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North Aroostook Agricultural Society.
David Foster, President ; Ivory Hardison, Henry Rolf, E. S. Fowler, Vice Presidents ; P. Cummings, Maple Grove, Recording and Corresponding Secretary ; Joel Bean, Treasurer ; J. W. Haines, Agent ; Joseph D. Pike, Member Board of Agriculture.
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Oxford County Agricultural Society.
No returns. Darius Forbes, South Paris, Member of Board of Agriculture.
Piscataquis Central Agricultural and Horticultural Society.
Hon. Joseph Kelsey, President; Ira Rowe, Leonard Howard, Russell Kit- tredge, Vice Presidents ; Hiram Douty, Treasurer; Elihu B. Averill, Secretary ; Win. G. Clark, B. F. Wilbur, Seth Lee, Trustees; Calvin Chamberlain, Member of Board of Agriculture.
Penobscot County Agricultural Society.
Isaac Case, President ; Martin Mower, Wm. Grinnell, Vice Presidents ; Isaac W. Case, Kenduskeag, Corresponding and Recording Secretary ; E. F. Crane, Treasurer ; Lowell Marston, Joseph Bartlett, E. II. Gibbs, Trustees ; John S. Sayward, Agent ; E. F. Crane, Kenduskeag, Member of Board of Agriculture.
Penobscot and Aroostook Union Agricultural and Horticultural Society.
Alfred Cushman, President ; Ira Fish, David Haynes, Ephraim Fobes, Vice Presidents ; S. Robinson, No. 3, Aroostook, Recording Secretary ; Inther Rogers, Corresponding Secretary ; Henry Blake, Treasurer and Collector ; Theodore Trafton, James Brown, I. W. Robinson, Abner Weeks, B. II. Chesly, S. L. Kimball, Timothy Dorsey, Trustees ; Morgan L. Gerry, Member of Board of Agriculture.
Piscataquis County Agricultural Society.
Joseph Kelsey, President; E. B. Averill, Secretary ; Leonard Howard, Ira Rowe, Russell Kittredge, Vice Presidents ; Hiram Douty, Treasurer and Collector ; Win. G. Clark, Benjamin F. Wilbur, Seth Lee, Trustees; Wm. G. Clark, Member of the Executive Committee; Calvin Chamberlain, Member of Board of Agriculture.
Somerset Central Agricultural Society. No returns. Sugaduhoc Agricultural and Horticultural Society.
Incorporated 1854.
Francis T. Purington, Topsham, President; Nelson Ham, West Bath, Rufus Sylvester, Bowdoin, John HI. Thompson, Topsham, Vice Presidents ; George A. Rogers, Topsham, Robert Given, Brunswick, Josiah Merrow, Bowdoinham, S. F. Dike, Bath, Benjamin M. Brown, West Bath, Trustees ; Rev. S. F. Dike, Bath, Corresponding Secretary ; James H. Whitman, Recording Secretary ; Elisha Clarke, Treasurer and Collector ; Charles J. Gilman, Brunswick, Member of Board of Agriculture.
South Kennebec Agricultural Society.
Daniel Lancaster, President; John Neal, Wm. S. Grant, Samuel Dinslow, Vice Presidents ; F. Glazier, Jr., Hallowell, Corresponding Secretary ; James M. Carpenter, Recording Secretary ; John Stone, Treasurer ; Daniel Lancaster, George Jewett, Alden Rice, Trustees ; Samuel Darling, Member of Board of Agriculture.
Waldo County Agricultural Society.
A. W. Burrill, President ; Nathan Pierce, W. G. Sibley, Vice Presidents ; Robert White, Belfast, Secretary ; Wm. T. Colburn, Treasurer ; Horace Mc- Kenney, Monroe, Member Board of Agriculture.
West Somerset Agricultural Society.
Wm. R. Flint, President ; John M. Wood, Vice President ; W. B. Snow, Madison, Secretary and Treasurer ; Rufus Bixby, William W. Waugh, Benj. Hilton, Edgar Ililton, William Merry, Warren Russell, Joshua Ellis, Joseph Vickerie, David Eldon, Ephraim Cragin, Trustces.
Washington County Agricultural Society.
