The Portland daily press., 1868-01-17
to pay such SUM ior the same and all damages

to pay such sum Tor the same and ell damages
as the umpires may report.
The Gardiner Home Journal states that Rev
j. /. Brown, of East Pittston, came near get
ting a mortal wound ON Tuesday Of last week
A colt which he was leading to water reared
and struck him in the face just below the right
eye and almost ruined the sight of it. He had
no bones broken, however, and has got so as to
be about
The Gardiner journal says just now it is
busy looking place up near Browns Island.
The Kennebec Log Driving Company have
some Twenty-Five men at work putting down
piers for n boom between the main land and
the west shore of the Island.
Wood is selling in Gardiner at 50 a cord for
hard and "a for soft.
KNOX COUNTY
We learn from the Democrat that Mrs, SAT-
ford, widow lady, about 20 years of age re-
siding in the town Of Hope, was found near
her house, last Tuesday frozen to DEATH 1t is
Judged from appearances that she went ont
at the back door to get pail Of water on Mon
day, that the wind perhaps blew her so she
slipped, fell and was stunned in such a manner
as to be unable to rise, and thus chilled TO
death.
AT a meeting of the members of the Knox
County Agricultural aud Horticultural So
ciety last week, Hon. Isaac Hobbs of Hope
was chosen member of the Board of Agricul-
ture.
A small frame dwelling house on Eagle
Island owned and occupied by Walden Dyer,
was totally destroyed by fire, on Saturday
night, Jan. 4th. House valued at 5000. Insur-
ed.
Thomas Thorne, who has been in the State
prison nearly twenty five years, for murder
committed at Harpswell, makes an affecting
appeal to the Christian citizens of Maine" in
the Rockland Democrat, for his restoration
again to the world. He says he was instigated
to the crime by wicked and designing person,
who took advantage of his ignorance.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The Bangor Wing says on Monday last,
about thirty of the young ladies of Palmyra,
in vindication of their inalienable rights on leap
year, invited thirty SWANS to grand sleigh
ride TO Oldtown and back-provding the best
teams that could be had, and doing the thing
up IN handsome style, which, it is supposed,
Is intended as pattern for the young gentle
men to follow during the next three years un-
less they shall become duly noosed before the
expiration of that time.
The Wing understands that an effort is being
made to increase the pay of the County Com
missioners OF Penobscot County which is at
| present fixed at the UNREASONABLE low price OF
two dollars and fifty cents a day.
The Bangor Democrat endorses the Bidde-
| ford Democrat as sound on the goose" ex.
| tends ihe right hand of fellowship, and ioyfully
| welcomes it as an able and efficient co-laborel
| in the cause of Democratic liberty. Shaw
must feel fiattered!
The Wing learns that z. T. Whitney, of the
Donagannah Hotel, at Orono. was seriously
| injured Tuesday afternoon bya falling stick Of
| timber. He was engaged with Others in re-
| pairing the Saltwater bridge, and it became
necessary to raise one end of stick of timber
and put the other end through hole in the
| ice. They had succeeded in getting the timber
| through the ice, when it fell, crushing Mr.
| Whitney across his hips and bowels The re-
sistance of the ice undoubtedly saved Mr.
Whitney's life. DR.. Mayo was called. and the
| patient is doing well. The stick was about
eighteen feet long and foot through, and the
escape from instant death may be considered
| quite remarkable.