THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, August 21, 1880

                                                              MAINE MATTERS

                                                                      OXFORD

          Flag raising is the order of the day. Two or three weeks ago the Democrats of
     Fryeburg raised a large Hancock flag, with all the honors, Bion Bradbury and S. J.
     Anderson doing the speaking. Last Friday evening the Republicans matched it with a
     fine Garfield flag, raised near the Oxford House, and another near the Lockwood House.
     Speeches were made by General Hall and A. A. Strout. A Republican flag was raised at
     Bryant's Pond the same day, and a speech was made by Eugene Hale.

                                                                    PENOBSCOT

          The first demonstration of the campaign was made by the Republicans of Bangor on
     Monday evening. The speakers were Senators Logan and Hamlin, General Woodford,
     and Honorable Lewis Barker. Judge Humphrey presided.
          Mrs. Polly Coburn, aged widow of the late Mr. Peter Coburn, recently fell in her son's
     garden and broke her hip.  She is comfortable as can be expected under such a severe
      injury. Her family surgeon advises non-setting of the bone on account of her age, which
      is about 78 years.
          Joshua Chamberlain, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of Brewer, died
     on the 10th, aged 80. He had always enjoyed good health until with a few weeks.
     He had filled many places in honor and trust, but for the last few years had withdrawn
     from active business. He leaves a widow, two sons, J. L. Chamberlain, President of
     Bowdoin College, and Thomas D., who holds a government office in Washington,
     D. C., and one daughter, the wife of Charles O. Farrington, of Brewer.
    
         
                                                                 PISCATAQUIS
      
          The Katahdin Iron Works are shut down for want of water.

                                                                  SAHADAHOC

          The Temperance camp meeting began at the Kennebec Valley camp ground last
     Saturday. Honorable Joshua Nye made  a speech in which he said he would not vote
     for a sheriff who would not enforce the law, nor for a Governor who would not
     appoint men who would not do their duty. If we had faithful rulers, there would be no
     rum sold in Maine.  It is in vain to trust God to enforce the laws of the state if we
     do not use the means  he provides, which is the ballot  box. C. C.  Page of Bangor,
     said there were 100 saloons in that city where any man or woman could obtain rum.
     There were 6,000 people presents last Sunday.  Rev. D. W. Le Lacheur preached
     to the largest congregation that has been on the ground for years.  Honorable T. R.
     Simonton, A. J. Chase, and others delivered addresses.  On Monday, R. W. Dunn
     of Waterville, was re-elected President of the Association. Rev. J. B. Hamilton and
     Honorable Nelson Dingley, Jr., were among the speakers.
          Rev. Dr. J. O. Fiske , of Bath, preached his 37th Anniversary sermon last Sunday.
         
                                                                    SOMERSET
    
           Abel Ward, aged 60, was run over the by  cars at Norridgewock, on the 11th, and
     his left leg and right heel were crushed.
          The Democrats and Greenbackers  have fused on this ticket: Senator, S. S. Brown,
      Judge Probate, Albert Moore; Register, J. F. Holman; Commissioner, P. P. Hilton.
          William Barry had his right hand crushed in coupling cars at Waterville, on the
     12th.
          Ex-Governor Abner Coburn, of Skowhegan, is 80 years old, and continues to look
     after his financial affairs with the interest he manifested thirty years ago. He is the
     richest man in the state. Though  not a church member, and not liberally educated, he
     gives liberally to churches and institutions of learning. He is unmarried, strictly
     temperate, and has always enjoyed the reputation of being strictly honest and honorable
     in all of his dealings.