The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-08-23

| p oPe'Ao't las report Oh UDe GIOupio
| Brunswick on the night the troops lelC
muster for home and while it has not
| been given out it is reported it will snow
the troops were not as much at fault as
| supposed.
Hon. Joseph H. Manley Indignantly
denies that he is to soon leave Augusta
to take up his residence in Washington.
| The State Assessors have returned from
their trip to eastern and southeastern
| Maine and find that the valuation mas
been well kept up. They speak highly OF
the good roads and goou cooks of OF Wash
ington county. After the State Fair they
will visit Aroostook.
Fred Willard of Lagrange accidently
shot himself through the body at South
Twin Lake Wednesday. Willard was
carried to Oldtown, and there is good
prospect of recovery.
Col E. c. Harrington, inspector of
rife practice says that the riflemen who
participated in the various shoots during
muster week have begun work on the
range again, filled with determination
to make still better showing next year.
The railroad commissioners have just
| finished their work of inspecting the
| Sebasticook & Moosehead railroad.
| The cold weather of Wednesday necessi-
tated the building of fires at the State
House, Augusta, the first time since last
spring.
A gentleman residing near the Park
hurst siding in AroosUook secured quite a
| haul the other day. He discovered fine
bee tree in the woods from which he
secured no less than lis pounds of de-
licious honey. But1his luck did not end
| there He secured two great swarms OF
bees
A strange freak of nature is reported on
the farm of A. j. Trask in Nobleboro.
There stands near the railroad tree, the
trunk of which divides in two branches
about three feet from the ground, each
branch Just equal in size, about fifteen
inches in diameter. One branch is white
ash and the other white maple, and they
both grow to the same height, making Il
very beautiful shade tree.
| There is quite an improvement in pro-
gress in the vicinity of Fairs Cove on
| the Cobbosseecontee. A portion of the
summer residents have been obliged DUR
ing high water to reach their cottages by
boat. About a year ago the old road,
made impossible by the rise of water,
was inundated, and now the Water Com
pany of Gardiner and the town of West
Gardiner have undertaken to raise this
piece of road some four feet, at a cost of
about $500. Wa
The iron pipes conducting the water of
Lake Nahsaic across the channel between
Perry and Eastport have been carried
upon supporters attached to the PASSPORT
bridge. On account of the great weight
| it has been found necessary to remove
them and lay them from shore to shore
beneath the water. The distance across
at low water is between five and six hun
bred feet. A line of eight-inch pipes
making that length has been connected
and stretched back in a sort of sluice of
the Perry side.
The Buxton and Hollis Agricultural
society will hold it's annual fair this year
September 80.
John Higgins, aged about S5, of ST.
John, N. b, is under arrest, charged
with setting fire to the Methodist
church at Exeter on Wednesday. The
church and the residence of Mrs. Abbie
| Walker were burned.
Chairman J. H. ManIey denies that
he has any intention of removing from
Augusta to Washington.
The Hollingsworth Whitney paper mill
at Waterville is to be enlarged at an ex-
pense of s25, 600.
Webber & Philbricks foundry at Wat
erville, is to be rebuilt.
The school board of Bowdoinham, at
their meeting Thursday morning elected
r. f. Springer, Bates '95, principal of
the high school and superintendent of
schools for the ensuing year.
Mr.. E. f. Pierce Bates, '94, of High
street, Lewiston, has accepted position
as principal.of the high school at Kenne-
bunk.
| B. A. Hubbard of Auburn,a sergeant in
the Auburn Light Infantry, was taken
seriously ill with typhoid fever..shortly
after he returned home from muster
Friday and is now in the Central Maine
Hospital in Lewiston.
The 10th Maine Infantry at their re-
union at Wateryille elected the follow
| ing officers President 6. L. Whitemore
First vice president, G. L. Brown; sec
ond vice president A. E. Nickerson sec
rotary, Silas Adams; chaplain, f. r.
Furber; committee of arrangements, J.
H. Brown, RobertsWarren, A. Cutter
VIM A. Wood, George L. Whitemore'; COM
mittee on deaths, A. E. McKerson, ].
Merrick and .Silas Adams.
Roger Williams Hall at Bates College
is completed.