Year: 1870




4 BRIDGETON, June ..
4 MIR. EDITOR: | am not physician, retired
or i'll active practice. Yet 1 have a recipe that
might have no doubt benefit suffering thousands.
Its timely use would prevent many ills that flesh is
heir to, and restore many invalid to sound health
1t is customary for those who are in possession of
so valuable secret to advertise the fact through
the newspapers, and inform the public that on
receipt of one dollar the priceless recipe will be
forwarded to the address of any person who may
wish for the same. Some of this craft are so gem
erous that they willing on receipt of 4 stamp to
prepay return postage to impart the knowledge OF
which they happen to possess the monopoly; but
have noticed that almost invariably the patient
must send to these benefacors of the race for some
article of the prescription that not be obtained
elsewhere, and must pay handsomely for it, Now
my other engagements pressing that have
no time to go into anything of this Sort whatever
the pecunary return might be. Still am unwilling
that the great public which has always used me
well, should be ignorant of n remedy so cheap and
sure. Here then it is. Dismiss all business and
care for few days, and strike out somewhere
away from home, where you can look on new
scenes, and breathe different air and revcl in the
magnifeence of nature in this most lovely of
4 N,
will return better both in mind and body You
will get new lease of life, save an untold amount
for patent medicines that will not cure and double
your efficiency for months to come. / have tried
this method often, and it has never failed. am
| trying it again this week with the usual sue
cess.


| by date OF this communication you that am
in one of the western towns of the State sight OF
| hp 1pSt nf tha nf
the White Mountains, and with countless charming
| lakes and lakcles on every side want to tell
you, Mr.. Editor, and your friends, how got here,
for never had pleasanter trip in my life I left
our beautiful Penobscot valley Monday morning,
taking that model of river boats the City of Rich
mond, for Portland. And by the way ought, in
the name of the travelling public, to commend the
excellent management of this boat 1t is difficult
to conceive how anything could be more nearly
perfect. Capt. Dennison, the Clerk Mr.. Gushing,
and the Steward Mr.. Coombs, form triad of
gentlemen whose kindly manners make every
passenger feel perfectly at home. You almost feel
as if YOU owned the boat YOURSELF and that it was
| run for your special benefit. At any rate YOU
could not be better treated and cared for if YOU
really owned and directed the whole concern
| If You go to Boston by this route buy a through





are waiting on the wharf when you reach Portland
took this route fortnight ago, and spent Ami
versary Week al the Hub


This week, on reaching Portland, took lodgings
at the Preble House, and waited for the morning
train to Gorham Thence found pleasant ride
by stage TO Standish, where the little steamboat
Oriental was in waiting to carry Us across Sebago
| lake and up the meandering river, through the
AZ,
| of, till steamed into Long Pond and up 10 the
Bridgeton wharf. Everything on th. route is made
| as agreeable as one could ask, and YOU drink in
| health with every mile.


| Bridgeton Center is a wide awake, enterprlsing
| village. Manufactures have given impetus
to business here within few wears. and the village
! is growing rapidly We must start more cotton
and wooen mills in the Penobscot valley and when
the shipping interests are down, find sources of
prosperity in this branch of industry Some of our
towns languish because they have depended almost
wholly on commerce.


There is also great factory here, where
nearly million cans of green annually
| prepared for the market. and which gives employ
men to three or four hundred people in the work
| ing season. The religious societies appear in
thriving condition. The tongregltonaliSt Ar,.
putting UP 4 twelve thousand dollar church The
Mehodists have got the yestry of their new house
| ready for occupancy. The Universulists are finish
ing off the spire Of their house. The Baptiss also
| have a church.


! a fine rain this week has encouraged farmers
and the crops are promising finely in this section.
| 1t also appears like good fruit year.


| le who are weary with toll, We who are worn
down with unyarying labor, take rest, and 60
someeohere. le who are in failing health try my
recipe. Breathe the bracing salt sea breezes till
| you feel the vigor of an ancient Viking. Or 90
| back among the everlasting hills, when like him of
! the classic fable, vino caught new strength when
his feet touched mother earth, you also may find
coming upon you power akin TO that of their
granite foundations. C.S
ROCKPORT ITEMS. Monday afternoon Capt L.
G. Stinson, who was engaged in putting his schooner
in order for fishing cruise, missed his son, II
smart little fellow five Years old, and looking over
board him in the water. For the father to
| plungc i'll and rescue him was but the work Of Il
moment, when he carried him To the nearest house,
| only Il few steps, where every effort was made to
re store life, without success.


Among the crew who came from ON Bangor Mon
day to Join the sch. Dexter Washburne was one bur
ley fellow, ugly drunk. The vessel was all ready to
drop into the stream, when Jack concluded he
would go ashore; but the mate took different
view of the matter, and ordered him to his work
Jack squared off at the mate with his knife Capt
IIarkness the atfray and intertered. Jack now
expressed a willingness to go to work, but while
the vessel was being hauled, he dropped his line
and sprang at Capt III. with his sheath knife Capt
II. seized handspike and before the got ready
| to strike, he found himself overheard. He was
taken aboard thoroughly wet and quite sober lie
has since behaved himself in 4 creditahe manner
LETTER FROM BuCkSPORT.
Correspondence OF the journal.
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