The Portland daily press., 1882-03-01
Number of polls, 1909.
Rate of taxation. 81. 80 on Sl0o.


The collectors report shows large amount
| of taxes uncollected. The taxes should be
collected and bills promptly paid, and the $o,-
| 022.S2 outstanding town orders bearing six per
| cent. interest, called in and cancelled. A
| large amount has been expended for the in
| sane, of which seven are supported by the
town or receiving help. The town farm shows
a deficiency of $157.41. The aims house is in
good condition and there are Is inmates There
has been considerable litigation but, for the
most part, the decisions have been in favor OF
the town, There are recommended as appro-
preparations for the ensuing year: For schools,
$4 4,300 roads and bridges, $1,000; town
charges, $500; support of poor, $1,000.
The committee on refunding the town debt
find that $52, ,450 of the $69y450 total bonded
Indebtedness was for war purposes. In 1883
1900 of the war debt will fall due and the
committee recommend that it be paid at ma
turity by issuing new bonds, payable $1,000 in
eight years, ten years, and twelve years re-
spectively, and $500 in thirteen years. OF
the debt falling due in 1885 we would pay
5000 by issuing new bonds payable in twelve
years from date, making in all $30,9OO new
new bonds, can be paid by raising by taxation
$4,000 yearly, until paid in 1897, or seventeen
years. The committee suggest that the select
men be authorized to ascertain if some arrange
ment cannot be made with the present holders
of the old six per cent. bonds, whereby they
can be exchanged for a new four per cent
bond, the town paying them the difference in
interest, or they to retain the coupons until
maturity, and the new bonds to commence
bearing interest at that time, thus securing to
the town, the benefit of the present low rate.
The schools are in excellent condition.
The Longfellow Bowdoin Class of 1925
There was one talented and promising MEM
ber of that class whose name does not appear
in the catalogue, nor is it even mentioned ex-
cept by his immediate friends. Gorham Deane,
son of DIR. Deane, of Biddeford, and brother
of Charles Deane, LID, of Cambridge, was
SO prominent in the class that onsgraduation
the second part was assigned to him, and was
so printed in the programme. A few weeks
previous to Commencement he was taken sick
and died.
Another circumstance came to my notice in
looking over the catalogue of the Maine His
torical Society. find that thirteen members
of the class became members of that society,
ely:-Henry w. Longtellow, Edward d.
Preble, Frederick Mellen, John ID. Kinsman,
Patrick Henry Greenleaf, J. s. G. Abbott,
Samuel P. Benson, James. W. Bradbury, j. S.
Little, Hezekiah Packard, George W..Pierce,
Cullen Sawtelle and David Shepley.
Eight of the same class became members OF
the Portland Rifle Corps, viz Frederick Mel
len, Edward D. Preble, H. W. Longfellow. P.
II. Greenleaf, Josiah S. Little George w.
Pierce, John D. Kinsman, Stephen Longfel-
low, Jr
In your paper Of to-day you mention the
Longfellow house on the corner of Fore and
Hancock streets. The fact that the poet was
born there during brief stay of his parents
with his fathers sister is the only fact author
izing such a designation to the house. The
house was built by VIM. Cambell, Scotch
man, previous to 1904 In that year he sold it
to Capt Samuel Stephenson, who married
sister to the poets father. He did not occupy
it long enough to attach his name to it, as he
soon after failed and went to live in q house
belonging to Judge LongfelloW at Gorham.
Fifty years ago that house was known as the
stWille Cambell house,
Windham, Feb 2S. VIC.