The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-10-09
Letter from SkOwhegan.

Letter from SkOWnegan.
SESSION OF BOARD OF AGRIcULTURE-Ex-Go
CoBURN's HEALTH-A DEFEATED LIBERAL
TAKING TO THE wooDs-sELECTIoN OF SITE
FOR THE SOMERSET COURT HOUSE, &C., &C.
fe- SKowHEGAN, Oct. 8, 1872
To the Editor of the Press:
The Board of Agriculture will commence its
semi-annual session here to-day and continue
four days. That is, such is the intention if the
rain will cease pouring long enough to make
out-of-door locomOtion safe and practicable.
There isn't quite enough rain for deluge but
altogether too much for an agricultural meet
ing. The officers and most of the members of
the Board are here, and fair weather will see
the ball in motion. This afternoon the Orono
State College Cadets, in uniform, with the Col
lege Faculty, are expected and will be received
and escorted to their quarters by the Skowhe-
gan Infantry.
Hon. Abner Coburn is improving, but still
weak and low. He is able to be up from his
bed portion of the time. He is suffering from
diabetes.
Thos. S. Lang ex-Liberal candidate for mem
Der of Congress from the Sd District, passed
through here last night en- route for the lumber
regions above. He thinks lumber preferable to
politics
called on Moody & Emery of the Reporter
yesterday, and found Bro. Moody hard at it,
making and still continuing to make one of the
best country papers in the State. Success to
him. ....... --....--.-r.
The great court house question is being prac-
tically settled. A site has just been purchased
in the centre of the village for $500. The
material will be got together the coming winter
and the building erected another year. 1t will
probably be of brick with granite facings.
Haven't had time yet to see any of the lions
of the place. At this writing Is a. n.y. the rain
is pouring in torrents, with prospect of ''do-
ing so some more" for the next twenty-four
hours, -F~ ..tr -..... @.
THE EUROPEAN HARvEsrs-The harvest in
France is considered on the whole very good;
that in England not so good; in Italy decidedly
bad, both as to quantity and quality; Russia
makes fair return, especially in Odessa, where
the wheat harvest is looked upon as better than
usual; Germany also gives tolerably good ac-
count; in Switzerland, Spain and Belgium the
harvests have been very successful, especially
in cereals. 80
4 LITERARY NOTES.-THE. Tennysons new vol
ume will be published in London on the Ath
inst. 1t will contain new Arthurian idyl
''Gareth." This completes the Arthurian Sc
res. "The Last Tournament will be included
in the same volume. r-Agft IN
The second volume of John Forster's ''Lfe
of Dickens" is nearly ready Ga
Prof. Henry Coppee is preparing a work on
the relations between English Literature and
English History.
DEMOCRACY WITH THE MASK OFF.-The in
timidation of colored voters at the recent
Georgia election and the brutal murders in the
leading cities have shown the stuff that the
Greeley democracy of the South is made Of
In further illustration of the same thing, an
extract from recent issue of the Quitman
(Ga.) Democratic Rcoie.o will be instructive. 1t
shows at once the "thinness'' of the Demo-
cratic conversion, and the manner in which
they propose to ''use" Greeley. The editor of
the journal alluded to says: esff
'When we so debase our manhood-when SO
outrage all the nobler feelings of humanity-as
to stand over the graves of our confederate dead
and In the language of the ninth resolution of the
Clnclnnati-Baltlmore platform, exclaim, we
remember with gratitude the herosm and sac
rihce of the soldiers of the North may our
tongue cleave to the roof of our mouth, and
may Gods thunderbolt lay us lifeless over the
sacred mound we thus dishonor. You may talk
about peace and reconciliation and hand clasp
ing as much as you please, but we see our way
to terrible vengeance upon the Government and
upon the negro through the election of Horace
Greeley. We will aid IN electing him, because
we see in his success new hope for the lost
cause; but we do not we will not indorse even
politically the platform upon which he stands.
That is all well enough for the North; but as
for the South, it is just where it was in feeling
when Lee invaded Pennsylvania and Thompson
was concocting measures to burn the cities of
the North"
AN INJUNcTIoN.-A preliminary injunction
from Judge Walton was served on the 9Th inst
upon the Pennington Village Corporation, and
certain of its officers, restraining them from
assessing, collecting end paying out certain
sums of money, to the amount of several thou
sand dollars voted by the Corporation to pay
coupons on its bonds and meet part of its in
debtedness resulting from aid to the Andro-
scoggin Railroad Company, in the late extern
sion of their road across the Sandy River into
Harrington village, the aid, as it was claimed,
being gratuity This Injunction was granted
on the petition OF several taxpayers of the viii
iage corporation. The object of the petitioners
Is SAID TO be to test the constitutOnality of the
act of the Legislature, under which the village
corporation has given aid, as it is claimed an
the form Of grdtuity, to the railroad company
in this extension of its road. 81
WHOLESALE POISONING Waterford N. Y,
was the scene of great excitement ON Friday
night last, on account of the poisoning of many
of its citizens. 1t appears that marketman
named WaldrOn, had manufactured large lot
of head cheese, which the citizens bought lib
orally and ate freely. The alarm was first CIV
en- about nine O'Clock in the evening, the pro-
prietOr and inmates of the Howard House, one
after another, being taken alarminglyill. Ply
sicans were summoned in hot haste, and from
that time until morning the greatest panic pre-
vailed. Altogether about sixty persons were
poisoned, but fortunately none of them fatally,
so at last accounts. 1t is a mystery how the
cheese became impregnated with poison No
blame is attributed to Mr.. Waldron.
AN UNFORTUNATE CRUIsE.-Last week
party OF several ladies and gentleme from the
Old Orchard House went to Freeport on a
pleasure trip in yacht belonging to Mr.. Paul
Cleaves of Saco On their return, Friday, they
got among some reefs off Portland and lost the
anchors an and most of the rigging of their craft.
chey poaueu d iaISe Hshlns schooner, ana got
fe"ried ashore whencs they took the cars for
home. The skipper of their craft with the aid
OF sailor hired for the purpose from the fish
ing smack, finally got the yacht around to
Old Orchard beach, where she now is-Bidde-
FORD Times.
The proprietors of the Biddeford Times adj
vertise one half of the establishment for sale
in the Boston Journal,
AT MEETING of the Bowdoin Boat Club,