The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-07
FRANKLIN COUNTY.


whole $1,000.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Pennington Chronicle states that
barn owned by Hiram Waterman of Weld
was struck by lightning on Thursday of last
week, and entirely consumed, together with
about seven tons of hay. No insurance. Some
two weeks since, the house of G. r. Houghton
at Weld Village was struck, but the damage
was slight. t.sr.H
Major Dill writes the Chronicle "that the ex-
cessively hot weather has killed thousands of
the finny tribe in the ponds in tie north part
OF franklin county, especially where the wa
ter is shallow. In the Quimby pond in Range
in large quantities"
pair of horses ran away with moving
machine at Pennington last week and brought
up after breaking both wheels of the machine,
without doing any further damage.
"A bill-poster, attached to Vanamburgh's
Menagerie, came near being drowned while
bathing at Pennington last Sunday.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
A son of Mr.. Percy Land was drowned Tues
day, in the Emerson stream, above the door
factory at Waterville, where he had filed a
basket of shavings few moments before: his
hat and basket were seen foatlng on the water
by another lad who gave the alarm, and divers
at once commenced searching for the body
and after about an hours search Mr.. Charles
Branch brought the body to the surface, but
life was quite extinct. He was much bruised
on the head and face, and it is supposed he fell
over the bank, which is quite precpitous and
struck on the logs, producing insensibility, so
that he did not rise at ALL
Charles G.. Atkins, Esq of Augusta, one of
our State Fish Commissioners, is successfully
engaged in breeding shad in the Kennebec.
Just below the Augusta dam.
KNOX COUNTY
The DooL1opd Eroo Dross s+o+o.
Tue sday night the store OF Mr.. j. Wakefield,
in that city, was entered and quantity of
goods, mostly jewelry, was carried off
During the exhibition of Van Amburgh's
Menagerie at Rockland Tuesday evening, a
gang of rowdies attacked the door-keeper Of a
side show, using him pretty roughly and max
ing other disturbances in and about the CITY.
Later in the evening, the same party were met
in the Thorndike Hotel by a number of the
employees of the menagerie, when an affrav
occurred, resulting in the serious injury of a
number of the rowdies, the effects of which
will probably prove fatal to one Whtcomb.
belonging in the town of Waldo. His skull
was broken, and he is otherwise seriously in
Jured. His condition is very critical No
steps have as yet been taken for the arrest of
any OF the parties as they cannot be identified
The parties were all from out of town.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The Bangor Wing states that Martin Dugan.
q yOuuS uldH dDOub Twenty-Five years OF
employed at the mill of Dole & Fogg. was
drowned Wednesday while on an excursion to
Fort Point with the Hibernian Mutual Bene-
fit Society. He had just got through dinner,
and with some others went in to bathe when
he was seized with cramps and was drowned
before assistance could reach him.
The Wing says on Saturday evening, while
the Seymour flag was being raised at Upper
Saltwater, the horse of Mr.. Wellington Hen
derson, attached to wagon containing him
self and wife, took fright, and in endeavoring
to check him the bit broke, rendering him nm,
manageable, when he overturned the carriage.
throwing out the occupants and severely bruis-
ing them, but breaking no bones.
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
The Bath Times states that last Tuesday af-
ternOon, Frank, a lad of fourteen wears nj 400
and son of o. A. Timmons, ESQ.,, who resides
in the upper part of that city, started on horse
back to go after the cows, as he was aeon tom
ed to do, and which usually took him less than
halt an hour to perform Not returning at
seven O'Clock, his father went after him and
found him in the locality known as the Lovers
Retreat, lying iusensble in the middle of the
road. How he came in that state will ever re-
man a mystery, as he barely continued to
breathe with difficulty for about fifteen hours.
and died without speaking an ineligible
word.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The Bangor Wing says that the stage coach
on the line between Hartand and Pittsfeld
was upset Wednesday morning, causing the
horses to run away, njuring several persons
and seriously damaging, the property. The ac-
cident was occasioned by the breaking of one
of the forward wheels, and the coach rolled
over several times before the passengers we're
ext1icated.
WALDO COUNTY.
little boy nine years of age, son of Mrs |
Came, of Boston, who with this boy and
an infant has been spending the hot weather
at Saturday Cove, below Northport. was
drowned on Thursday evening, says the Ban
gor Wing. --a