The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-03-31
state News.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

The Lewiston journal says party of young
men who enlisted in the regular army from
Lewiston three years since, returned Monday,
their time of service having expired. They
have been serving at Fort Laramie and fight
ing Indians. They have had a rough time of
it, and return eminently satisfied that civil
lied life is preferable.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Mr. Davis, of the Chronicle, has had another
attack of bleeding at the lungs
KENNRBEc COUNTY.
There is compostor in the Kenpebec Jour-
nal sfhce who has been at work at the case for
f0rty-one years.
Judge Weston, of Augusta, is 81 wears of
age, and yet his step is elastic, his bodv erect.
and his mind as clear and unfailing as when
he honored the bench. He is able to attend to
all the duties of bis business.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
During search for liquors under the new
law at the Foxcroft Exchange, new temper
ance hotel at FOxcrOit, on March 18th, w. w.
CLARK, one of the owner Of the house, attempt
ed to shoot MIR. Judson 7. Parker, formerly of
Boston, guest of the house. Clark was
armed with six shooter. He has been ar
rested.
A correspondent of the Bangor Wing proves
by figures" that Etna is not as the Gardiner
Journal has facetiously declared, ''made up
of about equal parts OF pond, bog, solid rock
and loose rock, with very little dirt to hold
them together"
The Wing reports that the Penobscot shows
signs of getting rid of its ice at an early day.
Mr.. r. II. Bunker, of East Bangor, was shot
| few days since by the accidental discharge
OF gun in the hands of a careless boy. The
charged entered the lett arm near the shoulder
hut fortunately only single shot entered the
body.
On the morning of Sunday, March 9th, as
Mr.; Michael Murphy, of Oldtown, of the firm
OF Douglass & Murphy. was examining pit
| from which workmen had been taking gravel
to put on their dam on the south branch OF
Trout brook, bank of frozen earth and gravel
| weighing several tons, caved and fell npOn him
injuring him SO seriously that he died in about
an hour, as We learn from the Wing.
Miss Georgette Bowler has been elected q
member Of the School Committee in Lee.
Work is progressing favorably on the Euro
pean u North American Railway.
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
The Bath Times says that the Back river i.
free from ice to Boothbay The Rival came
up Tuesday with sc veral passengers from that
seaport. This being SO, it will not be but 8
| few weeks before the regular steamboat line
will be established.
| A new railway is proposed that will bring
St. John, N: B., within twenty -four hours O
Montreal. The route proposed is described in
| bill now before the Dominion Parliament
and drawn up by Mr.. e. r. BuIpee, Ci,il En-
gineer, who is at Ottawa urging the matter
Mr.. Burpee proposes to start from Lincoln, on
the E. & N. A. Railway in Maine. build fif
teen miles to Milo, on the Piscataquis Rail
| way; traverse the Piscataquis road to Dover
twenty five miles; build from Dover to Sher
brooke on the Grand Trunk, by Lake Megan
tl", 125 miles; and pass thence to Montreal by
the Grand Trunk, the whole distance beips
only 422 miles from st. John, and there beipi
only 14O miles to build. This would make tn,
distance 100 miles less than by the presen
route via Grand Trunk to Dauvile, and tbenc
via Bangor to st. John. The st. John Tele
graph earnestly champions Mr.. Burpee's plan
Doyle, who has just died in the State prison
was native of Cape Breton, anc was 81 year
old at the time OF his death.
The following post Office changes have beer
made Tobias L. Roberts at East Eden, Han
cock county, vice E. G.. Delisle, resigned
Charles E. Hammons at Glenburn, Penob
scot county, vice Nathan Parsons, removed
Jeremiah s. Crosby at Welchville, Oxfort
county, vice Freeman K. Small. resigned
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