The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-26

pie in Augusta, raised $40 in the course of
few days. for the purpose of clothing poor boys
who wanted to join the Temple.
Owing to the high price of WOOL and the low
price of wooden cloths, the Gardiner Mills have
Shut down for the present.
A pledge to abstain from the use of tobacco
has been started i'm Augusta and obtained sever
al signatures of those accustomed to use the
weed. He who breaks the pledge fOrfeits five
dollars.
The Standard understands that the late Mrs
Louise M. Davidson, who died on Saturday
leaving quite property, willed the bulk of it,
or thirty thousand dollars in government bonds
to DR.. George E. Brickett of Augusta. Quite a
little 'windfall."
The dog tax in Bethel amounts to over $780,
PENoBscoT COUNTY. a
A post Office has been established at East
Winn, and S. H. Merrill, ESQ.,, appointed
postmaster.
Eighty-one vessels were at Bangor on We'd
nesday, preparing to.load with lumber.
Norembega Lodge No. 5, Knights of Pythias,
was instituted at Bangor Wednesday evening,
cellor r. H. Ingersoll of Biddeford, assisted by
Past Chancellor James Buck as Or. Venerable
Patriarch; Bro Knight B. +. Hamilton as Vice
CIR, Chancellor, and Bro. Knight M. L. Stew
ems of Portland, as CIR. Guide.
The Bangor Commercial says at 113O We'd
nesday evening" a most dismal howl came from
a building on Main street, where some Young
men were said by a policeman to be rehearsing
for the Boston Jubilee. e 4As ~ :
The Wing says Col. j. Frank Godfrey left
Bangor Wednesday morning for Columbia, g..
c., having been called thither by a telegram
announcing the critical condition of his wife,
who had been spending the winter South in the
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after his departure another dispatch brought
the sad intelligence of her death, which occur
red Tuesday morning.
PIscATAoUIs COUNTY. EsH
Our Monson correspondent writes: Monson
celebrated the 5Oth anniversary of the occupa-
ton of the town, last Monday. A historical
address was read by Chas. Denison, ESQ.,, and
poems by w. s. Knowlton and I. N. Lerd.
The stage came into Monson last Monday on
wheels for the first time this season. Lastyear
wheels were used the 23d of March. a
Monson academy closed Tuesrday after a
very successful term. Mr. Lord has been en-
Hay is quite plenty in this part of the coun-
ty, and can be bought for 500 per ton. w.
Eaa4" ''h SOMERSET COUNTY.
From our Skowhegan Correspondent
At special meeting of the town April 23d,
Skowhegan voted to exempt from taxation, for
term Of ten years, all the capital that shall be
invested, or is at present invested in this town
by @. M. Bailey, esq.,, of Winthrop, for the
manufacture of oil cloths; provided that he
Galley shall put up the present summer anoth-
er building of nearly the same size as the two
at present occupied for that purpose Mr.. Bal
ley proposes, besides building new factory, to
make quite an outlay in repairing the old ones
so that he shall nearly double his business here,
which at present employs about 60 hands. q
Mr.. Baileys oil cloth factories had a narrow
escape from fire last Sunday. A fire was dis
covered in store house, situated near the main
buildings, and containing oils, turpentine, nap
tina, Sc; it was extingushed, however, with
out doing any material damage.
The grasshoppers are not all dead notwith-
standing our severe winter; they are making
their appearance quite plentifully and seem to
have wintered far better than much of the
stock in this region. A young lady in this vi
cinity returning from q ramble in the woods,
picked from her clothes two large, full-grown
specimens Of these insects, that seemed to be
enjoying a lively and vigorous good health, evil
IDENTIFY ready and anxious for another campaign
against the farmers the coming season. For
tune preserve us. iisi aa4 <ffH
WALDO COUNTY t-f - n
Celan Smith of Knox, has been arrested in
Aroostook county and taken to Belfast, for rape
some time last year, upon girl named Brad
ford, only 10 years old, and cripple, belonging
in Knox.
The journal says much anxiety is felt for the
safety of schooner Hattie of Belfast, now out
62 days from Savannah for Providence, with
hard pine: She is commanded by Capt. John
McClintOck. tH s.ss-4rr- u s,r.' le..a
IN GENERAL.
The House of Representatives on Wednesday
passed bill granting pensions as follows: To
Sarah A. Wharton, mother of Ransom Whar-
ton, private of the Second Regiment Maine
Volunteers; for pension to Ira F. Snow, pri-
vate of Co. B, 18th Maine Volunteers; to Hen
ry Reinham, of the 18th Maine Volunteers; to
Deborah Whitman, mother of A. G. Witham, of
10. K SD Maine Volunteers; to Cordelia c. Do
herty, widow of a soldier of Co. I, I'd Maine
Volunteers, and subsequently of Co. d, 30th
Maine Volunteers; also to Mary A. Chute
mother Of Ezra B. Chute, private of the 10th
Maine Volunteers. eF