The Portland daily press., 1870-07-23

ing the shed soon enveldpe,l and destroyed the
house also.
Samson Andrews, prominent and wealthy
citizen of Paris, died on Saturday last, aged 50
years.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
The Bangor police made large haul of liq-
uors on Thursday, on the arrival of the steam
er Cambridge.
The Bangor Wing says that on the morning
of the 10TH Mr.. Joseph Parsons found in his
front yard an infant plump pretty, and APP
parently healthy. We learn that the little
waif has been adopted, and Mr.. Parsons re-
leved from this unlocked for responsibility.
The Wing says that John H. Kelley, while
passing through the railroad bridge across the
mouth of the Kend uskeag, missed his foothOld
and fell between the sleepers into the water.
Being under the influence of liquor, and re-
ceiving severe bruise on the head as he fell
he sank Immediately. Mr.. Colson, keeper Of
the draw, grappled him out and resuscitated
him. After he got through his humane work
he put ON his coat and found that his wallet
containing $17, was gone.
The Wing says that or Thursday night
man named Douglass was walking on tie
track of the B. o. & NJ. railroad, some tw
miles above the Bangor station, when q wood
train came down the line. Being advanced in
years and somewhat near sighted, Mr.. Doug
lass did not get off the track, when suddenly,
to his great surprise, he was struck by the COW.
catcher of the engine and thrown some thirty
feet from the rails, into some alder bushes. He
was speaking of the road, the train and the
employees in words not at all complimentary,
when men from the train reached him.
| Strange to say, he escaped with couple of
broken ribs and some bruises, from which he
will easily recover.
sAGADAHOC COUNTY.
The Bath Times says that the Fowles girls,
who mysteriously disappeared from Westport
| on Tuesday have been found.
soMERsEr!coUNTY.
Last Thursday Joel Blunt of Bingham, sold
| two Knox colts for 1926.
The annual meeting of the Trustees of the
Maine Central Institute was held at Pittsfe,d
| Wednesday evening, the 10th. Vacancies in
the Board were filled by the election of John
Twitchell of Plymouth, Hon. H. Williamson,
Starks, Rev. j. s. Burgess and A. M. Jones
Lewiston, and Rev. G. F. Penney of Augusta.
n. F, Weymouth was chosen Secretary, in
NE. Weymouth, J. c. Conner, r. w. Files,
and John Twitchell were chosen Executive
Committee. The Normal Department requr-
ed by the State will be orgaizned next term.
The town assessors valuation of Skowhegan
is 81 522,97 $S1 900 less than the valuation
essed on the estates is 1928, 44422. and $2566 on
S42 polls, giving a total of $25 $50 %. The tax
is at the rate OF 81 SO on 500.
WALDO COUNTY.
Three thousand tons of shipping have been
Quilt at Stockton the present season.
The Belfast Journal says that Messrs. Rus
| sell and Edwards, who had leased the trottins
park in that city for the season, very suddenly
| took their departure for parts unknown, tax
ing with them the proceeds of the bogus trot
| which took place there on The Fourth, without
notifying the proprietors, or other creditors Of
| their intention to do so. They were pursued
and brought back, and it took all the money
they had to adjust matters with the creditors.
The Belfast journal says that ON Saturday q
citizen went out to drive in handsome top
buggy with skittish horse. In an hour he
drove back with an unpleasant expression on
his lace, and the buggy-top in an inverted form
carried tenderly in front of him.
During the severe thunder shower of Thurs
day week, the lightning struck large stump
near the house Of Mr.. A. Rich in jackson, and
| set it on fire. The shock was so heavy it stun.
ned Mrs. Rich who was sitting near window
and man passing along the road was also Sc
verely stunned.
YORK COUNTY.
James hickey caught his hand in double,
in the Pepperell Mills, Bddeford, tearing the
| flesh from the back of the hand and from the
fogers,making an extensive but not dangerous
wound.
The Biddeford Journal says that Mr.. Sabar
the man who was injured on his foot, while
| hosting stone, in laying the foundation of the
| new Methodist meeting house last week, died
Monday night, after suffering very much since
the accident. He leaves wife and two chill.
dren. His age was about s. years.
Friday night Mr.. Richard Phenix of Alfred
who is quite aged. strayed from his home and
was not found till Sunday morning The
neighbors turned out en- masse, and found Mr.
T. in Chadbourne's woods, having had nothing
to eat for day and night. He is suffering
from sOfteniDg of the brain.
During the past two weeks, Dr. Noah San.
born of Springvale, has successfully removed
three large sized delicate tumors from a
patent-an operation eminent surgeons had
pronounced impossible and that the attempt ia
remove them would result in immediate death
| AT LARGE. tr
81. f. f. Morrill, of Maine has been promot-
ed to second class clerkship in the Fifth Au-
| dtor's Office