The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-12-14


| from II to Is per cent. The spiIfners struck.
| and their places have been filed by OF lers
| from abroad. u s~- u ,8N h9i''
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
| Bro Tenney of the Brunswick Telegraph
! is in extaces at the slaughtering of one of
the most vicious cows in that village. He
| saws the slaughterer, for fear though dead
| the brute might open all the gates in the VIII
| lage, sent every pound of the meat to Boston
| II arket. II her hide and hoofs remain, there
viii be no peace to the wicked, Or to the good,
as for the matter of that, for cows are no re-
specters of persons, as we well know. If the
people who eat her beef do Tot manifest trou-
blesome propensities, we will not guess again.
-+r, KENNEBEC COUNTY. r,
On Monday last the pay of the operatives in
the Kennebec Mill Was cut down about ten
per cent 49,. .. -,.
Gen. Ingraham, who for the past few months
has been Secretary and Treasurer at the u.
POINTED Governor OF the Central Military Asy-
lum at Dayton Ohio. He left on Saturday,
Nov. Both, Tor his new field of duty.
Major Nathan Cutler has again assumed
| command OF the Military Asylum at Togus af-
ter an absence of a few mouths. lGda
The Ticonic Water Power Company. of Wa
tervilie, is to dam the Kennebec at that place
length and 10 feet in height. $3.50
A Holmes Monumental Association has
been formed in Winthrop for the purpose of
erecting monument in memory of DR.. Eek
iel Holmes, and the following officers have
been elected: President, Hon. John MAY
Y ce President, Cakes Howard Secretary,
ID. u. Sherman. Treasurer, j. NJ Benjamin
Directors, DR.. j. B. Fillebrown, Col. c. A
Wing, and n. r. Pike. A committee was al
| so appointed to collect funds for the purpose.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
The store and hall connected with the
dxxr..li ho., A.fA A q
erville, were consumed by fire on Thursday
evening OF last week. 1t is supposed that the
fire caught from defect in the stove pipe
l. PENoBsCor COUNTY. -
The Bangor Wing says the cold term still
continued undated Thursday. For the fifth
morning in succession the thermometer has
Indicated from zero TO IS below. AMI almost
every day the mercury has been below zero s
late as nine or ten o'clock A NJ, AID as early
as Z. NJ This IS steady continue, ce of in
tense Cold very rarely known in this latitude.
thursday morning most of the thermometers
in fully exposed places indicated from IA to Is.
We learn from the Wing that on Saturday
last, while Mr.. John Chapman was at work in
his barn, in Medford, upon a scaffold 70 feet in
height, he fell upon the barn floor. He was
found there in state of insensibility, with his
face and head badly bruised and one arm
broken. DR.. Sprague, of Milo, was called and
set the arm, and Mr.. hapman is now quite
comfortable. ~ - q fFi-f'le ifi'is'
l. i . 3 sss pIscATAo-Jrs COUNTY, O. rlls
Tho Obsorvor :, !. to- 4tat A., 49,, 10 =,
bank has given notice that petition will be
presented to the coming Legislature praying
that the act OF its incorporation may be re-
peaJed. The reason assigned for this is that
since it became a town its population has de-
creased, and the taxes are so burdensome, that
inste d OF being induced to come into the town
the people are kept away from it, while those
already contemplating settlement are aban-
doning the Idea .o(
In Dover and vicinity according to the Oh
server, the therm ,meter has ranged as follows
during the recent cold weather: Last Sunday
Is stood at zero al day-Monday morning. 10
deg below zaro-Fue day morning, Is deg. be-
low, anu On w ednesuay, 10 deg. below.
~ 4 WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Inc trustees u tne ~ Eas tpost hotei company
" NJ; 10y 20 o~nU y. 49, tao s'oon
~ '.,t, a III oons a. 'housh LUIS iiuch
hte"eo uotel wiz oe erecteo.
Tae Elstport Sentinel says some p. L. LIS
belonging 70 Olpe ool nshihg vessel heid
oHy cvhFNn'toh one evening iast weeh, ana
que ol them ieunu quarters LII Tue lookup. Qs
Tie Sentinel says that at Eas;p port on Mon
DAY ii ornns the mercury stood at thirteen de-
grees below zero, ani, yes-efday morning ten
pelow. AZ Oalais on Moaday IL WAS DuG nine
degrees oeiow zero. effs
sAGADAHoC COUNTY
.uo,o,rr tho p,+,, r;,.
m, alo,,t .,,,a .,,.,l,.ot- a. IL,
residence Of Mr. Georoc Siishv, saiImaker
Nth Street in that civ Tie hon "a and
hacl, officss were totally DESTROYED T,he ori.
DIN nj the fire is not kn1wn : - =
80. u,,ro co,,,,r,,
/ N. "ADo
MT. SIMEON Staples OF Belfast mad So50 stol-
Ell from trunk IN MS sleeping room, by a
burglar who entered the house in tn night,
unioekeu ne tianL WIN =, IAlse key' LOOK the
lIlouey an y: 'neu rnio,Aeu .ne 'luuA. US iuss
mas nos uisoo'efeu on'i' so'no o''J "A'ef 'he
'raHsacVioh. tt--
ne seiI 'rc VI sono Quiet leelWIi,s ny the
e1e ~ toe sIo's = ior sinu 7, car
10 &c ~ to1f; H1is 10 o| "eu py .. .. Lew
4, 80, y. Dii ''' anu oSiei par ees az Nor'h her-
MN 100 ,-,-. em
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The Bddeford Union, next Monday,will open
branch printing and publication office in
York Square, Saco and on the first OF January
Will commence the pnbllcaton OF new sem
weekly paper called the Saco Courier.
Z, B. T. Hamilton of Saco has been elected by
the manufacturers of Saco and aBiddeford to
represent that BODY at the Cleveland Conyan.
zion of manufacturers of the United States.
The Biddeford Union learns that the work
nj rahnild;ng the bousa n, yvorshin belonrny
10 fine Rantist Society in Berwick. in the viii
lage of Doughty's Falls North Berwick) is
soon to be completed. 1t is sixty-two feet in
length, and thirty eight feet wide, and will
Sohtiu boou1 oi}t5 pcWS.s .sH.-tt'H't
he Union states that on Friday night of
last week the house of Edwin w Hanson, in
biddeiord' was entered by burglars who stole
wnaf tney supposed were bonds, but which on
examination proved to be paper and notes Of
wnich they could make no use, and on Tues
nls oaor the Pachage OF papers all safe and
~ 90 e7,z 600
of Congress for the K;tterv Naxy Ward md
$4,000 for the completion of the Saco break
ltcf. s,505 la s. s
. In trial before Samuel v. Loring, Esq, OF
tv last Monda, ns CHarles R iJ Of RiJ J-
ford, on search and seizure process, obiec-
tons were made to the jurisdiction OF the
irisct;on ~ t,,a Riddetnrd Ma Mnn fj rt
70, 80 ,nr :, ,,u,,, H., az. - \ = - 9
last winter which commits inrisdiction in cases
of single sales to Judges OF municipal and po-
lice court; Jnstices OF the peace, and trial
yIsi,ees ~ .er several ca pun ~ com
Court. Inc Irlal . Justice overruled the opJec-
scnnsas en'tv and senasnc u hin, 70 tins aud n
imprisonm mi. The case was appealed to the
Supreme Judicial Court. 81 a
We learn from tine Urion that Mr.. Abraham
Moril!l' q man a9ont tnlreycnye years OF age
died on sunday of lock jaw in consequence Of