The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-12-12
state N cWS.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.

AhOOoIOOh SOONIIs
Las week little child of Mrs. Charles Fl. |
Noyes of Dayton Plantation, eleven months
old, fell into pail of water, boiling hot which
Mrs. NOyes had prepared for washing clothes.
She had put the pail on the floor and went to |
the door for some chips, when she heard a
child had plunged into the pail of boiling wa
ter. The little sufferer lived but about ten |
hours.
The Houlton Times learns that the remains |
OF man was found, one day last week, across |
the boundary line in piece of woods where |
and near the road leading from Fletcher's
Mills, Monticello, to Jacksontown, N. b.
There was only the skeleton, some brass but
tons, and pair of army shoes on the bones of
the feet, remaining: 1t IS supposed that some
bounty jumper, as long ago as during the war,
in the act of deserving, lost his way in the
woods, and there, through fatigue, hunger and
exposure, persisted.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
Mr. Rollins, proprietor of the Gardiner ho-
tel has made great improvements on the house.
and has changed its name to evans Hotel"
in honor of the late Hon. George Evans, who
| was for many years resident of that city.
The Gardiner Reporter says last Monday
morning, as the early passenger train was
| leaving that city, Capt. B. A. Neal attempted
ride down to the freight depot, but the plat
form was covered with a thin coating of ice,
| and his foot slipped leaving him SUSPENDED py
his hands. One of his feet was caught under
the track, but as he had on rubber boots, he
managed to slip out his foot so that only the
boot suffered injury, and he pulled himself up
| on the step OF the car uninjured. 1t was in
deed most narrow escape from frighttul ac-
| cident
Mr.. A. w. McCausland of Gardiner, has re-
| ceived from parties in New York an order for
| 1000 base ball bats A lively interest in the
| GREAT national pVdanf1V anticinafad
| the coming summer.
PENOBSCoT COUNTY.
The citizens of Newport want "Village
Corporation" and will ask the next Legisla-
| ture for it.
The water power at Corinna Village has
been much improved the past season, by the
erection Of substantial stone dam. A fine,
brick, two-storv grist mill has been built
Freeland Gerry, son of Joseph Gerry of Gar
land, while employed on one tot the Oldtown
mills, had his hand sawed completely off.
PIscATAoUIs COUNTY.
Levi Foster French Canadian, dropped
| dead under the deck of the steamer Fairy of
the Lake, on Moosehead Lake, last Wednes-
day.. He was brother of the man who fell
| overheard from the same steamer and was
drowned, last summer.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
John F. Gerald, the reformed sailor" has
been on a lecturing tour along the sea- coast,
speaking in Southport Westport, Boothbay,
Bristol, etc.
The Oracle says house in Boothbay, owned
bylWillard Murray, was burned Nov. 18th. In
sured in Home Insurance Co., New York, for
full amount, which we have not learned.
The telegraph line has been extended from
Boothbay Harbor to Hodgdon's Mills.
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
The new locomotive Francis Cobb" belong
ing to the Knox & Lincoln railroad, crossed
the river at Bath Saturday on the ferry boat
City of Rockland. This is the first locomotive
that ever crossed the Kennebec below Angus
ia.
YORK COUNTY.
The citizens OF Biddeford and strangers who
have occasion to be within sight of the Pepper
ell Mills will feel pleased to know that new
and accurate clock was on Friday duly adjust
ed and put in motion upon the principal mill
of the Pepperell corporation. The tone of the
bell is clear, and the strike distinct and pleas
ant. The necessity of a correct public clock
has long been recognized at that i'm portant To-
cality. The removal of the sluggish hands up
on Rev. Mr.. Tenney's church is now desirable
in order that the public may no longer be de-
ceived by their inaction.
A few days ago son of Dr. Sweat of Cor
nisb, shot himself under singular circum-
stances His father requested him to go to
school but the boy refused The father insist
ed, and the boy rather than obey took pistol
and inflicted upon himself wound which it
was thought would prove fatal.