The Portland daily press., 1870-06-11
State News.


Judge Reddington is quite i'll at his resi-
dence with Rev. Dr. Balkan, at Lewiston,
The Lewiston Journal says Jennie Clark
the precocious kleptOmaniac, is now SERVING
her fourth term in Jail. A strange career for 4
child of II years. W.
The Lewiston journal says the scarcity ri
logs makes it almost impossible for builders tC
OBTAIN lumber. Several parties have tempora.
rily stopped work on account of want of Inn,
Der. 1t is thought that logs will begin to come
IN quite freely next week.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
Bro. Tenney of the Brunswick Ieleornnb did
!. sooA I"si..0se Eriday oc lees ryeoI. H.
transacted some business at the Office, visited
Two OF the village schools in the morninr >
district school in the afternoon and after 5;va
L. M. bagged fOrtr-fOur beautiful trout.
The Brunswick Telegraph states, that at one
of the last cliniques, DIR. Green introduced .
private patient before the class, young girl
IA or 10 years Of age, who, when he took her
case in hand was sight almost frightful to
ment of quack. We cannot of course under
take to say in what way the disease had as
sumed the form which it did; but the result
was that her face was attacked and she lost
the most or the whole of her nose, her mouth
was left all awry, and her face so dsfigured
that she hardly presented the aspect of a hu-
man being His first work was to form a new
nose and then to operate SO as to bring the
mouth into form. At the time she came be-
fore the class she was another and differ
ent being from the one which he had
described, and the DR.. had not then completed
his series of operations. Suffice it to say that
her face looked quite natural, and DIR. Green
predicts that when he completes his surgical
work she will hardly be recognized. OF course
the scars where the knife had passed to obtain
the material to renew the lost tissues, will re-
main. but they are much smaller than one
would suppose, to effect SO great a change
KENNEBEC COUNTY
An ancient bomb shell was picked I'D at low
water mark above the dam at Augusta, on the
west side of the river, one day last week. From
Its appearance, it had evidently been in the
water for years. Upon breaking it in pieces
it was found to be filed with gunpowder and
about pint of common musket balls, It is
supposed to be a relic of the famous expedition
OF Arnold, who passed up the river with his
troops, en- route for Quebec, through the then
m;aerness of Maine, in the fall of 1775, nearly
ninety five years ago
st,I ne III nallowell House will be opened in good
July. i''q' a"ou' the hrst OF
Mr.. Rollins has got the roof ~, .,,o
ton of the Gardiner Hotel. and IS 'no lew Por-
an additional story and French ro"f a az tns
main part. These improvement , ,.,;11 10 tne
double the capacity OF the house. Will ABOUT
The Somerset Reporter says the bridge .o,oss
the Kennebec at Waterville may connect tha
towns, but it won't bridge over the conflict
LINCOLN COUNTY.
The town of Westport, containing over 1900
has neither grog-shop, lawyer,
mlnister nor doctor, says the Bath Times.
OXFORD COUNTY.
Mr. L. I. Roberts, of Greenwood, failing to
ind his cattle on the evening of May Both, a
more thorough search the next morning re- |
'ulted in finding five dead and two in diving
at the foot of a precipice in his pas
ure, and one suspended half way DOWN
From indications about the place and the |
ound Of men and dogs heard the previous day,