The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-16

MAINE.


4he SnhW hbFOS.S
BOSTON, Oct. is. The investigating COM
mittee has called meeting of the creditors of
Shaw Bros, at the Shoe and Leather Ex-
change, Thursday, Oct. 18th, at 2 p. m. The
story which the committee will tell will make
perhaps the most interesting chapter of New
England financial history ever printed.
AUGUSTA
Daniel W. Sullivan of Augusta has sold his
colt "Constellation" to Chelsea gentleman.
Augusta is to have new brass band.
Seventy-ive thousand copies of the Maine
Farmers Almanac will be issued this year,
says the Kennebec Journal
BANGOR.
Testimony has been recently received from
Hon. Joseph Carr, Commissioner, before sew
eral Alabama claimants who desire to recover
damages. Messrs. Moses Giddings and O. d.
Dole seek to recover for the loss of the ship
Golden Rocket and were represented by their
counsel, j. Butterfeld, ESQ.,, of Washington.
f. A. Wilson, Esq, appeared for Hugh Ross
who sought damages for the loss of the brig
VIM. McGilvery. G. E. Monroe, Esq, of the
firm of Metcalf, Hale & Monroe, has appeared
for the following claimants of war premiums:
John L. Crosby, Samuel d. Thurston, Morse
& Co., John II. Jarvis, Charles Pierce and d.
r. Stockwell q Co. The vessels on which war
Katahdin, Fourth of July, Premier, Baron de
Castine, Mollie Metcalf, Charles A Littlefeld,
Dunbarton, Evening Star, Fannie Butler
Kate Walker, Monitor, Mary Patten, Rem
shaw, S. P. Smith, Scandinavian, Templar
and Greyhound.
Oxford District Lodge OF Good Templars
held its October session at Canton, Friday
In the evening public temperance meeting
was largely attended, and addressed by Grand
Worthy Chief TemDlar Torsey, Hon. John P.
Swasey, Rev. Robert Scott and others.
DAMARUooTTA.
Mrs. Ann, wife of Captain Robert Morton of
Damariscotta, is Sc years of age. She is at
work on a braided rug, (very flne) which is
now seventeen feet and sixteen inches in Cir
cumference, and which she intends to make of
sufficient dimensions to cover a 14x14 foot
room. She has finished one of smaller dimen-
Bions this season. She has also made three
patchwork quilts of very small pieces, all of
which the old lady has accomplished since the
first of January, besides coloring the rags for
the rugs and assisting in taking care of two
great grandchildren.
sABATTIs.
Stetson L. Hill, ESQ.,, of Sahattis owns one of
the first pianos ever made in this country. His
mother played on it, and it has been in his
family over 100 years. It is of about the size
of melodeon, narrower and little longer,
and SO light that one may easily pick IL up and
piano is made entirely of wood. The strings
are of brass and very light. The action of the
piano is weak. Feeble tones only can be OBJ
tanned, however vigorous the humping. Com
pared with the modern piano forte, this old in
strument is but toy.
YARMOUTH.
Miss Villa L. Haskell, of Yarmouth, who
graduated from Wellesley College this year
and who was first in mathematics and second
in her class, left last week for Springfield, Ill.,,
to teach mathematics in a leading female SEM
mary there.
WINTHROP.
Winthrop has organized fire department
and hose company in order to get the benefit of
its new water works. The officers of the de-
partment are: Charles Gale, chief engineer;
Roland McRoy, first assistant. The company
has 200 feet OF hose and has taken the name
of "Payson Tucker Hose Co., No. l." 1t has
hose cart of the latest pattern. There are
twenty men in the company, which is offioered
as follows: Elliot Wood, foreman; B. o. Kelly
first assistant VIM. Whitman, second assist
ant; Eugene French, clerk and treasurer
The company tried their hose and pump
the other day. The test was satisfactory.
About Thanksgiving day a evee will be hold
en- for the purpose of raising funds for purchas-
ing uniforms.
IN GENERAL.
During the past week the crew of laborers
on the Piscataquis extension has been increas-
ed by the arrival OF one hundred and twenty
FIVE Italians.
OuAOA OoSeAeS AOeOAoJ MuO udo Doou ounOE-
ing from an affection of the eyes is better, and
his speedy recovery is anticipated.
John b. Cough has numerous engagements
to lecture in Maine this month.
The Kennebec ice dealers complain that it
has been hard year for them, and that on the
average no money has been made, some con-
Germs losing where others have made profit.
Ice has been cheap and labor high. Notwith-
standing the discoursgements of the year past
the companies are making preparations to fill
their no uses.