The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-10-27

Unless reduced by private sale there
will be the largest auction of stock Mon.
day ever held in Somerset county, when
the assignees of the estate of l. o.. Win
slow, insolvent debtor, will sell at public
auction all the personal property of the
estate consisting of 100 hogs and pigs, Il
horses, many cows and calves, wagons,
spring tooth harrows and all the ct
cetera which go to make up the stock
and implements of large farmer and
fancy agric ulturist.
Clerk A. D. Russell in the secretary OF
states office has already been working
on the preparation of Australian ballots
for the state election in this state. Thers
will be several puzzling features to his
work on these ballots. Among these the
most noticeable is the arranging of
ballots for the counties of Aroostook and
Oxford, in each of which there are two
registry sof deeds districts. Then too,
according to one of the new amendments
there shall be 60 ballots sent for every SO
voters or fractions there of instead of rs
ballots as under the old law.
A correspondent of the Bangor News
reports to that paper that Edward
Sargent of East Cornish died in the State
Asylum for the Insane at Augusta last
week of diphtheria.
A bill presented by II. s. Nickerson,
deputy sheriff of Pittsfield, to the Somer-
circumstances of Mr.. Nickerson's wild
chase for thirty-six hours with posse of
aids and the final capture of two men
and large cinnamon bear These men
exhibited their bear in Pittsfield last
August, frightening horses and doing
considerable damage. After being under
arrest three days they were allowed to
they took bee line for the states
border, travelling in the night time
A well attended meeting of the citizens
of Waterville was held Wednesday eve
ming at the council rooms to take action
upon the matter of the Wiscasset rail-
road terminus A committee consisting
Of M. G. Foster, J. C. Libby and e. T..
Wyman was appointed to attend a rail-
road meeting to be held at China next
Monday and present Watervilles advan-
tages.
An Augusta despatch says that Mr..
Horace Ingraham of that city was one of
the original greenbackers, one of the
Scion Chase school, and has been
devoted adherent of fat money. He is
native of Augusta and has large and
well managed farm there. The financial
agitation of the past few months has
aroused Mr.. Ingraham to action and he
proposes to open campaign for soft
money at once, taking the lecture plat
form himself, delivering his first lecture
at the Church Hill school house next
Saturday evening, which he has been adj
vertlslng by an announcement written in
red ink on sheets of note paper which he
posts in stores, at cross roads and other
public places. Here is one of them: "A
social lecture may be expected at the
aschool house on Church Hill, Saturday
evening, October 2sth
cit is time to be arming for the great
and final conflict with enthroned corpora
lions which have swamped the republic
and would trample liberty in the dust.
decaying manhood, and emasculating
freedom"
The fight between the city council and
the Bath Gas & Electric Light company
relative to lighting the streets came to
an end Wednesday night, and resulted in
a victory for the light company. Mem
bers of the Council who took strong
grounds few days ago not to pay more
than $50 for an all night light, suddenly
changed their opinion and voted to ac-
was passed by the two boards authorize
ing the making of a contract to cover
one year, from September 16, 1898, the
terms to be $120 a light for ten all night
lights, and $95 each for 81 lamps to be
run till 2 a. M The vote in the board
of aldermen was. yea 5, nay 1, in COM
mon council, yea Z, nay g.
Warrants have been posted in Bath for
a general town meeting to be held Thurs
day forenoon, Novem Der 2, to vote upon
the question whether or not the citizens
will ratify the action of the city council,
June 9TH of the present year, by which
permission was given the Maine Water
company to change the city's water
supply from Thompson's brook to Ne
quasset lake.
Prof Mendenhall's Start in Line.
Prof. Menbenhall the head of the
United States coast survey and a. scien-