The Portland daily press., 1869-12-10
state News.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.
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ANDRosc0GGIN COUNTY.
Lewiston talks of having fire alarm tele-
graph.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
The remains Of the late M. D. Chaplin, ESQ.,.
who lost his life in the recent fire at Lewiston.
were inter red Tuesday in the cemetery in his
native village of Bridgton with appropriate ser.
vices. The funeral services were conduted bv
Rev. Mr.. Howe of Harrison.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The Gospel Banner is to be ENLARGED and
dressed in new type on the first of January.
The Augusta Journal says some of the stone
workers at Hallowell receive for their services
$40 per month.
Hiram Choate, Esq, of Augusta, has been
appointed Justice Of the Peace and of the
Quorum for the county of Kennebec. bv the
Governor and Council.
The Augusta Journal says that fire broke
OUT saturday, IN the Smith brick block on
Water street, in the third story of the part
occupied by Bartlett & Hartwell. The ten
ants OF the room had carelessly thrown hot
ashes from the stove to the floor Holes were
burnt through the floors of the second and
thlrd I'M stories, but by the prompt action of the
without further damage.
Frank Denneth, young man twenty years
OF age, son of widowed mother, was drowned
while skating on Friday in Waldoboro'. :
John Macarthur. for twenty-five wears q
merchant of Augusta, has Just retired from
business with competency.
Miss Prudence Snow, well-known oeto-
genarian Of Augusta, died last week at the
est member of the First Baptist Church in
Augusta, having Joined it tmore than sixty
years ago.
OXFORD COUNTY.
=. Seventy.one teachers were present at the
Teachers Institute at Bethel last week.
:. In Bethel tree eleven years old attained a
diameter OF one foot Some of the rings were
half an inch through.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
we read in the Lewiston Journal that a
lourneyman shoemaker in Cerinna recently
made pair of boots for an urgent customer
IN one hour and twenty minutes the sides
having been already scanned up-doing all the
work by hand. They were made with tan and
sole, and finished in neat and dnrahie man. ~ro
ner.
Inc town OF Dexter has purchased Is acres
OF land upon Bryants Hill for a cemetery.
Inc Bangor Wing says that Mr.. Georpe
Cole of O!dtown lost his pocket book con.
tanning $l400 while jumping from the cars at
M s4e y. q N. "A. railway depot Saturday night.
MONDAY morning he came to Bangor, COM
menced careful search, and was fortunate
enough to find his pocket book buried in the
snow near the track
Twelve hundred and fifty sheep 10 one
day.
Private subscriptions to the amount of $4,000
nsse ~ Ueen oueTed TO encourage the erection of
factory at Newport; the town OF Newport
mas voted to donate $4,000, provided $4,000
snail be invested in the erection and fIrnish.
ing OF factory in that town; also to exemnt
@ the property from taxation for ten wears.
nnese oners are open and available until July,
The Bangor Whig says the snow storm and
blow of Monday night and Tuesday left the
country roads in every direction almost i'm
passsable. For many hours, indeed. travel
was almost entirely suspended, and the mails
were delayed on all the routes leading into the
city. The drivers report the roads in terrible
condition. One driver says he was obiired to
leave the road at one place and drive three
miles through the fields.
SOMERSET COUNTY,
Inc Anson ADVOCATE is informed that the
dwelling house, barn and out-buiIdinos he.
longing to Mr.. Roland Luce of Lexington
were were totally DESTROYED by fire Sunday after
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Lucius Gibson, formerly of Perry. now
Practlcing law at Omaha, was recently elected
udge OF Probate, Douglas county, Nebraska.
Ezra buchanan, a native of Washington
County, died at Port au Prince, Hayti, Octo-
Der %, aged 63 years.
Nelson Allen, Esq, and thirty others, will
apply to be set of from the town of Edmunds.
and be annexed to Dennysvlle, at the next |
session of the Legislature.
YORK COUNTY,
Mr.. George Warren of North Parsonfield. on
stepping to his door few evenings since. was
suddenly surprised by a large owl lighting up
IN him, lacerating his arm quite severely. But |
me grave stranger, anticipating trouble, re- |
reated a short distance, when Mr.. Warren, |
sho Is plucky, and not easily frightened, seiz-
"a MS gun and brought the midnight maraud- |
u to the ground. He was of the largest size.
MS wings when extended measuring four
eet in length.
The nomination of Owen B. Chadbourne 70
70 Collector of Saco, was among those sent to |
be Senate Tuesday.