The Portland daily press., 1883-10-06
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Mrs. Cyrus Taylor of South Hope is quite ill
from the effects of poisoning by poison dog
wo, in the fuel she was using.
George Henry Bangs, the general supern-
tendent of Pinkerton's Detective Agencies,
whose death was recently noted, was native
OF New Vineyard, and for some years made
his home with his grandfather, the late Mr..
Brooks, in Pennington.
The town of Jonesport has added to its valu-
alton over 100000 in the past three years
This is largely due to the establishment of
several herring and Sardine factories there,
which give employment to several hundred
men. women and boys During the busy season
these factories disburse from seven to nine
thousand dollars weekly.
1t is estimated that the actual loss during
the present season by forest fires in Hancock
county amounts to 100000.
Last Sunday Rev. j. Ii. Little, pastor Of the
Universalist church in Brunswick, rendered
his resignation, to take effect Nov. 1st. The
resignation was very reluctantly accepted, and
only on account of the larger claim made upon
HIM for the wider field he is to occupy. Mr.
Little is to be state missionary, but his home
and poSt-ottice address will continue to be at
Brunswick. The parish will Immediately
settle another minister ia connection with
Bowdoinham, where Mr.. Little also had a
pastorate which he resigns.
The Congregational church at Fryeburg
desire their pastor, DIR. j. r. Mason, to with
draw his resignation.
Deputy Secretary of State Chadbourne and
wife have decided to spend the coming winter
in Florida.
DIR. George A. Lord, a son of Capt. Samuel
l.. Lord of Ellsworth, after having studied
medicine and surgery at the best schools and
hospitals in this country for six years, is now
In Vienna, Austria where he proposes to spend
another year in the principal hospitals of that
city.
Information has been received of the death
of Mr.. Benjamin Franklin Murray, graduate
of the Maine State College in the class of 1881,
which occurred in California about the 25th of
Septemher from typhoid fever
The new Friends meeting house at Bailey
vile will be completed about the first of
November. The building is already up and
the outside nearly finished.
H. S. 0. Brown of Dover has returned from
a trip to Europe.
Elisha Gordon OF Thorndike,a "a man alb ont 70
years of age, attempted suicide by cntti ng his
throat with razor, one ay last week His
wife entered the room just in time to save his
life. He has been sick long time aud says he
is tired of living.
Bishop H. A. Neely and Rev G. W. Rae
burn and wife of New York were at Preque
Isle the past week looking after the interests
of the seminary. Mir. Raeburn, at present a
resident OF Houlton, is TO be the principal OF
the school when started, and Is therefore much
interested in the construction of the class
rooms. 1t is to be completed on Janury 1st,
but 1t is not fully decided whether the school
VIII CON nieuce az tudb tlu1e OF noI until March.
The Advertiser says Rev. Mr.. Hayden be-
gius his labors in Auburn, January 1st, 1884.
Rev. Mr.. Hayden will preach at Auburn Sun
day, Oct. 18th.
The lament over the decay of shipbuildn g
in Maine needs tempering. The revival in the
industry is undoubted. The launch at Bath of
the largest sailing ship ever built in this coun-
try, with the exception of the Great Republic,
is evidence that the days when Maine ship
yards were scenes of immense activity are
neither quite departed nor forgotten. Boston
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