The Portland daily press., 1868-01-27
State News.


State constables by putting poison into liquor
they had seized in his shop, had an examina-
ton before the Municipal Court at Lewiston
last Tuesday on the search and seizure process
and was discharged, the Court finding the flu
i'd in question was not Intoxicating liquor.
His examination on the poison charge is to be
resumed this week.
The Lewiston Journal says j. L. II. Cobb,
ESQ.,, with Messrs. Olfene & Thurlow, who are
practical manufacturers and among the best in
the State, intend to erect a wooden mill on the
privilege south of the Androscoggin MILL this
season, to contain sets of machinery. The
foundation was prepared last fall. -i.ty.
We learn from the journal that Messrs
A. q. Dennison & Co., of Mechanic Falls, are
running four mills in the manufacture of books
and newspapers, consuming 40 tons Of rags per
week, making "a tons of paper, and requiring
IA tons of chemicals. They keep in constant
employment 150 men. They have a dam of
solid masonry, at cost of $4,000, and have
expended the past year $4,000 in improve
ments. lu.i5 baftlt .ot..l+.a -e.l i5sls itiia
Messrs. A. c. Denison & Co. are making ar
engagements for the erection of large flour
mill at Mechanic Falls during the approach
ing summer. Some twenty or thirty dwellings
houses, says the Herald, will follow in course.
FRANKLIN COUNTY. g l,...,.r.s...
The Pennington Chronicle wants to know
what the people of that section are to drink
The wells and cisterns have given out-and
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The Ellsworth American says Capt A. @.
Milliken, of fremont, has been appointed
Light Keeper on Mt. Desert Rock. Captain
Millilsen is an old shipmaster, and as he was
too old to 60 to the war he sent his sons. Mr..
Seth Higgins, the old keeper, is appointed as
sistant, with the same pay as before, and re-
mains OH the Rock with his family. Anybody
that lives on Mt. Desert Rock, richly earns all
the money he gets as salary. ~ .si.-.-I
KNOX COUNTY. S.. =.
The Rockland Gazette tells the story of
man residing not far from that city, who, not
long ago, visited one of the hardware stores
and wished to purchase just IS feet of wooden
tubing. The proprietor could not find piece,
or pieces, to make just that length-but said
he, ''here is a piece 20 feet long, aud / don't
like to cut to have a remnant OF two feet
The purchaser did not wish topay for more
than just Is feet. So finally the 2 feet were
given him, he paying for only Is feet A few
days after, this same man brought in the 2
feet extra, while the proprietor was out, and
actually sold the same to the clerk, at 5 cents
per foot, remarkng that he had more than he
needed. .e3 eIt.s }9sE siif -I.s. 1gs7e 4
OXFORD COUNTY. .
The Oxford Democrat says three distinct
shocks of earthquake were felt at Andover on
Thursday evening, the 10th inst. They were
sufficient to give buildings considerable
shaking, sufficient to rattle dishes and stove
covers and startle the inhabitants in general.
The Democrat says Mrs. Martha ellison, of
Andover, is now in her 97th year, and is as
sprightly as most women at Is. A few months
ago she made very nice bed-spread, quilting
it all herself without any assistance. She can
still do the incest needle-wOrk. She has been
the wife of tour husbands. a3,g 93Risl a fai
The Andoyer house has Just had change
of landlords. Mr.. McAllister, who has been
the owner and proprietor of the house so
many years, has sold ito Mr.. John G. Merrill.
..ri .r.i-y n PENoBsCoT COUNTY ia51r5 i
The Bangor Wing says that the annual
meeting of the Winterport Railroad Corpora
ton was held last week and the Directors
submitted their annual report, together with
the report of the engineer, William Percival,
Esq, of Portland, employed to make work.
ing survey of the road to some point on the
Maine Central Road. Accompanying the en-
gineer's report was profile of six miles of the
most difficult portion of the route, with par
ticular and careful estimates of cost and ex-
penses. The total cost OF masonry and bridg-
ing is estimated at about $4,000. The esti-
mated expense per mile, including everything
necessary to receive the rolling stock is about
$27, 500. ~ i''i'77-i 'Ni 49,.
