The Portland daily press., 1870-12-17
CUMBERLAND COUNT,

CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
The Y. M. G. Association of Brunswick pro
pose to have an opening dedicatory service o
the new Lemont Hall when il is comnleted :
The Portland Glee Club will furnish the mn
sic and social levee will be held after tn
concert is over, says the Telegraph.
The News says Mr.. A. Hamlin of Bridgtou
met with a serious accident while choppny il
the woods the other day, burying his axe int,
the instep of his foot, and severing the arteries
On his way home the blood flowed profusely
making his tracks nearly the whole distance
from the woods to the village.
A bell and clock are to be placed ON the new
Congregational church in Bridgton.
Two little girls in Harrison came nea
drowning few days since while playing upou
the ice on pond. The ice broke and the girI
went under, but were fortunately rescued b,
some persons who were near, as we learn from
the Bridgton News.
KNOX COUNTY.
Samuel Fessenden, son of Hon. S. G. Fes
sender formerly OF Rockland, has recent,
graduated at the Cambridge, Mass, Law
School, and enters into the practice of law il
Connecticut, with an established firm.
OXFORD COUNTY.
The Oxford Democrat says in the indict
ment, as. Lyman Rawson, of Rumford. Win
was tried at the last term of the Supreme ,Ju.
dicial Court, for fraudulent alteration of deed
Mr.. Rawson's name was stricken from the rol
of Attorneys and Counsellors of the Oxford
bar. The criminal action has been mol prosseG
by the County Attorney, on the above condi.
tions.
The Democrat saws a son of Mr.. Frances f.
stevens, OF South Woodstock, aged six years
Whlle his father was absent in the woods last
Thursday, made gun and got his father {
powder, and managed to blow off a portion of
MS lace, seriously injuring himshlf.
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
The Brunswick Telegraph saws on the Cd
inst, Pencil Plummer of Bowdoin. was AT
work in the woods clearing up a lot badly dam.
aged by the gale of September 1869. In work
ing round an old stump blown up it cansized
and nearly buried him beneath the earth and
roots. He was extricated with the left leg
broken above the knee, the right shoulder olII
of Joint left side jammed and one rib broken,
physicians were at once called, his injuries at.
along comfortably.
WASHINGTON COUNTY,
Calais has erected forty-five BUILDINGS and
eleven wharves since the fire, which is doing
remarkably well in three months, The Co,lree
ser says that most of the new buildings are n,
q better class and more modern appearances
than those that were consumed, and when the
work is completed Calais will have reason to
be proud of her long array of elegant and taste
full private residences.
YORK COUNTY.
The frames of two ships are IN in Crawford
q Wards yard at Kennebunkport, and one is
being finished WV 80
Ansel L. .Boothby's house in Kennebunk.
was entered on Sunday night and small
desk, containing $3.50 was stolen.
A son of DR.. Moses Sweat of North Parson-
neld, while playing with loaded pistol on the
ON INST, accidentally discharged it. The ball
entered his stomach, glanced from one of his
rips ana Mnaliy lodged near the vertebral col
umn: The boy. fingered in great agony for
ABOUT week, dying Sunday Dec II.
Four complaints have been made by ladies.
against Mrs Sarah A. Leavitt of Shapleigh.
iot selling intoxicating liquors and keep ing a
Hrlnklng mouse and tippling shop, and she has
of $780, y ~ INC sun
Oscar K. Grant, who recently died at Wash.
i1gton from the effects of chloroform, belong
ed In South Berwick
The Storer street Baptist society of Saco
expect to have Rev. Mr.. Weber, of Taunton
Mass, to take charge of the church on the first
OF January at salary of $1,000.
There is quite little stir saws the Union
among the French people in Biddeford, caused
the elopement last week, of young man.
Mr b., with woman who has married nine
teen years and half. The woman took what
little money her husband had.
AT LARGE.
The nomination of the following Maine most.
masters were confirmed by the Senate on
Mcfarland, Ellsworth: G
=. Norton, Eastport; Samuel G. Thurlow
Belfast.