The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-02-14
state News .
ARoosTooK COUNTY.

The Houlton Times says man engaged in
smuggling oats from New Brunswick on Sat
urday last, had his team seized by Officer
Hattie way who lodged it for safe-keeping ia
the stable of a Mr. Sleeper. During the night
the stable was broken open, the team taken
out and driven across the boundary line, where
it will be likely to remain. The name of the
victim is McGeorge.
3 7H- = FRANKLIN COUNTY. s
The Pennington Chronicle com plains that
the scarcity Of water in that village is getting
TO be v6xatiOus matter. The wells have got
SO dry that the handles and cranks have drop
ped out of seveeal of the pumps and curbs,-
at least that is the story. H
The people of New Sharon are seriously de-
batting the question whether tobaceo-chewer
ought to be employed as teacher of children
and youth.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The ladies of Bucksport have undertaken
to raise $4,000 to match an equal sum offered
by 4. p. Buck, of New York, for the erection
of soldiers Memorial Hall. They have al
ready raised about one-tifth of the sum, and
they intend to persevere until success crowns
their efforts. The beauty OF the thing is that
all the men are helping them.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The recent accident, says the Kennebec
Journal, on the p. & X. Railroad, near Rich
mond, in the engine running from the track,
was peculiar. The train was upon curve
and by the displacement OF the ends OF a rail
by the crushing of defective sleeper, the
fange OF the locomotive mounted the top of
the rail and plunged down an embankment
thirty or forty feet to the river. The momen-
tum of the train, checked in part by the slack
ened speed of the engine, served to break the
shackle Of the tender and also to give it diff
ferent angle, while the same force pressed the
baggage car by tilt to the opposite side of the
track. On the swapping of the shackle, the
engine hoped down the embankment and
rooted among the snow and shell ics of the
river, its heroic engineer maintaining his posi-
ton in the effort TO adjust its movements, The
fireman was upon the tender near the top of
the bank while the end of the tilted baggage
car was considerably raised, as if on tiptoe to
see the wreck. The whole thing was so sud-
den, and the scene SO strange and no one
hurt, that the fireman could no. resist the lu-
dicrous suggestion to the engineer, by crying
out, Sam, hadn't yon better back up?"
What we suppose must be called the re-re-
action has begun at Augusta. At the Univer-
salist fair an iron safe was offered to the cam
didate who should receive the highest num-
Der of votes at SO much head. When the
polls were closed about $500 had been taken
Mr. Pillsbury and Governor Chamberlain were
pitted against each other, and although the
Democracy struggled terribly, Chamberlain
came out ahead as usual.
A Richmond correspondent of the Journal
calls upon the people to take measures to PEE
serve the fish in the Kenpebec river. He SAYS
there has been great falling off in the fish of
that river jim the last five years, and adds: ~
have been in the smelling business for several
years. and have seen taken each winter at
least fifty bushels of small bass and smelts
from one to three inches in length. This is
not right, and some measures should be taken
TO prevent the setting of nets across the river
The spawning ground is all above Richmono,
and as the nets are placed, it is almost imposs-
lble for one fish out of a thousand to pass them
and get to those grounds. When you speak to
these men about the distractions which they
place in the way, they will tell you that their
nets are not set to catch the fish that are going
up. That is very true; but when the tide runs
up, the fish are scattered all over the river,
and when they meet the ebb tide drop along
side Iof the channel bank and then become
victims to the nets Fish generally go up the
river about four miles tide, and drop hack
about three. IttheSe nets are kept out of the
river for about i've years, and all other methods
of taking fish, except by the book and line,
forbidden by law, there would soon be plenty
of fish,"
We learn that two barns in Pittston, the
property of Mr. Charles Yeaton and Mrs
Stilphin were destroyed by fire last week Mr..
featon lost horse and 80 tons of hay. The
fires are supposed to have been set by an in
cendiary.
Workmen are building new piers to the
Gardiner and Pittston Bridge. The Home
Journal doubts if the up-riyer interest will
ouescSo Al SoupouiiS tiio ONuefS 70 WIDEN
The draw, adding that this would entail
great expense, and be great injustice.
KNOX COUNTY.
A Post of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie has been instituted at Thomaston.
The people of Rockland propose to hold on
several evenings of next week "mammoth
Leyee" for the benefit of the poor of that city.
A strong Grant Club has been organized in
Rockland.
. ..s ..r PENoBSCoT COUNTY.
The weather in Bangor is not warm. The
Wing says "Wednesday morning was about as
cold as any of the season. Mercury from 16 to
% below zero in different locations. There
have now been nearly ninety days of cold
weather, without thaw OF any extent
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Sunday, ID inst while Mr.. Charles Hanscom
and wife of Aroostook County, were visiting
her father, Asa Gates, at Machasport, their
child one year old, at play by the stove caught
hold of a Pot filled with hot tea pouring the
contents into its face, causing death in twenty
four hours.