The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-12-08
ANDRoscoGcIN COUNTY.

ANDhOSCOGGlN COUNTY.
The rogues in Lewiston are constant in their
attendance at prayer meetings held in block
in that city. They go, however, to steal over
coats.
A freight train on the Androscoggin road
ran off the track nerr Crowleys Monday,
scattering quantity of corn in one of the
cars,
IA young gentleman Gin Auburn, while
quietly attending to his business in a
small cottage house in the rear O! a block
of stores in that city last Tuesday, was
suddenly alarmed by the tottering and
tumblinng of the building. He gathered
himself as quickly as possible, and as he
emerged was greeted with the merry glances
of the feminiaes, who from neighboring win
dows had observed his discontinue. Some
body had undermined the building and had
not secured it.
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
From our Correspondent
The Sangervile fowage lawsuit, Jenkins
Weymouth VS.. Sangerville Manufacturing
Company, which had been on trial some three
weeks, before Judge Danforth, came to an un-
looked for conclusion on the I'd inst, by an
company pay Weymouth $1,000 to liquidate all
damage, to him, by the flowing of his timber
lands. Each party pays its own costs. Judge
Danforth has given great satisfaction by his
impartial department towards all parties in
this vexatious case, in which no one has made
DR.. Daniel Straw has lett Guilford and gone
west. lie is young physician of great prom
Use, and we hope he may return soon to Gull
ford.
Rev. G. E. Libby will commence his prom
ised series Of meetings at Parkman on Tues
day, the 18th inst. Mr.. Libby is having good
success in winning souls to Christ.
Cases of scarletina continue to multiply in
the western towns in this county. The cases
are generally mild but typhoid fevers and diph-
iberia present themselves in maligna ant forms.
Mrs. Potter, OF Sangerville village, has, on ac-
count of sickness in her family, undressed for
the purpose of sleep, only three nights since
August. S.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
Potatoes sold at 80 cents in Bangor, on Tues.
day, by the quantity.
The vessels are all away from Bangor. The
only one in port Tuesday was the schooner
Agnes, loading with potatoes for Boston.
sAGADAHoc COUNTY.
The train which left Brunswick at twenty
minutes after two o'clock Wednesday after
noon for Bath was thrown from the track at
Cook Corner, two miles from Brunswick sta
ton, and the baggage car and one passenger
car were thrown upon their Sides Engineer
Hammond had an arm broken. None of the
passengers are reported injured. The accident
was caused by misplaced switch.
AT LARGE.
Inc Directors of the Maine Central Railroad
anu tne Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad,
n M meeting for consultation at Watcrville
My evening: We understand that the
L. Co. will change the gauge of their road. to
put on rolling stock and run the road until
the legal status of the matter is settled bv he
Courts
Mr.. E. r. Burpee, of the Euronean and
North American Railroad and others. will ask
the Legislature for charter for a railroad.
from some point on the line of the Eu,
ropean and North American Railway, be-
tween the south line of Passadumkeag, and
the north line of VIM, westward, through
set and Franklin, to the west line of the State,
at some point between the North line of Town
ship No. g. Range 8, and the North branch of
Moose River.