The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-30
THE STATE.
ANpRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY.
Mr. Greenleaf league has just completed
the taking of the school census of Lewiston,
for 1888. The work has been done with great
thoroughness and care. The whole number
of scholars between the ages of four and
twenty-one is 6, 6,75S, the largest number ever
reported for Lewiston and nearly four hun
dred more than were reported last year.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Capt. E. c. Barker has just completed one
new camp ON Students Island, Lake Moose
lookmeguntic, and is working on another.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
Rev. Wm IL. Pillsbury. one of the oldest
and most respected of the citizens of Bucks
port died at his residence in that town We'd
nesday evening He was born in Buckstown,
now Bucksport, within only few rods of
the present dwelling, August "a, 1906.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
Lack of rain is making it bad for the Pen
obscot river drivers.
DIR. ID. I'll. Kelley, of Mattawamkeag, has
become saffiieted with a total loss of speech.
He is expected to recover, however.
The body of Benson Sewall has at last been
found. The skates were still strapped to his
feet.
Col. Victor Brett has made the appoint
ment of Frank A. Robinson to be Adjutant
of the Second Maine Regiment, to supply the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Sewall
A. Brown.
PIsCATAQUIS COUNTY.
Rodney C. Penney is the inventor of pro-
cess by which refuse slate can be made to
initiate marble. Mr. Penney is Superintend-
ent of the Mons0n Slate Works.
sAGADAHoC COUNTY,
Landlord Shannon expects to expend ten
thousand dollars fitting up the Sagadahoc
House in Bath.
William Gilbert. of Bath has been driven
crazy by the cruelty of his young wife.
Ii. Ii. Adams, station agent of the Maine
Central railroad at Richmond, has taken the
agency of the American Express Company.
Another shoe factory in Richmond is being
talked of.
1t is reported at Lisbon Falls that there is
reasonable prospect that work will be recon-
menced this summer on the great pulp mill
which it was proposed to build tEere some
time since.
The pretty steam yacht Sapphire, owned by
John Stetson, proprietor OF the Glope Iheatre,
of Boston, built from designs of Edward Bur
CESS, of Volunteer fame, was successfully
launched last week from the yard of the New
England Shipbuildlng Company. Aboard OF
the yacht when she left the ways were Mr..
and Mrs. John Stetson, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
j. Pilling, business manager of the Globe
Theatre, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Groves, Ed
ward Burgess, Capt. Smith, who will COM
mand, and A G. McVey. When about twen-
Iy-uNe yaIuS lTOui bnt ways, Ju0 party Ou buc
deck of the yacht moved from amidships to
the bow, where Mrs Stets0n christened the
boat by breaking bottle OF champagne over
the port bow.
YORK COUNTY.
The Donahue house on the jenkins road in
Saco was burned Saturday. Loss, $500; in
sured, $500.
IN GENERAL.
More than year ago an appeal was pub
ished for funds to purpose boat for Capt.
Lane, missionary of the S. S. q p. Society
along the New England coast, chiefly in
Maine. The total amount received is about
$500 The society has purchased a sloop
yacht for 5000, to be called the Pilgrim, and
She will probably be ready for sea in few
days. Captain Lane has in his care about
forty Sunday Schools.