The Portland daily press., 1870-04-16

assets of the Bank. consisting of sundry notes
and executions. The Receivers will soon he |
enabled to make a final report of the amount |
realized from the assets of the Bank. IT is |
probable that the Supreme Court will autbor.
lie a dividend of the money now in the hands |
of the Receivers to the holders of receipts for |
bills of the Bank.
OXFORD COUNTY.
The Democrat says that maple sugar maxine
has not proved remunerative in RethaI tb;s
year The "Western fever" has broken ont
in the same town, some of the Oldest farmers
even, wishin. to dispose of their farms
Mr.. Benjamin I. Brown of Bethel ono dav
last week accidentally fell from the high beams
in his ,rn striking on the side of his face
and shoulder on the floor. He was taken nm
for dead, remaining in senseless state far
some time, but his apparently doing well.
pENoBscoT COUNTY.
The Fifth Annual Choral Festival will ho
held at Norombega ball, Bangor on Wednas.
day, Thursday and Friday, April 9th. 2Stb
and 18th. An excellent array of soloists will
be present, among: whom will be Mrs H. M.
Smith, soprano, of Boston, Mrs. j. W. Yves.
ton, Soprano of Boston, Mr.. w. j. Hill. tenor
of New York, Mr.. Geo. S. Weeks, tenor 81
| New York and Mr.. John L. Shaw, basso of
| Portland, The instrumental talent will he fhe
| renowned Germania Band Of Boston SiU
concerts will be given, five of them misc4lla.
| neous, and one of the OratOrio of the Crea
| ton. These festivals have become very nonn-
| lar and always attract a large number Of mn.
| sic loving people; in fact they are considered
| to he the best musical entertainments held in
| this State. The price of tickets this wear is
| lower than usual-season tickets So 90: mam.
| bers of Chorus 81 90. The Chorus will nm
| hes something over two hundred voices Free
return tickets by railroad and steamboat as
usual. Send for circular to f. S. Dayennort
| Director.
The Wing says the travelling is exceedingly
bad, and that all the stages having the termi
nus Of their route in that city are arriving
| late. '
H. X. Dexter, Esq, of East Corintb was
kicked by horse and severely injured on
Monday last. Two of his ribs were broken.
| A man BY the name of Burbank, who has
resided in Dexter about a year, was arrested
Tuesday by officer Shaw Of Newport for
burglary committed in New Hampshire, over
ed at the time Of the burglary and bound over
for trial; that he forfeited his bail and escaped
to Canada. He came into this state two or
three years ago. and married woman in Rip
ley, by whom he has one child.
Dexter, following the example of Bangor, is
holding pubic temperance meetings
| sAGADAHoc COUNTY. -
The Bath Times SAYS that Merrymeeting
Bay is full of wild ducks and geese.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Benjamin Adams, Esq, has removed from
North New Portland to North Ansop, where
he will practice law.
YORK COUNTY
The small pox is disappearing from New
field.
Tuesday Biddeford boy not more than fif-
teen years old was arrested dead drunk
Eliot Academy is under the charge of e. E
Fogg, of Chelsea, Mass, a graduate of Bow
doin.
Last week son of Rev. G. W. Buchanan OF
Newfield was seriously injured by the falling
of some timbers from building that was be-
ing moved.
The fifth lecture of the Biddeford course in
the Universalist church was given last We'd
nesday evening by Rev. S. H. McCollister OF
Nashua, N. H.,-subject, travels in the
| East"
Two hundred and ten workmen in the con-
struction department at the Kittery Navy
Yard were discharged on Thursday of last
| week. About two hundred and sixty work.
men remain in that department.
) OF the members of the bar of York county al
the time of the admission of Maine into the
Union in 1922 (fifty years ago) only three sur
vive, as follows: Ether Shepley of Portland
Edwin E Bourne of Kennebunk and Arthur
Macarthur of Limington.
Jas. Fl. Mcmillan, Esq, agent of the Sact
Water Power Machine Shop, has written :
letter protesting against the admission, free O.
duty, Of cotton machinery. Southern mem
bers of Congress desire to incorporate provi
sion of that kind into the tariff bill for the pur
pose of stimulating Southern manufactures.
The 9th division of the LIST collection distric
(lnteinal Revenue) composed of the towns o
Buxton, Hollis, Limerick, Limington, Cornisl
and Parsonsfield has been discontinued. Divis
, ion No. 3 (Sylvester Littlefeld, asst assessor
has been re-organised by adding to it the town
of marlborough and Lyman from division 4
and the towns of Buxton and Limerick frou
division s.. Division No. 4 (Charles Hill assis
tant assessor) has been re-organized by taking
| therefrom tine towns of Marlborough an
, Lyman, and adding thereto the towns of Hol
| lis, Limington, Cornish and Parsonsfeld.
AT LARGE.
The Maine Farmer says that a man CALI n
= his name Smith, and hailing from August:
, has been swindling people in this State by rer
resentlng himself as contractor for the manu-
facture of clothing, and DESTROYS of oStainin
: persons to work for him. He was to furnish
: sewing machine for which they were to pa
him in instruments, S. on each box of clothin
made; but to start with they must pay him S.
, as insurance, or something of the kind, an
| strange to say, he made it a paying business
t Hon. Warren johnson, Superintendent
. Schools, has written a letter defending the ne,
/ | system OF employing teachers through schoo
committees instead of through agents. ii
" holds that the same power that employs Shout
q first examine teachers.
Another of those pleasant reunions of tn
= graduates of the class of 1874 of Bowdoin, wi
in July. The class dinner will be served at tn
Falmouth in Portland. Among the promnen
. and we'll known members of this class we no
y tice the names of Gen. Samuel j. Anderson
Judge Goddard and Henry P. Deane, Esq., {
Portland; Hon. David r. Hastings, of Frye
: burg; Hon. H. G. Herrick, of Lawrence, Mass
: Gen. VIM. Writ Virgin, of Norway; Rev. d.
e Adams OF Portsmouth, N. H.; and Hon. H K
= | Bradbury, of Hollis.
: The public laws will soon be dis tribute
:. through the newspapers.
The Skowhegan Reporter speaking of Nj
: Lewis Barker's remarks at the Bangor temp
GRANGE meeting says: "Those who know Mi
: Barker most intimately the past two or thpe
. | years, know that he is practical temperate
a man and consequently has right to tai
q temperance"