THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, June 26, 1880

                                                         BIRTHS
          Bridgton, June 12th, to the wife of Luther G. Kimball, a son.
          Starks, June 3rd, to the wife of W. J. Drew, a daughter.
          Farmington, June 8th, to the wife of Osman O. Hardy, a daughter, Maud Evelyn.
          North Vassalboro, June 10th, to the wife of B. J. Rackliff, a daughter.
          On board barque Addie E. Sleeper, on the voyage from Cairns, Australia  to
     Queenstown, England, February 6th, to the wife of Captain Henry J. Sleeper, a son.
          Clinton, June 12th, to the wife of George Spearin, a son.
          Fairfield, June 7th, to the wife of Willard Jones, a son.


                                                      MARRIAGES      
        Yarmouth, June 22nd, by Rev. T. P. Adams, James R. Jones of Portland, and Parintha
     W. Salter of Burlington, Nova  Scotia.
          In this city, June 10th, by Rev. W. E. Gibbs, Newton W. Harris and Lizzie C. Huston,
     both of Portland.
          In this city, June 15th, Murray H. Watson, of Auburn, and Maggie A. Foley, of
     Portland.
          In this city, June 12th, Justine Hubbard, of Biddeford, and Maria Thyne of Saco.
          In this city, June 19th, by Rev. F. E. Clark Joseph D.  Pennell and Mrs. Mary W.
     W. Barnes, both of Portland.
          In this city, June 19th, by Rev. A. S. Ladd, William J. Hagan and Maggie L.
     Trufant, both of Bath.
          Great Falls, New Hampshire, June 17th, by Rev. R. L. Greene, Frank A. Harriman,
     of Boston, and Miria L. Willis, of Deering.
          Brunswick , June 8th, Frank E. Roberts and A. Lida Stanwood.
          Farmingdale, June 20th, S. E. Strong and Mrs. N. A. Gulliver, both of
     Gardiner.
          Calais, June 9th, Edgar W. Coleman and Louise M. Gould, both of Calais.
          Buxton, June 16th, Willis E.  Gerry, of Hopkinton, Mass., and Susie C. Brooks,
     of Buxton.
          Hiram, June 16th, Henry W. Lovejoy and Annie G. Harriman,  both of
     Bridgton.
          Dover, New Hampshire, June 11th, Edwin H. Cromwell, of Westport, Me.,
     and Alsadania L., daughter Joseph Hanson, of Dover.
          Lewiston, June 17th, Fred Tarr and Lois A. Hackett,
          Skowhegan, June 16th, Frank S. Morrill and Rose M. Fletcher, both of
     Skowhegan.
          Ellsworth, June 12th, Charles J. Brown and Jessie L. Garland, both of
     Ellsworth.
          Portsmouth, N. H., June 16th, John W. Dyer and Mrs. Martha A. Stover,
     both of Portland.
          Harrington, June 9th, Veranus C. Curtis and Marcella Ramsdell, both of
     Portland.
          Douglas, New Brunswick, June 14th, Dr. James C. Gannett of Yarmouth, Me.,
    and Adria M. Craig of Douglas.
          Lisbon, Me., June 16th, A. E. Meigs of New Haven and Nellie R. Moore, of Lisbon.
  


 

THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, September 6, 1879

                                                 MEMORANDA.
          One half of brig Cossack, 344 tons, has been sold in New York, for $200.
          Ship St. John Smith, Waterhouse, before reported reloading at Rio Janeiro,
     August 5th, had a large part of her cargo of wheat badly damaged. The vessel
     had been dock, stripped, caulked and re-metaled.
          Captain Poland and crew of brig Endorus arrived at Delaware Breakwater 25th,
     in brig L. M. Merritt. The Endorus was thrown down in the gale of the 18th, and
     was rapidly filling when abandoned.
          Schooner John L. Tracey, of St. George, before reported on shore, lies eight
     miles west of Cape May, in a bad position, and it will be a difficult job to move her.




