The Portland daily press., 1869-02-26
state News.
ANDRoscoearN COUNTY.

"Barlow" writes to us from Lewiston that
Mr.. j. N. Parker was renominated for Mayor
slight opposition. 1t is said that the Democ-
raey will not run a candidate. We hear moth
ing of the p. L. LIS this spring. The select
men OF Auburn are busy dividing the town in
to wards and getting ready for the new city
machinery. One or two of the five wards will
probably be Democratic.
Apples are coming into the Lewiston mar
ket in abundance. Good Baldwins are sold
by the quantity at 81 80 per busbel.
1t appears from the Lewiston Journal that
the AndrOscoggin railroad has got into such q
condition that trains leaving Lewiston reach
Pennington in "a hours.
B. f. league of Turner has been appointed
trial Justice.
The Lewiston city council has adopted the
plan of publishing list showing the number
of times that each of its members was absent
from its meetings. The presumption is that
habitual absentees will not be reelected.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
A party of gentlemen and ladies from Ban
gor and Orono, joined by an equal number
from Houlton, crossed the line to Woodstock
on Tuesday of last week. Since the building
of the branch railroad, Woodstock has exhibit
ed more life. A portion of the party had new
er visited the town before, and expressed
themselves well pleased with its general ap-
pearance.
hENNEbEO COUNT1s
1t is reported that e. w. Hall, Professor of
Modern Languages in Colby University, Wa
terville, can ride the velocipede better than
any other man in the Kennebec valley. It
would be happy idea for the students to pre-
sent him with velocipede "of the newest
kind, like that of the late Herr Schnitzerl.
with which Hans Breitmann has made us ac-
quainted; but as he is very popular profess
or they would not of course do so with view
to involve him in the fate that befel the bold
Dutch rider.
James Atkins, Jr., who has had considera-
BILE experience as a member of the Common
Council and board of Aldermen, in Hallowell
has been unanimously nominated for Mayor
of that city.
Hallowell votes next Monday upon the &C.
ceptance of the act allowing it to purchase the
bridge across the Kennebec at that place.
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
The Bath Times says that James M. Hager
has begun work on white oak ship of be-
tween seventeen and eighteen hundred tons.
Messrs Thurlow, ElwelI & Co., with others !.
are at work on their brigs which will be
about six hundred tons burthen.
KNOX COUNTY.
The Free Press congratulates the CITY of
ROckland upon the fact that the attendance
at the schools of that city is second to but one
or two of the large places in the STATE.
OXFORD COUNTY.
We understand that Mr.. Twitchell, the ac-
complished gentleman who has for some years
been employed in the counting room Of the
Daily Advertiser formerly the Starr is shout
| to start a new paper in Bethel, which isto be
| called the "Mountaineer" There is htalthy
| political atmosphere in the region of Bethel
| and we have no doubt that Mr.. Twitcbslls pa
per will breathe it and prosper greatly.
| The Postmaster General has appointed Jes-
sic Howe postmaster at Norway in place of
Henry w. Millet removed.
YORK COUNTY.
G. E. Woodbury., Esq, of Cdnish, has lost
his valuable horse "Cornisd Boy" Dropsy of
| the chest was the disease thas killed this noble
4 animal, which was inbnded for the turf by his
lowner. and seemed akely to prove the fastest
trotter ever ssfsed in York county, if not in
Maine.