The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-07-19

ANpRoscoGG1N COUNTY.

The directors Of the Lewiston Mills have
called meeting OF the stockholders, to be
held at Lewiston, on Wednesday, the 21st
inst, to consider the expediency of ordering
the treasurer to make an assignment Tor the
benefit of all the creditors or of filing a vol
untary petition in bankruptcy. The action
of the stockholders will be based upon the
decision of the Merchants National Bank In
regard to the position it intends to take.
The Lewiston Gazette says that the sharp
ring of the hammer as it drives on the hoops,
is no longer familiar sound to those pass
ing the little cooper shop on the bank Of the
Little Androscoggin The benignant face
of its owner, j. w. Chaplin, no longer APP
pears framed in the doorway. Mr.. Chaplin
is now busy cutting off coupons and seeking
paving investments for his SlrpluS capital;
II lSe4har- recently died IN Cuba and
left him fortune valued at from $4,000 to
100000.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
About S125 have been raised by subscrip-
ton for the parents of the Bridgton lads
who were drowned recently.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
G. w. Brown, who arrived in Augusta
with his family in destitute condition last
winter, has rewarded the kindness OF the
people of that city by leaving with unpaid
debts amounting to about 500.
A new school house for French scholars is
to be built at the North End, Augusta.
The Gardiner Journal says Shat the wild
rice sowed on the Cobbossee stream last fall
is coming up. 1t looks like oats, but the
heads are longer 1t grows rapidly and
sows itself, and in year or two the banks
of the stream will be thickly lined with it.
| Ducks are very fond of it. and if the rice
grows well the Cobbossee may become a
first-class shooting ground.
Hon. j. Manchester Haynes, Judge White
house, Horace Sturgis, Ell. Whitehouse and
| other gentlemen of Augusta are building a
fine club house on the shores of the Cobbos-
see.
L. E. Thayer & Son of Waterville, are put
ting up new block on the site of the old
Peoples Bank building. The block will be
brick, three stories high and when complet-
ed in early October is to be known as Thay-
er block.
Work on the foundation Of the new Maine
Central shops at Waterville is pushed for
ward rapidly. The foundation for the black
smith, tin and copper shop is completed and
the maSonS are now at work on the machine
shop proper. By the first of August the
foundation of this shop will be finished. The
brick for the building will probably be furn-
ished by Norton & Purington of Waterville.
The granite trimmings will be furnised by
the Dodlin Granite Company.
There are now no dangerous cases of diph-
liberia in Waterville. There have been two
deaths from the scourge; but it now seems
to be dying out.
The Waterville Mail says that Hon. Alfred
E. Buck of Mobile, Ala, who left Water
business man in his adopted State, which he
has represented in Congress, is visiting his
old home.
OXFORD COUNTY.
Walter Scribner, from Lynn, Mass, with
fellow calling himself Moore and claiming
to be in the employ of the New Hampshire
Print Manufacturing Company have left
West Sumner without paying the hotel bills.
Mr.. III. B. Chandler has lost $40 out of his
store and several things are missing from
the rooms of the hotel. The thefts are laid
to the two Adventures.
The brothers and sisters of n II. Merrill
of East Hebron had very pleasant reunion
at his home July 9th. There were present:
Ex-Governor Samuel Merrill, now president
of the City National Bank of Des Moines,
Iowa, Jerry FL. Merrill, vice president Of the
same bank and from the same place, Mrs.
Files and Martha Hill Samuel served as
Governor of Iowa four years, but refused to
be again nominated. In time of the Rebel
lion hewas Colonel of an Iowa Regiment.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The Penobscot Steam Navigation Com
pany intend to procure another steamer, of
about the same size as the Ismafor the river
service between Bangor and Hampden.
PIscATAQUIs COUNTY.
Capt. Samuel K. Campbell who died in
FoXcroft on the 18th inst, was born in what
is now Corinth, Penobscot county, April
10Th, 1898. He was the first white child born
in the township. When only 16 years of age,
he enlisted in Capt. James Perry's company
of Massachusetts militia and served to the
close of the war of 1872. For four years he
carried the first U. S. mail from Bangor to
Skowhegan on horse back by way of Exeter,
Harmony and Hartland, occupying four days
in making the trip. During the great land
speculation in 1885 and 1886, he kept hotel,
the Campbell Housesin Greenbush on the
Penobscot river. With this exception he al
ways lived in Corinth and Exeter until 1860
That year he came to Foxcroft to reside. He
won his military title as Captain of Cavalry
in his native town. A man of positive con-
vlctlonS, he was an ardent Republican in
politics from the organization of that party.
For several years he was communicate of
the Congregationalist church in Foxcroft
AT the time of his death he was the Oldest
citizen of the town.
SAGADAHoC COUNTY.
The Prohibitionists of Phipsburg met at
the Stone School house, Percy District on
Saturday evening, July 10th, for the purpose
of perfecting permanent organization and
transacting other business. There were
prayers, singing and speeches. Among the
speakers were Captain 2. II. Oliver of Bath.
Rev. G. ii. Dowie, H. w. Watson and Can't.
L. j. Small of Parker's Head.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The oranges of Somerset county will have
q grand festival at Hayden Lake on the 11th
and 18th of August. Speakers of prominence
are expected to be present from both in and
out of the State.
The Selectmen of Fairfield have issued a
circular stating that the prevalence of diph-