The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-12-22
state News.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY,

The Lewiston Journal says the officers O.
that city have broken up another nest of cot
ton cloth thieves; and the substance of the &C.
| count is as follows: A young man applied to
a lawyer for a libel for divorce, alleging that
his wife, instigated by her.mother had followed
the practice of stealing cotton cloth from one
OF the mills, which had been sent to the old
lady. Acting upon his revelations the officers
| went to West Waterville, to the house of Free
man Nelson and found the mother and her
three daughters. The women resisted any at
tempts to search the house, using their
tongues, the fre-shovel and a tea-kette of
boiling water, all of which were discharged
upon the officers, but without doing them
much damage. The search was prosecuted
and about $500 worth of cloth and yarn was
discovered and confscated Two of the daugh-
tiers were arrested and taken to Lewiston. One
was bound over, but the case of the other was
continued for week.
Charles Pratt who was suspected of being
another of the gang of thieves that has been
operating in that city, was arrested at Car
thage last week, and in his possession was
found about 400 yards of cotton cloth, which
had been stolen from the Lewiston Bleachery
A great deal of the cloth stolen by Eastman and
Jameson, an account of whose operations we
printed last week, and sold by them, was also
picked up at different houses ON the road from
Lewiston to Carthage.
An alteration occurred at Lewiston Mon
day afternoon between two boys named John
CreedOn and Robert Dunn, in which theSlat-
ter was stabbed in the neck by the former mar
roWly missing the jugular vein. Creedon was
the aggressOr.
AT the Catholic church in Lewiston on Sun.
day, during mass, considerable excitement
was occasioned by Father Lucey entering the
church and attempting to eject member of
the congregation. Very high words followed.
but the gentleman remained in his seat during
the service, and quiet was restored Father
Lucy charges that the assaulted gentleman
had lndustriously endeavored to get Father
Lucey exchanged for another priest.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The new Post Office at Bangor was occupied
TOR the first time on Monday, and the citizens
are much pleased with their fine new postal
accommodations.
AT the Battle of the Wilderness, May, 1864,
John b. Smith, private, Co. A., 4th Maine In,
fantry, was struck by mimic ball directly
over the bridge of the nose. 1t went tearing
through the bones of the face, smashed the
bony case of the left ear at the base of the
brain, and lodged somewhere in the back of
the skull. He was picked up as dead Con-
seriousness returned and he recovered suffi-
GENTLY to be about, though weak and thin, and
constantly discharging bloody matter from his
throat. A year afterwards the tissues back of
the ear began to thcken and SWELL which in
dIcated the ha6tation OF the unwelcome guest
Monday DIR. e. f. Sanger of Bangor, assisted
py Or. Sewall, cut down through the critical
iesion oenind the left ear and extracted bull
let Embedded in the bones of the skull. two
inches from the outer surface The bullet
tnough retaining its cOnical shape was STRANGE
~ battened and hacked in its passage through
the bone. When the ball was remoyed-un-
der the influence of ether-the patient had re-
turned to consciousness, his ioy was SO treat
at the relief obtained that he burst into fears.
10 have such an unwelcome and uncomfortable
visitor removed must indeed be a cause OF
heartfelt Thanksgiving. -Whig
YORK COUNTY.
DR.. Abel Hall, who recently died in AL red.
Joined the Congregational Church in that
town in 1916 and was a deacon of the same for
over fifty years.
Simon Brown, editor of N. E. Farmer. is TO
deliver course of four lectures in various
places in York County during the month of
January, to be paid for by the York County
Agricultural Society
Ira q. Doe Of Saco, has been elected a mem
Der of the Board of Agriculture for York Conn
ty, to commence his term of three years Jan.
/, 1870.
On Saturday, the 10th inst, Oscar Drew
caught his hand on circular saw in behring's
Mill, co,loccassioning such a wound as to re-
qulre the amputation of one finger.
7, M William Berry, the station agent of the
icn o. Pa, q r Ii. Il. at Biddeford, slipped on an
bro s,ae s in that city, on Friday last, and
chorus club has been oreanized in Saco
The York County Jndo,e,,
into its office an Ericsson or Calls 1uSv po'
Mr.. Noyes has one of the best ioh officas in a.
State wv 0iA0o' III 'ne
A commentary upon the New Tes,oro.h
Prof. Butler of New Hampton. N H ;s 10y 10y
to be published under the auspices of the Eren
VIII Baptist denomination. The book 10 20
% printed by j. e. Butler, at the office Of the
Union and Journal, Biddeford.
The Chronicle saws that Mark Lewis of Now |