The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-11-09

VA -AAoi< ceASOp3 0uuuiu, ny u ldll uOWn STAIRS
few days since, broke three ribs and sustain.
ed such other injuries as to render her case
critical for day or two, but she is now in 9
fair way to recover.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The Waterville Mail speaks in complimentary
terms of VIM. Otis OF that town for his skill in
managing his orchard, and advises farmers 10
The vicinity to talk with and learn from him
how to take care of apple trees and then
go and profit by the instruction. Mr. Otis has
an orchard of some 500 or 600 trees which he
manures, washes, trims and mulches with as
much care and system as he uses in feeding
and taking care of his stock. Consequently il
pays. Mr. Smiley near Getchells Corner also
has a fine orchard that yields greater profit
than many farms worth four and five thousand
dollars:
Some sneak thiefsto!e hive of honey from
the house OF Deacon w. A. Stevens of Water
vile.
Father Eagan, Catholic Priest at Augusta
ior fourteen years, is soon to leave for Exeter,
n. II.
Rev. M. j. Kelley of Waterville has been an.
pointed Chaplain of the U. S. Military Asy
ium at Togus Springs.
The County Commissioners have located the
Ferry across the Kennebec at the Bay, and ap-
pointed Mr.. Erastus Warren of Winsow as
Ferry No boat Will oe put on this tall.
KNOX COUNTY
correspondent of the Lewiston journal
says, We were shown Specimen of double
headed snake in the cabinet of MIR. Ross of
hockiand. 1t was caught in that vicinity and
Kept alive by h M for some time Both heads
Were perfectly developed, and it took its food
in either mouth, it was most convenient
The heads were entirely distinct for two or
three joints of the backbone
LINCOLN COUNTY .......
Oliver Jordan of Lewiston was SERIOUSLY in
]ured recently by premature explosion of a
charge In the Wyman ledge on the Knox and
Lincoln railroad. An eight DOT hole had been
drll!ed In the ledge, and charged for a blast.
owing TO some defect in the fuse or t. nping
the charge ''blowed." Without waiting suffi,
cient time for the stone to cool, Jordan pro-
ceeded to recharge the ledge, and while tnrn
ing in the powder it ignited He was blown a
long distance from where he stood, but receiv-
ed no other injury than the loss of one eve
and the managing of one hand. Drs. Dixon
and Ford were promptly in attendance and
dressed the wounds; they report him as doing
well. He is being kindly cared for at the RES
idence of Mr.. S. d. Wyman.
OXFORD COUNTY.
Buckfeld, with population of 17O5. has 81
persons 20 years of age and over, or one in II
of its Inhabitants.
Rev. G. Parker has sold valuable lot and
orchard to Otis Holt, Esq, and a pasture and
wood lot to Mcssrs. Fuller and Moore.
We find in the Democrat that John Willis of
Paris, whose mills at Bryant's Pond suffered
SO severely from the recent food, has proposed
to erect building suitable for saving boards,
shingles, clapbOards and jig saving, for grind
ing corn and plaster and tor planning; and put
IN all the gear and machinery necessary to run
J., If citizens of Bryant's Pond will raise
1000 towards the purchase of a steam engine
OF 40-horse power. The required sum was
pledged by the citizens in short order.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The Wing says on the night of the second
instant, the dwelling house of Captain JASPER
A. Roberts, in Winterport, was wholly des-
troyed fire. 1t was the work of an iucendi-
airy, as the house was not occupied at the time.
Insured in Union Office, Bangor
The receipts of the Catholic Fair at Bangor
netted $4,000.
Freight is now taken over the Bangor and
Piscataquis railroad to Milo or Sebec. Car
loads billed through from Bangor without
change of cars.
The rack-layers on the Bangor and Piscata-
quis railroad are now at work in the town of
s bee. Ten days of good weather will give
continuous rail to Dover village. The road
VIII not probably be fully completed this fall,
but it will be put in condition for trains, which
will run regularly between Bangor and Dover
about the middle of December or first of Janu-
airy, as we learn from the Wing.
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
w. s. Hunt presents a bill of $25 to the CITY
of Bath for damages resulting from an alleged
defect in the highway
The Bath Times says the Central church and
parish have vote0 to extend call to Rev. B. S.
Everett of Montclare, N. j. The society have
been without settled pastor since March 1.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The Skowhegan Reporter says that most
n n rad hat oil
Friday. Dele, the only child of Augustine
and Sarah Wymau, was SO badly burned that
she lived only eleven tours after the occnr-
renee. She was amusing herself by collect
ing snow and melting it on stove, where her
Clothes were drawn into the tire In a mo-
nent, and before ary one could reach her. she
Was enve'oped in flames AS soon as these
were extingushed she seemed 10 realize fnlIv
her condition, saying, Pm burned to death:
[ m burned to DEATH"
The Advocate says as one of the unpublished
incidents and casualties of the recent great
.reshets on the Carrabosset, we learn from the
Hon. j. NJ. Dennis, OF Me- Portland, that he
lost his mill with all its contents consisting of
portable grlst mil, engine lathe, machinists'
ools, bldcksmlths tools, carpenters tools
twenty-five dollars worth of betting, yerv
good riding sleigh, &C., from his dwell no |
house cellar, IS bushels OF potatses, toyetb-1
With barrels, firkins, pots, jars, Sc. the accu-
mutation of many years of housekeepi no
Jrockery was mostly broken. Loss estimated
It $4,000.
WASHINGTON COUNT
The Eastport Sentinel says the Frontier
steamboat Company contemplate running |
he steamer Queen between Calais and East
,ort the coming winter.
WALDO COUNTY.
Rev. VIM. f. Beard has given up his charca
f the Congregational churches in Liberfv
nd Freedom.
A Belfast correspondent of the Whig saws
usiLess is not very brisk owing to bad tray-
ling Potatoes As cents. Hay $16 to Si8
ressed. 1t is said parties are in the country
uying up hay at the barns at the latter quo
ltiOn.
The Belfast Journal states that Hon. Adam
'reat is dangerously sick from an attack of
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