THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, August 30, 1879

                                                         CITY ITEMS
          At the Dodwell concert Miss Cary will sing  among other selections, a recitative
     and  aria of Handel's, and by request Sullivan's "Lost Chord" with  organ and piano
     accompaniment.
          One William J. Splain, stopping at the Preble House, made the acquaintance of a
    guest, and induced  him to let him share his room; after the guest was asleep Splain
    stole the man's gold watch, chain and $8.00 in money, and cleared out; he was
    traced to Haverhill, Mass., and was arrested.
          The foundation for a four storied brick building is now being laid on Union Street,
     to be occupied together with the State Liquor Agency rooms by Zenas Thompson, Esq.,
     for the manufacture of carriages.
          At Peak's Island on Friday evening of last week,  Mr. Charles M. Sawyer, attempting
     to swim ashore from a yacht, got entangled in the eel grass and was drowned. he
     was about 35 years of age, and leaves wife and six children.
          Professor Masse has resigned his position as teacher of French in the High
     School, and Mr. Antoine Dorticos will have charge of all the classes in French,
     and will give his whole time to this department, as one of the regular corps of
     teachers. 
          Colby's bookstore, which for some years past has been an attraction for
     lovers of old books, is to be closed this week, and the stock removed to
     Lowell, Mass.
          Charles W. Sawyer, who was drowned last Friday at Peak's Island, left a
     widow and six small children in very destitute circumstances, calling for
     aid from the charitable; they reside at the corner of Green and Portland Street.
          Last Saturday evening a dog which has acted strangely bit a little Foley
     boy at Gorham's Corner, tearing his under lip down the  chin; the dog was
     chased and shot by officer Newcomb.
          Tickets for Miss Dowell's concert, to take place at City Hall, Sept. 3rd., are
     selling well; Annie Louise Cary will appear in two solos and a trio with Miss
     Dodwell and Mrs. Hawes; Miss O' Brion, Messrs. W. Beckett, Will Stockbridge
     and Kotzschmar. all great favorites of Portland, will also assist.
          Joe Jefferson will appear in City Hall in October.
          Capt. Howard Knowlton of the Minnehaha, Minneapolis,lost his pocketbook
    containing $50 in the dock Saturday;  Customs Inspector Wells found it an hour
     afterwards floating on the water, and restored it unharmed.
          The School Committee has authorized Dr. Spalding to make test for color-
     blindness among the children of the public schools at such time as may not be
     inconsistent with the work of the school.
          Miss Marie Hersey has arrived home from Europe.
          Honorable George P. Wescott has been seriously ill and is still confined to bed.
          The Cumberland Baptist Association began it session on Tuesday; sermons were
     preached by Rev. E. S. Small of Brunswick, and Rev. F. W. Bakeman  of Auburn.
          Two of the Peak's Island rioters have been find $5 got arrested and bound over
     on $800 for trial in Superior Court for aggravated assault  on Mr. Brackets.
          James D. Cole son of the late Charles O. Cole, artist of this city, died in
     Washington on Friday week of rapid decline, and his remains  were brought to
     the city for interment.


         
  
    
 
         

THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, August 30, 1879

                                                         MAINE MATTERS
                                                           WASHINGTON
          Last Saturday off Seal Island light, near Machias, pilot boat Hercules collided
     with schooner Maggie Quinn, and the Hercules went down with all on board, except
     Harry Walker, the cook.  The schooner  was injured by the collision. The persons
     lost are Captain Price, Daniel Daley and George Mulherrin, pilots, and Michael
     McEwan, deck hand.
          In the storm of Monday night of last week Archibald McKenney was drowned
     in a noble effort to save his wife, who had walked off a bridge leading to the mill
    in which he was employed. His son also jumped in to assist in saving his mother,
    and he and his mother were rescued.
          Mary, wife of William Harrington, of Eastport, drowned herself on Tuesday, being
     discouraged by protracted illness.
          John Alley, of Jonesport, first mate of schooner Sarah P., was washed overboard
     and drowned in the 19th, of the trip from Calais to Boston.


