The Portland daily press., 1870-08-23

HANCOCK COUNTY.


September. The invitation includes the fami-
lies of the graduates.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
Mr.. Charles E. Green of Portland civil
engineer, has been making surveys of Union
river, preparatory to the work of removing the
distractions, under the $4,000 appropriation.
The money will be expended principally in
clearing a channel through the slabs and saw
dust.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
Camp-mee'ing at Windsor begins to day, the
Gardiner Reporter says.
Eight cargoes of ice were shipped from Gar
diner in four days last week.
. The water in the Cobbossee stream at Gar
diner was never known to be SO low tefore.
A Taunton, Mass, clergyman is enjoying
his vacation on board of an ice vessel, which is
to take cargo from Gardiner to Philadelphia.
He has his whole family on beard. The cap
tain is one of bis Pensioners
Kennebec Jail has twenty inmates
Tie Augusta Journal learns that Lydia
Leonard, of Unity, celebrated her one hun
drea.+- birthday Aug. 18th.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Parties from Augusta are negotiating for the
purchase of Inner Burnt Island, off Boothbay,
better known as Mouse Island. The sum Of
$4,000 has been offered, bat $4,000 is asked.
OXFORD COUNTY.
We learn from the Oxford Democrat that the
valuation of real and personal property, in
Porter has increased from S165000 in 1860, to
over $500, 900 at the present tme while the
population has decreased over one hundred
Lancaster Hodges of Brownfeld, will be one
hundred years old if he lives until the first OF
January next. He was born slave in Massa-
chusets.
The Oxford Democrat says that young man
in StOneham has earned $40 this summer pick
ing berries
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
At Bangor on Friday evening, a lad named
VIM. Donahoe, in attempting to get into a
swing while it was in motion fell and broke
his leg.
Two young ladies in Bangor, a few nights
since were awakened by man climbing into
their chamber window on ladder Thew
Quietly tipped the ladder over. That man
won't 90 there any more.
There are twenty-five prisoners in Penob-
cot county Jail.
Sweet potatoes are successfully cultivated
in Bangor.
sAGADAHOC COUNTY.
S. A. Perkins of Topsam, is putting ma
chinery into his mil. for the manufacture of
wood pulp.
Bath talks of having firemei:'s muster.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
At meeting of the Trustees of Maine Cen
trail Institute, at Pittsfeld last week $1,000 was
raised towards meeting the debt of $4,000
and Rev. j. S. Burgess was app ointed to So
licit subscriptions.
A Foxcroft correspondent of the Bangor
Wing says Captain Buck, the census taker OF
that district was the innocent cause of fright
to Frenchman last week. The Captain ar
rived at the place in the evening and began to
take the names, ages, etc., which tie French
man did not understand. Some wag told Jean
Crappaud that the Captain was preparing to
draft all Frenchmen for the help of France in
the war. Then some one asked Capt. Buck
when these men would be likely TO be called
for and the Captain replied that he thought
Frer chy, wLo thought that before they could
get him they must catch him, so Dxet morning
by break of day he made his tracks for the
woods.
Part of the Norridgewock toll bridge was
successfully raised last Saturday.
The fall term of the Eaton Family and Day
School commenced last Monday with its usual
large number OF scholars.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
On the 4th inst, the barn of Mr.. William F.
Shoppee of BeddingtOn, was struck by light
ming, and three cows killed and one swine do
ing some damage to the barn. Fortunately
the barn did not take fire.
YORK COUNTY.
A fire has been raging in the woods on and
about Mount Agamenticus, York, for several
DAYS. On Thursday 200 cords of cut wood was
burned.
AT LARGE.
John q. Bislow of Maine, has received an
appointment as clerk in the census bureau at
Washington.
The Knox and Lincoln Railroad Co., are
having three locomotives built at Manchester,
N II.
The new ferry boat on the Kennebec belong
ing to the Knox and Lincoln Railroad is near
ly completed. Its dimensions are 140 feet long
by 80 wide and IL feet deep, and it will meas
ure over 500 tons. The engines will have cyl
inders "a by 10 inches, and are being built by
the Portland Co.
The census returns from Is towns gathered
from the files in the United
States Marshal's Office show population of
Us, 916 a gain of 4, 381, or about two and a
half per cent. in the ten years. Basing an es-
innate on these figures, the population Of the
State will not exceed 65O, 900, an increase of
from 10000 to $4,000. But then nearly all the
have returns from very few of the manufac-
turing and business cities and towns.