The Portland daily press., 1869-05-04
state News.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY.
Charles E. Coombs, horse thief, has been
sentenced, on two indictments, to five years in
the State prison by Judge Walton, at the ses-
sion OF the Supreme Judicial court at Auburn.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
The Times says: 1.-THE snow has disappeared
rapidly this week and is nearly all gone;
there being but little frost in the ground we
may soon have good going. just now out of
town the roads are in the worst possible con-
dition. When the mud blockade is raised we
may expect to see peop'e come in and make
trade more lively"
A Caribou correspondent of the Aroostook
Times, under date of the oath ult., furnishes
the following items: The ice Wentout of the
Aroostook river last week, and came very near
taking the piers with it. 1t took off the ice
cutter. Two of the piers are started, and it
will cost about $400 to repair the damage. 1
understand that the bridge at Maysville re-
ceved some damage by the ice, and the bridge
at Fort Fairfield was considerably damaged
The.ice japmed and caused The water to rise
ten feet at Otter Brook.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The proprietors of the Franklin House, Ban
gor, have, as we learn from the Whig, been
adjudged guilty on liquor complaint and fin
ed $50 and costs. They appealed.
The Bangor Whig gives the following as the
price paid for produce from country teams in
that city: Hay comes in plenty, and the best
quality is selling loose at $15 to $16 per ton;
interior qualities sell at from $40 to IA; loose
straw is worth from $40 to II, selling high, as
there is but little brought to market. As the
roads are getting to be quite good, potatoes be-
gin TO occupy the largest space in the market,
selling to-day at from 45 to 30 cent IS, but the
large supply in the Boston market must soon
place them here at 40 cents; yellow-eyed
we should quote good butter from 40 to AZ a
CENTS and an extra article at from AZ to 45 cts;
eggs 20 cents, and coming in plenty, and the
price next week may be still lower; dried ap-
pies IA to 16 cents.
sAGADAHOC COUNTY.
The Bath Times says ice shipments have be-
gun in Richmond, but it will take long time
to ship off so much ice as is stored in that
town and the adjoining town of Perkins
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The Machias Republican mentions the ar
rest, in that town, of man by the name of
William III. Tabor, of Albion, in the eounty of
Kennebec, who hired horse and sleigh in the
town of Clinton, to go to Unity. Tabor, in
stead of returning the team, started on a trip
down-east. He went to Somerville, where he
traded horses, getting 500 to boot With this
horse he went to Belfast, where he put up the
team. He then went to Rockland, from
whence he found his way on to Long Island.
Here he hired a man to set him on board the
steamer Lewiston, landing at Machiaspo1t-
Means, to whom he confessed the wreng which
he had committed Teegraphic communica-
tion was established between Machias and
Clinton, which resulted in the commitment of
Tabor TO jail which he willingly consented to-
Saturday night warrant was taken out for
him, and Monday an officer arrived from Ken
nebec and returned Tuesday in the Lewis on
with the prisoner in his custody. Whiskey
was at the bottom of the whole affair.
We learn from the Machias Republican that
Mrs. Mary Pickett died at Columbia, April
oath, 1869. Her maiden name was Mary
Brown. She was born in Machias in 1853, con-
sequently at her death she was about log years
of age. She first married a Mr.. Lowery of
Machias, with whom she lived sixteen years.
Her second husband was Mr.. John Grace, of
The third was Mr.. Thompson, with whom
she lived seven years. The fourth husband
was Mr.. Zebulon Pickett, a revolutionary sol
dier, through whom she obtained pension
She lived with Mr.. Pickett twenty-fi 7e years.
AT the tt ne of her death Mrs. Pickett had been
a widow fifteen years. Very few women live
to that age, and enjoy as good health as she did
to the time of her death.
The st, Croix Courier says about fortnight
since John Aharn of Barring, left home by the
Lewy's Island r. r., for Princeton where he
intended TO engage in river driving. He had
/ difficulty with some Indians who were on the
train and con ,luded to return home again. As
he set out at once and has not been heard of
since by his friends, it is feared that he has met
with foul play at the hands of the Indians who
threatened to kill him.
The st. Croix Courier says, advices from OF
ava are to the effect that grant will undoubt-
edly be obtained this year for improving the
navigation of the st. Croix river. 1t will be
that the United States Congress
sometime since voted $4,000 for this object
on condition that like appropriation be made
by the Dominion. Sixty Thousand dollars of
IN expenditure in this behalf will improve the
river very materially.