THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, November 4, 1882

                                                          BIRTHS

          Belfast, Waldo County, October 21st., to the wife of A. L. Mudgett, a son

                                                    MARRIAGES

          In this city, October 28th, by Dr. H. A. Lamb, Charles W. Wentworth and
     Phebe Douglas, both of Portland.
          In this city, October 28th, by Rev. S. F. Pearson, Joseph B. Hawkins and Hannah
     A. Ramsay, both of Deering.
          In this city, October 28th, by Rev. S. F. Pearson, Joseph B. Hawkins and Hannah
     A. Ramsey, both of Portland. (as written in the newspaper)
          In this city, October 26th, by Rev. A. Dalton, Charles F. Swett and Christina A.
     Wilson, both of Portland.
          In this city, October 26th, at the residence of E. L. Stanwood, by Rev. Edgar F.
      Davis, James Stone and Mary T. Pierce, all of Gardiner.
          In this city, October 23rd, by Rev. A. Dalton, Charles F. Wilson and Susan E.
     Monroe, both of Portland.
          In this city, October 23rd, by Rev. Dr. Carruthers, Moses Abbott and Alice
     Berbrick, both of Portland.
          In this city, October 23rd, by Rev. F. E. Clark, Charles F. Brackett and
     Adelaide E. Thotts, both of Portland.
          In this city, October 24th, by Rev. F. E. Clark, at the residence of  John E.
     Davis, Esq., Charles L. Gosse and Elizabeth O 'Loud, both of Boston.
          Cumberland, October 25th, by Rev. T. S. Perry, Calvin N. Prince, of
     Haverhill, Mass., and Clara E. Shaw of Cumberland.
          Standish, October 12th of Standish;  by Rev. R. S. Whidden, Edward R. Dollof
     and Addie Spearn both of Standish: October 21 by Rev. R. S. Whidden, Bela G.
    York of Buxton and Mrs. Martha E. Manschester, of Standish.

                                                    DEATHS

          In this city, October 30th, Henrietta L., youngest daughter of W. and A.
     Drinkwater, aged 15 years, 9 months.
          In this city, October 29th, Harriet Grover, aged 77.
          In this city, October 20th, Georgie May, daughter of George L. and Ella
     Barbour, aged 5 years, 1 month.
          In this city, October 29th, John E. Farry, aged 29 years, 8 months, 7 days.
          In this city, October 21, Willie Barker, only child of W. H. And Jennie B.
     Milliken, aged 4 months, 8 days.
          In this city, October 23rd, S. George Brazier, aged 23 years.
          In this city, October 27th, Samuel Dole Safford, aged 38 years.
          Knightville, (S. Portland) October 25th, James E. Godsoe, aged 64 years,
     5 months.
          East Deering, October 23rd, Harry S., son of Mrs. L. B. Cook, aged 16 years,
     3 months.
          Old Orchard, October 23rd, Joseph, third son of James and Mary E. Bradley,
     aged 1 years, 4 months, 29 days.
          Debec, (Sebec?) October 16th, suddenly, Rhoda A., beloved wife of Wilson
     Stillman, leaving a husband, three children and a large circle of friends to mourn
     their loss.
          Baldwin, October 24th, Zana C., wife of Eben Sawyer, aged 65 years, 10 months.
          Baldwin, September 27th, D. Webster, son of Timothy E. and Sadie M. Brown,
     aged 1 years, 3 days.
         
         

THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, January 28, 1871

                                                        MEMORANDA.

