The Portland daily press., 1870-09-01
state News.
ANpRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

ANDNoSCOGGIN COUNTY.
John f. Hunt, twelve years old, fell through
Mill, Lisbon, distance Of nearly thirty feet,
on the 18th inst and was considerably shocked
by the incident, the Journal says.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
On Monday cattle train of 43 cars passed
over the Portland & Kennebec railroad and
two mixed trains nearly as long,
Lewis Bailey of Pittston, carpenter en-
ployed on the Gardiner & Pittston bridge, ac-
cidentally fell from the bridge Tuesday morn
ing and was drowned. His body was recoyor-
ed IN about half an hour after the accident
OXFORD COUNTY.
= The Oxford Register says that Messrs. Burn
ham and Morrill's Factory in Pals for cannino
sweet corn commenced operations on Monday
last. They expect to put up about seventy
five thousand cans this season. about a fourth
less than last year, on account of the partial
failure OF the corn crop, caused by the drouth-
PENoBsCOT COUNTY
The Bangor Wing says that little daughter
OF James Valentine oof that city, while play
ing IN barn chamber made a misstep and
pitched out OF the window to the ground. a
distance OF ten or twelve feet, but strange to
say, escaped serious injury.
The Wing says John Lawrence, the copyic-
ted murderer who awaits sentence in the
County Jail, has been confined to his bed for
several weeks with rheumatism.
The water in the Penobscot is so low that
at Lincoln Centre OK teams are hauling logs
across the bed of the river.
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
(From our Correspondent
Rev. e. w. jackson is giving publie Tenn
perance lectures throughout the county under
the auspices of the Grand Lodge of Good Tenn
plars.
The town of Parkman is situated on the
south west side Of Piscataquis river, contains
about 1000 Inhabitants, was named in honor of
aeUrge Of We m hs hsr
ory,, is a good farming town, especially for
STOCK raising, has no rum shops, as the people
VIII not tolerate SO much as an "aoencv''
sent over 100 men to the late war, is Republi-
can at heart, though Democratic at the polls,
mas little village with one hotel, four stores,
three BLACKSMITH shops, zone lawyer-farmer
ana one farmer-doctOr, one meeting house,
three churches, lodge of Good TempIars, six.
teen school districts and sixteen good school
houses are nearly new. The "Childrens' Tenn
perance Association of this pleasant town
will celebrate its anniversary on the 5th Of
September.
Mrs. Lafayette Merrill of Parkman. and her
little son, were thrown violently from wagon
en- the lod, IN consequence of the flies annoy-
ing her horse. Both were somewhat injured.
but escaped with no broken limbs. A solu-
ton of carbolic acid, applied to the horse, be-
fore starting from home, would have kept the
flies at a safe distance.
The present dry season is being improved
very generality by the farmers and others in
Piscataquis county by digging wells build
ing cisterns and laying down aqueducts to
make sure of living water.
About eight years ago, George f Crockett of
Farkman, caught four or five speckled trout
and placed them in pond adjoining his farm
and he now, enjoys an abundance of this deli
cate fish which usually weigh from two to
four pounds each,-thus demonstrating that
trout is an easy crop to raise, but, then need
Ddter, and will not thrive without it. Mr.
considerable income.
A young lady proposes to attend Foxcroft
Academy the ensuing term and "work her
board" A friend demonstrating with her.
against this plan, and assuring her that she
would not be able to give proper attention to
her studies, she replied that she should only
take up thirteen branches!
There has not been as much sickness in Pts
cataquis at any time for five years as at the pres
ent. The levers prevailing give more than u.s.
ual evidence of contagion.
There was heavy frost on the intervale
farms OH the Piscataquis on the mornings of
The 9th and 18th, killing potato tops, vines,
&c. 1900
AS an apology to Mr.. Robbins of the Dexter
gazette, 1t was not that paper which started
The story that Foxcroft is large ship-buildDg
place, but, he says that it was the Dover o.
'erUer. The Observer, however, still insists
that there are sharks in Foxcroft, the usual
sign of seaport.
Nearly every person who attended upon a
Mrs. Clark, who recently died in Abbott offe-
yer, is now sick with the same disease.
A physician in Piscataquis county contract
q the habit of chewing tobacco forty years ago.
lie has at various times abstained from its use |
entirely, from Two to six months at time, but |
q every instance has been driven back to the |
weed by unmistakeable indications of dropsv
If the chest, which usually pass off in week |
# two after the resumption of the vile habit. |
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