The Portland daily press., 1870-12-05
state News.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.

ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY.
Gov Chamberlain will pay Aroostook visit
about the middle of this month, aud will de-
liver his lecture on the Surrender of Leo at
Houlton-
The Aroos,ook Times in referring to an ar.
ticle In the Sunrise about building railroad
to Presque Isle, in which the latter paper
claimed that the State would loan its credit to
the enterprise. Bangor would do the same,
and the e & N. A. Railway Co. would aid IT,
says the Sunrise is undoubtedly right except
in tire unmportaDt points. The State will not
aid the enterprise; Bangor cannot; and the n
& N. A. r r. Co. won't.
The Branch railroad from Fl FULTON is to be
opened for passengers and freight traffic to-
day.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The new toll bridge between Wateryille and
WiDslow was opened to travel Wednesday,
The loss OF this bridge was one of the most seri-
ovs consequence of the freshet last spring, and
has been serious damage to the business of
Waterville.
Wednesday morning little son of Nathaniel
Watts OF North Vassalboro, aged six years, a
bright, active lad, while playing in the entry of
the school house, slipped and tell down. Just
then large boy, young man, in fact, named
JepsOn, pushed auo her young man named
Soule over backwards, aDd he fell directly
upon the stomach of the little lad iDjuring
| him so that he died the next morning.
Mr.. Moses A. Getchell of Waterville, owns
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| sesses charmed existence. Twice the owner
has come near losing it by pckpockets, they
having severed the guard chain. Again he
came near losing it while fishing on pond in
| winter, saving it only by quick and a1roit
| movement of his hands. Last week while as
| sisting at work on the new bridge he jerked bis
watch from its pocket into the swift current of
the Kennebec. After several Intellectual at
moved by an offer of $40 reward, waded in with
a rope attached to his body, and by going all
under managed to clutch the glittering prize,
and return it to the owner.
Rev. Eliakin Seaman. formerly of Pittston,
died at Gardiner Nov. 28th at the age of 81
years. The deceased tor several years repre-
sented the town Of Pittston in the Legislature,
before the removal OF the Legislature from
Portland to Augusta.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
A boarder at the Exchange, in Bangor came
near losing his life the other night by thought
lessly blowing out the gas
A convention of delegates from the several
Agricultural and Horticultural Societies Of
Penobscot county will be held at the Common
Council Room in Bangor ON tomorrow after
noon, to elect Member of the State Board of
Agriculture for the next three years.
The Bangor Wing says Henry P. Stupell Of
Brewer was master, James Francis Gushing of
the same place, first officer, and Henry Lloyd
OF Portland, secoRd officer, of the missing
barque A. w. Stevens, supposed to have been
lost at sea in the terrible hurricane OF the 9Th
and 9th of February last
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
| The Esstport Sentinel says the herring fish
ing in our waters has been prof table for the
past week. Large quantities have been taken
in the wei's, and the fish are large and tat.
Some have been sold at the rate of forty five
cents per hundred.
Thirty-six hens were stolen Friday night OF
last week, from three different hen roosts in
PASSPORT The rogues, probably, are going in
to the wholesale business.
The sch. Gun Rock" of Lubec from Wind
sor laden with plaster, went ashore the night
of the 23d ult. at White Head, Grand Me-
man, in heavy easterlylgale. The crew were
saved.
The Sentinel says Tuesday morning. when
of Matincus, the pilot of the steamer New
Brunswick" saw a vessel on fire not far dis
tant The steamer was he t2ed towards the
burning vessel, and went so near as to ascer.
tain that the vessel was abandoned, and was
burned nearly to the waters edge. The vessel
was loaded With lumber, and was thought te
be about ITO tons burlhen.
An old tenement house In Calais at Union
Mills, owned by Mr. j. S. Hall, was burned
down on Monday last and five or six families
were rendered houseless.
Between forty-f and fifty thousand bar
rels of calcined and ground plaster were manu-
featured at The Red Beach plaster mills. Cal
ais, last winter.
At the meeting of the Calais Common Coun.
ell on Monday evening, this body, with but
one dissenting vote, dhered to its position OF
the Whidden case. The Board of Alderman
} sustains MIR. Whdden, the Common Council
does not.
WALDO COUNTY.
The Belfast Journal says: A vote of the Bel
fast & MOosehead Lake Railroad directors. no
trying the Central Railroad of the decision O
the Railroad Commissioners, and requiring
them 10 put on trains, was passed on Friday
The Clerk of the Central Company has ac
knowledged its receipt saying it would be laid
before the directors. The directors, also. or
Wednesday, passed vote notifying the Rail
road Commissioners cha, difference bad arser
relative to running the trains, and asking tbei1
early attention to the NATTER under the con
| tract.
The Age says the Methodist vestry in Bel
fast was crowded to overlooking last Sunday
evening on the occasion of a ,emperan lee
ture by E. w. Locke, of Portland.
The Belfast journal says a prominent church
member at prayer meeting in that vicinity