The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-11-04
State News.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.

ANDROsCOGGIN COUNTY.
The Universalsts Of Livermore have built a
church at Brettuns Mills They finished it
with the exception of carpets, &c, last week.
The cost thus far has been about $4,000. They
have also got $500 subscribed tow ards getting
bell, and feel confident that they will sue
coed in getting one.
A correspondent of the Journal says q
Frenchman who has been at work choDpipg
wood tor Mr.. William Harlow, the hotel keep
er at Turner Village, has aecamDed for parts
unknown, taking with him Mr.. Hariow's
watch aud chain, about thirteen dollars in
money from his wallet, also gold watch and
cham belonging to Mrs. Harlow, and some
money from the pocket of a hoarder. Thaddeus
Leavitt. He was quite cool, certainly, as he
went into the rooms where th-y were sleeping,
took the wallets from their pockets, theu care
fully replaced the empty wallets.
The Lewiston Journal says that the Worum-
DO Manufacturing Company at Lisbon Falls
are employing about $50 men. The mill is be-
lug run at full capacity and is turning out
fine beaver goods. The Androscoggin Water
Power Company, Edward Plummer, esq,
agent, employ about twenty mel in the saw
and grist mill and real estate and water DOW.
er improvements. A nu nber of old buildings
on this Company's territory have recently
been removed 10 make room for a canal which
is to be cut from near the toll bridge. Mr..
Moses, President of the Company, has decided
to remove the A. r. r. Statios about 40 rods
east in order to convene business generally.
4.. ARoosTooK COUNTY. 5-sr
There were collected at the custom house in
Honlton, last week, import duties amounting
to $2,1O5. Ill =
The Sunrise says that Mr.. Euoch Currier
and MIR. E. e. Parkhurst of Maysvile, each
lost last week by disease valuable horse. The
horses were worth at least 5000 apiece
we were visited by the most severe snow-storm
that has occurred here SD early in the season
within the memory of the oldest inhabitant 1t
stormed slightly during the day Friday, but
as night clo-ed, the storm commenced in
earnest, and fell without intermission all day
Saturday, clearing off during the night Two
feet or more of snow fell which gave mother
earth the appearance of mid winter. Sunday
morning there were eighteen inches upon the
ground.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The famous Lawrence Cooke breach of prom.
Use case comes on for trial at Augusta next
Tuesday.
The Kennebec Journal says that a piece Of
bullet, about the of an acorn, was re-
Gently extrac ed from the side of VIM Holmes
of Augusta, where it had lain since the first
battle OF Fredericksburg, Dec. IA, 1862 1,
hrst entered near the rig bit shoulder and grad
ualy worked its way down until it Law under
The collections at the Internal Revenue
office fer the Kenncbec strict tor the quarter
ending the LIST day OF October, Amounted to
$28,41l II, against $23, $50 90 last year. The
annual list tor licenses, incomes, SC, amount.
ing in the aggregate to about 49,, 900. has all
been collected with the exception of $74 and
this sum is againtt parties who ed or who
lett the State before the list was placed in the
hands of the Collector
The Journal says that the September paw.
ments OF Gen. Boynton, Pension Agent il
Augusta, amounted in the aggregate to $134,
OOO. large part of this amount 800 600, was
paid to the widows and orphans of deceased
soldiers. Gen. Boynton has on his list, nine
teen Revolutionary pensioners, the widows
of soldiers VINO served in the Revolutionary
war. Some of them are nearly one hundred
years of age, and one is a colored lady OF
sound mind aud robust constitution.
A correspondent of the Boston Aduertise,
says that there is in the possession of iami-
ly living in Hallowel, in this country, the
most rare and interesting collection OF ancient
relics and curiosities to be found in the State
The collection was made by gentleman Of
great culture and refinement during a pro-
Lracted soiourn in Europe and occasional tours
IN portions OF Africa aud ASA. The genuine
ness of these curosities is well attested. Or
the collection is fragment of rock that was
portion OF the Temple OF Diana at Ephesus
before the Christian era. The relic is elou Ne nj
by its association with long past ages. There
IS also IN The collection piece of rock broken
from the ruins of st Johns church at Ephe-
sus, made the more interesting from the TACT
that there are upon it portions of three Greek
letters which were of the superscripton on
the structure, and upon which the eyes of St.
John lhimself must have man. times rested
during his labOrs at Ephesus. In the cOllec-
uon are several brouze statues, of liliputian
proportions, taken from the ruins of Pompeii.
They represent Roman diviuities and Egypt
raj rkS SC
a small piece of bread, taken from POmpeii-
bakery. 1t is we'll known that the terrible
eruption drove the Inhabitants preciptately
from the city, and that the invaders of the ru-
ms IN the eighteenth century found macy
things just as the Pompei:ans left them
In the oven of a bakery, there remaining for
eighteen centuries, was found a quantity OF
bread. In the collection of which am SD. ak
ing is minute portion OF loaf of this bI cad
pathetic and Interesting souvenir of an an
Gent culinary establishment, Lastly. among
TINS group OF curiosities are large number OF
ancient COINS, many IF them of extremely rude
workmanship, yet bearing we'll defined i'm
ages of forgotten and now nameless tyrantS
Some of them are hammered out by medalists
who knew not the art of making them round
There are many other deeply interes ing and
valuable relics and curiosities of past ages,
which the possessor, a gentleman of refined
tastes, will transmit to his posteritv. They
are certainly worthy of meniou, as a collie
ton of equal value can nowhere be found in
the State.
Mr. and Mrs Adam Willis of Fayette cele-
brated their golden wedding on the 2Sth of
Oct. which was attended by five children and
16 out OF 20 grand children of Mr.. Willis &c
members of the family were present and 60
brother who attended their first wedding was
present and the occasion was one of much en-
joyment to all concerned.
YORK COUNTY,
The Probate Court held its November term
at North Berwick. There was not much
business beyond the ordinary routine the only
controver.ed question being relative to a will
two of the witnesses to which were children OF
one of the principal devSeeS. The contestant
said that inasDuch as these children would
have taken the devise by virtue of Rev. ST.
oh. "a, Sect 10, had their father died before
the testatrix, they were "beneficIally interest
ed' and therefore incompetent to be witnesses.
The proponents idea was that when the legiS-
lature in 1859 amended Rev. St. CHI. IA. Sect.
l, by substituting the words "pot beneficially
interested under the provisions of the wilp' in
place of the words "disnlere, ted" they intend
ed that relationship to a legatee or deviSee
should not invalidate an attestatiou but that
only direct pecuniary. personal interest in
sustaining the will should have this effect
judge Bourne reserved his decision, contin-
uing the case that he might have time for de-
liberation and 10 examine the authorities cited
1t is sta ed that there have been several cas-
es of total paralysis in the towns of Krttery
and York very lately.
Last Monday evening as Leonard Cook of
York, Me-, was riding home from Portsmouth
it being very dark, his tenn collided with an
other coming from an opposite direction,
throwi0g Mr.. Cook out aud dislocating his
shoulder and infcting other injuries.
"Will you have hack, sir?' "No, sir, I had