The Portland daily press., 1869-09-24
State News.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.


The Lewiston Journal says the movement in
favor of q railroad up the Androscoggn valley
from Lewiston, through Auburn via p. and II.
Auburn, Turner, &C., terminating n Re5ffIord
Fails, IS being now mores earnestly agitated
than ever. Gentlar,len have been canvassipg
public sesrnlon along the proposed route, and
-iiind the people very earnestly in favor of the
movement. A preliminary survey of the route
has already been made. The road can be eco
nomically built, and no bridges of any account
will be required. 1t is desired to connect with
the Maine Central in Auburn, at some noint
near the Lewiston bridge. 1t is believed that
if the Maine Central will lease the road it can
be built, as the towns ON the route seem ready
to move in the matter. Certainly such an en-
terprise would be of great value to Lewiston.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Young Russell, about whose mysterious dis
appearance there have been so many surmises,
has returned to his fathers, in West Farmino,
ton. He says he had no idea of going away
until the Sabbath afternoon when last seen
near the Stoddard House, in that VILLAGE He
went on trip to Montreal, but gives no ex
PLANTATION OF his strange proceeding.
KENNEBEC COUNTY. -..E-
The Augusta Journal says that a plantation
clerk in making up his returns from a locality
where the Democratic vote outnumbers mora
than two to one the Republican, wishes to in
form the Secretary Of State that Mr.. Smith
had thirty-eight votes. He does it in this wav:
For Frankling Smith thurgty-eaight +"
The Maine Standard is responsible for the
story that County Supervisor Bigelow of Ken
nebec, finds in the schools he has visited. two
good teachers, ten fair ones and eighty-one un-
fit for the business.
The Maine Farmer, speaking of Senator
Sprague's late visit to Moosehead Lake. saws
that the black flies or mosquitoes of that ra
gion had evidently cultivated rather familiar
acquaintance with the Senator during his so-
journ among them, but it would Judge did not
succeed in making very favorable impression.
KNOX COUNTY.
The Thomaston correspondent of the Bath
Times sends the following under date of Sep-
TENDER 21st:
Howard A. Cleaveland, the murderer of
Prison to-day. He will be kept In solitary con.
fnement till taken out for execution after the
expiration of one year from the date of his sem
tence.
Another fatal accident occurred to-day
Horace Spear, workman on O'Brien's shin.
fell from staging and striking upon his head
was SO severely injured that he died in a few
hours. He was about thirty years of age, and
leaves wife and two small children.
There are now ia convicts in the State Pris-
on, and that number is likely to be somewhat
by the fall sessions of the courts
The Free Press says that Mr.. Ora P, Spear,
a blacksmith employed ON the ship building
in the yard of Edward O'Brien in Thomaston,
fell from the bows of the vessel to the ground,
q distance Of about thirty feet, on Monday,
lOth inst, about two o'clock in the afternoon,
ana was taken up insensibe, with the blood |
moving from both ears. He was carried to his
nome on stretcher by his fellow workmen,
ana ". wa lker, who had been called to him.
1old us lrieHds ne could not recover. He died