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

The Soldiers Monument at North Auburn,
W" be dedicated, at the Cemetery, on Satur-
day, July 9th at O'Clock, z. M.
An grafton was delivered at Mechanic Falls
on the Fourth, by Rev. r. j. Langridge, and
the Declara.. on of Independence W. ) read by
G. +. W altman, Esq.
Mrs. Louisa Smith of Brxton, died in Au-
burn, last week, ION the effects of injuries
sustained q few weeks ago by being thrown
from carriage at Dan lie Corner.
The City Council of Lewisto have voted by
a very large majority, in favor of the expedi-
ency of proceeding at once with the erection
of city BIZ ldings. The proposition is to build
contain post office, city hall, and all the
rooms needed by the Gig Government.
tRoOsTooK COUNTY.
An Episcopal church Wa consecrated at
Fort F. 'rfield June 9th Bishop Nicely eff
ciated.
KEN-IEBEc CoUr ~.
Sill Leonard, ESQ.,, well-known CT. zen of
Augusta, died at his residence in that city
Tuesday, at the age of 70 years.
Leroy Morrill,, aoed twelve years, son of San
ders MOrrin of Vienna, was drowned in Mt.
Vernon July 4th. He went into the pond to
battle, and stepped into place where the wa
ter was thirty feet deep. He grasped at boy
who was in bathing with him, and both would
have been e-owneG had not the boy been able
drowning comDar ION. The body was recover
ed in the evening.
Grin Weymouth, Of Clinton, she himself "a
tally '. tn a revolver, July I'd, while in fit of
insanity. He died in few minutes. He was
thirty-six years old Domestic troubles are re-
ported to be the cause of his arrangement
Last Thursday, while four men were engag
ed in Singing the root of a two stoly house
in Fayet. ), the sta,.ng gave way, and three
were precipitated to the ground, a distance Of
thirty feet landing among the stones and de-
br.s below. Arthur d. Kent was badly injur-
ed in the back, Fred G.. Palmer, elbow dislo-
Gated and -.,actured; w. H. Stevens escaped
with very slight Injury.
rENoBscoT COUNTY.
A military company is about being organ'7-
ed in Hampton.
The Law Term of the Supreme Judicial
COu-t for the Eastern Dist ,ict, which has been
in session at Bangor, adjourned on Tuesday
W thout day, after delivering opinions in
large number of cases, within that District.
There was no particular observance of the
Fourth at Bangor, except by the boys. Two
afternoon.
SOMERSET COU-ITY.
The ci, Gems of Arson on Saturday last in
structed the Selectmen of the town, by vote
Of II to 1903, to pay the balance of that towns
subscription to the stock of the Somerset rail-
IOdu CUulpdUy, silu amount 10 DC expended IN
grading and constructing the road between
Arson rage and the river below Madison
Falls bridge.
The Fourth was celebra d in Skowhegan
by -,arade of the Minute Men of re- and
the Fenians," under Gen. O'Neil. A pro-
cession was formed headed by the Skowhegan
Light Infant ; and the Madison Infantry fol-
lowed by representation of the navy by fifty
boys dressed in nav uniform and Skowhegan
Artillery, followed by ca -iages, all under di-
rection Of General Isaac DYER, marshal. In
Cohurn Hall, ex- Governor Coburn presiding,
General Shepard read the Declaration of Iu-
dependence, and the Rev. G. w. Bicknell of
Portsmouth, N. H., delivered an grafton GU
Mans estimate of liberty and the duty of the
hour" In the afternoon there was trot on
the park, and at 8 o'clock regatta.
YORK COUNTY.
The Fourth was celebra'7d at Kittery by
picnics and levees by the different religious
societies in that town. About filty Young
folks went over to Freeman's Cape Neddiek
Horse, and various private pc ties went down
among the islands.
Mr. Theodore Keene of Kittei :, hi J a chick
en- of tho Rocky mountain breed, that has
three legs: 1t bright and 'vely, and seems
likely to we.
lie Universalists in Kijery have establish
ed permanent organization under the charge
OF Rev. George w. cknell of Portsmouth,
N. H.
Richard P or, aged years, son of Mr.. Dan
lei =. Prior, formerly Of xxittery, was drov ned
at Melrose, Mass. ON Saturday afternoon. the
End inst, while gathering pond lilies
Co. t. K. Lane has put an oppostions ,am-
er upon the route from Biddeford to the Pool
AT LARGE.
re Camden Herald says that an ex-detec-
tive officer of Portsmouth, -c9rtained in
April 1869, that Langdon w. Moore, alias
Charles W. Adams, of New York, now confin-
ed in Belfast Jail as one of the Lime Rock
Bank robbers at Rockland. We one of the
gam who tapped the safe of d. w. O'Brion.
of 20 iish, A1e., in 1867, and also the Norway
Bank at Norway. The officer, at considerable
expense, obtained a requisition rom Gov.
Chamberlain on Gov. Hoffman of New York,
and W. appOin d agent for the State Of
Maine by Gov. Chamberlain to receive Moore
ON the Execu, We of New York, and take
him v thin the limits of Maine A..sr noti.' y
ing the authorities at Washington of what he
had done, he was informed that they did not
deem it ad. sable to t. ke y 'ther action in the
matter.