          Ship Ellen Goodspeed, Captain Preble, from Baker's Island, September 3rd,
     for Queenstown, put into Pernambuco, Brazil, 7th ult., on account of the crew
     being sick with scurvy.  She was compelled to send eight or ten men to the
     hospital,  reship others and proceed.
          Schooner John E. Dailey, from Brunswick, Ga., for New York, recently taken
     into Norfolk, after being ashore at Smith's Island, Maryland has been hauled out,
     the leak stopped, and was reshipping cargo on the 13th.
          Barque Rosini, Captain Pierson, from Bordeaux, November 24th, for New York,
     with a general cargo is ashore about four miles west of Quoque, Long Island. The
     Coast Wrecking Co.,  have sent the steamer Lackawanna to her assistance.
          Brig Afton, (British) Captain Blanche, from St. John, New Brunswick, for Havana
     with lumber, went ashore Monday week on Seal Island, entrance to Bay Fundy, and
     after beating a hole in her bottom, drifted out to sea. A party from Cutler, Me. went to
     her assistance and carried the crew to Eastport, with the exception of the captain, who
     being badly chilled was left at the light house.
         Barque Almoner, Captain Gray, at New York from Rotterdam, Netherlands, report
     a good run for 16 days up to lon 50, when  she encountered a succession of gales,
     commencing at S W and ending at  W N W, keeping up a very heavy cross sea, which
     broke over the vessel and swept everything movable from the decks. This weather
     lasted ten days and since January 11th, has had fine weather.
         Barque James M. Churchill, from Leghorn (Italy?) for Philadelphia, has put into
     Gibraltar,  (southern coast of Spain) December 21st, with cargo damaged.
          Schooner Mary Patten  of Bangor, Captain Cummings,  from New York for
     Mederia (near Portugal,) put into Gibraltar December 21st, with lost of sails and
     mainsail sprung.
    

THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, January 28, 1871

                                              MATTERS IN MAINE

          Miss Arethusa Vose of Belfast, aged about 55 retired as well as usual, and was
     found dead in her bed on the morning of the 18th.
          Thomas Taylor asks the Legislature the privilege of using steam power on the
     common roads in Farmington, Strong and Phillips.
          Dr. T. G. Stockbridge, a highly respected surgeon of Bath, died last Friday.
          The house of Edwin A. Freese of Lagrange, was burned last week
          The house of S. P. Brown of Brooks was burned last week.
          The British government has awarded a handsome gold watch and chain to Captain
     Morse, of the ship James A. Wright of Bath, for his humane services to an English ship
     destroyed by fire at sea.
         McGuire, one of Bowdoin bank burglars, is employed as a tailor in the Thomaston
     prison, and Moore, of the Rockland bank, is a good workman in the carriage shop.
          The hearing before the Committee on Education at Augusta, on Thursday evening
     last week, resulted in a very general endorsement of the School Law, except  in the
     matter of the committees having power to appoint themselves teachers. The
    "irreconcilable" Mr. Carleton, of Whitefield was the only one to insist that the "people"
     demand the repeal of the whole law.
          Mr.  Pike speaking in opposition to granting authority to Hallowell to aid a saw mill
     enterprise, urgently stated objection to the present wicked waste of our forest, which
     should be check rather than encouraged.

                                       Written for the Portland Transcript.
 
          Messrs. Publishers of the Transcript:-
            I see the statement is  going the rounds of the newspapers that our present
     Governor is "the forty-sixth Chief Magistrate of Maine," and I see the Transcript,
     a paper that is always  regarded as very reliable, has in its last issue adopted the
     statement. I believe it to be incorrect. It has only been about fifty years since we
     became  a State, and many of our Governors have served three and some four years;
     among these are Governors Parris, Lincoln, Smith, Dunlap, Anderson, Dana, Hubbard,
     L. M. Morrill, Cony, and Chamberlain. We have had three Presidents of the Senate
     who have become acting Governors: Williamson, Kavanagh and Williams, reckoning
     these, and Hon. Sidney Perham, is the twenty-fourth Governor of this state.
                                                                                                  Yours,      S.M.B.
          E. Windham, January 17, 1871
         
    
    
         

     

THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, January 28, 1871

                                                MATTERS IN MAINE

          R. T. Bailey, of North Bridgton, and S. A.  Miller, of South Waterford, are to
     erect a large machine shop and foundry near the Forest Mills. The Bridgton News
     says "Forest City" is becoming the most lively section of the town.
          Our friend H. H. Stone, for over 22 years station master at Falmouth, who has
     never lost a day from illness, was called upon last Wednesday by a large party of
     friends, who brought elegant presents in celebration of his Silver Wedding.
          In taking the vote for U. S. Senator, one of the members of the House when his
     name was called responded "Joshua L. Morrill." He was allowed to vote again-this
     time for Chamberlain.
          The "prisoner's friend," Mr. Dorsey of Rhode Island,  has sent $70.00 to supply
     the prisoners at Thomaston a roast dinner on the occasion of his birthday, July 31st.
          On Monday the printed copy of the Statues, with its numerous amendments, was
     reported to be engrossed. Mr. Pike presented an order calling for the opinion of the
     Supreme Court as to the power of the Legislature to authorize towns to aid
     manufactures.
          Walter Wells is publishing an able series of articles in the Kennebec Journal,
     favoring municipal aid to manufactures, and a general state law allowing it.
          John McGuire of Bangor, arrested on charge of murdering his wife, was
     discharged for want of sufficient evidence.
          Alpheus Holden, Esq., of Casco, pays  half the expense of repairing Union
     Meeting House of that place.
          The house of Mrs. Sears Elbridge, of Bucksport, was destroyed by fire, with
     nearly all it contents on the night of the 19th. Loss $800; insured $600.
          A son of Mr. William Hanscom of South Berwick, was drowned a few days ago
     while coasting upon the river, his sled running into a small hole.
          The spring term of Parsonsfield Seminary begins February 21st., under the charge
     of M. K. Mabry.
         
         
    

THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, January 28, 1871

                                                MATTERS IN MAINE

         
          The report of the Investigating Committee traces the history of the  "Paper
     Credit" frauds back to their source, which they find out of their jurisdiction, in
     the office of the Provost Marshal General of the United States.  General Frye
     is directly charged with having allowed certain lists of names presented to him
     by substitute brokers of the state, which he must have known to  be fraudulent,
     to pass unchallenged. One or two witnesses, not however, entirely reliable,
     being parties deeply implicated in the fraud, swear that General Frye received
     from them a direct bribe for passing their lists-a check for $3000 having been
     sent him by Delancy, if that worthy and his partner, Mr. Yates, may be credited.
     A good deal of  "small game" has been hunted down by the commission-hardly
     "worth the candle," The only personage of political prominence in the state, who
      is handled with much severity is Honorable A. B. Farwell, of Augusta. His sworn
     statements, made at various time, are compared with each other, with very
     damaging effect. The Commission find a great deal of difficulty in getting
     information from the Adjutants General's office, as also from the office of the
     Provost Marshal General at Washington. Import documents seem to have been
     "mislaid" or destroyed without the usual regard for the sacredness of red-tape. It
     is calculated that town paid to private persons for names from their list, at least
     half a million dollars.
          "T. H. T.," our Franklin Plantation correspondent, writes that in July 1844,
     Thomas Thornton, of that plantation, walked from Oak Hill, Scarboro, to Portland,
     thence by old stage road by way of Gray, Livermore, Canton, and Dixfield, to
     Rumford Falls, a distance of 82 miles in one day, between sunrise and sunset.
     A very remarkable day's walk, indeed. Mr. Thornton is now in his 103rd year,
     and is hale and hearty.
          The Maine State Agricultural Society met at Augusta last week. Honorable
     Samuel Wasson, of Ellsworth, was elected President. On account of the loss
     occasioned by the accident at the last fair, only fifty per cent of the premiums
     have been paid. The Legislature will be asked to make up the full amount.
     Bangor wants the next fair held in that city, a committee will confer with parties
     interested there.
          A correspondent writes in regard to the case of Mr. Norton, of New Portland,
     tarred and feathered by his neighbors in 1866, that it was not on account of
     disloyalty, as we intimated in a recent paragraph, but he was mobbed for the
      purpose of robbery. The finding of the jury indicated that they did not consider
      it a case of robbery, whatever else it might have been.
 