Nathan Pettingell, Pembroke, President ; Win. D. Dana, Perry, Secretary, and Member Board of Agriculture ; John Kilby, Dennysville, Treasurer.
West Oxford Agricultural Society.
James Walker, Fryeburg, Treasurer.
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York County Agricultural Society.
Nathan Dane, President ; Thomas Dyer, 3d, John Elden, Jr., Joseph Frost, William Lord, Vice Presidents ; John Hanscom, Recording Secretary ; A. A. HIanscom, Librarian ; S. L. Goodale, Saco, Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer ; Elijah Hayes, S. L. Goodale, John Enden, Jr., Usher A. Hall, Samuel Gilpatrick, Trustees ; S. L. Goodale, Member of Board of Agriculture.
West Penobscot Agricultural Society.
Nathaniel Burrill, of Newport, President; Henry K. Dexter, Corinth, Na- thaniel Bryant, Dexter, Francis W. Hill, Exeter, Vice Presidents ; T. P. Batchelder, Kenduskeag, Corresponding and Recording Secretary ; James O. Tilton, Kendus- keag, Treasurer ; Timothy R. Shaw, Exeter, Benj. W. Towle, Exeter, Joseph P. Sinclair, Levant, Trustees ; Matthew H. French, East Corinth, Member Board of Agriculture.
RAILROADS.
[For full information respecting Railroads, see Snow's " Pathfinder Railway Guide," published on the first Monday of each month under the authority of the N. E. Associa- tion of Railway Superintendents.]
ANDROSCOGGIN RAILROAD.
From Livermore Falls to Leeds Junction. Alonzo Garcelon, Lewiston, President. Wm. Small, Leeds, Superintendent.
This road was incorporated August 10th, 1848, amended August 11th, 1849. Capital, $1,500,000. Whole length of road chartered, 52 miles ; completed, 20 miles.
ANDROSCOGGIN AND KENNEBEC RAILROAD.
From Portland to Waterville, 82 miles. Dennis L. Milliken, Waterville, President. Joshua Nye, Treasurer. Edwin Noyes, Waterville, Superintendent. Chas. M. Morse, Waterville, Master of Transportation.
Incorporated March 28, 1845. Capital authorized, $1,400,000.
Length of road, 54 68-100 miles ; single track. Gauge, 5 1-2 feet.
PORTLAND TO Miles.
Miles.
Danville Junction .27
Winthrop 53 1-4
Auburn
. 32 1-2
Readfield . 59
Lewiston .33 1-2
Belgrade . 67
Barker's 41 Greene .
North Belgrade .
41 1-2 Waterville 82 West Waterville 75 1-2 Leeds 46 Monmouth .47 1-8
Commences at Danville Junction, 27 1-2 miles from Portland, passing through the towns of Auburn, Lewiston, Greene, Leeds, Monmouth, Winthrop, Readfield, Belgrade and Waterville. Opened to Auburn, 5 miles, in 1848; to Winthrop in June, 1849 ; to Readfield in September, 1849, and to Water- ville, December 3, 1849. Two passenger trains and one freight train are run each way daily. Average speed of passenger train, 27 miles per hour.
CONNECTIONS. - At Danville Junction, with Grand Trunk Railway, from Portland to Montreal and Quebec; and through this, at Portland, with the Port- land, Saco and Portsmouth, Eastern and Boston and Maine Railroads, York and Cumberland, and Kennebec Railroads. Also with steamers for Boston, Bangor, Eastport and St. John's; and at Yarmouth Junction, with Kennebec and Portland Railroad. At Leeds Junction, with the Androscoggin Railroad, to Livermore Falls.
At Waterville, with Penobscot and Kennebec Railroad, and Kennebec and Portland Railroad.
STAGE CONNECTIONS .- At Auburn, stages for Turner and North Turner connect each way daily.
At Winthrop, stages for Augusta connect with the cars each way daily.
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At Readfield, stages for Farmington, Farmington Falls, Vienna and Mount Vernon, connect with the trains each way dany.
At Belgrade, stages for New Sharon connect daily each way with the cars- and for Mercer, leave on arrival of cars from Portland, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and from Mercer connect with cars for Portland on alternate days.