A lad named Mcdonald, who escaped from
the Reform School in September last, was ar
rested in Bangor short time since, and was
returned to his headquarters on Thursday
says the Wing. 79l4hc 9li E1 10
The Wing says the winter up to the present
a steady spell of unbroken cold weather is
almost unprecedented. The effects of the
cold weather are shown in the statements in
the letters of our Winterport and Belfast cor
respondents we also have the same in
formation from other sources-that the west
ern channel of the river between Long Island
and Belfast, was frozen over SO as to prevent
navigation, until the embargo was removed
by the united efforts of Capt. Ross steamtug
Terror, assisted by the steamers Katahdin and
William Tbbetts.
"' PIsCATAQUIS COUNTY.
We learn from the Observer that the Katah-
din iron works which have not been in opera
ton for some years past, have again commence
ed work, beginning their operations day or
two since. They have about 150 men in their
employ. -. I'D ma ana .---..If
The Observer says Mrs. Burrows, the wife of
Jabez Barrows, of Foxcroft, aged Is years, the
past season, has woven 1888 yards OF cloth spun
zoo skeins of yarn, knit twelve pairs of nit
tens and Ii pairs of stockings, besides doing
her house work. eD'LA .'' ''ul .i'. '7'HI :
t-- sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
The Gardiner Reporter says Mr.. Alvin Doug
lass, of Richmond, recently lost valuable COW,
which had been sick several weeks with what
was supposed to be horn-ail, but on a post
norton examination her death proved to have
resulted from a single nail found in her
heart. . .4. I...FF 4.i .l... .siq. q
- ID s SOMERSET COUNTY. .t.. .ttf,
We learn from the Clarion that the ladies
of Skowhegan village on Tuesday last gave the
gentlemen an invitation to attend q leap year
party at Brewster's ,hotel. Teams were pro-
vided to take the gentlemen to and from the
party, and at ten o'clock the whole company
of about 80 sat down to an oyster supper.
Afterwards they engaged in plays and other
amusements till IL O'Clock, when the ladies
paid the bills and took their SWANS home.
Z U-L.nli 4nfAs WALDO COUNTY. at7lHd9 sci.
The Belfast age says, smelt fishing has be-
rrrIf hrvaS H.
of the enterprising merchants sends from 600
pounds to half a ton weight of them to Boston
by each trip Of the steamer Tibbetts. ~
The Age says there is beginning to be quite
drouth; wells and strea ms are getting low
and rain is much needed. The weather dur
the past week has been fine, but cool, and the
sleighing splendid. Produce markets are
not very active. Potatoes are dull at 80 cts:
hay, first quality pressed, $13 to $15 per ton.
The partial closing of the harbor has caused
potatoes to decline. d. - agr1 aI .l.s'Ist.I Il.
A post of the Grand Army of the Republic
is to be established in Belfast, as we see by the
Age. a.a .- .. IN :.
During the long cold term of last week Bel
fast harbor and bay skinned over with ice, the
first time for several years. .G'.
..af 7 WASHINGTON COUNTY. IaI
Mrs. Jane Mangum, an old lady of Eastport
fell upon the ice while passing the Custom
House one day last week, and fractured her leg
quite badly below the knee, says the Sentinel.
The ladies of Barring availing themselves of
leap year privileges have given q ball to their
gentlemen friends, calling at their different
residences for them, and escorting them home
agaia in good style.
The ladies' in Calais are making prepare
tions to give calico Ball" on the evening
of the 30th inst. st. Croix Hall has been
engaged for the occasion, and prints are
in demand. The proceeds are to 20 into the
fund for the erection of the SOLDIERS Monu-
ment in Calais 7T
A dwelling house on South Midtown street,
Calais, owned and occupied by Mr. Roswell b.
WEIGH, was destroyed by fire On Wednesday
morning I'D inst. at about l o'clock. The
house was nearly new, having been occupied
only since September. a.>,f no
YORK COUNTY
a correspondent of the Saco Courier saws
that from the Saco to the State line the south
ern side of the Little Ossipee valley is one
stretch of pitch pine plains, while on the
northern bank the soil is hard and produc-
tive. The river has seven or eight branches,
each driving one or mere mills. Shere are six
saw and gristmills on the main river.
The Saco Courier mentions that on Wednes-
day several large black fish were seen playful
ly spouting water twenty two to thirty feet
high close to the shore at Old Orchard Beach.
The Courier says the barn of Mr.. James III
FOgg, in what is called Nebraska, mile from
the city proper of Biddeford, was burned Sat
urday morning, together with about fifteen
tons of hay therein. Loss $1,000; insured for
1876. ...s'. IT, E.....s r..