The Portland daily press., 1885-01-20
FROM AUGUSTA.
What the Lawmakers Will Do in
Augusta Today.
Important Hearings to be Given by the
Judiciary Committee To-day.
Aroostook's Superior Court and
Who Will be Judge.
Personal and Other Items Of Interest.
FROM AUGUSTA.
Personal and Other Items Of Interest.
Special to the Press.)

Personal and Other Items OF Interest.
| Special to the Press1
| Augusta, Jan. 10.
On the reassembling of the Legislature to-
morrow, the business of the lawmakers will be
resumed. all of the work now is prelim.
mary and confined to the committee rooms
Nearly all of the committees have organized,
and the matters referred to them will be ex-
| pedited as fast as possible. Probably the end
of the month will be reached before the COM
mittees will fairly get down to their work.
Tomorrow afternoon hearing will bs given
| by the judiciary committee to the petitioners
on their bill to enlarge the powers OF the Port
land constables; also a hearing to the commits
sioners of pharmacy on their bill which pro-
vides that it shall not be lawful for any person
in the State to conduct the business of an
apothecary without receiving a certificate of
registration from them. The bill allows
women to become apothecaries. The business
OF an apothecary is defined to be the keeping
aud retailing of all medicines, simple or COM
pound, which are prescribed in any pharma-
COZ @ia; the manufacturing of all chemical and
medicinal preparations therein directed; pre-
pairing or compounding the prescriptions of
physicians; and the guardianship and sale of
poisons. Tue commissioners of pharmacy are
to be appointed by the Governor, and there
are to be three of them, each to hold Office for
three years. Those who desire certificates OF
registration must undergo an examination be.
fore the commissioners, when two kinds of
certificates will be issued to those whose exam
ination has been successful, one declaring that
the holder is skilled in pharmacy, and the
other that the applicant, who shall not be less
than Is years of age, lie qualified to take charge
OF the business of an apothscary, during the
temporary absence of his employer. The fees
for examination are $40 for each applicant,
All apothecary stores mast be in charge of q
registered apothecary, and any person who
carries on the business without being regis
tered will be subject to fine of $50 for the
first offence, and 800 for each and every sub
sequent conyiction and it shall be the duty
of the commissioners to prosecuts all cases as
may be brought to their notice accompanied
by testimony. The bill docs not apply in its
provisions to physicians who prepare and dis
pense their own medicines, nor to the sale of
proprietary preparations
There is every indication that the petition
ers for Superior Court in the northern part OF
Aroostook county will have their prayer
answered as there seems to be no opposition
to it. So confident are those interested
In the matter. that such a judicial privilege
will be granted, that several names of candi-
dates for judge are mentioned, among whom
are Samuel W Matthews of Caribou, j. b.
Trafton of Fort Fairfield aud W. M. Robinson
of Houlton. The establishment of a similar
court in Androscoggin and Penobscot counties
is also asked for, but what the Legislature will
do about it does not yet appear.
A petition numerouely signed will shortly be
presented, asking for road from Shirley
Mills to the Forks of the Kennebec. The OBJ
ject is to save "toting" distance of sixteen
miles.
E. R. Pierce and Henry Chase, whilom of
the Portland Argus, of this city, are rival can
didstes for the office of post office inspector,
with headquarters at Augusta. under the
Cleveland administration. Pierce is backed
among others, by Col. Charles B. Morton, who
is a candidate for the pest office here, and D.
H. Thing OF Mt. Vernon, who was the Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress in this district at
the September election and who, is is said, is
an applicant for the Portland custom house,
while Chase is backed among others, By Judge
Cleaves OF Portland, John b. Redman of Ellis
worth, the defeated candidate for Governor,
aud John f. Lynch Of Machias, also the de-
feated candidate for Congress in the Fourth
district.
Senator Simonton, chairman of the temper
ance committee in the Legislature, has re-
ceived a letter from Gen. Neal Dow asking for
a hearing on the 9th or 28th inst. Gen. Dow
says: "We propose to make liquor selling uu-
pleasant and improbable, and to close up the
rat holes through which rumselers have es-
capped from the hands of Justice"
A railroad lobby is threatened in the interest
of the Moosehead Lake bridge project.
A delegation of the friends of the Portland
Deaf School will appear before the committee
on education in a few days to urge the claims
of that institution which is receiving but linn
ited support from the State, and which under
the care of Miss Bsrstow has been making
wonderful progress in the art of articula-
tion in the place OF sign language.
The sC-csIled ten-hour bill, introduced by
Mr.. McGilliouddy of Lewiston, promises to be
among the early measures for discussion in the
House.
Judge Goddard, late commissioner on the
revision of the statutes, has proposed bill to
correct certain omissions and defects in his
work accompanied by carefully written report
urging the necessity of the passage of his BILL
Hon. William P. Frye has presented to
President Pennell and Speaker Hamln each
copy Of the rules and manual of tie United
States Senate, tasteiully boand.