The Portland daily press., 1870-07-11
state News.
ANDROsCOGGIN COUNTY.

ANOhooSOUUlN CVONIfs
Inc upper Hat OF the roof of the Androscog--
with tin. The mill is about $40 feet long, and
there is about an acre of tin surface.
Mr.. John Bonncy of Turner, broke his leg
just above the knee, by making miss-step in
to a little ditch as he was coming from the fire
works at Mechanic Falls, on the 4th. He is
broken badly before, which left it considerably
shorter than the other, yet he has always kept
up his row with other men in the field, says
the AndroscOggin Herald.
The recently chosen Directors of the Mich
OILS Latin School at Lewiston are President
Cheney of Bates College, A. M. Jones, Esq.
Prof. J. Y. Stanton, Prof. B. F. Hayes, Prot
II. G. Stanley, James Wood, Esq, DR.. Eli
Edgecomb, John w. Perkins, ESQ.,, of Lewis
ton, and Rufus Deering, Esq, Of Portland
rectors and A. M. Jones, Esq, is Secretary.
L. G. Jordan, A. B., was elected Principal.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
Hon. M. D. L. Lane, State Senator from
Cumberland county, is making brief visit to
friends in HOultOn and that vicinity.
A son of Mr.. S. X. Stetson of Hodgdon,
aged about 10 yeaIs, was drowned on the at
ternoon OF the 4th, by getting out OF his depth,
while bathing in the mill pond.
The Times says there was heavy frost in
Madawaska, Fort Kent and vicinity Friday
crops. Buckwheat was almost entirely killed,
SO that the farmers are obliged to resow it,
The Times says Hon. p. p. Burleigh, State
Land Agent, is in Houlton procuring supplies
for the Scandinav ians, and making the need
ed arrar gements for the transportation Of the
emigrants to their destination, on the town.
ship near Caribou.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The Gardiner Reporter says that Mr.. Daniel
Blake of that city who has for some time been
suffering from cancer in his right arm, will
have to submit to the amputation of that MEM
Der.
The Kennebec Journal says laughable pre-
dictions are made as to how the trains will run
after the completion of the railroad bridge in
Augusta.
The new postOhice in Augusta was occupied
for the first time, on Friday. 1t is pronounced
one that reflects credit upon the city.
The Augusta Journal says that the corner
stone of the Court House in that city was laid
May 295h, 1929. The first court was held in it
by Judge Mellen, Jan. 1st, 1880.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Three young men, who were rusticating at
B0Othay, undertook to have a sail on Friday
in that harbor. By some mismanagement their
boat capsized, throwing them into the water
They managed to climb upon the bottom of
the boat, where they chung until discovered by
persons on shore.
oXFoPD COUNTY.
Gilbert Tilton has been appointed Postmas-
ter at Sumner, vice Enoch Morrill,, resigned.
DR.. Adam Wilson has closed his labors with
the LIST Baptist church in Paris, for the present
A student from Newton Theological Seminary
will occupy the pulpit for awhile.
Timothy Record, of Buckfield, IS years old,
on Saturday, June 18th, with tie thermome-
ter at 95, hOed two thousand hills of corn in
five hours; and says if any man of his age will
beat that, he would like to wrestle with him.
The Register learns the cars are running to
Canton on the Portland & Oxford Central
railroad, and business there has taken new
start.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
The Wing says the Census Marshals make
some strange discoveries The other day one
of them found a family in Bangor, in which
the father was fifty-fve years old, the mother
thirty and the Oldest son twenty The in-
formation must have been correct, because he
got it from the mother herself.
The Independent Congregational Society
(Unitarian) at Bangor, are hearing the Rev
Frederick Hinckley Of Boston (Highlands) as
candidate for permanent supply of their
pulpit, as we learn from the Wing.
sAGADAHoc COUNTY,
We learn from the Bath Times that on Fri.
day night the store of Chas 0. Lowell, at
Small Point, was destroyed by fire, also small
nsh house and another unOccupled building.
Mr.. Lowell was Postmaster, and the Office was
in the store. Nothing was saved excepting one
mail bag; everything else in the postoffice was
destroyed. The loss is estimated to be about
$780,
A company composed of thirty-two members
has been organized in Richmond for the pur-
pose of entering into the ice business, and have
bought of d. Tiffany what is known as the
Carney farm in Dresden. 1t is probably the
most available location on the Kenuebec river
AT LARGE.
The items for Maine in the river and harbor
bill, which went to the President on Friday are
az follows; Kennebunk river $5OO0 Saco river
$4,000; Portland harbor $4,000; Kennebec
river $4,000; for improvement of navigation at
the Gut, opposite Bath, $4,000; Union river
$4,000; Penobscot river, at Bangor and below,
$4,000.
Nathaniel Wilson, the Giving skeleton a
native of Oldtown, died in Boston last week
at the age of 80 years.