The Portland daily press., 1869-11-02
state News.
ANDRORCoGGIN COUNTY


About five inches of snow fell in Lewiston
Friday night Saturday morning there was
much fun enjoyed in snowballing.
The Lewiston Journal says wood is not plen-
ty. Coal retails at from $12 to $13 ton.
The Journal says the Auburn Light Infantry
now numbers eighty members, and has COM
menced to drill, holding meetings Tor that pur
have adopted for uniform dress coat and
pants of dark blue with buff trimmings The
cap which they think of adopting is of black
felt, OF the French patteru, With patent leather
top and trimmings, surmOunted with red
and white fountain plume.
The Lewiston Steam Mill Company are en-
ploying quite a force of men GU Swift river,
in repairing freshet damages, building new
dams and preparing for large winters log
cling and good drive in the spring, says the
Journal. -.
Lewis Phillips, farmer of about fifty years,
residing in Auburn, was found dead in his bed
on Thursday morning. Heart disease was the
cause.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
Petitions are in circulation among the citi-
Zens OIL Watervile and Winslow, PRAYING the
Legislature to unite the two towns
The new Methodist church at Watervile
will probably be ready for dedication in about
two weeks. The Mail says that it is impossible
to get bell into the bellry.
We learn from the Bangor Whig that Mr..
Luther Whitman of Winthrop, has Just re-
ceved an order for 1000 grind stone frames for
firm in London, England. He is doing an
extensive business in building Whitman's
Water Wheels. The Dunn Edge Tool Com
pany have five and Holman johnson, the not
ed shovel-handle manufacturer, has twelve of
them in constant use. He is also filing an or
der for several thousand railroad and garden
wbe ebarrows.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY
In the month of October, SCI 900 in gold
was collected at the Custom House in Bangor
Tor duties; larger amount, says the Wing
than was ever before received in one month.
On Saturday morning at five o'clock, small
single sawlmill at East Orrington, owned and
run by Daniel Sargent I'd Of Brewer Village,
was entirely destroyed by fire. 1t is supposed
that it was occasOned by carelessness of work
man. Loss $4,000. No insurance, says the
Bangor Wing. tiI
The Bangor Wing says the snow storm
which commenced Friday continued through
Saturday, and large amount of snow fell to
the north and west of us, and some eight or
ten inches here, but in this vicinity it melted
SO fast that but little was left upon the ground,
particularly in the streets. At Lincoln, we are
informed, eighteen inches fell, and at Moose
head Lake and points between here and that
place, about a loot. Stages from Dexter run
on runners. Sunday the Superintendent of
the Eu & N. A. Railroad sent up snow pillow
TO clear the road, finding it much Obstructed
SO much snow, so early in the season, has not
been known here in many years.
WALDO COUNTY.
The Belfast Journal says a correspondent at
Camden informs them that Charles Clough,
aged 20, son of Isaac Clough, was drowned on
the 2lst ult by the upsettng of boat at Clam
Cove. 1t is supposed that another person was
with him, but no bodies have yet been recover
ed.
YORK COUNTY
Bradbury Seavey, Esq. who kept the Ocean
House at Old Orchard Beach so satisfactorily
to his visitors last SUMNER, is engaged in get
ting out the frame for large hotel, with all
the modern improvements to be erected upon
the site of the old house, which will be an L,
to the new one There will be capacity to ac-
commodate comfortably about four hundred
guests next season and there can be no doubt
that the house will be filled. Old Orchard
Beach is declared by those who have summer
ed all along shore to be the most attractive of
the seaside resorts and a dozen first class ho-
tells could be filled if their landlords all exhibit
Mr.. Seavey's natural adaptability for keeping
hotel. 1t is pleasanter to stay at place
where there are several hotels to select from
than to be where one has the monopoly, how
ever well that one may be kept