At Waterville, stages for Skowhegan, Solon, and Norridgewock connect with the train each way daily ; also, to and from Belfast and Freedom.
PENOBSCOT AND KENNEBEC RAILROAD.
From Bangor to Waterville, 55 miles. Wm. Cutter, Bangor, Superintendent. Samuel Taylor, Jr., President; Elias Merrill, Treasurer.
The stations on this road are : Herman Pond, Carmel, Etna, East Newport, Newport, Pittsfield, Burnham, Clinton, Kendall's Mills, Waterville.
Connections. - At Waterville, with Androscoggin and Kennebec Railroad ; at Kendall's Mills, with Kennebee and Somerset Railroad ; and Kennebec and Portland Railroad.
At Newport, Stages for Dexter, Dover, Foxcroft, and Moosehead Lake, con- nect with trains each way.
At Pittsfield, Stages for St. Albans, Hartland, Harmony, Cambridge and Athens, connect with trains each way.
BANGOR, OLDTOWN AND MILFORD RAILROAD.
Incorpora ed, 1833. Opened, 1836. Length, 13 miles.
From Bangor to Milford.
Samuel Veazie, Bangor, President ; J. W. Veazie, Treasurer and Superinten- dent; Joseph Techenay, Clerk; Samuel Veazie, John W. Veazie, F. II. Dil- lingham, W. J. Lord, Elbridge Harris, Directors.
BANGOR TO Miles.
Fares.
Steam Mill Turn Out.
4 15
Half Way Turn Out
G 20
Upper Still Water
9 30
Oldtown . 11 3-4 38
Milford
13 40
Freight and passengers carried in the same train.
BUCKFIELD BRANCH RAILROAD.
Incorporated July 22d, 1847.
Went into operation, 1850.
From Mechanic Falls, via West Minot, East Hebron, Buckfield, Sumner, Hartford, to Canton Point; distance, 28 1-2 miles.
Francis O. J. Smith, Proprietor.
On the extension of the Buckfield Branch Railroad, one station, in Sumner, five miles from Buckfield, has been opened during the past year. But all to Canton Point will be opened by mid-summer, at which point the proprietor has obtained a charter for the re-construction of the bridge aeross Androscoggin River, for public travel, and a large Hotel is also being constructed there for publie accommodation.
The steamer has been employed, through the ice-bound season of the river, in driving a mill of two saws, and various other machinery. There has been constructed a stone dock, extending about 100 feet into the bank of' the river, by thirty feet wide, upon one side of which the extensive mill is constructed ; and the arrangement is such that, during the summer season, the boat comes down river, -enters the dock, - delivers her passengers and cargo, - is imme- diately belted from the shaft of her paddle-wheels to the mill shafting, -the paddles being released from confinement to the shaft, and ceasing to turn with the shaft; and thus, while the cars make their upward and downward trips, through the day, the boat remains hard at work driving the mill. On the arrival of the last train at night, the boat is released from her belting with the mill, - the paddles resume their fixed condition on the shaft, - passengers and freight being all aboard, she " walks the water like a thing of life," up river, to repeat her good services again on the following day.
Thus, in summer and in winter, the boat is made no less useful to the indus- try of the road, and to the convenience and profit of the owner. if this be not a new thing under the sun, history is at fault.
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Canton Point, on the roadside of the river, is one of the most beautiful spots in all New England. The scenic view from the elevated ground near the ter- minus of the Branch Road, is beautifully and unsurpassingly sublime. More than 2,500 acres of magnificently rich interval is seen on the opposite side, - miles of the winding Androscoggin are seen in broken perspective, amid the towering hills of Oxford, until the high peaks of the White Mountain, in the outer distance, close in the horizon, encompass the view, forming a panorama of natural beauty which the worshipful artist might study, without exhausting, almost for a life-time.
CALAIS AND BARING RAILROAD.
The C. & B. R. R. was built expressly for the transportation of lumber from Milltown and Baring to Calais. The main track is 6 miles long; branch tracks, 5 1-2 miles long. Rails 56 lbs. per yard. Narrow gauge. Cost of road and equipments, $225,000. Capital, $500,000. Par value of shares, $100. Road opened, 1851.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
From Portland to Island Pond, in Vermont, 149 miles, where it connects with the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad ; thence to Montreal, 292 miles.
