The Portland daily press., 1870-10-22
state News.
ANpRoscoGGIN COUNTY

ously i'll at Llvermore The disease is soften
| ing of the brain. He is still living.
The Journal says farmer in Turner is max
ing one hundred and fifty barrels of cider and
storing it for vinegar.
The Mechanic Falls Herald thinks that Will
liam Moore, who has hitherto sustained an up
right position in that village as to character
and industry, has deserted his wife and family
and left for parts unknown. He left Mechanic
Falls on Monday, the Sd inst, to be gone day.
On the next Saturday his wife received a
dispatch from him dated at Salem, Mass, read
ing, Cali WELL" Since that time nothing has
been heard from him, and no traces of him can
be discovered further than that Mrs. Moore
finds that he left his sisters at Salem day or
two before she received the dispatch. He had
recently sold his blacksmith and carriage from
ing business at the Falls
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
We learn from the Brdgton Reporter that
last Monday Mr. Nathaniel Bennett of that
place, while at work building a tower for one
OF the Forest Mills, fell to the ground, dis
lance of twenty-five feet, burying his head in a
mass of debris which had gathered under the
staging. His left thigh was badly broken in
two places, and fragment of the bone of the
upper extremity was projecting through the
flesh just above the knee, making some very
ugly wounds. The head was also very badly
bruised, the scalp over the right eye being cut
severely A violent confusion over the left ear
was also produced by he fall. AS the thigh
was broken so near the hip, and badly splln-
tered, it was not deemed practicable to ampu-
tate. During the afternoon of Monday Mr.
Bennett was regarded as in most critical con-
diton, and but little hopes of his recovery were
entertained. Under the skillful treatment he
has received, however, he has materially i'm
proved, and his condition is much more COM
Portable than could reasonably be expected.
Mr.. Isaac Kimball of Bridgton, while chop
wood Mnndau mis- l, foot for
chopplng block, and buried the axe into the
right foot. severing three arteries.
The Reporter says Mr.. Samuel Davis, who
was so seriously injured few weeks since
while blasting in well, is doing finely, and
Will without doubt be up from his bed and
about the house in a week OF two.
The proprietors of the bridge between Bruins
wick and Topsham, recently made an offer to
sell TO the two towns, and the seectmen of the
Two towns made an offer to purchase AS con-
siderable difference of opinion prevailed. all
parties held meeting and selected the follow
Holt OF Portland. John A. Briggs of Freeport.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The Bangor Wing learns by private dispatcb
that on Wednesday night last, as Mr. A. p
Harden, a merchant in Ellsworth, was going
home from his store, pistol or gun was fred
at him, the ball striking the back of his head,
decorating the scalp and going out thronob one
though it was very painful. The object of the
attack was probably robbery, and two arrests
of suspected persons have been made.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
Our Waterville correspondent whites that an
earthquake was felt in that place on II. 26 A.
M. Thursday. It's duration was about minute
and half, in which three separate shocks were
experienced. Door bells were rung, clocks
stopped, and there was a general stopping over
OF ink from the ink-wels in the school room
desks. Compared with the earthquake year
age, it was of longer duration, but less violent
- The new scythe factory of Messrs. Emerson
Stevens q Co... at West Waterville, is in a
state of forwardness and will be completed by
the first of December. 1t will furnish employ
ment to about thirty workmen, which will in
crease the population in that thriving village
about one hundred.
against Edward 81. Hoswel for the murder of
John Latin, in Hallowell, last month. No
time has yet been assigned for the trial.
KNOX COUNTY.
The Free Press says that Col. Timothy Will
liams of Rockland has two COWS, which he
thinks are not often excelled. From Nav 18th
to October 18th, they gave milk from which
was made 1903 pounds of butter for SALE besides
furnishing milk and butter for o family vary
ing from eight to ten persons.
OXFORD COUNTY.
There is a sled mill at West Sumner, which
turns about 100 sleds daily. Our boys who de-
light in eoasting will soon make morket for
them.
Bears are getting to be plenty in Mexico and
Roxbury, and the farmers are after them.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
Rev. Levi L.. Paine has accepted his election
to the chair of Ecclesiastical History in the
Theological Seminary at Bangor, and will en-
ter upon his duties very soon.
Active Clans ara baipp FOL an toward the for
nation of lodge of Odd Fellows in Dexter,
the requisite number of names having been
obtained.
WALDO COUNTY.
The Belfast Aqe says the item going the
rounds of the papers that DR.. Emerson of
That city had been robbed, is hoax there be- |
Ing no such man in Belfast. |
A wife of six months duration recently elop- |
ed from Halls Corner in Belmont. The NOV |
ing cause was an old love who came back from |
california with gold and very persuasive ways |
The couple left by the boat last week for Cali
fornla and the deserted husband seemed to be |
resigned, as he took no measures to stop the |
A divorce case was before the court at Bel
fast Thursday, in which the Iibellant. Mary 70.
Hamilton, OF Liberty, testified that she had
years old. Divorce will no doubt be decreed.
says the correspondent of the Bangor Whiq
John Clifford of Freedom went to his barn
early Monday morning with kerosene oil
lantern, and was returning with bundle of
hay under his arms, when he fell, broke his
lantern, and set the dry stuff in the yard ON
lire. The flames communicated to the house,
barn and shed, which were consumed, together
with hay, farming TOOLS &c.
A case af habeas corpus came before Judge
Cutting at Belfast Tuesday. E. b. Pillsbury,
operator on the Western Union line,