The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-11-23
state News.


The journal says about one hundred houses
have been built IN Lewiston AID Auburn the
present year, accommodating two hundred
families, aud yetTents con tinue scarce. -
The Androscoggin Musical Society com-
mences its next annual session at Lewiston,
ON Tuesday Dec. 81, and continues four days.
The Journal states that the Androscoggin
river has been slowly rising for several days.
~ w KENNEBEc COUNTY
There will be meeting in Town Hail in
Winthrop, on Wednesday, Dec, 11th; at one
O'Clock A. M, to organize Il Holmes Monu-
nent Association. All friends of the late DIR.
Ezekiel Holmes are invited to attend.
The Winthrop Bulletin says on Saturday
last snow 10 the depth of six inches fell in
that town, making business good for the stable
Keepers. After the storm it cleared off COLI
and Monday was pronounced the coolest day
OF the season. The Oldest inhabitants do not
remember OF colder November thus far than
the present. iaAa 54g .a al
DIR. Cochran, of Monmouth, has collected
about the ponds in his vicinity numerous and
various Indian leles, consisting Of gouges,
hatchets, pestles, &c.
At the Senior Exhibition Of Colby Univer-
sity, on "Wednesday evening, the prize for the
best ar 'icie was taken. by Julian ID. Taylor OF
Winslow. t-l joe -
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
A dispatch from Bangor states that the
river was still open on Friday, Though full of
floating ice. The steamer Milton Martin was
unable to get above Winterport on Thursday
night. Every. effort is now being made, to ship
the lumber.
A fire broke out tt ursday evening in the store
Of Malcolm w. Long in Granite Block Ban
gor occupied for the repair and sale of gun
materials and Mr. Longs entire stock was des-
troyed- Loss from $500 to S3OOO upon which
there is an insurance or y;I3UU IN TIC Union Inc.
Co., OF Bangor. There was considerable
quantity OF powder in the store, but the great
n W. n1afn oha1 ~
small cans, each containing about pound, ex
plOded with violence sufficient to raise the
scuttles throughout the entire building. The
cause OF the fire is unknown. ~ i ~
sN% g" q PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
The Observer says they have had very cold
weather during the present month the cold
est November experienced for many years
Ihe thermometer Wednesday morning at sun
rise stood at Zero 4
live, three legged colt four months old is
on exhibition at Dover The Observer says he
- 10 NC exhibited m various cities i'll this
and other States @s&EH FS N
The Observer says there is a grand chance
F0xcroft .-
WASHINGTON COUNTY. Z
Collectors sale of liquors at public auc-
ZION was advertised to come off at Macbias on
friday OF last week. The Union says no per-
son appeared to bid, thus inferring that large
stock has been laid in or the people have ADAM
doned the use of liquors. 4~ 5eete
The Union says Mrs. Hannah Huntley, an
aged woman, died Suddenly at Cutler, night
of November 10th. She had been out to a
neighbor's house, aud on returning home fell
suddenly and died
John Y. Buchanan, of Columbia Falls. killed
q hog recently that weighed 7S1 pounds: his
girt was feet and inches.
Potatoes are selling at Machias, according to
the Union, at So cents to 81 per bushel; hay at
$12 to !$18 per ton. si-4s ta
WALDO COUNTY
Potatoes are in lively demand at Belfast at
50 cents per bushel.
The Belfast Journal says dove entered a
chimney top of their office, made its way down
the fiue some 80 feet to the stove pipe of bar
J ber's shop on the lower floor, thence along the
pipe until it dropped in the stove, when it
was burned to DEATH. "a LEh
The Journal says the reconnaissance of the
line of the Belfast and Moosehead railroad to
Pittstield has disclosed an important consid-
Grafton viz, that by extending our road up
the valley of the Sebasticook, through the
thriving towns OF Palmyra, Hartland, ST. AL
bans, Harmony, Ripley, Be, in a direct line to
Moosahead Lake, they not only obtain more
eligible route, but they avoid the restriction in
the charter, which forbds II location between
:" from Newport village to Dexter village, -
where charter had already been granted and
between which points railroad is now build
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