The Portland daily press., 1870-03-29
KENNEBEC COUNTY.

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men of that city propose starting for Montana
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KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The Mail says one of the lodges invented by
some of the bright boys of #atervnle is to get
their dogs out OF town while the assessors are
on their annual round of visits, in order to es-
cape the dog tax.
The Kennebec Journal says Capt A. Clark,
Register of Deeds, was attacked with hemor-
rage of the lungs Friday and lies in very
Frustrated condition.
PENOBsCoT COUNTY.
A man by the name of Doane, So years old,
resident of Hampden, was found dead in his
bed Saturday morning. He retired in usual
health.
The new City Council of Bangor, at the first
meeting struck boldly for reform by reducing
the salaries of all the municipal officers except
the Mayor twenty per cent.
Six tons of butter and bacon hams were
drawn on Friday by teams from Woodstock,
n. B., to Mattawamkeag, to be transported
over the European & North American Rail-
road to Bangor.
Mr. Abram Woodland, Of the Penobscot Ex-
change, has sold fine horse for $4,000. This
completes the sale of five superior horses ia
Bangor within few days, fog :he aggregate
sum of $40, 900. All of them 20 to New York.
The Bangor Wing gives the following prices
in that market: Loose hay SIS to $1S per ton !;
inferior do. $40 to $14; loose straw So to $40
per ton. Oats, average price, Is cents. Barley
scarce at 90 cents Dried apples IL to - cents
per ID: Beans, extra pea, So per bush. yellow
eyes So to So %. Butter, common lump and
solid, % to 30 cents; nice lump 80 to IS cents;
extra scarce. Eggs % cents. Potatoes 45 to
30 cents. Poultry scarce; Lchckens % to %
cents; turkeys "a to % cents according to size
and quality.
A son of Mr.. George B. McCorrison, aged
about two years, fell 26 feet to the ground.
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Hotel in Kenduskeag, Saturday morning
Strange to say, he was very little iniared ex-
ternally, but it is feared that his internal in
iuries will prove fatal. His mother had open
ed the window to air the room, and the little
fellow leaning out, lost his balance and fell as
above described.
The Bangor Wing says Mr.. Philemon Hig-
gins of Bangor was taken sick about three
weeks since, and being well along in years,
made a will in favor of his wife. The fatigue
of attending him in his illness and the deep
anxiety was too great strain upon her, and
the 18th. only four days afterwards, Mr.. Hig-
gins died.
sAaADAHoc COUNTY.
The Times ssysJ. II. Allen & Co. Of Bath,
received Friday ten freight car loads of iron,
being importations from Europe to Portland
and thence by rail to their warehouses.
John Patten Of Bath, J. Parker Morse Of
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Farwell of Rockland, have been nominated by
the Governor as Trustees of the Military and
Naval Asylum for orphan children.
The Times says that the Knox and Lincoln
Railroad Company have been given the right
to establish ferry between Bath and Wool
witch, and to take land tor such purposes under
the railroad law of the State.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The stock for new bridge at Norridgewock
is fast being taken up,
The Supreme Judicial Court for Somerset
county adjourned after session OF three days.
The spring term of the Eaton School COM
menced this week with an unusually large at
tendance. Mr.. Eaton has as assistants Miss L.
G.. Jackson, Miss H. E. Dantorth and Il, F.
Eaton.
WALDO COUNTY.
On Saturday Sheriff Calderwood served a
writ on the town of Unity, in the suit of the
Belfast q MOOsehead Lake Railroad corpora
ton for the amount of that towns subscrip-
ton. One has also been served on the town of
Brooks, as we learn from the Belfast Journal,
WASHINGTON COUNTY
There is religious interest in the Methodist
society at Eastport and a revival is in progress
in Palmyra.
The Machias Union says that on the 18th
inst, Mr.. Elias Pickett, while going towards
the store OF r. Pickett & Sons, in Millbridge,
eeuiHpieu anu Iell neaVlly, causing internal ln-
juries which resulted in his death the follow
ing morning. His age was go years.
The ladies of East Machias have organised
an organ society to aid in raising funds for
procuring an organ for the Congregational
Westinghouse.
The Machias Union says ghost has been
seen in one of the logging camps up river, the
crew being awakened in the dead hours of The |
night by the deacon seat moving itself about
the camp. One of the men got up and placed |
a heavy tool chest on the seat, but the weight |
had NO influence toward checking its unto- |
ward gymnastics, when all the crew arose and |
mounted the plank but the ghost would not be |
pacifed, and fnally took possession, driving |
all lands cut of the camp. They, in their |
alarm, took shelter in the hovel with the oxen |
and horses, during the remainder of the night. |
AT daylight next morning the ghost has disap- |
peared, having destroyed the camp utensils |
and turned the camp topsy turvey.
YORK COUNTY.
The small pox is reported as raging in New |
Held. In the family of VIM. M. Tibbetts, in |
that town, there are four sick with it, and a |
Young child of Mr.. T.. died of the fell disease.
When it first appeared it was thought to be |
chicken p0x and was treated as such.
The Biddeford Journal learns that the Saco |
Water Power Machine Shop have recently |