The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-01-18
THE STATE.

I "A lumber drying house in Gardiner, be-
longing to Elbridge Berry, was burnt on Tues
day with its contents. Whole loss about $500.
The Gardner Home journal says, "The little
unpleasantness between Mr.. Ellsworth and
the Home Journal yelept our $4,000 libel
suit was settled last Saturday. 1t was enter
ed neither party or rather in plain English
both parties were sick of it, and it was dropped"
= Samuel Hopkins, Esq, Register of Deeds
for Somerset County, died at his home in Nor
ridgewock, January 9th, at the. age of thirty
years. He was buried with Masonic honors
The Belfast Age says the town of Isles
boro' has lost within a few months two of it's
best and most enterprising citizens shipmas-
tiers, by accidental drowning. Captain w. E.
Hatch, of brig Rochambeau, was lost overheard
in Long Island Sound in October. Capt Ro-
dolphus Pendleton, the other, was lost over
scot river, also in October.
The Maine Farmer says, while at Oxford
few weeks since, we noticed call of the cit
liens to sell new fire engine which they had
recently purchased, on the ground that they
had no building for it. A week or two after
wards the value of the engine was tested at a
fire, by which it saved property to the value of
many thousand dollars. We think thew will
keep their engine.
-lhe Lewiston Journal states that on Sat-
urday Mr. Barnum L. Townsend was crossing
Wilson Pond, in Auburn, on the ice, with a
team Of oxen attached to sled loaded with
logs, when the ice gave way under the sled,
about half mile from the shore, and before
Mr.. T. could loose the oxen from the sled, they
all went down together. 1t fortunately chanc-
ed that Mr.. John C. Stevens was near by with
team of four oxen. He at once proceeded to
rescue Mr. Townsend, which he was at last.
with great Difficulty, enabled to do, the oxen
kicking him and forcing him down nearly un-
der the ice. After rescuing Mr.. T., Mr. Stew
ems moved his oxen near the point of difficulty
and managed to hitch into the yoke of the an
imals in the water, and by dint of their
strength at last hauled the drowning oxen safe
ly out. The ice was six or eight inches thick at
the point where it broke, and the sled which
went down was not heavily loaded
AT the railroad meeting at Arson, on Fri
day last, Hon. VIM. r. Flint, of Arson, was
chosen President, and o. Il. Bachelor, of So
lon, Secretary. r. B. Dunn, ESQ.,, and Joel
Gray were appointed committee to get the
stock taken up. There was manifested on the
part of those present determination to put
the road through from Skowhegan to Arson.
# Thomas Montgomery made high and ag-
gravated assault on Henry B. Soper, of Old
town, on Christmas morning. then cleared out
and changed his name. He was arrested at
Belfast on Tuesday last, where he had assum-
ed the name Of Thomas Mclaughlin, taken to
Bangor and held for trial, as we learn from the
Wing. 4ffsii4ata tsa haataak Vi
The Bangor Wing states that the contrac-
tors of the European & North American Rail
way are progressing with the work in that city
as fast as the weather will permit A gang of
men are at work near the Point of Rocks and
preparations are being made for the erection of
the bridge at the mouth of the stream
Elder Joseph Higgins, of Thorndike, now
in his ninety-frst year,-his wife being in her
eighty-ninth year,-has lived on the same farm
seventy years. The Wing says he felled the
first tree on it, was married in 1904, and has
lived with the same wife sixty-three years
They have had eight children, seven of whom
are living, and are respectfully settled in life.
There has never been death in his house. HE
was ordained a Minister of the Gospel (of the
Freewill Baptist denomiuation) in 1911, and
has preached some fifty years, and does not
recollect of ever receiving but two dollars in
money for preaching during the whole time,
except on funeral occasions, and never but
very little in that way He has never failed to
go to the polls to deposit his vote. He voted
twice for the lamented Lincoln, and his last vote
was for the gallant Chamberlain. He reads a
great deal, is well posted on national matters,
and apparently retains his mental faculties as
well as young man.