The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-06-02

the I'd Congressional Convention were held on
Saturday in Auburn, Webster, Wales and
Durham. Auburn elected delegates in favor
of w. P. Frye, and Webster, Wales and Dur
ham delegates in favor of N. Dingley, jr.
The first child born of European parents in
what is now Lewiston was Abigail Varnum,
daughter of Asa and Abigail Varnum, born
Sept. 10, 1878
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
The Houlton Times says that Mr.. c. HI. Fer
nald hPrincipe of Houlton academy, will be
engaged during the summer in making geolog-
| ical examinations in different parts of the
| county, his services for that purpose having
been secured by Professor Hall, formerly
State Geologist of New York. Mr.. Fernald
intends soon to visit Portage Lake, where
specimens of fossiliferous deposits are said to
have been discovered some years ago. In
many places in that county minerals more or
less valuable abound, which offer good field
for investigation of the geologst.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
"On Time" Verify, on time, was the
Sophomore class, on Wednesday,-out in two
hay carts-each drawn by four horses pur-
| suit of tree, to be planted on the college
| grounds. The young blades made more track
| ct" than Japhet in search of his lost daddy,
and footed, and drummed, and horned, and
| hewed flags, waking up even the very echoes
| of our well to do streets The little boys ran,
| and stood gasping with delight at the magnifi-
cent display, dumb before such a manifesto
| ton of wind, as was evolved from those mon
| strous horns. If the college BOYS did not enioy
themselves, it was all their own fault, for they
had it all their own way.-Ielegrdph
KENNEBEc COUNTY
The Gardiner Reporter learns that J. G.
Harvard, well-known citizen of Richmond
left his home on Monday last, since which
time his whereabouts cannot be ascertained
by his family and friends. A person answer
ing to his description was traced to the United
States Hotel in Boston, where he took break
fast the following morning, but here all clue
is lost. Capt. HI. is a man of some go years of
age, and was never subject to any mental de-
rangement.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The Skowhegan Reporter is informed that
Mr.. Lorenzo Whitman of West Pittsfield, at
tempted to commit suicide by hanging himself
in his barn on Wednesday the Goth, but was
rescued before life was extinct.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
We learn from the Bangor Wing that Faith
er Atwell, preacher in the Methodist Epis-
copal Church for more than fifty years, died
in Orono on Saturday morning. at the age of
80. He is well known throughout that section
of this State
The Wing understands that drunken fra
cas- occurred on Hancock Street, Bangor,
about two O'Clock on Sunday marning, during
which Patrick McHugh was stabbed by John
Rafferty, in SeUen places the cuts beinG made
chances for recovery death are about even,
Hafferty had not been arrested.
The Wing of Monday says we are informed
by Conductor Swan, that young man named
Smith, about 10 years of age, was drowned at
the mills ON Friday. He was subject to fits,
and while down back of the mill for some pur-
pose, it is supposed he was taken in one and
tell in. His body was recovered.
YORK COUNTY
A correspondent of the Saco Courier, writ
ing from York, says that village was the first
city in America, and fiourished for years under
the magnificent patronage of Fernando Gorges
Her officers were Mayor, twelve Aldermen,
twenty-fou Councillors and Recorder. The
place was called Georgiana, and, as Bancroft
says, "became as good city as seals and parch-
meut, chancery court and court leet, SER
geants and white rods can make of petty
town of less than three hundred inhabitants"
But owing to the msfortunes OF Georges the
town lost its rights as a city after career of
ten years, and became simply York, twenty
years before Boston was thought Of