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Show GATHERED FACTS Capt. Albert Maxfleld of New Yor'; who served with the Eleventh Maine regiment in the Civil war, was taken prisoner near Appomattox and made to surrender his sword. Not long ago a Bangor paper received a letter from John Davis Arbuckle of Lewisburg, W. Va., stating he had a sword which he had taken from a Yankee officer at Appomattox. Ap-pomattox. Captain Maxfleld saw the letter, communicated with the writer1 and is now in receipt of his sword and an invitation to visit his former enemy. A. A. Derrah and his wife of Perkins, the smallest town in Maine, were elected elect-ed to five offices at the annual town meeting. Mr. Derrah was chosen town clerk, constable, auditor and truant officer, of-ficer, while Mrs. Derrah was elected to the school committee. In the sale of collection of Persinn antiquities of Mirza Raff of Persia at the Anderson galleries in New York, a I sixteenth century Oushak palace rig brought the highest price of the sale,! selling on order for $4,200. Although he is sixty years of age. General Petain, the French 1 ero ot Verdun, is an all-round athtete and keeps himself In training by. skipping the rope and weighing all the food h eats. Master Humphrey's clock, made in 1829 by William Humphrey of Barnlu-d castle, Durham, from which Dickena took the title of a book, was boH recently re-cently in London for $600. In production of rice Mexico ra.iks sixteenth ; of tobacco, fourteenth ; cotton, cot-ton, seventh; coffee, sixth; lead, fourth ; gold, fourth ; copper, second,' and silver, first |