The Portland daily press., 1870-03-17
state News.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.

A series of games of checkers for the cham
pionship of Maine opened in Lewiston Wednes-
day between F. J. Day and Capt. w, 81.
Broughton, Of Portland. Eight games had
been played Wednesday, of which Brougtton
won six and two were drawn.
The Lewiston Journal says that the next
trial for the election of a Mayor will probably
be the last of the week, and that plurality
will decide.
The Journal says that meeting of the cor
porators of the new Androscoggin Valley Rail-
road is to be held in Lewiston at an early day.
The people on the route are all awake to the
enterprise.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
The dwelling house of G. E. Skofeld. of
HodgdOn, with portion of its contents. was
burned last Wednesday night. Cause sup
posed to be defect in the chimney. Loss about
$1,000; no insurance.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
At an adjourned meeting of the town of
Windham, held Monday, March 18th, the
amount of money raised wasras follows:-To
defray town expenses, $500; to pay interest
on debt, $500; for support Of schools, $2634 !;
for repairs of highways, summer and winter,
$3.50. Voted one and one-half per cent. for
collection of taxes.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
"Stencs" writes to the Lewiston Journal as
follows concerning the New Sharon murder
case, now on trial at The pris-
oner, John Fletcher, is AZ years of ace. has a
wife and one child, a daughter married at
Skowhegan. The deceased, John s. Tolman,
was 60 years old, has wife and five children,
three daughters married, one at Skowhegan
and the other two at New Sharon; one SON is
married and lives at New Sharon, and the
other, 16 years of age, lives at home. Both
prisoner and deceased were well-to-do farm
ers, living within the same school district,
Fletcher within one-fourth of mile of New
Sharon vi1laUo opd Toluoop hon :Ia Co
Their. Fletcher has been Collector of Taxes
for the last three years.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The Kingsbury incendiary case is again on
trial at Augusta, the Indictment against the
prisoner being for melting one James Kitchen
to set fire to a Westinghouse in China. VIM.
Penn Whitehouse. County Attorney, appears
for the State and 70. F. Pillsbury and L. Clay
for defendant.
The Kennebcc Journal says that after care
full investigation it is ascertained that the Ken
nebec dam was not injured by the ice freshet
to the alarming extent that newspaper cores
pondents and others have been so Industrious
to publish to the world. Only about seven
feet of the upper portion of the structure has
pee9 carried away. extending some two hun
dred in length. The foundation and lower
| works seem to remain as firm and substantial
| as ever.
Judge Rice has just returned from Philadel-
cost of erecting an iron bridge across the river
at Augusta.
James P. Nickerson and forty-nine other
Massachusetts disabled soldiers now pension
ed in the U. S. Military Asylum, at Augusta
have petitioned the Massachusetts, Legisla-
ture that they may be returned to the State OF
| Massachusetts,.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
| A wood shed on the Maine Central Railroad
at Etna, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday.
OXFORD COUNTY.
Among the earlier settlers of Canton, who
| are still living, is Hon. Cornelius Holland, who
county in Congress, we believe, during Gen
Jackson's administration. He was settled in
Canton before the last Indian disappeared.
The farmers of Oxford county are preparing
to do an extensive maple sugar business this
| year.
| AT LARGE.
Much complaint is made in different sec
tons of the State of the suffering of bees the
present winter. Nearly all their honey ha!
to feed them in order to save them.
The retiring and new city governments o
Bangor, together with upwards of 100 leading
citizens made a grand excursion to Dover
Tuesday by invitation of the Directors of the
Bangor and Piscataquis railroad. The object
Of this visit was to test the tEoroughness of the
road with q view to deciding upon further
thousand dollars have already been subscribed
by the city and one hundred and twenty-five
thousand more is wanted to complete the road
The question will be submitted to the voters O
Bangor at an early day. The road opens up 9
fertile region reaching the vicinity fthe State
quarries and Katahdin Iron Works. The
length is about 40 miles, and the cost of con.
| structioD will be about 81 ,00O,O 900.