                                                                YORK
          Richard H. Goding, County Treasurer, died at Alfred, August 20th. 
          The descendants of Captain Theophilus Smith had a family reunion at the
     old homestead in Cornish lately. Captain Theophilus was one of the pioneers
     of Cornish, purchasing the premises of the homestead in 1788, and building the
     house which is now standing, in 1803. He held a commission as Captain, signed
     by Governor John Hancock. An honored descendant now occupies the mansion,
     which he was refitted and somewhat modernized.
          There are 118 boys in York county competing for the prize offered by
     Honorable Stillman B. Allen, of Boston, to the lad who raised the best harvest
     of corn this season.
           At the meeting of the National Christian Temperance Association at Old
     Orchard, on the 20th, Honorable Sidney Perham was elected President for
     the ensuing year; Rev. Isreal Luce, Recording Secretary; Rev.. D. C.
    Babcock, Corresponding Secretary; Honorable E. H. Banks, Treasurer. On
     Thursday Captain J. B. Coyle presided, and made a pleasing speech. In the
     afternoon Hon. Lot M. Morrill addressed an audience of nearly three thousand.
    In reply to a question he said that for one million dollars of revenue received by
    the  government for the manufacture of intoxicants, it costs the government four
    million to pay for the crime. A resolution was passed asking that Congress
    prohibit the manufacture, importation and sale of intoxicating liquors. Mrs.
    Partington spoke in the evening. On Friday, the Speakers were Rev. George W.
    Vibbert, Hon. D. F. Davis, Rev. Mr. Le Lacheur, Gen. J.A. Hall, N. D. Parsons.
    Capt. J. B. Coyle, I. B. Chadbourne, R. H. Murphy, C. H.. Starbird, and others.
    Sunday was the great day, and one of the largest gatherings ever seen at Old
    Orchard was in attendance.  Rev. Mr. Pitblado spoke in the forenoon and Gen.
    Neal Dow in the afternoon, followed by  Gen. James A. Hall, and others. The
    whole series of meetings was full of interest, and the good cause of temperance
     was promoted by them.

   
    
          

THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, August 30, 1879

                                                      MAINE MATTERS
                                                             OXFORD
          The 1-10-20th Maine Regiment Association holds its reunion at Norway, Me.,
     September 17th.
          Lucy Larcom ,the poetess, is spending a few weeks of the hay fever season at
     Bethel, where last year she found relief.
     Otis C. Hayford succeeds S. T. Corser  as Superintendent of the F. F. & B. railroad.
                                              
                                                         PENOBSCOT
          At the reunion of the 8th, 9th, and 11th, Maine Regiment, held at Bangor, last
     week, B. F. Strickland of Portland was elected President for the ensuing year;
     Captain L. B. Rogers, Vice President; T.T. Tabor, Secretary and Treasurer. There
     were about 100 veterans in attendance.
          At Lincoln last Saturday, two girls named Shorrard and Hamilton, aged 15 and
     16, were drowned while bathing.
          Three two-story buildings which stood over the stream on Grove Street, Dexter,
     were capsized on Saturday, by the giving way of the foundation, and went down
     into the water. Two were store houses, and one the grocery and clothing factory of
     George Bunker. No one  was hurt, but the buildings and goods were much damaged.
          Captain F. J.  Sargent claims to have a valuable silver mine on his hand, near
     Ellsworth.
                                                  PISCATAQUIS
          Mr. Merrill's slate quarry at Brownville, on which extensive repairs have been
     made, is now employing 65 men.
          The  Katahdin iron works are in full blast.




                                                SAGADAHOC


          A temperance camp meeting was opened at the Richmond grounds on the 20th,
     J. K. Osgood presiding. Rev. J. E. Wolfe, of Providence, preached a temperance
     sermon.
          The Democratic county convention adopted the Greenback ticket.
                  
    

THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, August 30, 1879

                                                   MAINE MATTERS
                                                        HANCOCK
          Bluehill continues wide awake to the copper, mining, interest. Steam drills
     and steam hoisting works have been put in the Douglass mine, and 35 men are
     employed there. F.  L. Bartlett is erecting experimental works for testing his
     new process for the extraction of copper. If  successful he will erect large works
     at once for the manufacture of copper,vitriol  and copperas. He has contracted for
     2.000 tons of Douglass ore. Professor Hitchcock was on the ground last week.
     He is to read an extend report upon this great copper belt before  the American
     Association.
          The Hayford woolen mill, lately burned, is to be rebuilt,  as it was a  successful
     establishment.
                                                      KENNEBEC
          Miss Anna P.  Ladd, formerly of Augusta, is now chief clerk in the department
     of the pension office at  Concord, New Hampshire, for the payment of the mothers
     and widows and orphans of soldiers. She has under her charge 20 to 25 clerks.
          On Monday, 18th, at 4 p.m., a little girl of Robert Macomber of East Monmouth,
      2 1/2 years old, wandered from  home and was lost, while her mother was out of
     the house for a few minutes. She was tracked a short distance in the road when
     she took by-road on which a little pail and a lily were found, and here traces of her
     were lost. A large number of persons made search for her all night in the severe storm.
     More than 100 persons were hunting all day Tuesday, and at night nothing had
     been discovered. She left home without hat or shoes, and with bare arms, and was
     exposed to a terrible storm. Wednesday morning 200 persons joined in the search,
    and the dead body of the poor child was found at 11 o'clock.


