The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-03-14

the making of white paper, has Just received
sixty tons Of wood pulp. This is made at
Franklin. n. H., from poplar wood, and is
mixed with rag pulp. 1t comes ia sheets
about forty inches wide and one.sixteenth of
an inch in thickness. and looks very ni,e and
white.
Winterport is in a most favorable financial
coudieion. The amount of liabilities ia
S9.411 40, and the assets $20, 1854 67-leayine a
balance in favor of the town of $1O,953 ~.
The liquor agency shows quite a balance OF
profits lor the town the past year.
The Belfast Age: sour local Democracy in
this city seem to be in a demoralized condi-
ton. A portion of the party, includipo q ma
iority of the city Democratic committee. have
become Hayford Democrats, and fearing .bat
gentleman might fail of obtaining a nomina-
ton in Republican caucus, they have Joined
with his friends in call for Citizens caucus
the call to be held in reserve to await the re-
suit of the Republican caucus. To this funny
arrangement tine straight men of the party de-
murred, and got up request numerouslv
signed by the most prominent men of the par
ty, to the Committee, to call q Democratic
caucus and have the notice put in the Journal
This report the msi0rity of the Committee. in.
Guiding the Journal editor, refuse to grant
deciding that it is inexpedient to call a Demo.
cratic caucus. This open treason in the camu
excites the indignation of the straiehtouis
and they resolve to have caucus on Satur.
udy CSCuiu3'
The Journal says that several persons in Rel.
fast whose premium notes were held bv the
rotten and defnnct Columbian Insurance Com.
pany of New York, are threatened with snits
by Portland law firm. The makers of The
notes in B. don't propose to pay, holding that
they suffered enough of wrong in having tbeil
property without insurance when thew sllnnos
ed It was protected. The COMPANY fa SIppG y
1865, and there was really no Consideration fol-
the notes.
The Democrats of Belfast have nominated
Joseph II. Kaler for Mayor. Strong resolu
tions favoring adhesion to strict party line
were adopted.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Fire broke out in the furniture store of Gill;
& Gallagher at Calais, Saturday morning
Stock entirely consumed, loss S. 600: insnre'
for $4,000. The books and papers were saved
The building was owned by S. B. Pool: los
$1400; no insurance. The fire communicate
to two adjoining buildings. Loss about So. 600
insured for 81 900.
YORK COUNTY.
There is to be Masonic installation an,
| grand ball at Limerick, on the 10th. 1t is ex
pected the affair will be recherche one
Capt. Horace Fl. Burbank, high priest of tn
chapter, is to conduct the installation.
Mr.. Samuel Simpson of Biddeford caugh
his fingers id a planer ia Que of the Wate
Power Conpany's shops last Friday, maxim
some bad flesh WOUNDS, aud removing tn,
knuckle joint of one OF the fingers.
Mr.. Mark NOVEL; of North Berwick sold hi
real estate and personal properly last weel
and left for parts unknown, thus evading
service made on him by Judge Tapley at tn
last session of the Supreme Court
The County Commissioners are negotiating
for lot in the rear of the Court House at Al
fred, to be used as site for the new count
Jail, says tie Journal
The Journal learns that Mr.. Warner, of tn
firm of Warner s. Hogan, contractors for build
ing portion of the Portland & Rocheste
abroad, has sold his interest in the contract t
Mr.. John n. Stimson of Alfred.
The people Of Springvale think that whel
chine shops will be built at that place.
AT LARGE.
Brig Peri, bound to Baltimore with a carg
OF sugar, went ashore on the Rips, at For
Monroe. Reported bilged; further damag
not known at this time. The vessel is owne
by Capt. j. H. McLarren and S. B. Hume, G
PASSPORT.
The Gospel Banner says that L. F. MeKin
ney of the Senior Class, Canton, N. Y, ha
received and accepted call to the Universal
| it Society in Bridgton. Mr.. Mckinney wi
commence bis labors the first of August.
The Gospel Banner says that M. H. Harri
of the graduating class at Canton, has receiv
ed and accepted a unanimous invitation to tn
pastorate OF the Universalist Society in Brat
tleboro, VT, at salary of $780, Mr.. Earri
is native of Maine.
| The Treasurer of the Maine Central railroa
informs the Lewiston Journal that the state
| ment copied from the Portland ADVERTISER t
| the effect that Hon. John Ware of Athens ha
demanded coin for the interest on his Main
| Central bonds, due in April, is incorrect. M
Ware has made no such demand.
| Commodore John A. Winslow in comman
at the Kittery Navy Yard, has been recon
mended to the Senate for promotion to Adm
raj. 1t IS curious fact in the life of th
Commodore, that Raphael Semmes, the com
mander of the Alabama in the fight with tl
Kearsarge, was his intimate friend at the tim
OF the naval engagements OF the Mexica
war. Twenty years afterwards the ono
fr ends met as enemies in that memorable sea
fight off the harbor of Cherbourg.
| Leander Pinkham, formerly of Kennebe
county, was tried at East Cambridge this wee
| tor arson committed in Framingham Mass
and convicted. The sentence is imprisonmel
for life 1t will be recollected that the renal,
of woman who lived in the house were four
in the ruins of the house that was burned. II
crime was committed ,Januarv 1870