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Mother & Joseph Milo Me. Sept 18 Oct. 1. 1850

                                                                                                                         Cedar Grove Sept 1850

18th J.M. to I.S.M.

                                      Did you send your money to buy a Masters degree? I have receiv 'd a remittance of 35 peaches from Bangor.
  Whigs & Freesoilers united in the election of County Officers in Piscataquis, & thus elected all their Candidates but one, the Democrats getting the Senate. The County Commissioner elect being a democratic Freesoiler, in this representative district they united in the Same way upon Wm. Owen of Milo, a Freesoil Democrat.  Congressional district Ditto, electing Israel Washburn of Orono, a Whig Freesoiler & less Freesoil than Whig I suppose.
  The Traveller perhaps gives you an account of commencement at Bowdoin. Freeland S. Holmes of Foxcroft "dissertation - Aztec Civilisation" - " excus'd" Francis Adams & Eugene Thomson of Topsham had parts, were they your scholars? Exercises for degree of A.M. English Oration John Cotton Smith Bangor: latin Oration Sam'l J. Pike Dover N.H.
 Col. & Mrs. Lee have recently return'd from a Journey of about a fortnight at Buckport
20 John Furber has been attending School at Hampden most all summer, Studying Chemistry & Minerology in which sciences he is becoming quite virtuous, he has went to the antimony mine in Carmel, & the lead mine in prospect, & morevoer in company with Mr. Swallow & 7 by 9 others charter'd a schooner of 8 tons & went on an Argonautic expedition in Penobscot bay & its Islands & to the all Hant where they are said to have discovered a

Bradford Via Newbury N.H. Oct. 10. 1850