Incorporated 1845. Opened to Yarmouth, 11 miles, July, 1818; to Paris, 47 miles, January, 1850; to Gorham, N. II., 91 miles, July, 1851; to Island Pond, February 8th, 1853; through to Montreal, July 18, 1853.
The Quebec Branch was opened from Richmond to Quebec, 84 miles, Dec. 10tlı, 1854.
S. T. Corser, Superintendent Portland District ; S. P. Bidder, General Mana- ger ; D. Stark, Superintendent Montreal District ; S. T. Webster, Superintend- ent Quebec District.
Passengers arriving and departing by the trains, or who may wish to remain over night, will find every accommodation at the Victoria Hotel, Point Levi, and at Island Pond. Refreshment rooms have been also provided at the Rich- mond Junction.
Portland to Montreal.
Miles. Portland to Montreal. Miles.
Falmouth, . .
5
Stark, . ... 115
Cumberland,
9
Northumberland, 122
Yarmouth, .
11
Stratford Hollow,. 127
Yarmouth Junction,.
12 North Stratford, - 134
North Yarmouth,
15
Wenlock, . 10
Pownal,
18
Island Pond, . 149
New Gloucester, .
22
Norton, (Canada,) 159
Danville Junction, .
28
Compton, .
182
Hotel Road, .
29
Waterville,
186
Empire Road,
32
Lenoxville, 193
Mechanic Falls,;
37
Sherbrooke, 196
Oxford,
11
Windsor, 210
South Paris, .
48 * Richmond,
220
North Paris,
55
Durham,
235
Bryant's Pond,
62
Acton, .
243
Bethel.
70
Britannia Mills,
255
West Bethel,
74
St. Hyacinthe, . 262
Gilead, .
80
Soixante, . 270
Shelburne, N. II.,
86
St. Ililiare,. 275
Gorham, .
91
Bouch. Mountain,. 282
Berlin Falls,
97%
Charons,
287
Milan,
104
Longneil, .
292
West Milan,
1093.
MONTREAL.
GREAT FALLS AND SOUTH BERWICK BRANCH RAILROAD.
From South Ber wick, Me., to Great Falls N. Il. Distance 6 miles. Daniel G. Rollins, Great Falls, President. Edward A. Rollins, Great Falls, Treasurer. John Plummer, South Berwick, Clerk.
* Junction with Quebec Branch Railroad.
1
Cobb's Bridge, .
24
Coaticook, 174
Locke's Mills, .
65
Upton, . 2.19
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KENNEBEC AND PORTLAND RAILROAD.
Incorporated 1836. Opened to Bath, 1849; to Augusta, 1851; to Kendall's Mills, 1855.
From Portland to Kendall's Mills, with branch to Bath. Allen Lambard, President ; E. C. Hyde, Bath, Superintendent.
Reuel Williams, George F. Patten, William D). Sewall, F. T. Lally, T. J. Southard, A. Berry, A. B. Thompson, E. Frye, Directors.
PORTLAND
Fares
T.
from
Miles. Fares
Westbrook,
c. 10
Richmond,
1 25
Falmouth, .
6
25
Dresden, ..
453
1 40
Cumberland,
9.3
25
South Gardiner,
.48
1 50
Yarmouth,
.13
35
Gardiner,.
.53
1 60
Freeport,
.19
60
IIallowell,
.58
1 70
Oak Hill, .
.23
75
AUGUSTA,
. 60
1 75
Brunswick, 27
85
Seven Mile Brook, 67
1 95
Topsham, ...
28
90
Getchell's Corner, ..
72
2 05
Rogers' Road, .293
$1 00
Winslow, .
77
2 20
Bowdoinham, ..
.35
1 10
Waterville,
.78
2 25
Harwood's Road,
.39
1 20
Kendall's Mills, . 81
2 35
BATH AND BRUNSWICK.
Brunswick to Miles. Fares. 5 25
ITarding's Road,
Bath, .
9
35
The 1 and 6.55 P. M. trains from Portland connect with the trains leaving Boston at 7.30 A. M. and 2 P. M.
