The Portland daily press., 1871-03-22
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Farm. |
ington, who resides at Livermore Falls com.
mitted suicide on Sunday night last. Be was
f,und on Monday morning in his room dead
with his throat cut. Mr.. Hayden had heen
quite unwei for some time; at the time of his
SD opposed that his mind had become sffecIed py
suffering, causing hiua to commit the deed.
t. ARoosTooK COUNTY.
The Voice says the stage on the wav from
HoultOp to Maltawamkeag, tuesday Timed /
over in HaynesvIlle, iniuriDg Swede GniIe !
ocadly: The stage was Oh wheels and crowded |
Inii OF passengers. On Monday oh the same |
route stage horse had leg broken.
We learn that Commissioner Thomas ia mali
ing such arrangements that be is In homes of |
adding largely to the Swedish colonv IL 1h1s
county the comlDg season, now considered a |
success: 1t is believed that the colouy by next |
la. VIII NUMBER not far from one thousand
CUMBERLAND COUNTY
Rev. George A. Putoam, formerly nastor of
the First Parish at Y Yarmouth, IS to supDly the
pulpit at Millbury, Mass, for one year. Sala-
ry $1,000 and parsonage.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
A correspondent of the Lewiston Journal
states that he has been informed tuat in Phil.
lips there resides mother at the age Of twelve
baby was active aud smart at birth, aud SO was
the mother. This beats the girl at Ellsworth
who got married at the age OF fourteen.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
There has been nearly 300 900 tons of ice cut
in the Kennebec river this year.
Lake, one of the robbers of tie ticket Office
at Gardiner, in 1869, was recently arrested at
Worcester, Mass, for larceny from a hotel
His associate is in Providence Jail.
The Portland & Kennebec Railroad Comma
ny are building at their shops in Augusta a
splendid baggage and postal car of the monitor
pattern, 81 feet long, twelve wheeled, to be fiu-
ished with walnut. chestnut and cherry woods.
II will be on the track in June and is tn he
put on A. c. Llncoln's train.
F. o. Beals, conductor of the express train
from Augusta, has been presented with an
elegant badge by his friends on the road.
Rev. b. A. Rcbie preached his farewell SER
mon to the Congregational Caurch in Water
vile last Sabbath. and will at once commence
labor with the church in Wilmington, Mass.
A case of elephantiasis is trying the skill of
the medical faculty at Watervie. Ia this dis
| ease, witch is very rare in this country, the pa
tents legs are swollen 10 an enormous size,
| the skin becoming hard and rough, and sug-
| gestive of the lower extremites Tor an eie.
| plant se
| At a meeting Of the members of the Senior
| Glass of Colby University on Saturday, it was
decided to engage Chandler's Baud Of Port
| land and the MendtsshOn Quiutette Club of
| Boston, to furnish music during next com
mencement, which takes place the e. st week
in August Dr. lde of Springfie Id, Mass has
been engaged 10 deliver the address before the
Bnardman Missionary Society, aud Rev. ] d,
Fulton OF Boston, will deliver the grafton be-
tore the United literary societies. There is a
fine class of young men to graduate, and the
Glass day exercises, often the most interesting
part OF Com m+ NC ment, though unob elved
SINCE the Glass of '6S graduated, ill be carried
| out in full. ar
John D'Artbenay Of Augusta, owns a nine
months o'd colt OF tue Fearnaught stock, which
i shows rem arkable degree OF developemeDt.
| He is as well filled out as matare animal, has
been trained to perform many of the tricks OF
| circus auimal, is broken to harness and trot s
four m'pute gait with perfect esse. His own.
or has refused $500 IN gold for him.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Tue town OF Wiscasset at its annual meeting
Monday voted to subs tribe $14 900 10 tue capi,
tai stock of the Kenneb-c aud WIscasset Rail
road Company; also to loan the road ITS credit
to the amount of $150,000. A committee to
VISIT Inc towhs ana Cults through which the
road Will pass and obtain aid ard subscriptions
was chosen, and will at once proceed to bust.
ness. The road will be built from Wi,casset
to Augusta or Gardiner via Kings Mills.
| PENOBsCOT COUNTY.
