The Portland daily press., 1870-04-09
state News.
ANpRoscoca1N COUNTY,

4uC 4IoWtotOu VOus Ssue say bu0 AuuEObCOS-
gin Water Power Company at Lisbon Falls
propose erecting this spring steam saw mill
Just above the dam at that place. It will be
situated near the A. r. r. track, SO that lum-
Der can be loaded direct from the mill, to cars.
The old grist mill Is sIsB to be reconstructed in
to -four mill " it'll three runs of stone. These
projected improvements are conditional on the
tewn's exemptina them from taxation for ten
years.
The bridge over Sabattus Stream on the
highway road between Lewiston and Lisbon
Falls, tumbled in day or two since and now
lies a wreck on the bank below, and travel
now goes round by the paper mill.
Saturday night the depot of the Androscog-
gin railroad at Lisbon, was broken into and
some $500 worth OF tickets stolen.
The Knickerbocker Ice Company lof New
York, which built large ice house in Febru-
airy at Lisbon Falls, after filling it partially
putting in about 5000 tons, suddenly closed
operations, probably discovering that the cold
winter weather was making plenty of ice
nearer home. t
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The Sherman Steel Company at Bucksport
are now ready to make three tons Of steel a
day.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
John May, of Aueusta, the celebrated horse
man, has sold to Boston parties four year old
colt, sired by the Winthrop Morrill,, for $4500.
- KNOX COUNTY ~ -
We learn from the Free Press that the house
Of Captain Yeaton of Rockland, was burned,
Friday night.
OXFORD COUNTY 81
At the meeting of the Bethel Natural His
tory Society, April 2, DR.. True announced the
discovery OF the skeleton of q walrus in the
town of Union in this State, while some men
were employed in digging we'll. The bones
were deposited in a bed of blue clay, about
twelve feet from the surface Miss Phebe
Buxton read a paper on Weeds and Mrs. N. T.
True one on the Structure and GroDM
Shells
A crippled child of Edward Varney, of
Porter, aged about years, was SO shockingly
burned one day last week, by his clothes TAX
ing fire, in the absence of his parents, that it
survivee its injuries but few hours.
Oxford County Lodge of Good Templars,
week. Seven Lodges were represented, and
the exercises were Of highly interesting char
acter. The order is in very hourishing con-
dition in Oxford county. One year ago there
little more than five hundred. Now. there
are seventeen Lodges with an aggregate MEM
bership of over fifteen hundred.
PENoBscor COUNTY.
Samuel Thurstou, Esq, one of the oldest
and most respectable citizens of Bangor, died
Thursday, at the advanced age of " years.
sAGADAHoc COUNTY. ...s
The female runner Commercial, not pedes-
trian), has arrived in Bath. 90
The Times says that "Moosehead ice contin-
ues to come down on the rivers tide thick and
fast A little OF Skowhegan mud, a part ofthe
Augusta dam, q Gardiner lath, and Rich
NOR mOnd shi9 II were seen yesterday wandering
,----- WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The Calais Advertiser says in effect of the
late election in that city which resulted in the
choice Of o Democratic mayor,S'Rum did it.
G. r. Whidden, Esq, Representative from
Calais in the Legislature and now collector,
explains at great length in a recent letter his
course on the Calais court bill.
Calais is building lookup that is to cost
$1140. seI -
Mr. George Hobbs has leased the Ocean
House at Wells for the coming season. The
former lessee, Mr.. Locke has gone West.
A gentleman living near Old Orchard Beach
informs us that himself and seven others got
about thirty. bushels of hen clans, at the
beach last Friday morning. He remembers
number of years since getting with one COM
panion at the same beach, twenty-five bush
els. . -. -..,-.-r
The Pepperell Manufacturing Co., are erect
leg tower from the middle. of the roof Of
bell, and to be surmounted by vane. It was
proposed to have an illuminated clock, but
one must necessarily be imported at a heavy
cost, and that project was given up.
Monday last Mr.. Horatio Kicker and BROTH
er of Kenpebunk, started Q drove of cattle 10
Brighton. They sold the cattle and remained
in Boston on business. Wednesday afternoon
his relatives received a. dispatch saying that
he dropped dead in gentleman's Office that
afternoon. Heart disease was the cause of
death.
The Bddeford Journal learns that Hon. j.
II. Mcmillan of Biddeford has purchased the
James Steam Mills at Newburypo1t tor $780,
Co., The original cost was 100000.
AT LARGE.
Lodges of Good Templars have been estab-
lished at Mars Hill and Gardiner.
The Grand Division of the Sons of Tenn
perance will hold its next session at Cape
Elisabeth, commencing Wednesday, April ".
All our exchanges complain of the mud.
We find in the Maine Farmer that the ex-
pertinent tried at the State Agricultural Col
lege of putting in grass that had been cut but
one day, didn't work advantageousy.
1t is reported that but one steamer is to run
between the Kennebec and Boston the coming
season, says the Bath Times.
The Temperance ADVOCATE apologies for the
shortness OF its Sons of Temperance Depart
ment this week on the ground that its con-
ductor lis busy counting this week?" An ed
itor with time for counting!