The Portland daily press., 1870-10-27
state News.
AEOOsTOOK COUNTY.

ARO0STO0K COUNTY.
Boston dealers are in the Houlton market
purchasing up the potatoes at thirty cents per
bushel.
Beef is selling at Houton at 4 10 to cents
by the quarter for a good article. The short
hay crop brings down the price, as the farmers
are killing their cattle instead of wintering
them over. So says a correspondent.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.
The Lewiston Journal says the Court street
Free Baptist Parish, ON Monday evening, vot-
ed unanimously to extend a call to Rev. Mr..
Fernald to become their pastor. Mr.. Fernald
has preached at this church foi several Sab
baths.
A boy in Lewiston, according to the Journal
recently stole $3O from his grandmother, and
had fine time out of it. Last week he was
arrested for driving off team belonging in
Auburn, and is now in Jail waiting the session
of the s. j. Court.
The Lewiston Journal says young man
named Thompson disappeared last Sunday
from the farm of John jackson, near the
Green line, and has not since been heard frem.
When he went off he had on his shirt, pants
vest and stockings As insanity is hereditary
in his family, it Is supposed that his mysterious
departure Is the result of an insane attack.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
Mrs. Cannon, of Fairfield, was thrown from a
wagon near the residence of Mr.. G. Drummond
in Winslow, Tuesday, and broke her arm,
above the elbow. Mr.. o. Taylor and wife, of
Vassalboro, who were in the wagon, escaped
without serious injury.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
The editor of the Wscasset Oracle has been
keeping a tally of the attendance at the Con-
gregational Church in that town, on Sundays
from May 9th to September 18th. He says the
average attendance at the morning service was
ia IL; afternoon service III. Maximum at
tendance in the morning 251; afternoon 1885,
Univ s,,k
noon &c.
PENoBSCOT COUNTY.
Bangoreans are trying the Anvil chorus with
hammers and anvils The Wing says at the
concert Monday evening, small piece of steel
broke from one of the new hammers used in
beating the accompaniment, and flew out into
the audience, striking a lady who sat near the
stage, just under the eye, producing painful
wound. Had the piece struck an inch higher,
it would have injured and very likely destroy
ed the eye itself.
The Bangor Wing says Monday afternoon
the tide run extremely low, the lowest it, is
said for years. The steamer Katahdin was I'M
able to leave her wharton Boston until three
quarters at an hour past her usual time.
WASHINGTON COUNTY
VIM. w. Sawyer's house on Church street.
Calais, was burned October 20; fire supposed
to have caught by defect in the chimney
House and furniture insured in Home, New
York, for $4,000.
YORK COUNTY.
Geo. w. Lttlefeld of Ogunquit o seaman
q years of age, was knocked overheard from
the schooner E. L. Hammond, Capt. M. L.
Staples, in Provincetown harbor, on the 21st
inst He was on the flying jib-boon taking in
sail preparatory to coming to anchor. Boats
were lowered and every effort made to save
him, but not being able to swim, he sank be-
fore the boats reached him.
AT LARGE.
The Bangor Whig says the number of Assist
ant Assessors of Internal Revenue in the 4th
District, will on the first of November be re-
dnced. Those retained, will be Messrs. 8. W.
Matthews of Hampden and F. M. Sabine of
Bangor, for Penobscot county; g. F. Danforth
of Atkinson. for Piscataquis county; and j.
Ell. Bradford of Houlton, for Aroostook coun-
ty. Mr. Matthews will attend to legacies and
SUGGESTIONS in addition to the ordinary duties.
The Whig says a committee of the Directors
of the Maine Central and Belfast and Moose
head Lake railroads meet on Tuesday of next
week to complete necessary matters prior to
transferring and accepting the Belfast road.