The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-04-02

Verona, we're sold BY said towns at public auc.
tion Tuesday, March 18th, for the year ending
May !, 1871, for SASS. - 81 : - -
Some Of the mills on the river have COM
menced saving, says the Ellsworth 1,nerican.
Mayor Davis of Ellsworth, was reelected
Monday.
The owners of vessel property in Ellsworth
met last Wednesday afternoon to oroanize an
association having for its object the projection
this class of property by the city authorities. in
the future. n. A. Joy was chosen Chairman
and D. G. Eaton Secretary.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The remains of the late Ensign VIM woart
of the u. S. Navy, who was acc;,lantoIlv
drowned in the bay of San Francisco Cal
on the 18th of June last, were brought to Au,
gusta on Saturday last.
Mr.. Fogg, the contractor for the work on the
building. The patent boxes are to he mann.
featured in Portland.
A package containing money to the amount
of $237. sent from town in the eastern section
OF the State and directed to the Treasurer of
State, was stolen from the Eastern Express
office in Augusta on Monday last bv lad
named McGraw.
Messrs. A. J. Dearborn of Falmouth. and
Mr., Downs of South Berwick, have taken the
lege building at Kents Hill, which is to be one
of the finest in the State. 1t is to ba of brick
with French roof. The contractors will COM
mence work about the middle of April.
DR.. Colby of this city lectured on temper-
ance at North VassalborO last Sunday, to a
large and appreciative audience.
A gentleman in Vassalboro received a dis
patch on the LIST OF April in these words:-
"Amos Skeeter will be around in a few DAYS
if the weather permits and present his BILL"
LINCOLN COUNTY.
At the town election in Jefferson on the
14th inst. the following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: Moderator, E. F. Weeks:
Clerk, S. j. Bond; Selectmen, Assessors. SC.
Peter Dunton, VIM. G. jackson, H. L, Lin
scott; Treasurer, e. +. Weeks; s. s. Commit
tee, j. j. Bond, John Dodge, Frank Partridge.
Ali Republicans but Linscott and Partridge.
OXFORD COUNTY.
j. A Good Templar in communication to the
Oxford Democrat hints that the Good Templars
IN that county have a reformatory work to do
within their own ranks, inasmuch as some
lawyers who are members of the Order for the
reward Of fee d;sregarded their obligations,
and gladly defend, and employ dishonest
measures to screen Iumsellers who have
been indicted for violation of the law. He
also says the Oxford Bar might gain come
credit by reforming some of it's members who
were seen intoxicated during the late term o.
court. - ~-
PENOBSCOT COUNTY. "a.
The Wing says that the stages outside are
having hard time with the mud, the roads
outside being reported in execrable condition
The Mdchids Union says female swiudlel
has been victimiziDg the good people of Ma
chias. 1t SAYS: "She'' halls from Portland.
Said she had served two years in the late war
had only one lung. That he had friends at OF
near st. Anthony, MIMI, and she wanted
money to pay expense of getting her husband
from Portland to Minnesota.
-. SOMERSET COUNTY.
Chas. e. French has resigned his office al
Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue. It j.
understood that Hon s. d. Lindsey will be re
appointed.
The Postmaster General has established
Post Office at West Athens and appointed
Albert Fellows, Postmaster.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The people of Harrington have raised by in
dIvidusi S contributors for Soldiers Monume ao
about $500. and the town has voted about $50
more for the same purpose, says the Machia
Union.
YORK COUNTY. II
Thursday, DR.. Warren successfully ampu
| tated the thigh, just above the knee, Of Mr..
| Waterhouse of Biddeford, a gentleman o
about forty-five years of age who has been al
1
twenty years.
There is positively young lady in one Q
the Biddeford mill, who is worth at least $40,
600; but who works quietly day by day, earn
| lag her six dollars weekly, instead of retirin
| with competency. .5.
| Wednesday noon as Rev. j. T. G. Nichol
| of Saco was driving down Deans Hill, hi
| horse became frightened, and ran away throw
| ing him out at the foot of the hill and knock
| ing down young French girl by the name o
Seymour. Mr.. Nichols was badly cut AM
bruised about the face and shoulders. Tn
Seymour girl was badly injured internally it
| thought and We learn that her lite has bee
despaired of, though she seems somewhat bel
ter now. ~. .sc7ia ~
A young man by the name of Shirley Ston
arrived at his home in Saco last week. who lie
bone just about the close of the rebellion, an
had not been heard from since. It seems ths
he has been about the world as a sailor, an
just arrived here from the East Indies.
AT LARGE.
Patents have been issued this week to til
| following Maine inventors: Charles Estel
brooks, Calais, culinary vessels; h. c. FOLSOM
Bangor, converting articles made of iron int
steel; M. G. Reynolds, Ellsworth, boat detatcf
ing apparatus.
A Maine State Fat Mems Convention is
be called, probably next autumn, if the croI
are good.
The Riverside Echo for the current week
the first number OF that paper published
the Riverside Echo Publishing Company. Tn
/ nros III
Compromising advocate OF every legal mes
sure which it believes calculated to advanc
the cause of Temperance. Among these ma
be specifed-a State Police Law, and the i'm
prisonment penalty for the first offence.
will also advocate the use of the Pledge an
other moral agencies for the promotion of tn
Temperance reformation: endeavoring to pre-
| sent such facts and arguments as will show th
| necessity of total abstinence for the indivnu.
and prohibition, radical and effective, for til
| State"
Mr.. Benjamin Wisner Pond, youngest so
of Rev. DR.. Pond, of Ban or, has received
call from the First Church, York. He is no,
| in Charlestown. Mass.
The Mochias Union walks into the State Az
ricultural College at Orono, and calls it an Ii
stitution where the State has seventeen your
chaps learning to raise cucumbers and pc
| cOrnp
The Ellsworth american says:-"Speake
Foster gained hosts OF friends during the ses
ion of the Legislature, by his urbanity and
the ease and grace with which be presided Owe
the deliberatiOD of the House. We were
looker-on for week or so and it seemed to u
that all the members had the utmost conf
| dence in his impartialty and sound judgmen
I GENTLEMEN should on tn Smiths Inn r.,