The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-08-30
- tate News.
ANDRoscoGG. \ COUNTY

ANDROSCOGG. COUNTY.
There is thirteen year old boy in Lewis
ton school who weighs one hundred and sixty
five pounds.
The journal says as the Saturday morning
and mixed train from Brunswick was coming
into Lewiston, a displaced switch pre- epitated
reverse speed so quickly, as to plunge the
brakeman through the Car window, cutting
him quite badly, beside dispacing most of the
seats IN the passenger car, cutting passen-
gers face and injuriug lady somewhat. The
train did not ran off the track.
The Jourfat says the Auburn shoe manufac-
tories are now doing brisk business, having
si1eable orders IN hand. Heavy boots have
thus far been obed ent 10 large demand, and
gone off 10 hea' > 0uant't es. The ira lie in D"O-
gans, which was back ward for while, has raj
lied and obtained good degree OF actN -ty.
Ladies sewed work OF good quality has sold
well for a few weeks past, ana Western job
bers are now selecting these GOO Is and those
of a coarse1 kind, for immediate and later ship
ment. The advance in leather somewhat di-
minishes profits of the fall business.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
The Lew ston Journal says the Schofield
Brothers are building q ship of 1900 tons bur.
then at their yard ia Harnswell, to cost, We
understand, about $S0,900. Ii will probably
be launched the latter part of Sept mber, AID
will be the finest ship yet constructed at that
yard. A still better one will be built, however.
40 oooh 10 eHS piSSShs WV Ia, "i.Vttb
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The Lewiston Journal says 1. N Prescott of
Monmouth lost his lett hand except his thumb
in threshng machine Friday.
The Dirigo base ball club PLAYED with the
Young Americas of Waltham, Mass, Oh Sat
prday, and won after contest OF two and a
half hours. Score 50 to "a.
Thomas Lambard, ESQ, of Augusta, has
been appointed Chief Marshal for the forth
coming show and fair of the State Agriculture
Al Society, the journal says.
The Watervi'le Mail says the trot for the
purse at Watervile, Wednesday, was won Inv
Lady Fairfield owned in Skowhegan, defeat
ing Lady Burieigh, owned III Fairfield. Time
2:37 IL, 2;G9 aud 2:39.
KNOX COUNTY.
The fal. term of the Eastern Maine Normal
School at Castine opened on Wednesday laat
with new class of sixty, More will enter in
the course of a week or ten days.
The Secretary of the Treasury, in letter to
Collector Hall, has decided that boats Of five
tons burthen and upwards, when engaged in
catching pOrgies upon the ocean, must take
out marine papers, without regard to whether
they are to decide or not; says the Rockland
Free Press.
OXFORD COUNTY.
The Oxford Democrat says that two little
girls in Buckfeld one daughter of Mr.. Low
and the other daughter of Mr.. Buck, while
playing in the barn fell several feet. Mr..
Buck child had one wrist dslocated and one
OF the wrist bones near the Joint lractured.-
The daughter of Mr.. Low not only bad a sim
llar injury OF one wrist, but the arm bone of
the same was fractured about one inch above
the elbow ioint-tbe end of the bone orlyen
through the flesh some two inches into the
ground where she fell,
PENoBsCoT COUNTY,.
A produce merchant explains the exceedinr
plenty of eggs this season by saying that the
poultry got the whole benefit of the green
crops. The grasshoppers eat the crops. and
the fowls eat the grasshoppers, crops and all.
WALDO COUNTY.
over 300men are at work night and day up-
on the Belfast and MoOsehead Railroad, and
its completion by the first of October is GER
tain.