Grace Ross, daughter of Hugh Ross, ESQ. o.
Bangor, recently returned from Germany, ha.
been offered $40 900 engage meut by the Dr-s
den Germany Opera Co.
The Methodist Society on Main street, Dex
ter, propose to lengthen their church ed,fice
increase the humber of p-ws by TWENTY auC
a gallery AID vestiy; to be completed by june
at which time the Maine Conference will as
semble there.
Rev. Mr.; Gage, who has been supplying tn,
pulpit oil the .Universalist Church at Dexter
is to leave for California April 1st Mr.. G 40,
is ore OF the abest preachers ia that denomi
nation.
The freigbt,traffic on the Dexter and New
port Railroad has largely increased over las
years busiaess.
George w. Pickering and s & j. Andrew.
are 10 Dulid two stores on the north side o
Main street, Bangor, near the Bangor House
each to be 40 by 65 feet, three stories high will
a French roof Thomas Mean is to build wv,
first class stores on the south side of Mali
street, in the same vicinity.
PIscATAQUIs COUNTY.
From our Correspondent
The old and beautiful Caswell farm, nea
Parkm n corner, has been purchased by Hen
~ Hudson, ESQ.,. of Gullford; CAswell having
purchased the properly and former resdenc,
OF Y. W. Staples.
DR.. Colby lectured at Monson on the even
ing OF the 40 b inst. The Doctor is winuin,
| goldenopiniOns as a temperance advocate
DR.. A. j w. Stevens of Park man. Rev. A
| ID. Tyler of Mopson, and Rev. G r. Palme
OF Dover, were elected DELEGATES to represep
Piscatsquis county Lodge in the Grand Lode,
| at the April session.
made mistake, or was msinfnrmed, il
writing that the horse which plunged over a
precipice at Abbot village fell 80 feel. l shonlG
have written II feet. The horse, a very fiut
one, belonging to G. P. Fassett ESQ, was no
materially injured. S.
SOMERSET COUNTY
Mr.. Randall Andrews. formerly of the Gard
iner Hotel, Gardiner, Columbian at Bath, and
Mare Hotel at Damsr.co,ta. has just takrr
the Fairfield House at Kendalps Mills On,
OF the appurtenances OF The Establishment is 8
good livery stable
| YORK COUNTY.
The Saco Independent says the hearts of oil
| the cit zens of SacO and BiUdeford we're made
glad by the proceedings of The meeting OF The
| stockholder> of the Boston & Maine railroad
at which it was voted by majority of mo, q
| than one hundred to one to autbor,z. the n;
| rtctors 10 set about the building of the ey1en.
| SION to Portland in accordance with the pr,vis.
| ZOE OF the charter grated by the Legislative
last wipter. LOIS ought to stimulate the friends
| nt the Sac0 River railroad to renewed eyer
tlops for these two enterprises completed Wi,
| assure to the two cities, the proper comnlema, :
to the advantages they possess
The Independent says Hon. E. Fl Ranks
planted peas ON the 9Th of March.
Gilbert Spear, shipb1ilder at Kittery Point
was robbed OF 500 at Charlestown, Mass. m,
| monday. He Won't there to purchase bouse
IN that vicinity, and succeeded in PURCHASING
one at Chelsea. After the papers were passed
he passed the balance OF his money $500, in a
wallet. and rut it in an inside pocket He
vert to his boarding. place, Mr.. Chas. Days,
in Charlestown Monday evening slightly in
toxicated, and Day assisted in putting bin to
bed, and, obtaining his pocket book placed it
under Spears pillow. Early TUESDAY morning
| the latter awnke, and OD examining the con
tents of his wallet found that one of the $I0O
oils was gone. He entered complain tagaiu st
Day, and be was arrested. On searching him
ct the police station the money was not to he
iound, aud warrant will be obtained and his
house looked over