Passengers for the " East," arriving in either of the above from Boston, will take the cars of this road at the Junction with the Boston Road, at Cape Eliza- beth, and proceed directly on without delay in Portland.
At Kendall's Mills passengers may proceed to Pittsfield and Bangor, via Pe- nobscot and Kennebec Railroad.
Stage lines connect with all the principal towns bordering the route.
PORTLAND, SACO AND PORTSMOUTH.
John Russell Jr., Portland, Superintendent. Isaac W. Eaton, Portland,
Freight Agent.
The Boston and Maine Railroad connects at South Berwick.
The Eastern Railroad connects at Portsmouth.
The Kennebec and Portland Railroad connects at Cape Elizabeth Junction.
The Atlantic and St. Lawrence, or Grand Trunk Railway, connects at Port- land.
SOMERSET AND KENNEBEC RAILROAD.
Joseph Eaton, President. Samuel P. Shaw, Treasurer.
David Bronson, Abner Coburn, Samuel Robinson, Ebenezer Frye, John D. Lang, Samuel Judkins, Directors.
This road is leased by the Kennebec and Portland Railroad Co.
YORK AND CUMBERLAND RAILROAD.
Incorporated 1846.
Opened Feb., 1851.
From Portland to Great Falls, N. H., 55 miles. Open to Saco River.
J. C. Woodman, President. L. Pierce, Clerk. S. W. Eaton, Portland, Super- intendent. Stephen W. Eaton, Treasurer.
J. M. Wood, H. V. Bartol, Wm. G. Chadbourne, Levi Morrill, Samuel Jor- dan, Samuel D. Hanson, Directors.
FROM PORTLAND. Miles. Fares.
FROM PORTLAND.
Miles. Fares.
Portland
Gorham . 10 1-2 c. 35
Woodford's · 1 3-4 c. 13
East Buxton 13 42
Merrill's - .2 3.4 15
Buxton Centre . 15 1-2 50
Saccarappa . 6 3-4 25
Saco River . 18 55
Passengers from the West can change cars at the Junction at Cape Eliza- beth, and come into the Y. & C. R. R. Depot at Back Cove; and those going West can go direct from the Y. & C. Depot by taking the Kennebec cars
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Miles. Portl.
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NEWSPAPERS IN MAINE, -
NEWSPAPERS IN MAINE.
Age, Augusta, weekly, Fuller & Fuller, $2.00. Tri-weekly during Session of Legislature.
American Sentinel, Bath, Jas. M. Lincoln, $1.50.
Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, Wheeler & Lynde, $5.00.
Bangor Courier, weekly, Wheeler & Lynde, $1.50.
Bangor Daily Journal, W. E. Hilton & Co., $4.00.
Bangor Weekly Journal, weekly, W. E. Hilton & Co., $1.50.
Bangor Jeffersonian, weekly, Bartlett & Burr, $1.50.
Brunswick Telegraph, weekly, G. W. Chase, $1.50 per year.
Calais Advertiser, Calais, weekly, John Jackson, Publisher, terms, $1.50 pr. yr.
Christian Mirror, Portland, weekly, Charles A. Lord. $2.00 per year.
Clay's Medical Rambler, Portland, weekly, R. R. Clay.
Daily Mereury, Bangor, S. P. Dinsmore, $4.00.
Democrat, Bangor, weekly, Wm. Thompson, $2.00.
Democratie Advocate, Danville, C. Record & Co., $1.50.
Democratie Clarion, Skowhegan, weekly, Moses Littlefield, $1.00 per year.
Down Easter, Minot, M. F. P. O., weekly, Cady & Co.
Eastern Argus, Portland, daily, Jolin Appleton & Co., $5.00.
Eastern Argus, Portland, tri-weekly, John Appleton & Co., $4.00.
Eastern Argus, Portland, weekly, John Appleton & Co., $2.00.
Eastern Mail, Waterville, weekly, Maxham & Wing, $1.50.
Eastern Times, Bath, weekly, John Abbott, $1.50.
Eastport Sentinel, Eastport, A. II. Close & Co., $1.50 per year.
Ellsworth Herald, weekly, W. II. Chaney, Editor, E. Couillard, Publisher, $1.50 per year.
Gem & Gazette, Dexter, weekly, J. F. Witherell, $1.00.