                                                      DISASTERS.
          Brig C. C. Robinson, at Havana from New York, reports in gale of 18th, lost
     deck load of 200 carboys  A carboy is a large glass bottle protected by basketwork ,
     or a wooded box, use especially for hold corrosive liquids.
          Schooner Olive, from Hoboken, N. J., for Boston, before reported ashore at
     City Island, has partially stopped the leak, was towed to New York 28th, to haul
     out for repairs.
          Schooner Presto, Colbeth, at Boston 26th, from Machias report that  L.
     Robinson, seaman, of Machiasport, fell overboard on the passage and was
     drowned.
          Schooner Montana, Bearse, at Baltimore 23rd, from Kennebunk, lost sails
     and sustained other slight damage in the gale of the 18th.
          Schooner Elizabeth M. Cook, Elwood, from Boston for Calais, in ballast at the
     narrows, Lubec, badly strained and leaking.
          Schooner Dashaway, of ( Picton) at New York, Sept. 1st., from  Jacmel (seaport
     in S. Haiti,) reports Carl Ohlsen and Frank R. Rogers, of Bangor, died of yellow
     fever and were buried at sea.
          Schooner Ida B. Silsbee, for Portland, with watermelons sunk in Hatteras
     Roads, 30th. Crew saved.
          Schooner Annie Bliss, at Savannah 28th ult., from Boston, reports, in the gale
     of the 18th, brake maingaff and lost mainsail.
          Schooner Lettie Wells, at New York, 1st int., reports that on the 24th, Charles
     Lee, of Calais, was knocked overboard and drowned.




         

THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, September 9, 1879

                                                  MAINE MATTERS
                                                      SOMERSET
          While Mrs. Besse and Miss Carson, of Somerset Mills, were crossing the railroad
     track at Pishon's Ferry, on the 28th ult.,the horse became frightened and threw them
     out, seriously injuring both.  Miss Carson's skull is badly fractured, and it is feared that
     she cannot live.
          Out Canaan correspondent writes as follow: On  invitation of the Independent
     Company of this town to companies in adjoining towns, a muster and battalion drill was
     held here August 29th, with Captain Fifield Mitchell, of Canaan, commanding officer of
     the day. Four companies were-present-one each from Athens, Canaan, Hartland and
     Palmyra.  The soldiers keep their guns and uniforms and gun in good order, and show
     careful training. The day was as fair as could be looked for, and large numbers of
     citizens from this and adjoining towns assembled to see the troops and enjoy a gala day.
     The company here furnished a dinner at the Town House for their visiting friends in
     arms, to which all did ample justice. After the soldiers had dined they invited in the
     assembled citizens to finish the feast. The exercise of the day closed at 5 p. m. and were
      pronounced a decided success. In the evening there was a ball at Brown's Hotel, at
     which a large company gathered and had a fine time . Music furnished by Oakman
     Brothers.
          Our citizens are wide awake in politics, and have one or two lectures per week.
     Today the finance question was discussed at the Union Church by Messrs. Webb and
     Walton, Republicans, and Messrs. Burke and Plummer, Greenbackers-Somerset
     District Lodge of Good Templars is expected to meet in Hartland, 4th.


                                                    WALDO
          Tom Thumb and wife have been exhibiting in Belfast.
           At the last session of the Governor and Council George F. Brackett, of Belfast,
     was commissioned trial justice for the county.
          Dr. L. W. Pendleton, of Belfast, is reported in bankruptcy, with liabilities of $48,800.
     of which $29,500 are secured. His assets are about $12,000.




