The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-09-08

Ship Theobald begins to load ice Tuesday.
Rogers new Cuban bark Havana" will be
launched the last of next week.
Capt. Higgins brought up 700 weight of cod
this morning.
Business is good in Warren. Two machines
passed through this city this morning for the
mill
Mr., +. I. Simpson, b. H. S. IA Yale 70,
leaves Bath Monday night for Poughkeepsie,
n. Y, where he will enter upon his studies as
classical and Scientific teacher in the Military
Academy of that city. Our best wishes
Ex-Governor Dingley Will be present at the
Nobleboro camp ground next Thursday at the
Sunday School convention.
The Henry Morrison will close her trips on
the river next week.
Geo. E. Perrin has returned to Bath from
California,
Mr.. Mustard of Brunswick is organizing
company of Bath and Brunswick capitalists to
built houses for the ice business near the new
dam in Harpswell
Ship Combay, Capt. Peterson, will sail for
Norfolk, Vra, next Tuesday, where she will
load for Liverpool.
Raft boats Kapella and Hobson towed down
RATS of logs for Wiscasset this morning. The
Adella passed up.
The frame of the schooner being built b.
Adams & Hitchcock is about half up.
In the possession of the Sagadahoc Historical
Society is an old Bible which is dated 1856, and
which belonged to Hannah Croker, mother of
the late Charles Croker of this city. 1t bears
the marks of frequent usage.
Last night Officer Hammel gave chase to
Charles Thompson, the Gardiner horse thief,
on Corliss street. Thompson ran up High
street and finally eluded his pursuer The
Gardiner official with the team left for home
this morning
Miss May Moore, organist at Grace church.
attends the fall session of the Boston Conser-
yatory of Music.
Albert Shultz, Esq. ship broker of New
Orleans is in town for few days.
Mr.. Frank NJ. Hyde from West Bath
brook yesterday afternoon caught two
pound trout.
Duck shooting at the bay is immense.
A book of accounts belonging to Nathaniel
Donnell, Georgetown, Nov. %, 1776, is in the
possession of the Sagadahoc Historical Society
The most of the entries are in pounds, shillings
and pence, where more recent coinage is used
the column is headed ''new tenor" The
original manner of bookkeeping is exampled
by the entry November, 1791-"To shopping
oxen with you aud you was to pay me ZOO
1902
Gleanings from the Sagadahoc Historical So
ciety records:-John Parker exchanged Corn
hill, Boston, for Parker's Island, now George
town. the historical papers of which island are
possessed by Mrs David Potter. Dr. j. o.
Fisher has copy of the first paper drawn up
to form the first religious society in Bath, 1898
The building used by w. V. & o. Moses for
joiner shop was built by Mr.. Labor Loring,
the east end of the store being used for the
sale of West India goods. In 1928 Hosea Hill
dreth drove the first milk cart through Bath
streets. He lived at the time in the now
Adams house, New Meadows. VIM. Swanton
came from England to Boston; VIM. Jr., his
son, was the first of his name to settle in Bath
His son is the well known merchant, John B.
Swanton Esq. Among the first settlers of
Arrowsic was Samuel Denny, who left Eng
land and settled on the Island in 1928.
The prevailing epidemic is the influenza.
Twenty-nine boarders remain at Mouse
Island.
Mr.. Elbrdge Parshley, having flung to the
breeze on Centre street a Davis flag, Mr. Thos.
Clark and others this afternoon raised flag
bearing the name of Smith.
The ship L. Schepp, built by Titcomb &
Thompson of Kennebunk, and owned by Isaac
Chapman of New York, measures in length
224 feet in breadth, 421 feet; in depth, 1877
feet; height under spar deck, 84 feet. Her
tonnage is 1882. She will be commanded by
Capt. Joseph Thompson of this city; has been
put in complete sea order and will sail Thurs
day for New York, when she will be placed in
the Sutton line to and from San Francisco.
Her owner, Mr. Chapman, is now in town.