The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-03-26

ABOUT Two weeks since, says Cne Lewiston
Journal, well-known citizen of this city
meeting an acquaintance smoking pipe, ask
ed him what he would take to give up his pipe
and leave off smoking. "Ten dollars was
the answer. Whereupon the pipe was at once
exchanged for the "X' and since that time
the guardian smoker has not taken Whit, in.
tending, he says to keep his pledge to the end
of his life.
ARoosrooK COUNTY. ~
The Pioneer says the largest spruce tree
they have any record of, was cut by by Mr..
Lafayette Tuck, Of Glenwood. 1t is sixty feet
long, seventeen inches at the top and scaled
1914 feet, board measure.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Pennington Chronicle says Charles H.
Rundlett, Of Mt. Vernon, who was tried in
that county on two indictments for an assault
with intent to kill the Welch brothers in New
Sharon, in 1853, and sentenced to hard labor
in State Prison, ON each Indictment, for q
term of eighteen years, died recently, having
served eleven years of his time.
The Chronicle hears reports from one of the
towns in Franklin county, of some difficulty
with their liquor agent, whose statement Of
profits hardly came up to popular expectation.
At last accounts the selectmen were claiming
some $500 additional to the sum returned by
the agent, while he was endeavoring scientifi-
cally to show the loss to be due to evaporation.
The Chronicle says boy was tried in Phil
lips, on Saturday, for profane swearing. The
profanity and the prosecution grew out of the
untinely and violent demise of cat. The in
sonsolable owner of the animal charged the
boy with the murder, and seood him to make
him confess. WheEeat, the boy not being q
Quaker, nor knowing how to affirm ,ssoore, and
broke the Statute in such cases made and pro-
vided. TIE boy was arraigned before Justice
Farrar, who sentenced him to boy fne Of
mine ce7sas. Ga aAR e
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
At the present term of the Supreme Court
in Augusta, Mrs. Serena Shaw OF Waterville
recovered $l641 90 against DR.. Chas 81. How,
ell of Kendall's Mills, for malpractice in re-
ducing dislocated leg. The trial occupied
five days.
Charles Love, the sleigh robe thief, who es-
capped from Anson short time since, was ar
rested in Waterville, Monday night, and COM
mitted for trial. He says he had New York
er for confederate, who is still at large.
The Gardiner Home Journal says little
financial irregularity occurred it that city
on Monday. A young man named G. W. p
Aver, son Of j. B. Aver, of New York, for
merly an overseer in the Gardner Paper
Mills, cashed a check on his father for $500,
at the Cobbossse National Bank. He had
previously bought a watch of John Osgeod
for $500, paying for it with check on his
father. He had also bargained for one for
like amount with DR.. Borrows, but the doctor
would not deliver it until he could telegraph
regarding tuc Gu6Ck. nc OUUdlueQ 2IUV OF
Messrs. C. A. & ]. d. White on another
check. Several other transactions of his gave
rise to doubts in regard to the value of his
checks, and Messrs. White and Osgood fast
Sd anR n tssii pd got tLsiE pE1RsTty back The
swefed back that he would not acknowledge
the cheeks. Upon looking for the young gem
tleman he could not be found, and no trace
of him has as yet been discovered, though it
is rumored he took the steamer at Bath for
Boston. aI
The match factory of Mr., Winslew Mars
ton was destroyed by fire in Wsteryille. on
Tuesday, together with two drying houses and
a stock of lumber. No insurance. .E1E
KNOX COUNTY.
The Rockland Free Press says, ON Thursday,
the 18th inst, the dwelling house of the Rev.
rs9 d Nv re al
eontents-furniture, clothing and. provisions.
Mr.. Clark was away on business and his wife
visiting in the vicinity. The origin of the FIRE
was accidental. No insurance.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The Calais Advertiser says that Hon. F. A.
Pike and his wife, whose health is very poor,
intend to take a trip to Europe where thew
will spend the summer, in the hope of restoring
it, They will leave about the first of May.
The Calais Advertiser understands that five
gentlemen of the firm name of Shaw Brothers,
FROM Boston, have purchased tract of land
in the town of Vanceboro, about forty miles
from Calais, with a good water privilege upon
it, Of F. 81. Todd, Esq, for the purpose of
starting large tannery; and also that they
have purchased the tannery at Forest City Of
Messrs. d. g. 81. N. Hill, for which they paid
some thirty thousand dollars They are erect
ing saw mill on the river at Vanceboro, for
the purpose of saving lumber, with which to
erect the works for their tannery.
The residence Of Mr.. VIM. Anderson, known
as the Stewart place. in Railevville eauoht
fire on the 18th inst, and was entirely des-
troyed together with nearly all the furniture.
bedding and wearing apparel of the family.
The fire caught from some defect in the
chimney. Mr.. Anderson was absent at the
half q mile of the house, it was all in flames
before any one got to it. The women did
what they could to extinguish it, but to no
purpose. The loss ID estimated at about IF
teen hundred dollars. =