The Portland daily press., 1883-10-24

defence, has filed motion before Judge Vir-
gin for a rehearing on the question of the
change of venue in the case of Powers VS..
Mitchell.
An alarm of fire was sounded by Officer
Donovan about / clock Tuesday morning,
caused by hisl having discovered the yacht
Jenny lying at Cleaves's wharf, to be in
flames. The department turned out, but it
was seen to be useless to try TO save the craft,
and it burned to the waters edge, and was to-
tally destroyed 1t was owned by Geo. "a.
Goodwin, Henry Kinds and Dennis Donovan,
and was insured in the Merchant, at f. j.
Goodwin's agency, for $500. The Jenny was
schooner-rigged and one of the best sailers in
the river. The fire was undoubtedly incendi-
ary
At meeting held in Y. M. G A. hall Mou-
day evening, the following were chosen dele
gates TO attend the State convention at Angus
ia: W. Il. Pillsbury, Rev. Mr. Blanchard,
Rev. Mr. Dawson, Rey. Mr.. Andrews Of the
Advent church, G. N. Weymouth, Jesse Gould
Charles Walker, John Meserve, j. r. Libby,
Thomas Harper, Samuel Smith, Jr., M G..
Aver.
BANGOR,
a lady has taken the field against the rum
shops in Bangor. As result of her efforts
several seizures have been made recently. Sat-
urday one of Bangor's gilded groggeries was
raided upon successfully, at her instgation.
The management of the Eastern Maine Fair
have decided upon Sept 9th to 18th, inclusive,
as the four days upon which to hold the fair
in 1884.
Mr.. Warren e. Cobb, proprietor of the Ban
gor House stables, accidentally shot himself in
the left hand while he was trying to remove
cartridge from revolver
CANTON
Rev. Ozro Roys, pastor of the f. B. church
at Canton, while on visit to New York, was
taken down with typhoid fever, and for time
his life was despaired Of. He is now about but
unable to preach.
KITTERy.
John Rogers, in two days last week planted
81, 400 tulip bulbs and 1000 lilies, besides pre-
pairing the ground for the same.
LEWISTON.
Twenty-Five men are at work on the Maine
State fair grounds in Lewiston. The grounds
will be made to exceed any of the kind in New
England in attracuveness,
MACHIAs.
A man by the name of j. P. Gallagher has
been victimizing number of the citizens of
Machias. He hailed from Boston but il is
said he has family living in st. Andrews, N
B. He professed to be an agent for the Fair
banks scales, and made bargain with the off
GERS of the Machias Park Association for a pair
of $40 scales. He then bought an old pair, the
size of those which he had agreed to furnish
the Park Association, for which he paid $15
repainted and patched them up and set them
on the grounds OF the association for use on the
occasion of the late fair, and the exhibitors of
stock were astonished at the wonderful "big-
ness" of their horses and oxen after being
weighed on these new and improved scales
When the discovery of their deceiving quality
was made, he explained the matter by stating
that they were not properly adjusted, being
new and set up in hurry, and after tinkering
them for few hours pronounced them all
right. After the fair was brought 10 a close he
received pay for them and skipped, leaving
sundry bills for board, labor, etc. unsettled.
wATERvILLE.
The Coburn tablet for the new institute has
arrived and was put in its place Saturday.
The funeral of Lieut.. Boutelle Noyes, who
was killed in Japan last August, was conduct
ed cd at the house Of his father. Hon. Edwin
body arrived in Waterville, Sunday.
IN GENERAL.
The Oxford Democrat, the excellent Oxford
county Republican newspaper, will be enlarg-
ed to eight columns at the beginning of the
51st volume, at the opening Of the new year,
and will be otherwise greatly improved.
II. II. Acterian, of Bates IA, who has been
studying in the Bangor Theological School, is
reported to have accepted a call to q Congrega-
tionalist church in Vermont
Gov. Robie will, this week, make trip to
the Eastern part of the State, attending the
County Grange meeting at Lincoln on Thurs
day. and the Grand Army festival at Monroe
on Saturday. Tie contemplates trip to Bos
ton next week. to visit the great fairs. He will
attend the meeting of the National Grange in
Washington, d. c., beginning on the 10th of
November, He has been invited to be a guest
of the city OF New York on Nov. 25th, the oc'
casion being the celebration of the evacuation
of that city by the British army of occupation.
A Lewiston man, who had been travelling
with Hudson, the man killed at Kennebunk,
says that he had not been drinking. Hudson
had taken off his overcoat and put his ticket in
his hat band and laid his hat at one side, The
cd tho 4i<ea.sd ese}c4ud
fuel. Whether the fire had become too hot or
that he started to go into the smoking Car for
smoke, his friend was unable to say. A lady
who was near, saw him take his ticket out of
his hat band and put it in his coat pocket. He
went out the door of the car on to the plat
form, and that was the last of him. The de-
ceased was we'll known in Lewiston. He had,
in former years, been mill operative and mer-
chant on Lincoln street. de. vas well-to-do,
and owned a block Of buildings near the Grand
Trunk railway depot. He was about 30 years
of age, and leaves family.
Last August, George Trumble. an inmate of
the Togus Military Asylum, became the pos
SCISSOR of 81 800, back pensions money. He i'm
mediately started for Boston, with the parting
remark, You will never see me again at the
Home" Immediately upon his arrival at Bos-
ton he took quarters at Young's Hotel, and be-
gan to dispose of his cash right and left. He
boon companions shared his free-handed hos
pitality Indeed, it is related that he gave
several suppers and secured band to furnish
entertainment. But the end came. He
reached the end of hiz purse and became
'sdea6 broke" The management of the
Home, receiving word concerning his destitute
condition, sent him pass from Boston to Au-
gusta. The veteran arrived at Togus, Satur-
day. 81, 800 poorer.
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