                                              WASHINGTON
          The autumn session of the Maine Board of Agriculture and Farmer's Convention at
     Dennysville on the 2nd inst., to continue three days. The address of welcome was made
     by Rev. Charles F. Whittier. The subject  of marine manures and local crops was
     discussed. Forty-two bushels of wheat per acre were grown in town by using rockweed
     and barnyard manure compost.
          Charles Lee, of Calias was washed overboard, and drowned from schooner Lettie
     Wills, at sea, August 24th.
          George Smith and James  Thompson made their escape from the Machias jail early
      Saturday morning. They dug out by the side of a window, removing brick and wood,
     and crowded through a small hole. They had been in a close cell.
          In Eastport, 27th ult., a two year old son of William Collins had his neck broken
     by being run over by a truck.
                                                       YORK
          Colonel Jesse Harper speaks at Clarks' Grove, South Hollis, Saturday, September
     6th, at 2 p.m. A join discussion is talked of at that time.
          G. F. Moore, Kennebunk, has been granted a patent from machine for moulding (sic)
      and shaping counter-stiffness for boots and shoes.
          Miss Johnson, about 21 years old, of Wisconsin, boarding at Saco Pool, was
     drowned on the 20th while bathing. Her body was recovered in a short time, but all
     effort to resuscitate her were unavailing. Miss Johnson was a good swimmer, but
     ventured too far from shore.
          James Libby, Charles Bragdon, and Ernest Bragdon, the latter only six year old,
     went out in a boat from Saco on a gunning excursion. They landed on Eagle Island,
     when shooting a bird, the two elder started for it, but overturned their boat. They
     finally succeeded in righting the boat, and after three hours were rescued near Ferry
     Beach. When they went for the little fellow left on the island, the found he had
     succeeded in pulling a lobster trap on shore and putting some grass in it had crawled
     in for a nap.
          At the Grand Temperance picnic at Clark's Grove, Hollis, on Friday week, A. J.
     Chase presided and about 1,900 people were present. The Bridgton Band  discoursed
     excellent music, and stirring speeches were made by ex-Governor Dingley, 
     ex- Governor Perham, Honorable Neal Dow, and others.
    
     
    
































   




















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THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, September 6, 1879

                                                       MAINE MATTERS
                                                             LINCOLN
          At Wiscasset, 2nd inst., Thomas Shea, shipmaster, attempted suicide by
     shooting. His recovery is doubtful. Pecuniary trouble was the cause.
         
                                                              OXFORD
          Our East Peru, Me., correspondent writes: W. H. Conant is building at this place.
     Crops of all kinds are maturing well. More wheat is produced in Peru this year than
     in one year for a quarter of a century.
          Honorable F. M. Fogg, A. S. Kimball, Esq., and W. D. Chase, Esq., addressed
     a large audience at Canton, August 30th.
          The Maine Association of the Church of the New Jerusalem met in Fryeburg on
     the 30th ult., Rev. Dr. Dike, of Bath, in the chair. The New Church Society in
     Fryeburg applied for admission to membership in the Maine Association, and the
     application was granted. Delegates of the church appearing they were admitted to
     membership was appropriate exercise's and remarks. The Portland Society was
     reported as enjoying more than its usual prosperity. The debt of $11,000 has been
     reduced one-half in the past year. Great unanimity is felt in the society for their new
     pastor, Mr. Smyth. It has a Sabbath school of one hundred and seven-teen, with an
     average attendance of seventy-five. The New Church was dedicated the 31st, with
     appropriate services, sermon by Rev. W. B. Haydon.


                                                           PENOBSCOT
          The Gazette says that one day last week a tramp entered the barn of Mr. Leighton, of
     Dexter, during his absence, and began harnessing the horse. Mrs. Leighton, hearing a noise
     went out and asked by what right he was on the premises. He replied that he had hired the
     horse. She knew better than that, as they never let it. Other words followed and Mrs.
     Leighton declared if he did not leave she would brain him with the ax. She really collared
     him, and after quite a tussle, succeeded in ejecting him from the premises.
          Dr. William Hall, is on trial at Bangor on an indictment for manslaughter. The
     allegation is that a Mrs. Cobb of that city came to her death through the defendant in
     treating her confinement and after the birth of her child, defendant being a physician
     in practice in Bangor.
          Miss Luella Gary a Bangor school teacher, while visiting in Lagrange, was thrown
     from a carriage and received such injuries about her spine that her complete recovery
     is considered doubtful.
                                                           PISCATAQUIS
          William Pratt has been appointed postmaster in South Sebec.
         
