The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-02-11


This morning Mr.. Stockbridge will sell the
reserved seats for the course of illustrated lee
lures on Europe, to be given by Mr. 81. FL Ra-
gan, graduate of Yale college, at City Hall,
February 10th, 23d, and March I'd.
The following testimonial from DR.. Webber,
chairman of the Grand Army lecture commit
tee of Millbury, Mass, will be read with in
terest:
Mr. I'll. II. Ragan-Dear Sir:-I have, to-
gether with many of our citizens, recently had
the pleasure of travelling with you through
Spain, Morocco and Scotland. Awaiting our
selves Of your experience as tourist. we have
been able to avoid the misery of sea-sickness
and dangers of shipwreck; we have escaped
the pertinacity of the professional beggar,
whether mendicant, or porter, or waiter, in any
capacity, whose outstretched palm coaxes the
pennies from the pockets of travellers not SO
we'll guided as we; you have enabled us to see
the things of most interest without waste of
time, while your ready acquaintance with both
the history and the legends of the countries
have delighted and instructed us. You have
given us a more vivid interest in the land of
the Cid and the famous Knights of La Mancha
and in their real and legendary exploits, and
have helped us to sympathize with the Moors
in their vain regrets when forced to relinquish
their Earthly Paradise" at Granada, with its
marvel of Moorish architecture-the Alham-
bra.
With delight we have followed Fitz James
and Roderick Dhu among the Scottish lakes
and highlands, and Tam O'Shanter in his mad
ride to reach the bridge which saved him and
his marc Save her tail) from the clutches of the
witches; with delight we have revisited the
scenes of the active life of grand old John
Knox, and of the sad story of the imprison-
ment and death of poor Queen Mary.
will only say our iourneyings have been full
of pleasure and profit. heartily commend
you as guide, and sincerely hope, wherever
you go, you may find hosts to embark with you
and enjoy, at home, the Delights of travel
without its discomforts. Very truly,
GEO. G. WEBER.
Millbury, Mass, April Ii, 1881.
Mr.. Stockbridge announces that at the sale
of seats this morning numbers will be given
out at o'clock. The seats will be sold in Or
der of numbers at o'clock No more than six
tickets Will be sold to any one person.
Suicide of the Wife and Mother of the
Murderers OF Alvin T. Watson.
A dispatch to the Bangor Commercial says:
Another chapter of horror is now added to the
story of the cold blooded murder of Alvin 7.
Watson, in Parkman, Piscataquis county, June
Goth, 1881. Mrs. Benjamin Chadbourne, the
wife of one of the convicted murderers of
Watson and the mother of the other sentenced
murderer, has committed suicide She was
stopping at Harrison Bailey's house inst Al
bans, Somerset county. The woman was found
Tuesday, to be ill and suffering terrible agony.
She explained that she had an attack of collie.
A physician was summoned and he declared
that Mrs. Chadbourne had taken poison. She
died soon after tbs arrival of the doctor, with
out revealing any of the terrible secrets which
were in her possession. Wednesday afternoon
at o'clock she was buried in Cambridge,
Somerset county.
The deceased's husband, BENZ. Chadbourne
and son, BENZ. Wallace Chadbourne, are now
confined in the Penobscot county Jail, await
ing the result of motion for new trial. Her
other son, the deaf mute Samuel Bryon Chad
bourne, is in the State Insane Asylum. The
woman is supposed, by many, to have been an
accomplish in the terrible murder of Watson.