The Portland daily press., 1891-04-27
STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Arrangements for the celebration of the
centennial anniversary of Berwick Acade
my, South Berwick, to take place July /
are progressing finely. and the event prom
venerable institution. The literary exer
clses will he of especial merit. Hon. Edwin
L. Rice of New York, will preside. The
historical address will be by Rev. John Lord
LII. ID. of Stamford, Conn. poem by Rey. J.
=. Rankins; d. D., Washington, D. c.; ora
Independent. ode for church, Amos Pike,
Esq; ode for banquet, DR.. VIM. Hale, Dover
y. H.; POSTMASTER, George G. Yeaton, ESQ.
There will be a banquet In tent On the
grounds free to the former students of the
Academy, and in the evening there will be a
grand ball under canvass.
At the recent term of the Supreme Cont
at Ellsworth $4,000 were paid into the cOun-
ty treasury by rumsellers. One of the con
ylcted men appealed and two gave bonds to
close their shops.
Grand Army men in Dover and Foxcroft,
under the leadership of Wainwright Gushing
ana George q. Downing, have chartered a
Pullman car to go to Detroit for the next
meeting of the National Encampment and
are now forming party to make the trip.
They will go over the Canadian Pacific
which road has made them very low rates.
Monhegan the other day which was 30 inches
long and weighed IA pounds.
Captain Otis Ingraham of the steamer
Penobscot Is making vigorous effort to
have a lighthouse established on 1.-TWO
Bush" Island, as by that channel vessels can
go to and return from open sea without the
difficulties and hazards experienced in run
ming, as they now must, by Muscle Ridge''
channel. To this end he has caused petit
tions to Congress to be circulated among the
towns on the bay and river.
Along with the Arbor Day proclamations
there are being sent out from the school de-
partment little Arbor Day leaflets for the
use OF schools. These leaflets contain pro-
grammes for the observance Of Arbor Day,
and will at least afford some suggestions for
such schools as observe the day.
at a meeting of the directors of the Ban
g0r and Aroostook line last Friday 1t was
arranged to legally prepare papers for re-
ceiving Aroosto0k county's subscription Of
$780, 900 in accordance with the vote of the
yassed as provided by the enabling act
ihls act provides that the county commits
sloners shall have 10 days to canvass the
county nn vote on the county's subscription of
SoySV'voO 70 the preferred stock of the Bangor
ana Aroostook railroad, and when the sinh
scrlptlon papers are legally made out the
county commissioners shall paw the amonnt
of the subscription. ARRANGEMENTS we're a.
so inaugurated to send parties into the fieid
to make up working surveys. AS soon '0 as
Aroost0ok's vote Is canvassed, the snhscrin'
ton made, and the condition of the connt,
admitted the stock books will be oneneS ~
Bangor for additional subscriptions to pre.
ferred stock.
The peculiar contest between Biddeford
man and the relatives of his dead wife, re-
ported some time ago, over the place of bur-
ial of the woman and the child who had died
before her, has been settled without recourse
to the courts. The husband gave up the
contest and allowed his wife's relatives to
select her resting place, but had the child
buried in his own lot. 1t had been the moth
er's wish that she might be buried with her
child.
u: A. Gilbert, secretary of the State Board
OF Agriculture, said Friday that the good
prices OF potatoes the past winter had been
largely due to the Mckinley tariff having
curtalled the exporting Of potatoes from the
provinces to the states, and corresp0ndingly
increasing prices and the demand here, so
tnat many Aroostook farmers have sold
tneiT crops at very satisfactory rates. The
tariH on eggs has also been instrumental In
maintaining good prices.