The Portland daily press., 1870-07-19
State News.
AROOsTooK COUNTY,

The Sunrise says that on Sunday last the
woods in every direction were on fire. A. ter
rifle fire was raging near Squaw Pond in the
swamps upon which the lumbermen have re-
Gently operated. We rode to Caribou in the
afternoon, and found the fire near the road in
some places, raging fearfully, and west of the
village it was in full blast. Some Of the trees
Gently cut under the direction of the Land
Agent for the Scandinavians have been burned
over. Fort Fairfield village on Sunday was in
eminent peril. The shower in the evening
however, extnguished the fire.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
One of the Goddard prizes offered for best
defamation, at Tufts College, was won by
George T. knight of Windham.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Mr.. Sewall Gordon of Chesterville commit
ted suicide by hanging on Thursday last
Cause of the rash act unknown.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The Kennebec Journal says an effort is to be
made to secure in that city State fireman 8
muster and regatta about the first of Sep
TENDER.
The Universalsts now have one of the pref
test churches in Hallowell. 1t has been ex-
tensively renovated from basement to spire,th
past year.
Rev. J. M. Kelley, chaplain at the Togus
asylum,has been appointed chaplain in the reg
ular army, and to the great regret of the in
mates and officers of the asylum, will leave for
his new field of duty in few days.
Hallowell probably produces more cherries
than all the other cities and towns on the Ken
pc fSdsy he market Is overoWng,
says the Augusta Journal.
OXFORD COUNTY.
The Lewiston Journal says that Mrs. John
Needham of Bethel was riding alone through
the village, Friday afternoon, when the horse
took fripht from &c ba
harness, and ran, throwing her from the car
riage so as to strike her head on plank Gull
vert. She was taken up senseless, a physician
sent for who found her skull depressed. She
was living Saturday morning, but with very
slight prospect of recovery.
PENOBsCOT COUNTY.
The Bangor Wing says ninety millions feet
OF logs are now hung up on the Penobscot river
and its branches.
Two cows and two steers, all valuable ami
mails, belonging to Rufus Work of Carmel,
were killed by lightning in their pasture Thurs
day.
The Spiritualists will hold meeting at West
Hampden, three miles west of Hampden Up
per Corner, on Saturday and Sunday, August
18th and 18th.
The Bangor Wing says the census Of Dexter
shows population of 1880; gain in ten years
of 517, and nearly all this increase has been
during the last three years.
The survivors of the First Heavy Artillery
will celebrate their eighth anniversary by an
excursion from Bangor to Fort Point on Au-
gust 23d. Col. q. A. Smith of Skowhegan will
deliver an historical ad aress upon the occasion
and David Barker, Esq, of Exeter, will read
poem inscribed to the regiment on its return
from the war-the sequel to "You Thousand
Men,"
The Bangor Wing says loose hay was
sold in that market last week at SIS to $1S per
ton; straw So to $40; oats 75c. to 81; barley 80
to c)c; beans, yellow-eyed beans from 50 to
So Is; pea 50 so to $2.75; butter. % to Csc.
green peas 75c. to 81 per bush; blueberries S.
per bush.
PIscATAQUIs COUNTY.
A large and quite enthusiastic meeting was
held at Sebec Village on Friday evening, July
10, to devise ways and means for the cOnstruc-
ton Of q railroad nine miles in length, co con-
meet Sebec Village with the Piscataquis rail-
road at Milo. The meeting was addressed by
Messrs. Geo. M. Weston and /. r. Clark of
Bangor; MI. Gushing of Barnard, and Messrs.
Robinson, Ciley. Parker, .Wyman and Will
solicit subscriptions, and the meeting adjourn
ed TO Friday evening of this week.
On Sunday, the 18th inst, six were baptised
at Richmond by the pastor Of the M. E. church,
four by immersion and two by s2rinkling.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
A man in Ripley, who was shortly to be mar
ried, took two ounces of lauo anum on Satur-
day last, to avert the calamity. Emetics were
useless when the doctor came, and the would
be suicide was saved to his affianced by the eff
forts of men and muscle and endurance, who
walked him about all night, in spite of himself.
The Dexter Gazette says that about two weeks
before he attempted to hang himself, but was
discovered before he completed the JOB.
YORK COUNTY.
The steam saw mill of Hon. Joseph Hobson
at Biddeford caught fire Saturday evening"
The damage was considerable, but the fire was
extinguished before it had got we'll under way.