The Portland daily press., 1869-02-08
state News.
KENNEBEo COUNTY.

.f-rf AENNEbEO VOOHT1s
Some of the citizens of Gardiner and Pitts
ton are making an effort for free bridge
across the Kennebec between the two places.
Ths present bridge is toll bridge, and 1t 10
proposed either to purchase that or build o
new one Ell.la.,e tt He at.qIa
The lightning Thursday morning struck the
blacksmith shop in the Stevens Shipyard, in
Pittston, tearing out large hole in one end of
the roof. ta aA
KNOX COUNTY.
The Rockland Patriot says Sheriff Grose
was at the State Prison on Monday last, and
read to Harris his death warrant. He appear
ed to be unconcerned and Indifferent during
the reading, and made no reply whatever.
Capt e. E. Nash of the schooner Fleetwing
whilst "hauling ship" ON Tuesday last at Rock
land slipped and fell overheard between his
schooner and another alongside and narrowly
escaped drowning; but by almost superhuman
efforts he succeeded in reaching line hanging
over the side and thus rescued himself, says
the Patriot at 9ift
The Rockland Patriot says Thursday morn
ing after the fire, the members of Steamer No.
1 par5ook of refreshments at their engine
house, in the shape of hot coffee, crackers and
cheese; and soon afterward about twenty of
them were taken with severe cramps and vom-
iting, and it became SO serious that several of
them had to get the attention of physicians.
| Altogether it is singular case of poison.
The cheese and samples of coffee used will
be sent to Boston for analyzation by the COM
pany, when the public win be Informed Of the
result. All are now in a fair way to recover
The committee appointed from the Legisla-
ture to visit the State Prison at Thomaston,
were at that institution on Thursday last
LINCOLN COUNTY,
John A. Levensaler, Esq. of Waldoboro,
has been appointed a, Trial Justice within and
for the County of Lincoln.
WALDO COUNTY.
Maria Carr, indited for administering crot-
ton oil in flour, where she was living as do
nestle, in Belfast, has been sentenced to nine
months imprisonment in the county Jail.
A man named Mcpherson had his hand
blown off and his eyes severely injured by the.
explosion of a blast on the Belfast railroad,
last Tuesday.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
We learn from the Machas Republican that
son of Capt. Campbell Crowley of Indian
River, about ten years old, was accidentally
shot one day last week, by the discharge of a
and had killed some game while ON his way to
school, and hid the gun in the forks of q tree.
The young lad searched for it and found it laid
into the tree with the muzzle downwards. In
taking it down, it was discharged, and the
charge entered his forehead and came out at
the back of the head, killing him instantly.
Capt. Crowley, the father, is absent at sea-
The Machias Republican says daughter of
Capt. Boyd, at Lubec, was seriously, If not fa-
tally injured recently BY the accidental dis
charge of a gun in the hands of young man
who was playfully endeavoring to keep her
from opening a door. The powder and wad-
ding was discharged into her face, laceratlng
and disfguriDg it very much. 199i 5|g
YORK COUNTY. I48s
Thirteen laborers were discharged from the
Steam Engineering Department at the Kit
terry Navy Yard on Friday.