The Republican journal., 1885-07-30
IN GENERAL.

IN GENERAL.
Saco proposes to build school house to cost
S3l 900.
Forty bushels Of straw bel ries were grown at
the Insane Hospital his year.
An Augusta young man contemplate1 ii bcy-
rle trip to 81. John, y. b.
There has been a marked absence of thunder
showers in kennebcr county this season.
The Androscoggin mills shut down Saturday
for two weeks. Suine repairs will be made.
The work of rebuilding the buildings of the
kalahdn Iron Works ha, begun and will be
vigorously pushed.
The oxford Democrat gives the names of
nineteen residents OF South Paris who are over
eighty years of age.
f. a. Cushman'~ box and excelsior mil at
OrneNiile burned FRIDAY morning Total loss
unknown insured.
One man at Cape Elizabeth this season. iia-
picked trcm his vines $1,000 quarts of straw Der
ries and two others 1000 and 5000 respective
ly.
The directors of the Maine Central Railroad
held 4 meeting 1T Portland, Thursday, and de-
ciared semi-annual dividend of per cent.
payable the 18th of August.
The First Maine Spiritual State Campmeeting
Association Will hold their eighth annual meet
ing at Buswcll'> Grove, Etn;, from August 2stb
TO Sept. 9Th. 1883.
The Governor has appointed Mr. J. B. Ham,
of Lewiston. commissioner to represent Jhe
State of Maine At the American exhibition to
be held at London Eng. next year.
Ezekiel Pea,e, aged - years. a fisherman of
st George while off The coast walked over
board in his sleep and Wa, drowned This wa.
the third time that he had walked overheard
when asleep.
The Maine Central railroad is making extern
slNe preparations tor the New England fair TO
be held in Bangor. August 81 and September /.
.. . and 4. Excursions will he arranged from ali
parts of New England.
Mrs. Annie Cary RAYMOND formerly of
Durham. has been of late visiting some of her
numerous friends in Gorlian where She il a.
ways welcome Mrs RAYMOND has not forgot
ten her early home. nor the friend, of her ear.
ly youth.
A Maine florist eloped to Iowa with neigh
bor's wife His own su0Ilse followed them to
the West where she lost the trail. hut when
She came upon IA little cottage with lovely flow
ers and Rosae'' ettered upon the trim lawn
in fragrant pinks and roses she felt that she
had run the fugityes to earth. and she was
right.
The Woman's State Relief Corps in conven-
ton in Gardiner, Thursday, elected the follow
ing officers President, Mrs. 4. NJ. Sawyer.
Portland: Vice President Mrs Annie NouIion
Auburn; Secretary, Mrs. A. B. Legrow. Port
land; Treasurer, Mrs. Bradbury, Biddeford:
Directors, Mrs. ingalls,, Portland Mrs. Mari
ner, Hallowell, Mrs. Gustayus Moore. Gardin-
er, Mrs. Milliken. Saco, Mrs. Pascal. Camden
The next annual convention meets in Bdde-
ford.
Benjamin Odlum, nineteen years of age. son
of Henry Odlum, was drowned while bathing
in Adams Pond, near North Boothbav Monday
evening.
The president of the Woman's National Re
lief Corps has issued an order that all the corps
charters be draped IN mourning for 60 days in
honor OF General Grant. and that, at the next
regular meeting, each corps set apart one hour
for special services.
Harry G. Hopper. mining engineer, and
brother OF the late lnslee A. Hopper, formerly