Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-08-23

! Topsham, has accepted call to Burlington Col
lege, Burlington, New Jersey, to instruct in the
Department Of Mathematics. @
A high school will open at Rumford Center,
Sept. 7th, under the charge of Mr.E. W. Bart
lett student in Colby University.
tCondition of the winthrop Savings Bank.
Hon. w. w. Bolster, Bank Examiner Of the
State, has just completed careful examination of
the affairs Of the Winthrop Savings Bank, whose
safe was recently robbed. He finds the affairs of
the bank in better condition than was at first sup
posed, which will be gratifying to the depositors.
We do not speak officially, and from the books,
but we understand the available assets are found
to be as follows:
Cash deposited in National Bank, $1,000
Mortgages real estate, 1000
Mortgage on school district property, ii 600
$52O 600
The liabilities Of the bank are $4,000. This
will give to depositors 10 per cent. of their de-
posits. The stolen town bonds which we're depos
tied in the bank were all registered and therefore
the town will meet with no loss on that account
the trustees of tho bank.
Boo hbay-Its growth and Prospects he
POrgte Business.
Our Farmingdale correspondent sends US the
following notes on Boothbay and vicinity:
We think it has not been generally understood
that Boothbay, or Townsend, is doing great deal
TO swell the industry Of our State. Principally en-
gagged in different kinds of fisheries, we find her
beautiful vessels, which are built close by at
Hodgdon's Mills, in the fruit trade, plying between
the tropical ports and different ones in the United
States Lately the porgie fisheries have assumed
large proportions and some thirteen steamers are
employed, bringing the fish into harbor.
We visited the porgie oil factory at Spruce
Point and found it model mill in every way, with
capacity of thirty eight hundred barrels per day.
This is the factory of Luther Maddocks, Esq. The
outlook here, from the observatory seward, is
very fine, comprising everything within range
of many miles. Adjoining is the factory of the
Cumberland Bone Company. This establishment
employs thirty hands in the manufacture of Phos-
phate. We understand the catch of porgies was
so prolific last year that the captain of steam
er took three thousand two hundred dollars as MS
share of the profits. This year it has not been so
good,-the season only lasts through the summer
months
Among the buildings going up is noble new
school house for graded school, The ctize MS in
tend to put free high school in this building 1t
stands at the head of the harbor, and has COM
handing view of the sea. a passenger from Farm
ingdale did not rest till he examined every timber
in it, and took lath from it to put in the new
school-house building in his town.
On our way to the centre, where is the town
house, &c, about fifteen minutes drive due north,
we stopped to listen to the opening hymn at the
Congre gational church, close to the schoo-hou
The windows were open and the grand melody
rolled out and far away. We thought our music
was typical of our national character. Let me
write nations songs and don't care who makes
her laws" said one Of old; and SO thought
we listened to "Blow We the trumpet blow" that
beautiful morning.
The road to the "centre" is just lovely, and
near by are fields that Kennebecer might envy.