                                                           SAGADAHOC
          Captain John Patten, of Bath, celebrated his ninetieth birthday on the 27th ult. He is
      is still hale and hearty.
          A five year old son of Charles M. Morton, of Bath, fell from a gondola at the marine
     railway, on the 29th ult. and was drowned. His body was recovered.
          Mr. Zacheus Varney, of Bowdoinham, was badly injured on the 29th ult., by being thrown
     from a wagon while returning from Bath.
                       
                                                      
                                                  




    

THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, September 8, 1879

                                                   MAINE MATTERS
                                                     CUMBERLAND
                                                         (continued)
         The Greenbackers of Cape Elizabeth have refused to coalesce with the Democrats
     on the representative, and have nominated Rev. William F. Eaton,  a straight Greenbacker.
     The Democrats have endorsed the nomination.
        A silver watch, of the bull's-eye pattern, made in London 374 years ago, in now in
     the possession of Mr. Paul R. Curtis, of Freeport.
       
                                                          FRANKLIN
          Bears are getting troublesome in some parts of out town. Mr. Daniel Field, of
     West Phillips, recently lost several sheep, and in passing through his pasture,
     suddenly discovered a bear asleep. Calling some assistance they stoned the
     "varmint" out of sight.- Phillips Phonograph.



                                                          HANCOCK
          L. L. Lincoln, of August, formerly Superintendent of the First Division of Maine
     Central road,  has leased for ten years the Bucksport & Bangor Railroad, heretofore
      operated by the E. & N. A. Railway. The road is to be changed to a three feet gauge,
      and the rolling stock is already engaged for it. The engines came from Philadelphia
      will be of the pattern run on the Centennial Railroad. The new freight cars will be
     built at Camden, in this state.
 
                                                          KENNEBEC
          Dr. Boutell, of Waterville, has sent seven Jerseys and twenty-seven Southdown
     sheep to the New England fair.
                                                             KNOX
          The schooner Stephen Bennett, of Camden, left Boston for Baltimore on the 12th
     ult., for a pleasure trip. No letter or report has been received from her since sailing
     until the 20th when she was seen bottom up twenty miles S. S. E. of Phoenix Island
     (Pacific Ocean) by schooner D.J. Lee. She had on board Captain Bennett, his wife,
      his nephew, and William Richards, son of R. Richards of Augusta.
     nephew, and William Richards, son of  R. Richards of Augusta.
          The granite monument to be erected to  General Wool, at Troy, N. Y., and recently
     quarried and cut by the Bodwell Granite Co., at their Vinalhaven quarries, has the
     shaft ever quarried,  cut and erected in this county. The entire monument comprises
     1st, 2nd, and 3rd bases, plinth, die, neck and shaft, and when cut weighed 254 tons.
     It is of the beautiful brownish granite and highly ornamented with carving and
     inscriptions. The great shaft is said to be but little inferior in length to Celopatra's
     needle.

                                
         
                                                                 

THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, September 6, 1879

                                                    MAINE MATTERS
                                                    ANDROSCOGGIN
          Two sons of E.F. Packard, Esq., of Auburn, took 1,7000 mackerel with hooks, in
     a few hours, in Harpswell Bay, one day last week.
          The mass convention of straights Greenbackers, held at Lewiston on Saturday week,
     was taken possession of by the fusionists, who after a scene of great excitement, finally
     endorsed the Democratic nominations. The straight Greenbackers then withdrew and
     nominated Kingsbury Donnell, of Webster for Senator, and J. B. Storer for Judge of
     Probate.
          A large Republican meeting was held at Lisbon, Me., on the 28th ult. Fourteen
     towns and four counties sent delegations. Honorable O. C. Moore, of New Hampshire,
     and General C.H. Grosvenor of Ohio, addressed the people.
          Recent investigations of City Marshal Smith, of Lewiston, tend to confirm the story
     of one Stevens, a state prison convict who says he saw, in Michigan, Lizzie Lowell, for
     whose supposed murdered  her husband James Lowell, was convicted. It may be a case of
     mistaken identity, but the facts thus far developed demand that the matter should be probed
     to the bottom.
          The reunion of the First Maine Cavalry Association took place at Lewiston on the 2nd
    inst., and was largely attended. In the evening a complimentary  banquet was given by
    resident comrades, at which Governer Garcelon and Daniel F. Davis were present.
                                                                                  
