The Portland daily press., 1883-10-15

l0S continued lli-n6alJu Ol dT. 1ooie, Oh
the Auburn job printing firm of Merrill &
Moore, has induced that firm to sell out their
business to Mr.. W. S. Morse, the former pro-
prietor. Colonel Merrill will take we'll earn
ed vacation south.
Mr.. George A. Smith has leased his house
on Prospect Hill, Auburn, to Mr. G. Ell. Foster
of that city, for year and will next week re-
move with his family to Washington, which
he expects to make his permanent place of res
idence.
AUGUSTA.
At the dedication of the Free Baptist lee
ture room on Thursday evening $500 were rails
ed by subscription towards the cost of the i'm
provements that have been made on the room
the past summer.
The walls of the cotton house OF the Ed
wards Manufacturing company, are up one
story. This week the first floor will be laid,
the timber for which is already on the ground
and in process of preparation. The section of
canal WALL the building of which was COM
menced several weeks ago, is about completed.
The company find it very difficult to find suf-
fcient number of good workmen
BANGOR.
On the 4th of last September some children
repaired to the elevated ground between Main
street and the railroad, a little to the south of
the schoolhouse, to view the launch of the
new schooner Edward Stewart from the yard
of e. q |. x. Stetson, in Brewer. H. W
Warren has woodward at the place visited
by the children and. claiming that they were
in the way, he threw stick at the crowd The
wood struck young son of Mr.. Prentiss 81.
Preble, clerk of the Bangor House, and frac-
tored his arm. The lad, who is five years. .old
still has to have his arm splintered. Mr.. Pre-
BILE has brought suit against Warren, claim
ing $4,000 damages.
BAR HARBoR
There has been another elopenent at Bar
| Harbor. The Mt Desert Herald says the facts,
| as near as can be learned, appear to be as fol-
| lows: The wife OF Mr.. Alonzo Atherton-a
| respectable and lrthy citizen, stone mason
| by trade-left houe for parts unknown on
"Wednesday of last week, accompanied by a
man named Smith, who had been boarding at
| Mr.. Atherton's for some time past. Mr.. Ather-
| ton lived in the lower part of the village near
| Cromwell's Harbor. His wife leaves behind
| her three children, the eldest ten and the
| youngest three years. old. Smith also, it il
| said, has wife and two children living at
| Columbia Falls. Mr.. Atherton had noticed
| some unusual attentions to his wife on the part
| of Smith, who had often taken her to the
| skating rink and other places of amusement,
| but as he was boarder in his house did not
! suspect anything wrong. Mrs. Atherton is
| about 30 years of age, and has mother living
| at Southwest Harbor.
BELFAST.
At Belfast within ten days five persons died
| whose united ages were almost 407 years. The
| youngest was 72 years of age, the Oldest sc
| years, and the average age ola years. 1t is 9
| queer circumstance that these were the only
| persons who died in Belfast during the ter
| days.
Cyrus Patterson, who was for several years
| City Marshal of Belfast, disocated his shoulder
by falling over pail in his stable.
BDDEFoRD.
The Daily Times Of Biddeford has ordered
new Cranston cylinder press, which will be the
most expensive ever set up in York county
| Tip1nc ia fhp n UaSf 0f the Maina 1ailiAg
The first attempt made to run daily paper il
Biddeford was by Charles A. Shaw, now o
| Boston, in 1868. This had a brilliant but brie
career Of twelve days. Abortive efforts wer'
made by various other parties to establish {
| daily-the two cities have in fact been thu
graves of many journalistic enterprises. Tht
| Times was started in 1873, but developed NJ
staying power till Andrew j. Small, its presen
owner, took charge and placed it on paying
J basis.
George W. Ward has contracted to build
new schoolhouse in Bddeford for $3,713. Th'
school committee bound him in the sum o
I $4,000 to fulfil his contract.
The nine year old son of Nathaniel Cousins
reported missing last week, has not yet turnet
up, and is probably drowned.
BUCKsPoRT.
The citizens of Bucksport are discussing thu
subject of introducing water works in tha
town, the water to be obtained from pom,
about mile back of the town.
EDEs FALLS.
Willis Chaplin, the Edes Falls blacksmith
heard sus picious noise in his barn one night
recently, and on going there to see what
meant, he saw two men running over the hill
and found his horse bridled. He lay in wal
for the rascals, in case they should return
which they at length did, and he charged up
on them, but they eluded him and fled, thoug
not till he had dealt one OF them blow wit
cudgel.