The Portland daily press., 1867-12-13
State News.
ANDRoSCoGGIN COUNTY,

The mercury at Lewiston, Wednesday morn
ing fell to Is degrees below zero, lower point
than at any previous time in the season.
The Journal says there will be less lumber
ing on the AndroscOggin this winter than any
season for the past 20 years. n lHs
A Mechanic Falls correspondent of the
Journal says: Isaiah Perkins is the only
male inhabitant now living of the original set
lers of this place. Thirty years ago we had
only one dry goods store now we have five;
then plenty of rum-shops: now we are minus
such an institution" -.....,..s ,.e-
The shoe business in Auburn says the Jour
nal continues quiet. The demand for heavy
goods is very light. With manufacturers Of
the better kinds of ladies' boots, work is now
quite brisk. 1t is hoped that orders viii be re-
ceived which will warrant the employment
of more hands after the first of January.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
The Presque Isle Pioneer complains of
dull business in that vicinity. 1t says the
travelling has been hard, and but few teams
are fitting for the woods. There are four va
cant stores in the village which a few months
ago were stocked with goods. Laundering,
that branch of industry so extensively carried
on in this State, feels the pressure, and frofa
the best information it has been able to OBJ
tain it will be safe to say that not over half the
the usual amount of business will be done in
the woods this winter. IS
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Chronicle says Levi E. H. Farwell who
was convicted of felonous assault last Spring
on little girl in Jay, and was sentenced at
the April term of court to the Reform School
during the remainder of his minority has
been sent back there to Jail as too incorrigible
for the Reform School
In 1866 Josiah Emery brought an action
against the proprietors of the Pennington
Chronicle for an alleged libel. The gist Of his
complaint, says the Chronicle was that the de-
PENDANTS had published an article in relation to
the johnson Convention" held at Auburn a
short time previously, in which the plaintiff
alleged the defendants had alluded to him as
delegate" to that convent ion, and as shaving
been convict for crime and an inmate of the
States Prison in Thomaston," alleging farther
in his writ that if he, the plaintiff, had
been guilty of any crimes, he had
been pardoned by the lawfully consti-
action came on for trial at the April term
of the Court in Franklin county, when the
counsel for the defense demurred to the plain
tiff's writ and declaration among others for
the reason that the plaintiff admitted by his
pleadngs that what ne charged as hbelous
was, in fact, true. The presiding Judge sus-
tanned the demurrer, and the plaintiff s coun-
sci excepted" The exceptions were argued
before the full court, and were oyerruled.-
Judgment for defendants cost follows the de-
cision of the full court.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
1hC Woih upOu tH6 MeG0OQlSt church at
Augusta is nearly completed, The total cost
Of repairs, including bell and organ, will be
about $1,000 ap -
The Maine Farmer says that the Second
Baptist society of Augusta have decided to
enlarge their present house of worship. and
the work will probably be undertaken another
season. ---
A young man, named Otis NJ Moore. an an
prentice in the Gardiner Journal office, received
cut RIGHT across the knee and nla 70
bone, from skate, on Friday, while skating.
He will probably be laid up some three weeks
whit.
"a9 N,5 KNOX COUNTY. .t.t,l.a
The Liquor Agency in Rockland has paid to
the city during the past year over and above
all expenses the sum of 1896 "a. The sales
for the year have amounted to $3O46; expenses
to $3.50.
The Georges river froze up solid Monday
night.
The mercury at Rockland on Monday stood
at 10 degrees below zero.