The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-06-04
state News.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

HAsOcCcN0iN COONIfs
The Lewiston journal thinks the pentlar,on
who appeared on the streets of that CITY Thnrs-
day in fur cap would make poor tbermom.
eter. We are not SO sure about that especialjy
if he wore it in the afternoon, and the atmos.,
phere was anything like that in Portland.
Nathaniel L. Ingersoll, ono of the oldest and
most prominent citizens in local history in oil
Danville, died at his residence at DanyiIIe
Corner, Wednesday. at the advanced age of 80
years. Mr.. Ingersoll, up to within a few wears
of his decease took a very prominent mart in
the municipal affairs of his town, says the
Journal.
The Lewiston Journal says the immense
drives of logs of S. r. Bearce s. Co. are SLOWLY
but surely making their way to that city, They
are in four divisions, in charge of four crews Of
drivers, in all about seventy five men, and arc
strung along all the way from Rumford Falls To
Stricklard's Ferry.
There is a hen in Poland, according to the
Androscoegn Herald, who lays eggs and
marks them with the initial of the owner. The
editor has one in his office for exhibition.
The Mechanic Falls Herald says the Deacon
Ezra Bartlett farm has recently been sold for
six thousand dollars to Fisk and Holbrcok of
Oxford.
AROosTooK COUNTY.
Luther r. Carev has been appointed Post
master at Fort Fairfield vice Asa G. Carey re-
signed.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
Capt Charles Boutelle, of Brunswick, died
very suddenly from heart disease THURSDAY
forenoon at his residence in that place.
An English ha'penny date of 1749 was
thrown out last week in the dirt when exca-
vatiOns were made to remove Mcclellan Hall
at Brunswick.
The Brunswick Telegraph says Mr.. Charles
p. Cobb was badly injured last week by pre-
| mature explosion of powder with which be was
| about to charge hole in rock on the Factory
property. 1t is possible that he may lose the
| sight of one eye.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
AT the recent commencement of the Ame,i
can University, the honorary degree of Doctor
OF Medicine was conferred upon DR.. L. A.
Shattuck of Augusta.
| Daniel Cony, Esq, who has resided in the
State of California during the last eighteen
years, returned to Augusta, his native civ. on
Saturday. He is brother of ex- Governor
Copy. The Maine Farmer is clad to know
that he proposes to make Augusta his future
home.
| KNOX COUNTY
Leighton & Drake of Rockland, during the
months of April and May, have shipped to
Boston and Portland one hundred tons of live
| Holsters
Hon. N. A. Farwell having resigned his DO
sition as director of the Knox & Lincoln
| railroad, resolve was passed by the Rockland
City Council, recommending the Mayor. Hon.
u. w. Kimball, Jr., for election to fill the va
| cancy.
OXFORD COUNTY.
At full town meeting of the citizrns OF
| Hartford, on ,turday last, the town decided
| to reject the proposition of the Portland &,
| Oxford Central L.. II. Co., for settlement, and
| to abide the decision of the court by vote OF
| at least three to one.
| The Oxford Democrat SAYS that j. G. Mar
BILE, Esq, of Paris received a dispatch on
Tuesday that one of his powder mills in Can
| ada was blown up that day, and that Mr. Levi
Monk, of Buckfield, was seriously injured
and has since died. He lived but about an
| hour and half after the accident, during
which time he was unconscious. He leaves q
wife.
purchase liquor of dealer for the purpose OF
obtaining evidence that should warrant a
| search, was bodily chastised after the search
| and seizure had taken place, by some of the
liquor dealers friends
George Besse of Norway was badly injured
last Sunday, by the overturning of carriage
| In which he and Frederic Beal of NORWAY
were riding. Beal escaped without injury
The carriage, which Was a nice top buggy, was
| utterly demolished.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
Me-. Horace L. Hopkins, of Hampden ha
| been appointed Assistant Census Marshal IL
fill the vacancy caused by the death of George
|
The Bangor Wing says the bodies of three
of the fOul men who were drowned at Piscat
! aquis Falls, May 1S, were found in the Penob
scot river Thursday afternoon, about four mile,
below the tails. They were all near together
The Wing says George Campbell, who wa
lately pardoned from States Prison by thu
Governor and Council, has taken to his ole
trade of stealing again. For several DAYS pas
he has been travelling about confiscating doc
mats and selling them, representing that Ii,
manufactured them in Brewer.
The dwelling house, barn and outbuildins
belonging to Hiram Stone of Hampden, wer,
entirely destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon
1t is supposed that the ire was communicated
by children playing with matches in the barn
So rapid was the progress of the fire that onl,
portion of the furniture in the house wa
saved. Loss about $500 There was no in
surance on the building, the policy having ex
PRED short time previous, says the Wig.
The amount Of lumber surveyed from ian
l to June l, 1870, at Bangor, compared will
the amount surveyed during the same period
in 1868 and 1869 was as follows, as we lear
from the Wing: