The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-09
BRIDGToN.


School occurred at the Congregational Church,
Friday noon. There was a very large audi.
ence and the exercises were of a very high
order of talent, rejecting great credit upon the
school and its present corps of teachers. The
graduating class numbered ten, among whom
are George II. Larrsbee, George A. Ingalls,,
and Albert @. Shorey Ia son of Maj. H. A.
Shorey, of the News,) who enter Bowdoin
College this fall. The class of 'S5 rendered
the graduating class Ia handsome reception in
the evening at Gibbs Hall, at which there
was large attendance of invited guests.
BANGOR.
Friday evening Frenchman named Fred
Bouchard, employed on fish vessel in Ken
duskeag stream, had an alteration with Cap
tain Gray, of the schooner Champion of CLIQUE
ester, Mass, another fish vessel. Bouchard
struck Gray a severe blow in the eye, when
Gray clinehed him and a struggle ensued, dur
ing which Gray was stabbed four or five times
i'll the leg with a knife. Bouchard was arrest
ed and taken to the station house. He tried
to draw his knife on the officer, but was pre-
vented. Gray is an old man of "a, and
Bouchard, who is about 81, had been drinking
freely.
The Baptist church was dedicated on Thurs
day, with appropriate exercises. In the after
noon the sermon was by Rev. DR.. Pepper and
the dedicatory prayer by Rev. A. j. Padle-
ford. The evening sermon was by Rev. f. T.
Lakewood
A lad by the name Of Lilo, aged about IA
years, at work IN the cotton mill fell down
the elevator, from the second floor to the
basement, about 80 feet, Saturday afternoon,
May 3lst, and was SO badly injured that it is
thought he cannot recover.
CoRINTH.
Rev. j. l.. Monroe, the evangelist, who has
been laboring in East Corinth this spring. hav.
ing been called by the Free Baptist Church of
that village, was ordained pastor Friday even
ing.
Weber Davis, a respected farmer living
near Guilford Centre, dropped dead in his barn
about sunset Wednesday night He has al
ways been well and rugged man He had
just got his days work done. He was born
June 81, 1922. in Guilford, and would have
been 6l years old his next birthday.
KENNEBUNK.
At a meeting of the directors of the Kenne-
bunk and Kennebunkport Railroad Company
Hartly Lord, Esq, of Boston, was chosen d.
rector to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
death OF Mr.. Dane, and Edward P. Burnham,
Esq, OF Saco, was elected president.
oRoNo.
Rev. Charles B. Wathen was installed pas
tor of the Congregational church at Orono.
Friday evening. The sermon was by Rev
George W. Fields, installing prayer by Rev
f. B. DEMO, charge to the pastor by Rev. S.
P. Fay, right hand of fellowship by Rev H.
A. Freeman. The address to the pastor was
by Rev. Smith Baker, former pastor
READFIELD.
At meeting of the trustees of the Maine
Wesleyan Seminary, June 3d-5th, Prof. H.
e. Trefethen was transferred from the chair of
mathematics to that OF Greek and Latin, and
Mr.. Russell of Fayette, now in the graduating
class of Wesleyan University, was elected
professor of mathematics.
RoCKLAND.
Delora Ann Smith, wife of Charles G. w.
Smith, attempted suicide Tuesday evening by
taking laudanum. Her husband is in State
prison for the murder of her mother and their
infant child, in 1881 1t will be remem bered
that when Smith committed these murders he
shot his wife in the breast aud nAck. Both
bullets remain in her body now. Tuesday, she
procured an ounce of laudanum and took the
whole of it. Three physicians worked on the
patient for three hours, and with great diff
Guilty succeeded in counteracting the effects OF
the drug. She is still suffering from the ef-
fects OF the dose, but is out of danger.
SOUTH BERWICK
Five residences were entered by burglars at
South Berwick Friday night, and considera-
BILE amount of property was stolen. No trace
of the thieves could be found, and it is thought
they are working eastward.
wATERvILLE.
Among other tributes of Memorial Day at
Waterville was one which deserves mention
A cluster OF wheat heads. gathered by Angus
tine Crosby, from the old stockade at SAILS
bury, N. c., where himself aud brother, DR..
Atwood Crosby, were imprisoned for four
months, twenty-five years ago, was sent to be
placed on the Doctors grave.
The case of Fl. o. Pierce vs.. Selectmen of
Waterville has been decided In favor of the
plaintiff, with damages fixed at $25. This is
the case where wrong man having voted on
name, the selectmen refused to allow the
right man to vote when he presented himself
on the plea that to allow two men to vote on
the same name would vitiate the election.