The Portland daily press., 1869-11-16
state News.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY

line editor of the Lewiston Journal saws he
saw lew days since in Auburn silver SER
vice $50 years old. The old danes have snnn
more yarns over it than the world knows o.,
The Journal says the last grim fact at the
auction rooms is secondhand gravestone.
offered for sale by auction in Lewiston, "Not
lost but gone before is already inscribed
thereon.
Mr. William Rowe of Auburn, has q hole
Jersey cow from whose milk 204 pounds Of
butter have been made the past twelve months
besides supplying with milk and cream a fam
lily of eight persons, as we learn from the Lew
iston Journal.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The new mandatory of Bucksport for
making steel under the Sherman patented
process, is up and nearly covered The chin
ney is also nearly finished. 1t is built on the
river side few rods from the village.
Mr.. Samuel ODER of Brooklin, aged 96 wears.
dropped down dead in the road one dav last
week. He had just lett the house to go on foot
to daughters. some three miles distant when
he fell and expired instantly, says the ELS.
worth american.
KNOX COUNTY.
The Camden Herald says that on Tuesday.
Joseph Mlllay,a resident of that town, while al
work in lime rock quarry at Blackipgton's
Corner, met with a serious accident. He was
engaged in driving the printing wire in the
hole ne had loaded, when the powder ignited
| and the charge lodged in his right arm iniur.
| ing it so badly that he was obliged to have il
| amputated.
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
The Bangor Wing says the iron is now laid
on the Bangor and Piscataquis railroad within
five miles of Dover. Mr.. Jones' the contrac-
tor, hopes to have it laid to Dover by SATURDAY
next, It the weather is favorable Freight was
carried on Friday to within seven miles of the
Foxcroft depot. the directors of the road
have ordered an immediate survey of the
route between Dover and Abbot, with a view
to locating an extension of the road to the lat
ter place.
PENoBsCOT COUNTY.
The Bangor Wing says on Friday last John
P. Mayhem, while saving shingles at Merrill's
NILS, got his right hand caught in the saw and
maDgled so badly that DR.. Sanger was COM
PEELED to amputate all the fingers. A break
in the same machinery some two years previ-
Gus, nearly destroyed the use of his lett erm
Charles Sawtelle Esq, who fel. from the
about thirty feet, few DAVIS since, is not per-
manently injured. He will be out in few
days. HIS escape from instant death was
miraculous,says the Bangor Wing.
The Bangor Wing says early on Saturday
morning, the main block of the Veazle saw
mill In Oldtown, was discovered to be on FIRE
| but by means of the force pump in the mill. il
was extnguished without doing much damage
The Wing gives the following as prices paid
| for produce from teams 10 that city: Loose bay
comes IN IN sufficient supply to keep the price
at about from $15 90 to $500 per ton for the
| best qualities, and the inferior grades sell al
| from 700 to 400; loose straw sells at from
| 600 to 1000; oats are bringing from 6j to "a
| cents; barley sells at 100 per bushel of as
| pounds: yellow eyed beans are worth from Q &C
| TO 2.75 and pea beans, clean and nice. sell al
from 800 to 3. 25; potatoes have come IN quite
liant f.,r fl,nt l. Al
range OF from 80 to 60 cents per bushel accord.
ing to the condition of the loads; solid and
/ common lump or store butter, we should quote
| at from 40 to AZ cents, while a very choice
| quality is scarce, and would readily bring from
10 to AZ cents; eggs 30 cents; turkes are sell.
| ing at from II to " cents; geese at LOO each
| chickens from IA to IL cents; round hogs IL
| cents; green apples are worth from 8. 90 to SOC
| per barrel.
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
The Bath Times learns that an affray tool,
place on board the ship Henry S. Sanford
which sailed Saturday, shortly after she left.
between the second mate and one of the crew,
IN which the former had his head cut badly.
The Times says the house of Joseph Preble
Esq, of Arrowsic, was entered by burglars on
"Wednesday night of last week, and a Dot O,
Dntter weighing some forty pounds was stolen.
Entrance was gained through the cellar door
WALDO COUNTY.
The Belfast Journal says that at shooting
match in Searsmont, last week, one of the
hunters brought in white-headed eagle that
measures seven feet over the outstretched
wings-but not being on the list didn't count
YORK COUNTY. ...
Tho Methodist society of Maryland Ridge. in
Wells, Maine, have in course of erection a new
ehuroh editioo-Tlo building to be FINISHED,
IN Gothic style throughout. The windows are
to be of stained glass, and the audience room
is to be frescoed. The pastor, Rev. j. w. Saw
yer, is architect, and the contractor George N.
DOckam, Esq.
The Independent says that on Wednesday
last, valuable horse belonging to Mr.. A.
Carpenter. of Biddeford, stepped off broken
plank on the Bddeford end of the Covered
Bridge, and broke his leg.
The house, barn and out buildings of VIM.
Brown, in Sanford, were totally DESTROYED by
fire on Thursday night last, together with one
pair of oxen, three cows, one hog, one horse
and all the farming tools, household furniture.
hay, grain, and all other produce. Total loss
about five thousand dollars Insurance for
one thousand. The loss falls very heavily on
MIR. Brown, a worthy citizen, and an industri-
Gus farmer and good townsmen. The fire
was the work of an incendiary.