Glenwood Valley Times, R. M. Mansur, Vienna.
Golden Wreath & Ladies' Advocate, Minot, M. F. P. O., monthly, Cady & Co.
Gospel Banner, Augusta, Joseph A. Homan, $2.00.
Hallowell Gazette, weekly, E. Rowell, $1.50.
Independent Dexter Advertiser, Dexter, W. S. Cilley.
Journal & Enquirer, Portland, weekly, B. D. Peck, $1.50.
Kennebee Journal, Augusta, weekly, Stevens & Blaine, $1.50. Tri-weekly during Session of Legislature.
Ladies' Enterprise, Portland, weekly, Augustus Robinson, $1.50 per year.
Lewiston Falls Journal, weekly, Wm. II. Wallron, $1.50 per year.
Lincoln Democrat, New Castle, weekly, J. J. Ramsey, $1.50 per year.
Maehais Union, weekly, Drisko & Furbush, $1.50 per year.
Maine Democrat, Saco, weekly, A. A. Hanscom, $1.50.
Maine Evangelist, Portland, weekly, S. C. Fessenden, $2.00.
Maine Farmer, Angusta, weekly, Russell Eaton, $1.75.
Maine Expositor, Portland, weekly, Thomas Nichols, $1.00 per year. Maine Free Press, Belfast, weekly, M. V. Stetson & Co., $1.50 per year. Maine Temperance Journal, Portland, weekly, Benj. D. Peck, $1.50. Masonic Journal, Brunswick, monthly, G. W. Chase, 50 cents. Northern Home Journal, Gardiner, weekly, A. M. C. Heath, $1.50. Northern Tribune, Bath, daily.
Northern Tribune, Bath, weekly, $1.25.
Norway Advertiser, weekly, Geo. W. Millett, $1.50 per year.
Oxford Democrat, Paris, weekly, W. A. Pidgin & Co., $1.50 per year.
Pleasure Boat, Portland, weekly, Jeremiah Hacker, $1.00 per year. Piscataquis Observer, Dover, Geo. V. Edes, $1.50 per year. l'ortland Advertiser, Portland, daily, John M. Wood, $5.00. Portland Advertiser, tri-weekly, John M. Wood, $3.50.
Portland Advertiser, weekly, John M. Wood, $2.00.
Portland Genius, weekly, Josiah L. Thomas, $1,00.
Portland Inquirer, Portland, weekly, Benjamin D. Peek, $2.00.
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Portland Transcript, Portland, weekly, Gould, Elwell, Pickard & Co., $1.50.
Portland Eclectic, Portland, weekly, Gould, Elwell, Pickard & Co., $1.50.
Progressive Age, Belfast, weekly, W. M. Rust & Co., $1.50 per year.
Representative Journal, Belfast, weekly, Moore & Dickerson, $1.50 per year. Rural Intelligencer, Augusta, weekly, W. A. Drew, $1.50.
Rockland Gazette, weekly, John Porter, $1.50 per year. Saturday Evening Transcript, Gardiner, weekly, R. B. Caldwell, $1.75 pr. yr. Somerset Spectator, Anson, weekly, Bodney Collins, $1.50.
State of Maine, Portland, daily, Bearce, Starbird & Co., $5.00.
State of Maine, Portland, tri-weekly, Bearce, Starbird & Co., $3.00.
State of Maine, Portland, weekly, Bearce, Starbird & Co., $1.50.
The Chronicle, Farmington, weekly, L. N. Prescott, $1.00.
Thomaston Journal, weekly, C. H. Paine, $1.50.
Touch-tone, Lewiston Falls, A. Young, Jr., 50 cents.
Union & Eastern Journal, Biddeford, weekly, Lewis O. Cowan, $2.00 pr. year.
United States Democrat, weekly, A. & E. Sprague, $1.50.
Weekly Mercury, Bangor, S. P. Dinsmore, $1.25.
Zion's Advocat :, Portland, weekly, J. B. Foster, $2.00.
STATE REFORM SCHOOL.
ESTABLISHED IN 1853, AT CAPE ELIZABETH, CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
W. R. LINCOLN, Superintendent. J. T. McCOBB, Treasurer.
Henry Carter, Oliver L. Currier, James T. McCobb, Joseph II. Williams, William A. Rust, Trustees.