                                                         KNOX
          Nicolo Infantino, the Italian boy who assassinated Mr. Frye in Boston, worked
     in Camden two years ago, and at that time was considered a very good boy. He
     visited Camden a week or two before the murder, and told of his rich friend, Frye,
    and he gave him $10 to come to Camden with.
          The Democratic Convention nominated for Senator Capt. C. A. Sylvester, of
     Camden instead of N. Thompson, the Greenback nominee. H. A. Morgan, of
     Appleton, was nominated for Commissioner, and William H. Rhodes for
     Treasurer.
          Asa Glover, of Camden, has succeeded in domestication a small  flock of
     wild black ducks, hitherto considered incapable of domestication.
          There is to be a great Greenback clambake at Rockland on Saturday, 30th,
     and the Rev. Mr. De La Matyr will be one of the speakers.


                                                       LINCOLN
          F. W. Parker of Alva is building a new saw mill, and repairing his old mill.
          The Democrats nominate the Greenback ticket, substituting Benjamin F.
     Smith, Wiscasset, for Attorney, instead of F. E. Harvey, of Damariscotta.
            The soldier carved from Hallowell granite, for the Boothbay monument is
     completed and will soon be placed upon the site designed for it. It was modeled
    by the Packard Brothers, of Chelsea, and is spoken of as a most creditable
     piece of work. It is some what larger than life size.
  
         
    
    
         
    

THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, August 30, 1879

                                                              DEATHS
         
          In this city, August 18th, George I. Waterhouse, aged 34 years.
          In this city, August 20th, Mary, widow of the late James Driscoll, aged 66 years.
          In this city, August 21st, Catherine Hyland, aged 55 years.
          In this city, August 30th, Walter Sewell, youngest son of Edward S. and Mary
     Doten, aged 6 months, 6 days.
          In this city, August 17th, Johnny B., son of Charles  B. and Ruth Todd, aged 4
     years, 3 months.
          In this city, August 22nd, Lydia G., wife of Charles F. Robinson, aged 81 years,
     4 months.
         In this city, August 25th, William H. Howard, aged 48 years, 11 months.
         In this city, August 25th, Martin McMann, aged 50 years.
         Washington, D. C. August 21st, James Duprey Cole, youngest son of the late
    Charles Cole, of this city.
          Auburn, August 22nd, Mrs. Olive S. Marr.
          Boston, August 25th, Fanny, widow of the late Eliot Jordan of Cape
     Elizabeth, aged 88 years, 7 months.
          Buxton, August 19th, B.. D.Lane, aged 77 years, 1 month, 4 days.
          Pittston, August 18th, Robert F. Gould, aged 33 years, 6 months.
          San Francisco, California, August 14th, Adeline E., daughter of J. J.  and
     Lucy E. Knowlton, formerly of this city, aged 19 years, 11 months.
          Deering, August 23rd, John Murch, aged 70 years, 11 months.
          Cumberland Center, August 24th, Mary A., wife of Nathan L. Huston,
     aged 50 years, 3 months.
          West Warren, August 21st, Carroll Wadsworth, only child of Dr. J. P.
     and May C. Bixby, aged 10 months, 13 days.
          Lewiston, August 21st, Lizzie, wife of Albert Harding, aged 38 years,
     9 months.
          Auburn, August 20th, Bertha May, daughter of John A. and Etta M. Greenleaf,
     aged 1 year, 11 months.
          North Fryeburg, August 14th, Mrs. Madison Howe.
          Jefferson, Lincoln County, August 18th, Samuel C. Currier, aged 20 years,
     11 months.
          Bremen, August 20th, Augusta  P., wife of William Keene, aged 47 years,
     6 months.
          Waterville, August 20th, Mrs. Delia Shepherd, aged 72 years.
         Cape Elizabeth, August 19th, of diphtheria, Sophronia F., widow of Joseph
     Woodbury, aged 30 years.
          Cumberland Mills, August 19th, Phebe A., widow of the late B. B. Frost,
     formerly of Denmark (Me..) aged 84 years.
          Limington, August 17th, Nancy, widow of the late  Thomas Richardson,
     aged 30.
           Alfred, August 20th, Richard H. Goding, aged 47 years.
          Dresden, August 16th, Nettie A., wife of Joseph E. Goding, aged 47 years.
          Bath, August 17th, Elisa McCorrison, aged 17 years, 4 months.
          South Leeds, August 14th, Susan, wife of Morgan Brewster, aged 73 years.
         Augusta, August 19th, Eliza Lane, wife of George W. Cofren.
          Litchfield, August 18th, Orrington Berry, aged 58 years.
         Auburn, August 17th, Stephen Preble, aged 68 years.
         Dixfield, August 14th, Walter Foss, aged 75 years.
         Bath, August 18th, Lucretia, wife of William K. Evread (?) aged 48 years,
     9 months.
          Bath, August 18th, Susan, wife of Abel Fish, aged 79 years.
          Dover, New Hampshire, August 15th, Charles E. Cluff, Kennebunk,
     aged 31 years.
          Millbridge, August 15th, Deacon William E. Wallace, aged 31 years.
          Hebron, August 13th, youngest son of A. R. and Mary L. Fogg, aged 4 months.
          Mariaville, Hancock County, August 10th, George O. Frost, aged 23 years.
          Franklin, August 10th, James K. Williams, aged 23 years, 3 months.
          Bath, August 16th, Clarissa, wife of Jonathan Preble, aged 77 years, 5 months.
          Bath, August, 17th,  George W. Duncan, aged 68 years, 4 months.
          Hollingsburg, Pennsylvania, August 11th, suddenly, J. M. Coolbroth, formerly
     of Portland, aged 80 years, 5 months. (City papers please copy.)
         New Portland, August 15th, Priscilla Carville, aged 19 years.
         Covington, Kentucky, August 12th, Gilbert G. Bradbury, formerly of
     Buxton.
          Maysville, (Presque Isle)  August 7th, Dr.  James McConville, aged 67 years.
          Maysville, August 17th, Isabelle S., daughter of Charles Whitney, aged 24 years.
          Rockland, August 11th, Mrs. Abbie E. Lock, aged 32 years, 3 months, 25 days.
          Thomaston, August 15th, Ella  S., wife of CaptainWilliam A. Pressey, aged 32
     years, 9 months, 17 days.

THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, August 30, 1879

                                                 MAINE MATTERS
                                                 ANDROSCOGGIN
          One of the largest political gathering ever held in Androscoggin County
     met at Lake Auburn on the 21st. There were five brass bands in attendance.
     Senator Blain was unable to be present. The speakers were D. F. Davis, Eugene
     Hale and N. Dingley, Jun.
          There was an unusually interesting reunion of veterans at Lake Auburn last
     week, and the 17th Maine made a call upon its surviving members. Col. T. A.
     Roberts, of Portland, the father of the regiment and of the association was made
     President by acclamation and was received with cheers. There were present
     comrades from Texas, Massachusetts and from many counties of  Maine,
     including three who had lost one leg, four who had lost one arm, and one who
     can move only on crutches. Lieutenant Lord, of the regular army, came all the
     way for Texas to attend the meeting. He was last seen by many  of his comrades
     lying on the battlefield of Chancellorsville with one foot shot away, waving his
     sword and cheering his comrades on to the fight. After dinner speeches were
     made by General Mattocks Young, of the navy and Lieut. Lord. The day was
     perfect, and the reunion was greatly enjoyed by all who attended.


                                                  AROOSTOOK
          There is much dissatisfaction expressed by the French residents of the county
      at the shooting of Boulier, which they say was not necessary. But the evidence was
     sufficient to satisfy a coroner's jury that the officer was justified in firing upon the
    criminal as he did.
                                                 CUMBERLAND
          On the night of the recent storm John D. Sawyer, of Gray, in a fit of 
     somnambulism, dreaming his house was on fire, threw a pillow out of the
     window, and let his child down upon it, and then jumped out himself.. The child
     was not injured, but Mr. Sawyer hurt his back seriously.
          M. S. Leighton won the silver cup at a shooting match in Falmouth last
     Saturday.
          Mr. Kimball's "Ridge Cottage: at Bridgton was the scene of a brilliant
     illumination in honor of the guest on Wednesday evening of last week. The
     whole house and grounds were ablaze with lights of all hues, and adorned
     with flowers most tastefully arranged. No display of the kind surpassing it
     was ever seen in that vicinity. The band assisted in the festivity.
          A large bear chased the carriage of Charles Weymouth quite a distance
     the other night, at Side City, Bridgton, and only gave up when Mr.  Weymouth
     drove into the dooryard of Moses Stickney.
          Miss Lizzie Knowles, a young lady seventeen years of age, died a few days
     since at Harpswell from poisoning. An infant child of Mr. A. E. Pinkham died
     nearly three weeks ago from being poisoned by a paint obtained from a painted
     box, and Miss Knowles being at  work in the family, and washed and applied
     cloths to the face of the child. In about five hours a scratch on her hand began to
     swell and be painful, and this extended through the whole system, causing a
     lingering and painful sickness, which resulted in death.
          Miss Elva R. Elder, formerly of Windham has accepted the position of
     principal of the Laguna Honda school in San Francisco.


