The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-12-01
Letter from Casco.
CAsco VILLAGE, Nov. &c.

v.
To the Editor Of the Press.
Not unfrequently some of your readers are
more interested in few notes from quiet
rural village like this, than from large and
densely packed city. This neat little village is
situated in Casco, about % miles from Port
land. The extensive mountain scenery that
surrounds it, the ponds that lie along its north
eastern border, give to it surprising beauty.
To the seeker of pleasure and the beautiful,
Casco offers fine attractions. The village,
though not large, is in a thrifty condition.
saw mill. corn mill and starch factory offer
good market for the producers in this fertile re-
eion.
We visited the corn factory, recently located
here, for the preservation of green corn by can
ming. The Portland Packing Company are
doing fine business not only for themselves,
we hope. but for the farmers in this region.
They can yeaIly about 200 acres of green corn.
The employment that this factory gives to the
public is of no small account We visited their
extensive works under the charge of Mr.. Beau.
mont, their able Superintendent, whom we
found boxing and sending off the products of
asst falls work.
By the leadership and munificent gilt of Mr..
Alfred Holden, one of its most wealthy and
prominent citizens, the church has been fur
nished with good bell, and is to be thorough
ly remodeled and painted and supplied with a
fine organ. A Teachers Institute has just
been held here by Mr.. Webb, County Super.
VISOR assisted by Prof. Cruttenden. The attend
ance was very good and the interest manifest
ed by the teachers and parents was highly
commendable. At the close of the Institute
Teachers Association was organized, which
will no doubt, result in great good to the pub
lie schools, as the people are awake in the
cause W.
News bv Latest Malls.
Immense quantities of provisions of all kinds
have been collected at Versailles by the Ger
mans for the use of the Parisiaps when they
surrender.
The national association OF base ball players
met in New York Wednesday.
Bishop McIlvaine was among tho passen-
gers by the City of Brussels which arrived at
New York Wednesday from Liverpool.
Hopkins, Dwight, Trowbridge s. Co.'S cot
ton warehouse in New York was damaged by
fire Wednesday moroins t, the amout Of $751;
900. Insured.
A cattle disease Of an alarming nature has
appeared on several farms in Dutchcss county,
New York.
John Hawkins, workmen at the Hoosac
Tunnel, was instantly killed Wednesday by a
rock falling on him.
Ninety thousand tons OF Scranton coal were
sold in New York "Wednesday at an average
decline ranging from 48 cents on stove to "a on
crate coal from October rates.
War Notes.
A st. Petersburg dispatch says the PROPOSE
ton for conference on the Eastern question
to be held at London is most favorably receiv-
ed there.
The Brussels Independence Beige has a Ber-
lin telegram announcing that England has
agreed to accept the proposed conference for
the settlement of the Euxine difficulty, pro-
vided Russia will satisfactorily explain Gort-
schakoff's first circular.
A sorte from Paris was made in the direc-
ton of st. Cloud on Monday and was readily
repulsed by the Prussians, who suffered only q
slight loss. The people of Versailles were ter
ribly excited during the battle.
The Prussians hay evacuated Bouzaiucourt,
which town had been held by them since the
1st inst. The also burned the village OF Lury
in that neighborhood.
Tho French prisoners confined at Antwerp
recently made an unsuccessful attempt to es-
cape. The government has taken precautions
to prevent similar attempt