The number received from December 1, 1854, to November 30, 1855, inclu- sive, was as follows :- Boys in the School December 1, 1854, 113 ; committed since, 148 ; whole number in the School during the year, 261; discharged, 27; remaining, November 30, 1855, 234.
The whole number committed since the opening of the school is two hundred and sixty-five ; thirty-one of whom have been discharged; leaving two hundred and thirty-four still under our care.
It is with pleasure we are able to report the present prosperous condition of the Institution. Nothing has occurred during the year just closed particularly discouraging. Much improvement is seen in most of the boys, and a great majority of them manifest a gratifying desire to aid in the duties of the Insti- tution, and a lively interest in its prosperity and usefulness.
The building is capable of accommodating two hundred and forty boys. There are now, therefore, nearly as many as can be well provided for, with the present conveniences.
The result of the farming operations the past year, at the current priees, amounted to $3,813. The whole number of articles made in the clothing de- partment was 4,423.
Besides the mechanical instruction of various kinds which they receive, and the knowledge which they obtain of the different trades and employments of life, a due regard is paid to their religious instruction by preaching every morn- ing in the Chapel ( which is now finished and furnished since the rendering of the last annual report) and the establishment of a Sabbath School, which is conducted by twenty-two ladies and gentlemen from the various churches in Portland, from which it will be seen by the last report that much good has re- sulted.
There is a Library containing some useful works well adapted to the peculiar class of readers which read them. The publishers of several of the papers also furnish their journals to the Institution.
In a word, the Institution is one which the State of Maine may well feel interested and take pride in - supervising as she does her juvenile offenders by taking them under her own immediate care, and by a system of jochicious man- agement and correction, fitting them to commence their lives anew upon fixed principles of right, with the prospect before them of reaping that reward which honest industry and perseverance merit.
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STEAMERS.
STEAMERS.
[For full information respecting the different routes, see the Pathfinder Rail- way Guide.]
DAILY LINE FROM BATH TO RICHMOND, GARDINER HALLOWELL AND AUGUSTA.
The steamer Clipper, Wm. B. Morse, Master, will run between Bath and Augusta, as follows: Leave Bath, Blackmer's Wharf, for Augusta and interme- diate landings at 71 o'clock, A. M. Leave Augusta for Richmond and Bath at 2 o'clock, P. M. "Hallowell at 21, and Gardiner at 23.
FARES .- Bath to Augusta and IIallowell, 50 cents ; Bath to Gardiner 373 cents ; Bath to Richmond, 25 cents. Freight taken at reduced rates.
April 22, 1856.
BOSTON, PORTLAND, MILTON, MONTREAL, AND QUEBEC.
Saturdays and Sundays excepted. The new and superior sea-going steamer Atlantic, Captain George Knight, and Forest City, Captain F. A. Prince, will run as follows, viz. : Leaving the end of Central wharf, Boston, al- ternately every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, at 5 o'clock P. M. Returning, will leave Atlantic Railroad wharf, Portland, on the same day at 7 P. M.
On the arrival of the boat at Portland, cars leave for Gorham, N. II., Nor- thumberland, Island Pond, Montreal and Quebec. Waterville Road, for Lewiston, Greene, Leeds, Monmouth, Readfield, Belgrade, North Belgrade, West Waterville, Waterville, Kendall's Mills, Clinton, Burnham, Pittsfield.
Stages will be in readiness at the above stations to convey passengers to the different towns throughout the State. William Weeks, Agent.
FARES-Cabin, $1.25 ; Deck, $1.
BOSTON, PORTLAND, EASTPORT, CALAIS AND ST. JOHN, N. B.
Steamer Adelaide, Captain Winchester, on Mondays; steamer Admi- ral, Captain Small, on Thursdays. One of these superior and well known sea-going steamers will leave Lincoln's wharf, Boston, every Monday and Thursday, at 9 A. M., and Portland same days at 5 1-2 P. M., and for Eastport and St. John. Passengers leaving Boston in the cars of the Eastern or Boston and Maine Railroads, at 7 1.2 A. M., can take the steamers at Portland.
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