The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-08-10
State News.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY

Auburn is furnished with pure water con.
Quoted over the city from springs on the hills
in the rear.
The Lewiston Journal says q shoe firm in
Auburn is filling an order of women's shoes
for CINCINNATI, the sizes ranging from seven to
ten.
The thermometer at Lewiston yesterday was
100 in the shage The forenoon was the hottest
of the season.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The barn of Richard Rich of Jay, was burn
ed about Z. NJ, Sunday, with It's conten IS,
and two horses. Mr.. Rich had been into the
barn about an hour before the flames broke
out, when there were no signs of fire.
:. KENNEBEC COUNTY
Coca. Qins.iey OF sYaservifte, who was in
dicted for an attempt to burn the Williams
House in that place on the 18th of last June
has been tried aud a verdict of guilty has
been rendered. This counsel has filed excep-
tions
TIE Kennebec Journal says the Dlrigo Base
Ball Club of Augusta will leave home on the
ODD inst, on their second annual base ball tour
to Boston. They will be absent week or ten
days, and will play with the Bay States of
Lynn, Unas, of Charlestown, LiDcons of West
Newton and the Excelsiors of Boston. The
last named are the champions of Massachu-
sets, and one of the clubs defeated by the
Dirigos last season. The game is for the Jun
Tor Championship Of New England,
An aged mud-turtle was discovered at Dix
mont a few days since. He was marked and
set free in 1887, and has just been retaken.
The Bangor Wing says barn belonging TO
Mr. j. Rundlett of Etna, was burned Sunday
night with all of its contents, consisting of
three cows, one yoke of oxen and twenty five
tons of hay. By some means horse that was
put into the barn at night, got out in the ex-
element, or was taken out before the fire. and
was found safe in the fell in the morning
Ihsl1 fra ant f1,o .,I
airy.
PISCATAQUIS COUNTY.
From our correspondent ST.
Most OF the schools in Parkman closed on
the 9th. The event was celebrated by a gath
ering of school officers, teachers parents and
pupils in Warren's Park, where the afternoon
was spent in listening to singing, declarations
and dialogues by the children, and addresses
by the committee and others, the whole affair
closing with a picnic supper. The meeting
was very pleasant, and, no doubt a profita.
Bile one. t
Guiliord is a beautiful town of some 1000 in
habitaDts, on the north hank of the Piscat ia
quis, bounded on tie east by Foxcroft, south
by Sangervile, west by Abbott and on the
north by mountains aud forests extending to
where human eyes have never beheld and hui
man feet have never trod. There are no poor
people in Guilford, few uery wealthy ones, and
no lack of schools, intelligence and newspa-
pers 1t is one of the very best farming towns
in the State, and that aged pioneer farmer,
Leonard Howard, Esq, still lives to recount
the tale OF his early tolls, adventures and hard
ships. The town is benefited by three doc
tors and Ornamented by three lawyers
Esquire Bradman says, through the Observer,
that more rain tell in South Dover in one
night last week than had fallen during the
previous forty-nlne days.
Rev. Mr.. GunnisOn is very acceptably
preaching to the Universalist congregations in
Guilford and Parkman.
Everybody knows that Piscataguis county is
back in the woods. What information we get
comes from somewhere, outside of the county,
We learn from the Dexter Gazette,-an excel
lent paper, by the way-that VIM. p. Haines
OF Blddeford has been nominated by the Dem
ocrats Of the Fifth District as a candidate for
Congress. Should Mr.. Haines be elef ted by
the Democrats of that district, nobody will dis
pute his eligibility to a seat in Congress. S.
sAGADAHOC COUNTY.
The Bath Times says four members of a fam
lily in that city met this summer who had MT
been united before for twenty three years.
Patrick Gehagan, employed on the Knox &,
Lincoln railroad, was struck by a fragment of
a rock weighingfabout 40 pounds, which was
thrown by blast. 1t crushed his shoulder
broke his ann and leg and inflicted other in,
juries. He lived about five minutes.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
George d. Arnold has been appointed nost-
master at East Madison, vice S. S. Brownsan.
resigned.
YORK COUNTY.
The amount due to the depositors in tie Saco
and Biddeford Savings Institution on the third
Wednesday of July was 1884 459 90, being an
Increase during the year of $685. Sc. Two
dividends of three and half per cent, each
amounting in the aggregate to $40, 1906 so, have
been paid within the year, leaving a reserved
fund of $5,0S957.
The city government of Saco have rendered
o the county commissioners of the county of
York a lease of the jail building situated on
Factory Island, in Saco, for the .purpose of a
Jail, or House of Correction for said county. |
ogether with lease of the lot Connected
herewith for the purpose of erecting addition
Il Jail accommodations for said county if ne |
essary; said lease to he for the consideration |
If a nominal sum, aud to be perpetual, their |
lse only revertins to the city of Saco when |
hey shall cease to be occupied for the above |
famed purposes.