The Portland daily press., 1870-04-16
Religious Intelligence.

nchStOus AMitdhkSehCe.
There is considerable religious interest in
the church at Sabattus.
Rev. Samuel Bowker has dissolved his
connection with the First Church at Wells.
The new Methodist Church edifice in
Wells is rapidly approaching completion.
Rev. John Brady, pastor of the Catholic
church in Houton, is soon to remove TO Bidde
ford.
Rev. Mr.. Cottle has dissolved his connec-
ton with the Baptist Church at Kittery
Point.
The Episcopal church in Camden has Just
cancelled debt of over eight hundred dollars
against the parish, aud is now free from all
liabilities.
Rev. G. w. Bean, former paster of the
Free Baptist Church in Augusta, has Just re-
signed his pastorate of five years of the ID f.
B. Church in Sandwich, N. II.
The Methodist Society of Biddeford con-
template erecting the present season q spa
cious and elegant church edifice on the corner
of Foss and Pool streets.
-Laborers are now at work converting the
Alfred st. Methodist Church into one fitted
for the worship of the French Catholics. Last
Friday the bell and organ was removed. The
Protestant citizens have literally furnished
money to aid Their French fellow citizens.
Rev. Mr.. Lapham who has so faithfully
and successfully labored as pastor of the
Methodist church in Alfred, is about closing
his two years labor for that people preparatory
to going to another field of labor.
The Universalist society of Waterford, in
connection with the society at Bridgton, have
secured the services of Rev. Mr.. Mckenzie of
Iowa, who is to commence his labor the first of
the coming summer.
The installation of Rev. George A. Tewks-
bury. late of Portland, over the Third Congre-
gational church, or Church of the Pilgrimage
at Plymouth, Mass, took place Wednesday
evening. Among the ministers who partici-
pated in the interesting exercises was Rev.
Geo. r. Tewksbury,ot Gorham, N. e., who de-
livered the charge to the pastor. The meeting
house OF this society has lately been remodeled
Rev. Thomas Adams is about to close his la
bors as pastor with the society at Riverside.
In May he intends to start for the Western
States. in company with his daughter, where
he will spend the summer. Although seventy
eightyears old, he is free from any infirmity.
DAMAGE BY HURRICANES AND Floods
Maine has had pretty extensive experience
in storms and floods since last September. and
the elements do not yet seem satisfied with
the devastation they have wrought. The rains
of the early part of the week caused rise of
water in the rivers, and more or less damage
has resulted. About sixty feet of the dam
lately erected on the Jimskitticook Falls OF the
Mattawamkeag River was washed away by ice
aud logs The loss is very large. In Saco riv-
er the water reached the high water mark of
last spring. The Democrat of Tuesday says:
"The saw mill of Joseph Hobson, on Springs
Island, Biddeford, known as the "office mill"
is in great danger of being carried away. The
bulkhead, timbers and fume of the northeast
corner, next to the dam, are already gone.
Workmen are clearing the mill, and using ev-
cry precaution to secure it. We hear of no
other damage
The KenneDec was also very high Wednes.
day and Thursday, and at Gardiner the water
covered the wharves four feet. At Bath the
water also covered the wharves.
After the Spring freshets are all over we
hope some gentlemen with taste for statis-
tics will compute the amount of damage done
in the State by floods and storms within eight
months. The loss of the toll bridge at Water
vile, the Norridgewock bridge, the railroad
bridge and dam at Augusta and the dam at
Kendall's Mills, with the damage to shipping
and other property on the coast by the hurri-
canes of last fall and the less important losses
In all parts Of the State would, if stated in de-
tail, constitute record of disaster anything
but pleasant to contemplate