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SIR LIONEL SACKVILLE, an English diplomatist; born July 19, 1827; was British minister to the United States in 1881-1888. He received his passports in the latter year from President Cleveland for having written a letter during the presidential campaign in which he advised a vote for the Democratic ticket as conducing to British interests, in answer to a correspondent who represented himself to be a naturalized English citizen desiring political advice. He died Sept. 3, 1908. saco, a city in York co., Me.; on the Saco river, and on the Boston and Maine railroad; 4 miles from the ocean; and 14 miles W. S. W. of Portland. It is connected with Biddeford on the W. side of the river by bridges. brary, Wardwell Home for Old Ladies, Here are York street railroads, electric lights, and Nastreet railroads, electric lights, and National and savings banks. The city has manufactories of harness, belting, brushes, boots and shoes, lumber, cotton goods, cotton machinery, etc. Pop. (1910) saco, a river in the United States.

It rises in New Hampshire, in the White Mountains, and runs S. E. into the Atlong, and has falls of 72 feet at Hiram, long, and has falls of 72 feet at Hiram, ones. ones.

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