The Portland daily press., 1883-10-27
ATHENS.

Agent, Ava Cole.
The following are the names of the officers
OF the Grange recently organized in this place:
Master, Fred Barker; Overseer, Charles Dore;
Lecturer, Eben S. York; Steward Aaron
Drake; Assistant Steward, @. B. Wade; Chap
lain, Mrs. j. Dunton; Treasurer, Mrs. Isaac
Keeper, Calvin Knight; Pomona, Mrs. Aaron
Drake; Flora, Mrs. f. Barker; Ceres, Mrs. j.
Tuttle.
Mr.. Lon Dolan of Bath commenced the
printing business at the Brunswick Telegraph
office, and went West during the winter of
1880. He went to work in the Leader office at
Bloomington. ILL.,, an office owned by w. f.
Crawford, Esq, of Brunswick. He has re-
Gently been promoted to the office OF Superin-
tendent of the Leader Publishing Company.
DIR. Bibber of Bath is confined to his house
from injuries received in being thrown from
his carriage by a collision Friday night.
A Bath ship carpenter, one day last week,
bit off chew of tobacco, when his teeth met
with hard substance, which proved to be
part of the skeleton of small lizard, the re-
mainder being in the rest of the plug. He has
left OF chewing.
BRUNSWICK.
Miss Kate Furbsh of Brunswick, well
known as a collector of Maine plants, is pass
ing the year 10 Paris, studying the French
language and taking lessons in painting.
cHARLEsToN.
The Baptist church of Charleston recently
called to its pastorate Rev. e. N. Pierce, lately
pastor of church on MT Desert island. Il is
understood that he will commence his labOrs in
Charleston the first of November.
DEXTER
The hearing before Judge Sprague last week,
in regard to the alleged case of cruelty in the
Dexter grammar school resulted in the teacher
being fined 81 and costs, from which decision
we understand he appealed. 1t was in evil
0onCA that 6a kicKad nf bia nunilz f0ur nr
five times
Mr.. r. W. Dunn of Waterville, representing
the State Temperance Alliance, will address
the people Of Dexter, Sunday, Nov. 4th, at
the town hall. Subject: Prohibition and the
Prohibitory Amendment"
HALLowELL.
The fourth importation of thoroughbred cat
tie brought to this country by Messrs. Bur-
leigh & Bodwel, which have for the past
three months been in quarantine at Quebec,
Canada, were shipped from there via the
Grand Trunk Railway, Thursday, and reached
Hallowell Thursday night. This shipment
consisted of 1872 head, and left England Aug.
I'd. But several animals have been sold to
Western parties, which will be shipped direct
to Indiana, via Port Huron, so that the total
number brought to M Aine will be in the neigh
borhood of lat animals, viz: About 100 Here
fords, 81 Poled Aberdeen Angus. II Sussexs
and Jerseys.
About month ago man by the name of
Smith brought a lot of furniture to Hallowell
and represented that it was part of bank
rupt stock that he had bought very low, and
offered it for sale for about half price. He
was not long in disposing of it, and left town
so suddenly after closing 1t out that he forgot
to leave the key or settle for the rent of the
store that he hired of A. Lord, Esq. 1t now
turns out that Smith hired the furniture of
furnishing house in Boston, to be paid for in
installments, and brought it down on the boat
aud disposed of it in Hallowell as above. The
Boston owners will take back the furniture or
much of it as they can fad, while the buy
ers Will have to lose what they paid for it mn
less they Can get 1t back from Smith, who is
not to be found
KENNEBUNK.
Mr.. Charles Stevens had severe paralytic
shock one day last week, and doubts OF his re-
covery are entertained.
K ev. f Hartley Long, pastor of the Advent
church IN this place, died at his home in
Thomason on Wednesday of last week. Mr..
Long was an earnest, active Christian, and
had, during his short pastorate Of but little
over a year, gained many friends here, who
deeply mourn his early death.
MADISON.
Among the hequests of the widow Hopkins,
who died on the 18Th, are $500 to the Congre-
gational church at Madison, and $500 to the
Maine Missionary Society.
