The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-11-02
State News.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

ANOhVoCOH0lN COUNIIs
Frank Buchanan of Auburn, bought valua-
BILE horse on Saturday, and on Monday he died
of stoppage.
Joint committees of the Lewiston and Au-
burn City Councils, are at once to considerth the
subject Of erecting new bridge over the An
droscoggin. 1t is high time measures of this
sort were taken, says the Lewiston Journal.
We learn from the journal that Rev. DR..
Manning, pastor of the Old South Church,
of lectures before the students of Bates College
and Tn Biological School on "Pantheism''-
same course of lectures which have been delv-
cred before Andover TheO ogical School.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The Augusta journal says that the freight
business on the Portland and KenDebec Rail-
road is brisk.-The only ice held on the Ken
nebec river is in the ice house of the Dresden
ice company, and consists OF about 1900 tons.
The Journal says Miss Lizzie Neal died very
suddenly Saturday night at the house Of Mr..
H. Lehman in Gardiner, of congestion of the
lungs. She had felt slight indispositon dur
ing the day, and after retiring was taken sick
about II O'clock, and died about u. Deceased
was about 80 years of age.
We learn from the Kennebec Journal that
Hon. T. Fl. Hubbard, OF Biddetord preached
two powerful discOurses to crowded audiences
at the Baptist church in Augusta on Sunday.
He also attended the meeting of the Y. C. A.
periences in the evening to full congregation
gathered in the Baptist vestry.
PENoBscor COUNTY.
During the moath of August there went
over the e. & N. A. Railroad. from Mattawam-
keag 282 cattle, 1047 sheep; ard in September
up to the 23d. 1O3 cattle and 3739 sheep.
A correspondent of the Bangor Wing states
that on Sunday evening, as two young ladies'
named Basford, employed in Dexter were re-
fnrDiDU their hOuoa in lbon
they had spent the Sabbath, their team came in
collision with another, and they were thrown
out with such violence that both were serious
~ injured-one, it is feared, fatally.
The Wing states that on Saturday, Michael
Goggin, gang head stockman in A. G. Rings
mill in OrOnO, went into the basement of the
mill TO examine the bearings while the ma
chInery was in motion. Going too near the
hy-wheel, his clothing was caught in it and he
was so horribly brushed and mangled that he
lived but an hour after the accident.
We learn from the Wing that the house and
stable Of Mr.. Eber L Steward in Bangor, were
destroyed by fire on Monday. Insurance. $500
on the buildings, and $500 on the furniture. =
The tire is supposed to have originated from
depot in the chimney.
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
[From our Correspondents
October goes out amid pelting northeast
snow storm, the first one of the season. Far
inotc oi0 eahch ny surprise. lne plough Is IN
the furrow but the team is in the barn. An
unusual amount of farm labor has been done,
and yet all are disappointed that more cannot
be done. Farmers have reduced their stock
with view to getting rich by selling hay at
$40 per ton in the spring.
Rev. Adam Wilson D. D = is visiting and
supplying the pulpit Of the Baptist church in
Guilford, which has enjoyed a year Of great
prosperity, though destitute of pastor.
The Sangerville water lawsuits bid fair to
furnish food for coIjectures and fees for law
yers for long time to come.
Doctor Mudgett has left Guilford and moved
to Dexter, much to the regret of his numerous
friends in G. DR.. Daniel Straw succeeds him
in Guilford.
sAGADAHOC COUNTY
We learn from the Bath Times that a man
who first gave his name as Smith and after
wards changed it to Davis, hired team of Da-
vid Harris in that city, on Sunday, to be gone
few hours, but has not since been heard from.
The Times inks this fellow was the tool of
some more adroit scoundrel, as quite number
of teams have been driven from that city and
tidIngs have never been heard from them after
wards.
Mr. Edward Hodgkins, for nearly the last
half century prominent merchant of Bath.
died suddenly on Monday evening, aged II.