The Portland daily press., 1869-06-26
state News.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.

The Brunswick Telegraph says on the 10th
instant Henry Mitchell of that place, met with
severe accident on the college grounds He,
| in company with several others, had been try
ing his ability to climb the ropes of the derrick
He climbed up one Of guyes-120 feet long
was coming down one of the ropes on the side,
| when within about 10 or 20 feet from the bot
tom, the over exertion so acted upon him, that
suddenly all his strength left, and he tell He
the drums, wheels and cranks, causing a Sc e.
we're wound on his thigh. It was very fortu-
| nate, and wonderful that it was no worse. DIR.
Mitchell was immediately called and the pa
tientis doing well. afss
81 OXFORD COUNTY.
A disgraceful act occurred one night last
week IN Bethel, by some mean, dirty scamps
who rified Mr.. Woodsome Mason's clothes line
OF some thirty dollars worth of clothing, and
left for parts unknown Col. C. s. Edwards
lost some on the same night.
A sad accident befell Mr. Urbern York one
day last week while at work in the bedstead
York was saving with tie circular saw, when
stick caught in the saw, which was going at
fullspeed, andswas flung with a buzz, striking
him inthe forehead, and knocking him sense
less. gs..
s.a PENoBscoT COUNTY.
~ u. Mentor, painter, Carmel Village, while
engaged painting the gable end of a house be-
longing to the Hon. Mr.. Ruggles, fell, from
the breaking of his ladder as he was s.jump-
ing its top over q little, as painters usually
do, to paint where its top had touched and was
taken up senseless He fell 27 feet, and SO in
jured him internally that he fingered along
and finally died at the residence Of Mr.. Rug
giles on Monday last. Y.4 ifsa78 y
SOMERSET COUNTY. sesa p
On Monday last Joseph A. Kilbreth, of ST.
Albans, while cutting down O tree in the
woods was fatally injured by its fall, and died
in 36 hours afterward. The tree in falling, Il
or nh xrrhio 1,r<,Ir 1
parts OF which struck him. and theresult was
as above stated. Il. .,,5.ssss. :
The Skowhegan Reporter says thai Deputy
Sheriff Tilton, of Cornyiile, fell about three
weeks since, breaking his collar bone and is
yet confined to his house, but win soon be
able to be about.
The Skowhegan Reporter saws that a war;
rant was issued Tuesday morning by Justice
Fuller against Frank and Philander Lorton
for killing the sheep OF Mr.. Decatur Kidder
and taking the pelts. with the wool thereon.
MT: Kidder found seven or eight Of his sheep
pelts taken off After watching for several
nights, the parties above mentioned were seen
bearing off the pelts Frank was arrested
Tuesday, but up to this time Philander had
not been found.
s...s 4 WALDO COUNTY.
The Belfast Age says house owned and oc
cupied by &C. Lewis, of Northport, was des-
troyed by fire one day last week. Originated
accidentally; small insurance. q
The Belfast Age says one of the worlmen
named Jordan, was badly injured by the pre-
mature explosion, while at work on the rail-
road last Tuesday. His left ear and portion
OF his scalp were torn off, and he received sew
eral other bruises, and it is feared internal in
furies. He will probably recover. loA
We learn from the Age that Mr. James Mar
den, OF Stockton, committed suicide on Thurs
day DAY morning week, by hanging himself in a
laboring under depression of spirits at times
f)r some time previous, but on that morning
appeared cheerful, and went into the shop for
the purpose of doing small job. Taking
around his neck, got upon the sgrindstone car
riage, and affixing the line to the beam above,
swung of, He was discovered in few mo-
ments and taken down and carried into the
house, where he opened his eyes and looked
around once, bu. he could not be revived
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Reuben Duncan Of Robbinston, last week
visited Eastport and robbed four fishing boats
of everything that could be carried away.-
Deputy Sheriff Thompson got track of the
scoundrel and arrested him at his home in Rob-
binston.
The Eastport Sentinel says, on Friday the
18th inst, the schooner Plandome, of New
York, Capt. G.. d. Smith, arrived there from st.
George, and came to anchor in the harbor.
The captains q man apparently fifty years of
dSc, roticu suat nignt seemingly as well as ev-
er; next morning upon some Of the crew going
to the cabin, he was discovered lying in his
berth dead. Saturday afternoon Coroner Hun
ter, of Lubec, held q jury of inquest on the
body, and the examination ELECTED nothing to
show that the death was unnatural and a Yer-
dict to that effect was rendered.
The Calais Advertiser says Mr.. William 7.
King lost a fine young horse on Wednesday
last, which he valued at one thousand dollars.
He had been offered eight hundred for him but
a short time before he died and refused it. The
cause of his death seemed to be some internal
iDjnry.
YORK COUNTY.
The Biddeford Union says an old gentleman
OF eighty years, by the name of Banks, has
sunefed much from painful cancer in the
tated. =
Jedediah Robinson, who belongs in Kenne-
bunkport, was found dead in his room at his
boarding house in Boston, ON Tuesday week
He was single man, a carpenter by trade, and
was employed by the Boston & Lowell Rail-
road Company.
John bennett, of York has been appointed
foreman laborer of the Bureau Of Construc-
fiOD in ha TZittaru Navy Vord