The Portland daily press., 1869-05-29

of stable and house together with the contents.
They were not insured Amount of loss un-
known.
PIscATAoUIs COUNTY.
The Observer says che store of John Fl. Eve
leth, IN Greenville, was destroyed by fire on
the list inst. Fire caught in the attic; most
OF the goods were saved. No insurance.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The Reporter says one of our lumbermen
found much better sledding than wheeling last
week in the vicinity of Moose river. He could
get along on runners bnt not on wheels.
The Somerset Reporter says we have it di-
rect from an influential director of the Port
land & Kennebec Railroad that in due time
they will make an offer to the Somerset stock
holders to continue their road along the river
to Solon, but if they reject their PROPOSALS thew
will build direct to that point. One thing is
certain, they will not allow themselves to be
cut out.
YORK COUNTY.
Joseph Frost of Eliot, writes TO the Ports
mouth Chronicle that hundreds of sheen and
lambs have died in Eliot and the north part of
York, the past season.
The new and elegant Masonic Hall in the
building OF Littleheld, Leavltt & Co., at AL
fred, will be dedicated June 9th, followed by q
supper and ball. Grafton by Bro. John Say
ward.
The Biddeford Union says James Way1and,
an employee in the Laconia Mills. had been
under surveillance by the police ever since the
burning of the barn of Mr.. Eastman in Saco,
on the Oath ult When he left his employment
he was followed to Dover, N. H., and there ar
rested. On Saturday, his preliminary trial
took place before the municipal court Of Saco,
when he was held in the sum of $780, to await
the action of the Grand Jury, in September.
The Biddeford Union says in the orchard
owned by Mr.. Jefferson Raitt of Elliot, stands
some very ancient pear trees His grandfath-
er, who was born in $780, picked up and ate a
pear under one of these trees, when he was
six years of age. One of these trees is two
feet in diameter. Blossoms are appearing on
these trees this year.
Business is getting to be quite brisk at Bar
Mills notwithstanding the little "onpleasant-
ness in Cuba. Mr.. Charles MeKenney is
now manufacturing about 600 pairs hogshead
heads per day. The logs OF the first drive of
the season are beginning to run.
Among the customs now thoroughly estab-
lished by long usage, says the. Biddeford Un-
ion, is that of visiting at least once during the
summer months, the society of Shakers, To-
Gated at Alfred. Hundreds of people annually
avail themselves of the fine weather, good
roads, and unfailing courtesies of this peculiar
people, to inspect their premises and observe
their mode of life and worship. No one can
fail to be interested in their religious ceremo-
nies.
Mr.. Alfred Brooks of South Eliot, broke one
OF his legs in two places, on Wednesday, while
using harrow. The oxen started when he
was adjusting the harrow, which caught him,
threw him down, and inflicted the injury.
The chuIch of the South Congregational So
ciety of Buxton is being thoroughly repaired
and painted inside and out, From the staging
on the steeple one gets fine view of Portland
and the ocean beyond. III. N. Jose ESQ.,, of
Portland, has generously offered to fresco the
interior.
Mr. John Meserve, of Bar Mills, has sold his
grocery stock to B. c. Jordan. Mr. Meserve
is to engage in some other business in that vii
lage, and will no doubt meet with good sue
cess