening to Miss Ingersoll, the daughter of
the late Geo. W.sIngerso!l, fan ex-Attorney-
General of Maine.
The Bangor Wing vigorously depounces lot.
teries at church fairs or anywhere else.
The new ULiversalist church in Dexter will
~, He ueuicatea next Wednesday morning at
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
Inc railroad is giving quite stimulus to
melodeon factory having been opened since
the road was completed.
sAGADAHoc COUNTY.
Bath will attempt Fat Mems Convention
Bath has four citizens CT ninety years and
upwards, and seventeen over eighty.
A Gardiner man, feeling aggreved at some
thing in the Bath Times went to Bath on Sat
ufday last, armed with choice bit OF leather,
| TO infiict personal chastisement upon the Of
Tending editor. He was a little indiscreet in
his preIim inaries and, while waiting for his
| victim, was apprehended by police officer and
taken before the Mayor, where the story of the
| impending danger to the peace of the Com
monwealth was told. The Mayor reasoned the
irate gentleman out of his purpose, and he was
| let off upon his promise to leave the limits of
the municipality on the late train, which he
did.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
| The Governor and Council have pardoned
Walter S. Warehouse OF East Machias, now
| serving two years sentence in the State
| Prison. Warehouse is in consumption, and
| it ia not thought he will live until the expira-
ton of the time for which he was sentenced.
A Scotchman named Pool while skating at
Calais last week fell on the ice, and struck on
the back of his head with such force as to frac.
| ture his skull, from the effects of which he
died on Monday last. He was aged about 20
years.
A man from Connecticut proposes to estab-
fish spool factory at Eastport.
The Calais Advertiser says the Machas peo-
pie intend to make a strong effort to have the
act passed last winter allowing session of the
=. j. Court to be held in Calais once year,
repealed the present winter.
WALDO COUNTY
A Savings Bank is about to be opened at
Stockton.
| YORK COUNTY,
DR.. Abiel Hall of Alfred died at his resi-
dence in that town Saturday at the advanced
age of 81 years. He was born in 1857, about
two miles from the village where he spent bis
long and useful life; read medicine with his
father lwho was one of the earliest practition.
ers in York county,, afterwards attended lec-
lures at DARTMOUTH and commenced practice
at Alfred AZ in iSO9 During the last few years Of
declining to answer calls save when summon
| ed by those whose family physician he had
| been for many years, but these demands wer 9
so numerous that it may truthfulIy be said
that he practised his profession uninterrupt-
eddy for sixty years. Early in his career he
established the reputation, maintained through
life, of being skillful, discreet and successful
practitioner, and like wise man adhered to
his profession with unwavering fidelity, refus.
ing to be allured therefrom by the attractions
of political or official life. For many years he
was leading member of the Congregational
Orthodoxy church, and was deeply concerned
in whatever affected the religious or social
well-being of the community in which he
dwelt. Almost the last survivor of those emf
nent men whose residence at Alfred once rem.
dered that place SO attractive and famous, and
among whom may be mentioned the names OF
Holmes and Goodenow and Appleton, his loss
will be mourned alike by the church, the COM
munty and the profession of which he was
member. During his long life he scarcely
knew by personal experience what sickness
was. and the decay Of age stole upon him SC
gradually as to be almost imperceptible He
owned large tracts of land in Alfred, the cult
walton of which was to him in the nature of
diversion from the laborious duties of his pro
fession. He was one of the most industriou.
and temperate of men, giving all his time tt
his books, his patients and the soil. His lif;
was identified with the history of Alfred, anG
his death is a public loss. His funeral will
take place at the Congregational church in
Alfred Wednesday, 22d inst, at IL o clocl
Z. M.
Mr.. G. W. s. Putnam, of York, has beer
appointed Writer in the Bureau of Con
struction at the Navy Yard.