The new woolen mill has met with good sue
cess. 1t will be doubled in capacity soon. 1t
is probable that another mill will be built next
season.
NEW GLOUCESTER.
The fair given by the ladies for the benefit
of the New Gloucester cornet band was an en-
tire success. The concert by the band, the
reading by M. bennett of Lewiston, and the
ether entertainment were all excellent About
thirty dollars was brought in for an autograph
guilt. Fifty odd dollars were realized from
the entertainment, over all expenses.
PITTsFIELD
DR.. W. S. Howe is spending the winter in
the Medical and Surgical hospital at Philadel-
phia. He will return to Pittsfield in the
spring.
sEARsPoRT.
Captain Theodore P. Colcord of Ssarsport, is
one of Names most successful young sea cap
tains. Leaving there about fifteen years ago a
boy, he succeeded by his own exertions to the
command of several fine ships During his
sea life, he has, i'll going and coming from San
Francisco been round Cape Horn thirty times.
SOUTHPORT.
A vigorous young lady who wields the birch
In school in the town of Southport, was
brought before a Justices court last week, to
answer to the charge of unreasonably beating
twelve years old lad for eating an apple in
school. From his shoulder to his hip, on ex-
animation in court, there was disclosed con-
tinuous space of black and discolored flesh.
WINTHROP.
The opening of Winthrop's new water works
occurred Thursday. Three good streams were
ployed at once. Each of them would go over
any building in the place. The power is a
wheel under the Winthrop mill.
wArERvLLE.
If a sufficient number of names can be pro-
cured Mr.. Mathew Arnold will be engaged to
lecture in Waterville some time in November.
Rev. Mr.. Bellows is working up the matter
and has already secured quite number of sign
ers for tickets.
Nh. Frank Ewell Of the Portland Transcript
was here few days ago. He came to look
over the ground in contemplation of bicycle
trip next June from Augusta to the Forks.
IN GENERAL.
Mr.. Sanford Sanderson, formerly OF this
State, for twenty years a resident of Califor-
mia, is vising Newport. He is a veteran miner
The Katahdin Ice Company will put in 20
600 tons of ice the coming winter. The Arctic
Company will probably house from $1,000 to
40, 600 tons.
By the shutting down of mills on the Penob-
scot river, in consequence of the drouth, it is
estsmsed that the men have lost $25 600 if not
more ia4 wages, and the lumber supply has
been cut down over 10, 900 feet
The Rockland Opinion says that those in
charge of Patrick Cain at the Insane Hospital
including the superintendent, Dr. SauborD,
are fully of the opinion that he is insane and
not responsible for his act in killing Camp
bell; so that it is not probable that he will ever
be tried.
A large buck rushed out of the woods the
other day and attacked little boy who was
walking Oh the public road few miles out of
Moorels Mills. The buck stopped eyed him a
moment, aud then shaking his horns, plunged
ssvagey at him. The boy sought safety in a
tree top. The deer, after watching him for a
time, disappeared in the woods.
The shops of the Durham Packing Company
are quiet. Business closed Monday. Thurs
day morning the shops were shut for the sea-
son. "a busy year on the WHOLE" says the
proprietor. 1t has been perhaps the best in the
history of the canning business. The Auburn
shop has put up one hundred tons of pnmp-
kins making nearly 10000 cans 10000 cans of
tomatoes, $4,000 cans of corn and apples,
squash and beans to the amount in all OF 250,-
600 cans. The shops at New Gloucester will
run three weeks longer.
A rumshoD is to be- opened in few days at
% Essex street by Hon. Thompson I'll. Murch,
the Greenback and Labor Reform ex-member
of Congress from Maine. The place is being
fitted up gorgeously, and it is said that the
misunderstanding proprietor will expend about
$4,000 in preparing an attractive resort-Bos-
ton Traveller
MASSACHUSET
School Superintendent's Meeting.
BOSTON, Oct 26.-The New England asso.
citation OF school superntendents held its semi
annual meeting this forenoon in this city.
There was'a large attendance and several ton
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