The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-21
State News.
ANpRosCoGG1N COUNTY,


The ice LETT the Little Androscoggin below
the falls Thursday carrying out several thou
sand feet OF logs, says the Lewiston Journal.
The Lewiston Journal says B. Cotton, Esq,
was struck with paralysis Wednesday, at A.
NJ, and lies in critical condition. Hopes of
his recovery are entertained, however
The Journal says the ne! power ON the An
droscoggin, within the limits Of Lewiston, is
now 1866 horse, and by the storage of water
at its reservoir, the Umbagos Lake, an aggre-
gate of more than 81 900 net horse power can
be obtained in that single city, without half
exhaustiag the supply.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
Elisha $. Case, of Readfield, has dog which
was TWO years old last October, and which
weighs 147 IL pounds. So says a co-respon-
dent OF the Winthrop Bulletin.
A half-blood Spanish hen, belonging to A.
G. holcomb, of Augusta, has laid an egg
which measures by 1-2 inches, and weighs
six ounces.
OXFORD COUNTY.
a bill of indictment for manslaughter was
found by the grand jury of Oxford county
last week against Thomas S. Brigham, of
Buckfeld. The case is continued to the next
term and Mr.. B. gave bail in the sum of $500
for his appearance.
The Oxford Democrat says Mr. Moses Smart
of Fryeburg, killed hog last week twenty
one months old weighing eight hundred and
Massachusetts, man for fifteen cents a pound,
bringing the snug little sum of $122.25.
We learn from the Democrat that Michael
Lewis, the Indian who escaped from the Paris
jail on Sunday night, March 9th, was caught
at Bryant's Pond on the following Friday
night by Mr.. r. K. Durham, the depot mas
ter, who had been employed by officer G. NJ
Wcrmeil to look out for him. He was return
ed TO Jail next day. 1t is true, as was surmis-
ed, that he broke into the confectionery store
at West Paris, on Monday night. and supplied
himself with rations. He hid himself in the
woods day times.
A son of w. L. Stanton, of Oxford, says the
Democrat, while playing in the barn about a
fortnight ago, fell from the topmost beam to
the barn floor, striking on his side. He was
taken up for dead, and was unconscious for
fifteen minutes. No bones were broken,
though his face was bruised badly. He was
out again in few days.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The Bangor Wing understands that parties
from Massachusetts contemplate visiting Ban
gor with a view to locating a wooden factory
upon one of the privileges on Kenduskeag
stream.
sAGADAHoc COUNTY.
The City Council Of Both o F IS t and Ta 1bs
Mayor (Dr. Putnam) vetoed the ordinance.
The Council failed TO pass it over the veto
the yeas being 8, nays II.
Inc DruusWlcK Telegraph learns from Mr..
5. A. Perkins, that the charter for a company
to establish paper mill at Top.ham having
been obtained, m assures are now going for
ward for the carrying out of the project The
capital of the Company will be $4,000, and it
is proposed to erect q mill with a capacity to
turn out from 3 to ) tons daily, of The best
quality of news, book and better papers,
SOMERSET COUNTY
The Clarion states that William Allen, ESQ.,,
Of Norridgewock-so long and favorabiy
known in Somerset County-has attended
every annual town meeting for ffty-four years
in Norridgewock.
The Supreme Judicial Court is in session
at Norridgewock, Judge Cutting presiding.
WASHINGTON COUNTY
A dispatch from Baltimore announces the
death in that city, Tuesday, of Colonel Sabine
Emery, of Eastport, formerly commander OF
the 9th Maine Regiment.
The United States Government have decid-
ed to erect, the present season, in Machias,
building suitable tor Custom House and
Post Office.
The Frontier Bank, Elstport, has declared
semi-annual dividend of six per cent.
The Machias Union says through February
and the first part of March families in that
section drew their sup ly of water from the
river or melted snow. In the logging woods
on Machias river brooks and streams were so
frozen and dried thai the loggers, at camps
where the water never failed before, were
obliged to drive their animals two mile; to ob-
tain wafer