The Portland daily press., 1870-07-01
state News.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY
A surrillous fellow in Lewiston, saws the
journal, told the census taker the age of a
maiden lady who lived up stairs-"That she
had been twenty-five these last thirty wears. .
A little six-years-old gill in Lewiston, who
had always deposited her spare pennies in q
tiny TN savings bank, opened it Tuesday, and
1onnd her gradual savin.s aggregated $57,
which her father Immediately deposited in one
of the savings banks.
The Mayor and Aldermen of Auburn. at a
meeting on Wednesday, voted to remove from
the city Liquor Agent the restriction recently
put upon the sales of liquor. This restriction
was that the s9les should be made only on the
prescription of physician, and the physicians
declined to take the responsibility of determ-
lining to whom liquors shall be sold.
= At an adjourned meeting of the trustees Of
Bates College, the Rev. j. A. Lowell resigned
as Secretary of the Board, and A. M. Jones.
Esq, was elected to fill the place.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Pennington Chronicle says gold has
been discovered at North Jay OIL Mr.. Bartlett's
farm. The fresbet of last fall washed away
the banks of a small stream, running near Mr..
BIS buildings, and laid bare bed Of red pray-
ell in which the gold is found. Returned Cali
fornians have been prospecting with very fat
tering results.
IN. ID.
P. Frye will address the citizens of Farming
ton on the 4th of July.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The wife of the Police Judge at Ellsworth,
wishing for new dress, commissioned her
friends in Connecticut to purchase the silk
material This was done and the lady receiv-
ed it. 1t not suiting her taste she returned it
by express, but it got no further than Bangor
some of the vigilant officers of the Customs in
q und lS
So says the Anaereean.
The Ellsworth american says while DR.. Geo.
B. Hopkins of Portland was speaking at a
Spiritual Convention on Saturday evening, he
fell from the platform to the man floor, some
two feet, dislocating his shoulder.
Mr.. Henry West highly esteemed citizen
OF East Bucksport, had his right leg fractured
and Fnee severely wounded by falling rock
from bridge he was repairing.
Jerome Davis, overseer at Swazey's Dead
River Mills, at Orland, while in the woods
peellng bark was caught by the branches of q
falling tree, fracturing his right arm, and two
ribs of right side, wOunding the lungs and Sc.
verely Druising him about the back and chest
He is in critical condition.
, KENNEBEC COUNTY.
In the Augusta City Council, on Saturday
the following proposition of the A. & w
Sprague Manufacturing Compapv was re-
THE city of Augusta hereby agree to assume
the cost, care and risk of constructing, oper
ating and maintaining any fishways that NAV
be required on the Kennebec dam; also to as
sumo The cost, care and risk of operating the
locks, and the usual and ordinary repairs o.
the locks and gates, and the cost and risk o.
keeping the locks and approaches in suita
BILE condition to meet the requirements of nav.
igation, proUided. that the A. & W. Sprague
Manufacturing Company will agree to com
mence at once to rebuild and repair the dam
in a thorough manner, and to 90 on with the
construction OF the new mill and its append
ages this season"
The Hallowell Gazette in abiding to the ex
tremely modest request by the Spragnes of the
city of Augusta, and which was refused by The
city, hears it stated that the dam will net BIZ
rebuilt the present season. The amount re-
quired to carry out this proposition of the
SSpragnes by the city would be some $50, 900
The Farmer says the city action upon thu
proposition will meet with the decided ap
proval of the people of Augusta.
The Hallowell Gazette states that three re-
sponsible men will put up $4,000 steam saw
mill in that city if the city will loan then
5000 upon uIdoubted security, at six pe
cent. interest.
The Journal says the steamer ella" in he
down trip on Monday, run into a schooner a
Gardiner, slightly damaging the upper work.
J.
jured.
KNOX COUNTY.
The rate of taxes this year in Rockland il
two and a half per cent
The Herald scolds about the lack of public
spirit in Camden which fails to celebrate tn,
Fourth of July.
The people of Rockland are kicking agains
au increase of water rates which the waite
company propose to hadopt alter July 1. TIL,
knI.r Ia 6
houses which persons occupy. 1t is proposed
to call public meeting upon the subject.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The Bangor Wing says that Mr.. Charlie
Spooner, of East EddingtOn (whose death, b,
suicide, was announced in our telegraphic dis
patches yesterday, was between 81 and 81
years of age, OF very nervous, irritable tenn
permanent, has been considered somewhat de
ranged in his mind for some time past tn ougl
no one anticipated any outbreak or yiolenc
against himself or Others
The Whiq says that MIS-. Sarah Coly
wife of DIR. COly, Penobscot Indian, aged g.
years, died very suddenly at damon last Sun
day forenoon. In the morning she was appar
emily as well as usual, and was about to pre-
pare dinner for her sick daughter, but Will
standing before the glass arranging her hair
fell back and Immediately expired. She hat
been troubled with heart disease for man,
years.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The Skowhegan Reporter says wool promis
es to do a little better for the producer thar
it did last year. 1t stands at 40 to &c against
80 to 40 at this time last year. Theeclip is yer.
much lighter, hundreds of sheep being sold t
the butchers the past fall and winter.
The Reporter Gays Monday, Mrs. james
Blackwell of Madison GENRE was throw
from carriage in which she was riding, an,
as she fell, her arm was caught in ,he whee
and the flesh literally torn from inst below
the elbow TO the wrist. Drs. Snow and Ste
vens dressed the wounds, but so severe is III,
injury that she lies in very critical condi
zion.
WALDO COUNTY
There is only one vessel on the stocks
Be fast now, and that is a ship in McGilverys
yard She is being pushed along fast and will
be ready to get off early in the fall Another
vessel, a barque, will be put on the stocks
alongside in a few days, says the Age
The Age says upwards of five miles OF rails
have been laid on the Belfast & Moosehead lax,
railroad, the working party being now in
Waldo. The rails over the piliug across the
dock will be laid this week and then the en-
will commence at the other end of the route
about July 9th.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Amos Feneson of Princeton, was seriously
injured on last Saturday by a railway car. Two
OF his ribs were broken, but hopes are enter
tanned of his recovery.
Sarah Shannon of Mohannas was drowned
on last Saturday afternoon while bathing in
the ST. Croix river at Calais. Arson Harmon,
lad ten years of age, was also drowned in the
river near Lindsays wharf. His body wa.
found Sunday.