The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-04-07
State News.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

An aged lady done up in most miserable
manner. affecting the air of genuine saint
has been circulating in Lewiston printed
paper setting forth that she is sufferer by the
Portland fire and in destitute circums tances,
endorsed, as she claims, by several leading cit
liens of Portland. The Journal says lady
of that city whom she beset with prayers for
aid, wlote to person in Portland, to whom
she referred as recommending her claims and
the person addressed replies that he knows
no such sufferer" as is alluded to and has en-
dorsed none such.
The Journal says the shoe business in Au-
burn is now far more lively than it has been
at any time for six months. All the manufac-
turers are busy, and pressing to fill orders by
working extra hours.
The Mechanic Falls Herald says that Mr..
G. G. Blu k had two of his fingers badly
damned by being caught between the calen-
ders In the Diamond paper mill in that village
on Saturday.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The produce market of Bangor, according to
the Wing, is as follows: Loose hay of the
best quality, is now sold for $15-second quail
ity from IL to IA; pressed 16 to 10; straw from
to 8; pressed do. 10; oats 95 to ST.; barley 25;
potatoes Lilo to LIB; eggs % cents; dried ap-
pies would sell at from IL to IA cents, but very
little coming in; yelloweyed beans 4.75 to 485;
extra pea beans from 500 to 5.25; smoked ham
IA to Is cents; shoulder IL cents; round hogs
Is cents; butter, but very little coming in
good solid is worth from 45 to 46 cents, and
nice lump do, from 48 to 30 cents; winter from
40 to AZ cents. On account of bad travelling
very little produce is now offered in our mar
ket.
The dwelling-house and out-buildings of
Mr.. John Ellis, of Charleston, together with
all their contents, says the Bangor Wing, were
burnt on the first instant, supposed to be the
work of an incendiary. The family were alb
sent at the time.
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
The Bath Times regrets to hear that there is
no improvement in the health of Hon. d. G.
Magoun. The most serious apprehensions are
entertained for the result of his sickness.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The Skowhegan Clarion says that Gen. Sell
den Conner he's continued to gain strength
very slowly, and on Friday of last week went
out OF doors for the first time in two years.
The writer says: HE can be seen on almost
any pleasant day, escorted by loving sister,
walking to and from his fathers house to the
corner Of High street, a distance of some ten
rods, ON broad plank walk laid for his special
use. During the last two years there have
been seven places around the wound where
the dead and decaying bone has dis .harged;
Two OF these have now healed.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The Eastport Sentinel, in chronicling the
arrival of a vessel at that port loaded with
corn, says for seven DAYS previous to her arri-
val Thu re was not a bushel of meal or corn for
sale in town.
The town of Eastport has voted, almost
unanimously, to take stock to the amount of
$4,000 in the Eastport Hotel company.
The Machias Republican says Mr.. Zina PEN
nell, of Whitneyville, while hunting one day
last week, some three miles from town, killed
an old bruin, the ball entering the tore Shout
der and lodging in the heart, causing instant
death. He weighed about two hundred and
fifty pounds, and stood about three feet high.
He was an old settler. Mr.. Pencil sold his
pelt for ten dollars.