The Portland daily press., 1884-04-02
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Public Park ina SacO.
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Public Park ina sacO.
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SAco, April /. AT the meeting Of the city
government last evening the following order
passed both branches, the vote in the board
OF aldermen standing to 2, in the council 6
to3:
That the CITY treasurer be authorized to hire
the sum of $1000 to meet the requirements of
item IA of the will of the late Cornelius Sweet
ser.
The item referred to in the Sweetser will is
as follows:
direct my said trustees to pay over to the
City of Ssco the sum of ten Thousand dollars,
to be by said city laid out used : d expended
in furnishing and identifying public park In
said city; provided the city shall firsr, within
three years after my decease raise by any
method they may choose and appropriate
sum equal to bequest, such sum to be united
with this beQuest and used and expended for
the same use and purpose.
(To the Associated Press9
Lumber Mill i'm Hampden Burned.
BANGOR, AEril 1.-The lumber mill OF VIM.
Treat & Son, in Hampton Upper Corner.
caught fire this afternoon, and will probably be
total loss, with considerable lumber.
LATER.
The mill was entirely destroyed, and the
ruins burned for some time after the fire was
under control. The Messrs. Treat erected this
mill about ten years ago. and have operated it
steadily ever since, manufacturing large
quantities of cooperage and employing fifty
men in all. The mill was situated on the river
bank just above the steamboat wharf; it was
operated by steam power. 1t is quite likely
that it will be rebuilt.
The loss by the fire at Hampden was $1,000;
insured for $4,000.
Death of Noted Hotel Proprietor.
HARRINGTON, April is. f. Stoddard, for
thirty years proprietor of the Stoddard House,
and Familiarity known by all commercial
travellers as ''Uncle Stoddard, died this morn
ing aged about Sc years.
Row Among Tramps Mt Bangor.
BANGOR, April Five or six tramps, two of
whom were in the police station Sunday night
for shelter, got into drunken row on Ex-
change street yesterday afternoon. Two of
them were badly used up and were covered
with blood. The police stopped the row and
the tramps were taken to the station. One of
the tramps attacked Officer Chaplin with
knife, but did not succeed in injuring him.
Fire i'm MiIItown.
CALAIS, April 1. Peter Smsrt's large board
ing house and barn, III. It. Eaton & Sons new
double building, and Samuel Mitchell's dwell
ling house were completely destroyed by fire at
o'clock this morning, in Midtown. The
First Baptist church was damaged $500. 1t
was only saved from total destr uction by the
timely arrival of a steamer from Calais.
Smart's loss is 5000, including two horses,
cow. hogs, carriages, etc. He is insured for
$500. Eaton & Sons loss is 800. He is in
sured for $1,000. Mitchell's loss is 81, 800; in
sured for'$1 200. The Baptist church was not
insured.
Died From His Injuries.
DAMAR1scoTTA, April Peter Cushman Of
Newcastle, who recently fell from the roof of
his house, died from his injuries today.
Sale of Mill Property.
ELLSWORTH, April Nv. f. Milliken, of
Portland, has sold the mill property in this
town, and township No. 80, to J. D. Cushman
and II. B. Mason of Ellsworth. 1t is under
stood that the price paid was $4,000.
AUGUSTA.
The Greenback State convention, which oc-
ours in Augusta on the Both inst, will be COM
posed OF the straight Greenbackers of the So
Ion Chase faction. The other convention TAX
ing place in Lewiston April Goth, will be the
regular Greenback convention so-called. Two
sets OF delegates will probably BE- elected from
Maine and demand recognition at the National
Greenback convention. 1t is said that there
are but three members of the Grsenback State
committee now III favor of fusion with the
Democrats, viz: White of Gardiner, King of
Cumberland, and Emery of York.
y BANGOR.
Edward Norcross, one of the mea killed at
the recent nitro-glycerine explosion at Chester
Pa, was native of Bangor.
1t is expected that the Rev. DR.. Fields
party will sail from Europe for home on the
18th.
Col. H. L. Mitchell is to have the names Of
those who attended the recent banquet at the
Bangor House inscribed on parchment which
he will present to Gen. j. L. Chamberlain as a
souvenir of the occasion.
CAMDEN.
Harrison Heminway, who died in Camden
recently, was remarkable for his eccentricity.
10 religion he was an Adventist, and would
have nothing to do with Caesars Govern
ment," as he termed our administration OF
civil affairs. He would not take deed Of
laud, nor pay the taxes, and when anything
belonging to him was sold to pay taxes he
would take none of the money If any was left
after satisfying the tax demand, saying SIT is
Caesars money" He had purchased aud paid
for the farm on which he lived, but had no
deed, and when his last sickness came he re-
fused to deed or will his property away, simply
giving directions as to what he would like to
have done with it. His last wishes will be car
ried out by his relatives.
HoULToN.
Rev. A. A. Lewis, who has filed the pastor
ate of the Methodist churches on the Houlton
circuit for the past three years, breaches his
farewell sermon April 6.
KITTERY.
At the adjourned annual meeting of the
trustees of the Rice Public Library of Kittery,
held Saturday, Ephr aim G. Spinney was re-
elected treasurer, and William FL. Hackett
secretary.
IN GENERAL.
Six thousand acres of timber lands in Ches.
ter and Woodvile, in Penobscot county, owned
by the estate of S. f. Hersey, have been sold
to Lewis E. Stratton and VIM. Engel of Ban
gor, Frank Gilman of Vim, and j. Fred
Webster of Grono. Hon. Llewellyn Powers of
Houltop and VIM. Engel of Bangor have sold
the township five aud nineteenth on the West
Branch of the Penobscot to T. Joy of Hancock
and Charles Davis and COLLEEN Mckenzie of
Ellsworth.
VIZ AGHTNGTON