    
        
 

THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, January 28, 1871

                                                     CITY ITEMS
                                                
          Rev. John S. Cushman, a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, while
     suffering under aberration of mind caused by brain disease, with which he had been
     afflicted for sometime, hanged himself on Friday week, in the cellar of his house on
     Parris Street; he leaves a wife but no children.
          Now for the People's Concerts, four with reserved seats, for a dollar, twenty cents
     single admission; the first will be given by Mrs. Wentworth Stevenson, with the Arions
     and orchestra from the Portland Band, and those to follow will comprise our best home
     talents; this is music for the multitude and good enough for the select few.
          Jonathan Morgan, Esq., now in his ninety-third year, was seen taking a walk for
     his health at Woodford's Corner during the bitter cold weather of Sunday afternoon.
          Among the list of Americans remaining in Paris, December 21st., the ninety-fourth
     day of the siege, appear the names of the Misses Greeley of this city.
          Miss Julia McCulloch, residing with J. J. Wingate, fell down stairs on Friday
     evening with a glass jar in her hands; her left hand and face were badly cut and
     bruised; her wrist was also broken.
          On Wednesday evening of this week the Army & Navy Union will close their
     entertainments with a grand vocal and instrumental concert by the Mendelssohn
     Quintette (sic)  Club, of Boston, and Miss Addie Ryan; all the world will be there.
          The jury in the William Chase case, before the Superior Court, not being able to
     agree on a verdict, were kept in the jury room all Saturday night and all day Sunday
     up to eight o'clock in the evening, when they were discharged; they stood to the last
      eight for conviction and four for acquittal, two-thirds guilty; this was the third trial
      of the case, but the result did not agree with the old proverb.
         Mr. Henry Trefethen and wife of House Island, celebrated their Golden Wedding
     on the 16th inst., by a family reunion at the homestead on the island, at which fifty-
     one of their direct descendants were present; Mr. Trefethen  came to House Island
     from Monhegan in 1823, and has ever since been engaged there in the business of
     drying fish, which has been carried on upon that island for over two hundred years.
          William Allen's Newfoundland dog "Scott" is acquiring quite a reputation for
     stopping runaway horses.
         

THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, January 28, 1871

                                                           CITY ITEMS

         Mrs. Charles Griffin of Harrison, while passing through this city, was suddenly
     seized with a fit at the house of a friend on Saturday evening and expired before
     medical aid could be obtained.
          Mr. Frank Skillin, of Cape Elizabeth, while going home over Vaughan's bridge
     on Saturday night fell overboard, and though he clung to a spile (stake)  for a while,
     and persons passing attempted to reach him, he was obliged to let go and was drowned;
     the next morning the body was found on the fish weir; he was fifty years old, and
     leaves a wife and nine children.
          Mr. David Mitchell, some time steward at the Marine Hospital and a Scotchman
     by birth, died at Bradley's Hotel, in this city recently; he was a man of some education,
     and contributed some well written sketches to our columns; though a stranger he
     received every attention from Mr. Richards, landlord of the hotel, who handed over all
     his effects, including quite a little sum in the Savings Bank to the Overseers of the Poor.
          Pat Conley snatched Frank Miller's watch on Commercial wharf, and ran off with
     it, but officer Hanson soon overhauled him.
          The new ferry boat arrived on Saturday and will soon be on the route; she is called
     the Josephine Hovey, of 25 horse power.
          Portland has twelve sons in the State Prison.

          At a meeting in Washington of Saturday night, of the Congressional Temperance
     Society, of which Senator Wilson is President and Honorable John Lynch, Treasurer,
     an address was made by Rev.  Dr. Chickering, formerly of this city.
          Fifty-five member of the House of Representatives have voted in favor of
     female suffrage.