                                                         AROOSTOCK
          Mr. Sidney Cook, of Presque Isle, is building a side-wheel steamboat which will
     run on the Aroostock River. It is nearly finished and will be called the Pinafore.
          Honorable J. C. Madigan of Houlton, has been very ill for the past few weeks.
          In Fort Fairfield, night of the 26th, a gang of thieves entered the stores of B. J.
     Stevens, boots and shoes, L K. Cary, hardware, B. F. Glenson, groceries and James
     Doran's confectionary, and stole money and goods in each place.
                                                   
                                                      CUMBERLAND
          As. Mr. A. S. Noyes, a clerk for Small & Newman, West Falmouth, and two ladies
     were riding down a steep hill at West Falmouth, the horse stumbled and fell, throwing
     out the occupants of the carriage and seriously  injuring Mr. Noyes. The ladies escaped
     with a few bruises
          Mr. Horatio McKinney, while at work in the pulp mill at Brunswick, on the 30th,
      ult., was caught in a revolving shaft and severely injured; a leg was broken, an arm
     badly fractured, and it is feared that he received internal injuries.
          It is said that the death of Miss Lizzie Knowles of Harpswell, who was reported last
      week to have died of poisoning, was really caused by diphtheria.


         
                                                     

THE PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT, September 6.1879

                                                     CITY ITEMS
                                                Glances About Town
          One of the clothing firms in this city, Allen & Co., have already $3,000 worth of
     orders for clothing.
          The Republicans have nominated the following ticket for representatives; Moses
     Butler, Almon A. Strout, Reuel Mazey, Samuel A. True, and John B. Coyle, Jr.
          James Webb, of Millbridge, New Jersey, while at work on board a schooner at Union
     wharf, last Monday, received a deep wound in the groin, and possibly internal injuries, by
     a heavy pipe falling upon him; his chances of recovery were considered as about even.
          Mr. Bean, residing on Summer Street, in this city, a brakeman on the Maine Central,
     had the misfortune to break his arms while unshackling cars at New Gloucester, August
     1st,; on the 1ist inst., he reported for duty, and on the same day, at the same place, New
     Cloucester, while drawing a pin, broke his leg below the knee, and was brought home to
     his family  at 12:30.
          General Garfield spoke at City Hall, Tuesday evening to a large audience.
     Mrs. Patrick Hagans was found dead in her bed, in Dolan's block Tuesday night; her
     death probably resulted from natural causes.
          H. C. Lovell, foreman of the sail maker's department at Kittery Navy Yard, has been
     looking for ten men in Portland, but found only four.
          While Mr. Delano, on Oxford Street was making cartridges on day last week, one of
     them exploded, the bullet striking him in the neck and inflicting a severe flesh wound.
         The First Regiment, Massachusetts Patriarchs, 250 strong, with Salem band, arrived
     and here on Friday week, and were received and escorted through out streets by the
     Portland Patriarchs, Captain N. G. Fessenden, who turned out 105 men, with Chandler's
     Band; the two association made a handsome appearance, and with the flags displayed
     along the route, and the crowds of spectators, gave a festive air  to the city; at City Hall
     Mayor  Walker  bade the guest welcome in a neat  speech, and after receiving the
     hospitable attention of their brethren here they departed in the Boston steamer, well
     pleased with the visit to the Forrest City.
          On Wednesday evening of this week the musical season opens with the grand
      complimentary concert of Miss Dodworth, in which in addition to Miss. Cary and the
      beneficiary, a strong array of our local talent will appear; the board is well pegged as
      we go to press, but seats may yet be had, and all who attend will enjoy a rare musical
      treat.
          On Saturday evening of last week, schooner Addie, of York, in attempting to pass
     the draw of Grand Trunk railroad bridge, ran into a passing train of freight cars, and
     had bow stove in; six cars were thrown off on the frame of the bridge, and the trucks
     went into deep water.