The Portland daily press., 1892-08-16
New Teachers for the Rockland High
School.

New Teachers for the Rockland High
School.
Especial to the Pressl
RocKLAND, August 15.-Victor V.
Thompson of Friendship, a son of Hon.
Nelson Thompson, has been elected
principal of the Rockland high school.
Mr.. Thompson was last located at Hard
wick, Mass, and though young has had
Emily F. Ames of South Thomaston has
been elected first assistant of the high
school.
Large Fleet Sails From kockland.
Especial to the Press.l
RocKLAND, August 15. -Sixty-nine fog
bound vessels, principally lime coasters
bound for Portland, Boston, New York
and other ports along the coast, sailed
from this harbor today. OF this number
four were four masters; ten were three
masters and three were brigs. 1t was a
very unusual occurrence.
Schooner Eugene Borda Lost.
Especial to the Press.l
RocKLAND, August 15.-Schooner Eu-
gene Borda, laden with $1,000 paving
blocks from Eagle Quarry for New York,
sprung aleak while at anchor in
Wheeler's Bay, Saturday sinking in
about twenty feet of water. She had
just come off the marine railway at Port
Clyde, having been thoroughly repaired.
She will probably be a total less. Ex-
Mayor VIM S. White of this city was the
principal owner. The Borda was vessel
of POI gross tons, built at Tuckahoe,
Florida, in 1870, and hailing from st.
George.
Justice Lamar at Camden.
CAMDEN, August 15.-L. @. c. Lamar.
associate justice of the United States
Supreme Court, is in town today visiting
Chief Justice Fuller. He will go to
Castine, Wednesday, on the excursion
given Chief Justice Fuller by the Knox
County Bar Association.
Yacht Arrivals at Boothbay Harbor.
BooTHBAY HARBoR, August 15.-The
schooner yacht Dorothy O., of the Port
land Club, owned by Dr.. Walter Wood
man of Portland, bound to Rockland; the
sloop Saracen, of the Eastern Club, N. L.
Francis of Boston, for Bar Harbor;
Elaine of the Boston Club; G. A. Lowe,
from Bar Harbor for Boston, arrived to-
night.
Stallion Elmbrook Breaks Leg.
FAIRFIELD, August -Elmbrook, the
speedy stallion 2.26t, owned by a Belfast
syndicate, while being exercised on the
Fairfield track this afternoon, broke his
leg. There was no cause for the mishap.
Boy Drowned at Biddeford.
BIDDEFoRD, August 15,-A lad nam ed
Jack Minnehan, fifteen years old, was
drowned while bathing with some young
companions in the Saco river this after
noon. The police have recovered the
body.
William Gibson Held.
BANGOR, August 15.-William Gibson
of Brewer was arrested today and held
without bail for the September term of
court on the charge of assaulting his
granddaughter.
The Campaign Opens.
BANGOR, August 15.-The Republicans
of Oldtown had flag raising and rally
tonight, starting the campaign there. A
mass meeting in the City hall was ad-
dressed by Hon. S. W. Matthews, state
labor commissioner.
BANGOR, August 15.-The Democrats
had flag raising tonight with short
procession headed by band. 1t was fol-
lowed by meeting at City hall with
speeches by E. c. Swett of Portland and
B. E. Donigan of Orono.
LEWISTON, August 15.-Johnson, Shep
herd and McGillicuddy opened the cam
paign to night.
Maine News Notes.
James Barnet, of Saco, an aged colored
man who left home mysteriously last
winter, was supposed to have been
drowned but he has been heard from. A
Saco man met him two days ago in st.
John, N. B., where he has been employ
ed since his sudden disappearance.
Rev. Nathaniel O. Chaffee, formerly
pastor of Unitarian churches in several
n r. L i 1..~rI tNr1A,