                                                   FRANKLIN
          Joseph M. Hopkins of Farmington, aged 82, dropped dead while at work in
     Thwing's tannery on Monday.
          One farmer  in Strong sells 6,000 lbs., of wool this season. Luther Niles of
     Rangeley, has sold over $1,300 worth of wool of his own raising.
          Rev. J. S. Swift in an article in the Chronicle, says that the native choke-
     cherry is on of the most valuable of all the cherry tribe of fruits in Franklin
     county. The better varieties are much used in pies, sauces,  puddings. etc.,
     and ought to be more generally cultivated.
         A. J. Blethen, Esq., of Portland, formerly Principal of the Little Blue School
     at Farmington, take the Greenback stump in Franklin county this week.
    

THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, September 7, 1898

                                                     MEMORANDA

          New York, August 30th.-Captain Haskell of schooner Mary E. Palmer, writes to
     explain that the "captains of the two Palmer schooners-Mary E and William B-at
     Norfolk, 28th, from Guantanamo Bay, did not clear from the Custom House at Key
    West, Florida, but were subject to the orders of the North Atlantic Squadron officers,
     and was therefore no mistake made by the aforesaid captains, as has been published."
     The captains were detained 24 hours by orders from Washington.
          Bath, August 31st.-At G. G. Deering's yard the new big 4-masted schooner is
     half framed out. The schooner William C. Tanner is receiving half time survey, and
     the Ralph M. H. Hayward was given an overhauling.





                                                       DISASTERS
    
          Edgartown, Mass., August 30th.-Arrived schooner Kate Walker from New
     York for this port, with coal, grounded on Chappaquiddick Point, this morning.
     She will float with the slight damage, at high water tonight.
          Boston, August 31st.-The brig N. P. Doane made an unsuccessful attempt last
     night to raise the schooner S. A. Paine, which sank in Broad Sound, off Fawn Bar,
     while inward bound on  Tuesday morning from Deer Isle. She will be stripped and
     abandoned.
          Hyannis, August 30th.-Schooner Lucy Hammond reported ashore, was floated
     yesterday afternoon, and remains here.
          Vineyard Haven, September 1st.-The disabled schooner George W. Glover,
     which was towed in here recently from Nauset by the British schooner Harry,
     proceeded in tow this morning for New Bedford, where she will be repaired.
         Schooner Florence Randall, Thompson, (captain) , from New York for
    Ferdinanda,(Prague?) went ashore Wednesday forenoon on the south point of
    Big May Island, south of Edisto Island, South Carolina. She is buried in the sand
    to the turn of her bilges-chances of saving the vessel are poor. The Florence
    Randall was built in Bath in 1882, and hailed from Port Jefferson, New York.
          Boston, September 5th.-The owners of fishing schooner Etta M. Doughty,
    which was dismasted by collision on La Have (Canada?) with British steamer
    Columbia, will bring suit against the owners of the steamer to recover damages.
          The four-masted schooner Mary Palmer, from Norfolk for Boston, coal laden,
     went ashore on Georges Island during a dense fog on Monday. She lies at high
     water, with the assistance of a tug.
          New York, September 3rd.-Schooner E. H. Weaver, Captain Faulkingham, from
     Philadelphia for Bridgeport, Ct., went ashore on Romer Shoals early this forenoon.
     Several attempts have been made to float her, but without success. The E. H.
     Weaver was built in Bath in 1882, and hails from New Haven, Connecticut.
          Vineyard Haven, September 4th.-Schooner H. I. Whiton, from Kennebunk for
     New York lost port anchor on Nantucket  Shoal last night.  Procured another
     here from (schooner?) Susie D.