The Portland daily press., 1868-02-10
State News.

p --ta' -'+ta''t KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The Gardiner Reporter well SAYS the fortus
nate termination of the accident on the P. s.
X. road the other day, is but another instance
of the uniform good fortune which has attend
ed this road in this respect. We doubt if there
is another railroad in the country which has
had SO few accidents occur on its tr s. TT #
speaks volumes in favor of the care taken by
the company and its employees. =
We learn from the Gardiner Reporter that
Mr.. and Mrs. William Wakefield. Of that city,
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their
marriage relation on Monday evening last. by
social meeting Of friends at their house
At West waterville is a shirt factory which,
employs forty hands on the premises and work
is given out to one hundred persons. One hum
dred dozen shirts are made each month.
PENoBsooT COUNTY -S.9A
The Dexter Gazette says that the Dexter &
Newport Railroad Company has completed a
contract with Atkins Brothers, of Pottsyille.
Pa, for the rails to be delivered on the first of
April next. They are to be 80 feet rails, made of
the very best iron. The grading of the road
has been done in the best manner making a
more than ordinary firm and permanent bed,
The sleepers which are being furnished are of
the best kind, and it is the determination of
the Directors that the whole construction shall
be completed in the most substantial and per-
manent manner. - r-r
-r,.;,. SOMERSET COUNTY.
Last Friday night fire broke out in Skowhe-
gan in three story wooden building known as
theExcelsior Factory, occupied by the following
named firms: Alva Abbott, planning mill; loss
$3000-no insurance. M. Willis, Slate grind
ing mill loss $3O00-no insurance. Il. G.
Houghton & Co., mill wrights; loss $15OO-no
insurance. J. F, Turner, bedstead manufac-
tory loss S1000-no insurance. riC. F, Doug
lass, architect and builder; loss s7OO-no in 4
sura a Brown Brown & Barber, carving knife ma
kers; loss $500-no insurance. This building
was entirely destroyed. Owned by NJ viii
lis; loss $5O00-no insurance. The fire crossed
the street and destroyed a two and half
story wooden building owned and occupied by
ry. Total loss on this building, including
machinery, $4,000. Insured Springfield Co.
$25O0, and Roger Williams Co. Providence,
X: l., $25o0. Barnet Whorff's axe factory,
bridge crossing the river was burned Total
loss by the fire $4,000. Total insurance
$4,000. 'li1
.5uiEg .sfsi WASHINGTON COUNTY. va
The Eastport Sentinel, says several persons
were to leave that place Wednesday morning
ON hunting expedition to Grand lake; proyi-
sions, ammunition &c, sufficient for q cruise
OF ten or twelve days were provided. The
horses were harnessed early, and quite a num-
Der of friends collected around the team to see
them off; but they had hardly gone a rod be-
fore one of the horses fell with broken leg.
having received a kick from the leader. This
horse was owned by Mr.. Enoch Bishop, and
was heavy and powerful ANIMAL and will
necessary to shoot him. rsA WI
a man by the name of Vose, belonging in
Charlestowa, Mass, took the stage at St Croix
Exchange, on Wednesday last, for Eastport.
to meet the Boston boat, and died on the wav.
from congestion ofthe lungs, says the Calais
Advertiser. T. ~ ga III b. l-.,.17
The Calais Advertiser understands the Rar-
ing and Princeton Railroad has paid the inter-
est on the Calais city bonds the past season.
and expended considerable amount on the
road, and in covering the bridge at Spragues
Falls. 20 .,..t esf -rreg5...f - go
The Calais Advertiser saws a man bv tho
name of S. d. Rhodes arrived There on last
Saturday week, in company of Young lady
by the name of Ellen M. Shaw, belonging to
Brewer, and put up at the st. Croix EXCHANGE.
The gentleman soon after his arrival procured
a marriage license and got married. About
the same time he was arrested by DeDutv
Sheriff TarboX, on q charge of horse-stealin1
and on Wednesday last was taken back to.
Bangor, where he was detained for trial. The
young lady was left at the EXCHANGE. beir,o
too sick to travel. 1t seems there was a fune-
raj in the town the day they came off. and the
girls father and mother attended it and in
their absence she procured the horse and SLEIGH
on the pretence of going to the funeral also.
but instead OF doing so, she put her clothes
into trunk, and the trunk into the SLEIGH
and met the chap at place agreed upon. and
started with him for Calais. When they oot
to Beddington their horse gave out, and thew
came tnev came Tue rest OF the Way by STAGE
The girls father is Baptist minister, and a
very respectable man, and the mother is a
nice woman. The daughter is only about
seventeen years of age. Her folks saw they'H
take her back if she will have nothing more to
do with the fellow, but not otherwise. How
the matter will end remains to be see.
- YORK COUNTY
The Saco Courier learns that VIM. Moves.
Esq, of that city, has made ARRANGEMENTS 10
establish Democratic paper at Rocklapd.
Mr.. SHAY, says the Courier, is anxious to sell
him the Democrat establishment back again.
and has made him very liberal offer; MI. N
however, has declined to repurchase. feeling
that he can locate to better advantage in Knox
County. 81 ra...., 4, - 'l7-
The Courier says day or two before the re-
cent fire in Adams's Block, Biddeford. Mr..
Walter S. York, Insurance Agent, whose Of
flee was in the second floor, had about six hun
dred dollars of the Company's money which
he intended to send in in few DAVIS
Not having safe he placed it in cigar box
which he secreted in his wood pile in the clos
ct. During the fire his room was cleaned out
OF everything but his wood pile, and on re-
turning and looking over the ruins he found
the old cigar box and the money all right.
We learn from the Saco Courier that on
Friday morning the barn and large house
owned by the Water Power Company and SIT
uated on Nason's Hill, Biddetord. were burned.
Five French families occupied the house. It
was once an aristocratie mansion in the Oldest
settlement of Biddeford city limits. $3.50
Water in wells and tanks at the Kitterv Ma
wy Yard having completely given out,-half
mile or SO (3500 feet of hose was laid to bring
a supply from the pond near Love Lane in
Kittery on Thursday across the bridge