The Portland daily press., 1884-11-19


Major Frank E. Nye, who has been apnoint-
ed Assistant Qasrtermaster in the United
states Army, selected for that position
from some 200 applicants. He has received no
official othcation of his appointment.
well known lumberman of a agusta in
forms the Journal that there viii not be over
twp-tbirds the lumber cut On tho Kennebec
this season as last. The low prices received
for the product the past season have had dis
couragng effect.
The conservsrories at the Insane Hospital
are an ever present delight to its inmates Ia
one day last week more than Thousand pinks,
OF different varieties, were distributed among
tho patients.
DDDEFoRD
1t is thought thet Fred Jones, the vonng
man who committed the robbery in Saco. Sat-
nrdss, has shipped aboard vessel bound for
England
The engine for the pumping station of the
Biddeford and SacO Water Company weighs
40 tons. It's removal from the Boston & Maize
freight station to the works on the Hollis road,
which was begun Monday, viii occupy three
or four days.
BUCKFIELD.
Buckfeld claims the Oldest Republican voter
IN Oxford county, If not in the State. MIR.
Jesse Shay of East Buckfisld, who was So
years old the next day, the 4th inst, rode
three miles and voted the Blaine and Logan
ticket.
BETHEL.
Last week the store of Woodbury. s. Parinc-
ton, of Bethel, was entered by burglars, and
the safe blowR open. Foriy-seven collars be-
longing TO G. @. Chapman, S6 20 tbs Couerega-
tional society, and $40 AID ia number OF notes
payable to the firm were taken.
DR.. w A. Russell has presented valuable
herharum to the library of Gould's Academy,
consisting of several hundred finely mounted
specimens OF the fora of Bethel and vicinity
Work on Eha lihFaPY has commenced .rH an
books will be cataiogued aud arranged at 80
carly date. The shelves are arranged ou the
acove plan, as being most economical ia point
Of space.
aooDwIN's MILLa
A cemmandsry of tbs United Order of
the Golden Gross has baen instituted
here by Deputy Grand Commander G. T,
Pressey. The officers eleoted AID installed
are as follows: p N. O., Rev. G. Il.
Blsbes; n G., Rev. g.: 8. Smith; " N. c.,
W. H., E. N. Littefeld; N. x. r Mrs e. s.
Lttlefsld; F. K. r., Mrs Geo. Sylvester; w
4, Sylvester HUI; W. l. G., Mrs. e. NJ. Ford; /;
w. 0. G.. F. E. Tripp.
LEWISTON.
A handsome twe-horse, double seated buck
| beard wagon, twelve feet long, has been re-
ceived in Lewiston by Commissioner Ham for
new orleans. 1T was manufactured by Davis
| q Son OF Ellsworth. The Nsw England Door
rlate Company, OF Lewiston, aud D. r. and L.
vsntilator Company are additional exhibitors
from Lewiston.
Several creditors of Lewiston man, who
| bet heavily on the result of tho election and
| lost, have sued and trusteed the stakahoiderF,
| They cay that II he has any money it belongs
to his legitimate creditors rather than to the
/ men who gambled with Kim.
! MoNTviLLE.
| A poor but respectable old gentleman of this
| place, who was on the verge of becoming a
| town charge, has lately received some $l100
| pension money, He now holds the title to a
house for the first time in long life.
OLD ORCHARD.
At meeting of the authorities of Old
| Orchard held recently it was voted to exemp.
| from taxes for ten years any manufacturing
| establishment of repute that @ould agree to
| locate in that town so as to give emplOyma ant
to citizens during the main part of the year
| MIR. q. w. Ross, the secretary OF the building
| loan committee, was authorized to construct a
factory for any snch reliable corporation, TO be
| three stories Ia height and 100X50 feet in size
and the ground is now being graded in readi
pess for such building.
| READFIELD.
Two cider mills at ReadfeId Corner have
nsde this season rpward of 1900 barrels O.
cider.
sACo.
Judge Rufus P. Tspley, Of Saco, who has
just rec vere1 from a severe atiacs of pueu
monia, Is now contiusd to his residen CO with :
slow fever.
sHAPLEIoH.
Ivory A. Hall has ateIy reosiyad a pensio,
OF S72 per month aEd arrears amounting 4
S25oe. y