The Portland daily press., 1868-06-18
State News.

The Lewiston Evening journal SAYS that
Constable Joseph Lttefield has just returned
from Thomaston, whittier he went having in
custody Thomas E. Strout, the Auburn Burg
lar, who is sentenced to three years in Stale
Prison. Strout at once donned the variegated
prison suit, but did not seem so happy as on
his return from his recent flight. The Cornish
Bank robbers were also taken TO State Prison
last week.
There was a grand Grant and Colfax ratifi-
cation meeting at Central Hail. Lewiston, last
evening" under the auspices of the Lewiston
Grant Club. Among the speakers were Ad-
iutant. Gen. Caldwell, Attorney-Gen. Frye,
Hon. L. A. ID. Fessenden and Hon. N Ding
ley.
The Lewiston Journal says the comrades of
Post No. g. G. A. R., of that city, have been
invited to join with Post No. 2, of Portland
and other posts throughout the State, in a
grand reunion of comrades on the 30th inst
at Portland, and take part in an Island Ex-
curslon, to the music of the Portland Band.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
Judah d. league, Esq, of Lyndon has this
year s0wed one hundred anu Ten bushels of
grain and is plowing from twenty to thirty
acres which he will sow with buckwheat He
raised last 100 bushels of grain. People get
the idea into their hes that all the State of
Maine is adapted to is the raising of mon and
cattle, while those who are cultivatng the rich
soil in the valley of the Kennebec and the
Aroostook county are rewarded with sure and
abundant crops. Several who have returned
from recent visit to the States of the great
Northwest have returned home with better
opinion of Maine than ever.
KNOX COUNTY
Mr.. William Taylor, tailor, in the employ
of Mr.. Il. Walsh, of Thomaston, was found
dead in his bed on Wednesday morning last.
AT o'clock, A. NJ, he was left by his room
mate apparently quietly Sleeping AT eight
he was found dead.
oxFopD corrcTv
An Oxford correspondent of the Lewiston
journal says severe thunderstorm visited
that town on Saturday The house of Newell
Linnell was struck, the tightening passing
badly shatteriug it in all directions. John
Linnell Esq, aged about eighty years, who
lived with his son Newell, was sitting in one
of the rooms reading and was instantly killed,
though no marks was lett upon his body. One
Of his little grand-daughters in the room was
struck Senseless by the bolt; her mother pick
ed her up and placed her in her grand fathers
lap, and finding the old gentleman motionless
was the first warning she had that anything
had befallen him. He sat in his chair in pre-
cisely the same position he was before he was
struck. A dog lying few feet from him was
also killed.
The Portland and Oxford Central railroad.
(from Mechanic Falls to Hartford,) having
failed to obtain town subscriptions in aid Of
its further extension, is to he "hung up as the
lumbermen say. The Directors give notice to
the farmers and others who have used the
road, that the trains will stop running on the
22d instant; that al! freight must be got off
before that hme; and the station masters con-
duetors and other employees have received no.
tIce tnat their services will not be wanted after
that date
The Bethel people are building first-cass
bridge across the Androscoggn at the place
known many years as Bakers Ferry This
will connect Bethel with Mayville VILLAGE and
supply want long felt by the citizens of both
villages
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
The estate of the late Samuel Veazie If
Bangor, is valued at about S6SOO0O. 1t is yerv
nearly equally divided in real and personal.
1t pays the government in Revenue stamps re-
quired on the Probate papers the sum OF $341.
The whig of Tuesday says: This morning
about three o'clock fire broke out in a store
house on wharf just below the Penobscot
Bridge, totally destroying the storehouse, and
as we go to press the fire has communicS ted
with pile Of lumber belonging to MesSrs. Lin
coin and Sabine.
We learn from the Wing that Levi Jack, an
insane deaf mute, set fire to'a barn connected
with the house on the Poor Farm at Dixmont,
last Thursday evening, destroying the build
ings, consisting of house and large stable,
with the entire contents. Mrs. Peabody an
elderly lady, was burned to death. Mrs. p
was pauper and quite infrm, and is supposed
to have been unable to get out before the
flames reached her At an examination at
Newport, Friday, Jack confessed that he set
the hre ana assigned no reason other than
that he was insane. He was taken to Bangor
for trial. He also confessed to having set fire
to the farm buildings few years since The
amount OF property destroyed was about $1,000.
Insured for $1,000.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
AN elegant hall called "Coburn HalI' has
e oeeh dedicated at Skowhegan. 1t is 62x1OO
ieet moulding tbe stage, and will comfortably
S1, s1ao lzU0 people. The finish of the hall is
by Sumacher. "'' u'ne