The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-01-19
state News.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.

The Supreme Judicial Court was to have
commenced session at. Auburn on Tuesday.
Everybody was on hand except Chief Justice
Appleton who was to preside. The hackman
at Bangor forgot to call for him and he missed
the train. So court was obliged to adjourn
over for one day.
The Lewiston Journal says that p Nancy &
Son of that city have contracted to build four
miles of the Maine Central railroad extension,
the first four miles from DaLville Junction
Mr. Bolan of Portland having been unable to
complete the work.
The Auburn city government has voted in
favor OF an iron bridge over the Audroscosgin
river at Lewiston, and also for immediate
measures looking to its being built forthwith.
The decision of Judge Danforth aud Hon.
Thomas 5. Lang, referees IN the case OF Jesse
3. Lyford, OF Lewiston, VS.. Gus N. Cutler OF
York. was opened Wednesday in the Supreme
Court for this county. The suit was to recover
a note for eleven thousand dollars and interest
gwen for horse sold by Mr.. Ly ford to Mr.. Cut
Ter. The referees award to Mr. Lyford eleven
thousand eight handred and thirty-iour dol
lars and sixteen cents. The costs of the refer
ence, 1870, also falling to the defendant to pay.
One of our city clergymen exchanged pulpits
Sabbath or two since with a brother clergy
man OF Lewiston. 1t so happened that the pull
pit was TOO low Tor his near sighted optics, and
ne was under the necessity OF piling up Bible
and hymn DOORS whereon to place his manu-
cStAPe. LAO Opcucu Ills SeruOQ anu was OellV.
erlng 1t with wonderful enthusiasm, when by a
iuekless gesture he struck the cover OF the BIZ
BILE, up it flew and tipped the sermon to the
hoor. Hymn books. bible, stationery, fell with
| loud noise to the floor To add to The msfor-
| tune, the shee is of the sermon we're loose and
were scattered Lither and thither, like autumn
leaves, over the church. The crisis for the
| minister-how to get out of it, With utmost
GOODNESS and selfpossession, the minister, TAX
ing birds eye glance at the wreck Of his at
fairs on the floor below. turned to the congre-
| cation and said, Il trust my friends, this may
be an emblem that the good seed may be sown
as these sheets have been sOwn," and without
troubling the disheveled manuscript further,
| took up the thread of his discourse and extern
| porized the latter half of the sermon with gen.
eral experimentation Journal.
| ARoOsTOOK COUNTY.
The Pioneer says last season Mr.. Howe oil
| Monticello dug we'll near his barn, and left il
| unstOned, covering it with rails. Last Thurs
day, as he was driving near the spot with a
pair of horses attached to sled, one of them
| broke through the covering to the we'll, drag
ging the other after it. When extricated they
| were both dead.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
The Bangor Whig states that John Mcclure
of that city was arrested Thursday on war
| rant charging him with the murder of his wife
| who died suddenly some months since.
The Path Times SAYS some time in the early
part of next week WiscaSset will be reached by
| rail.
sAGADAHOC COUNTY.
The Bath Times says last Friday evening in
| Bowdoinham, as two boys were coastng down
| Back street, their sled ran into passing team
| with such force as to PROSTATE the horse, anC
one of the boys named Curtis fractured his les
and received other bad head wounds, whilst
the other boy on the sled was also severely in
iured. At last accounts both boys were rapid
~ improving.
The Times says very small amount of ict
will be put in store at Richmond this winter.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
A town meeting was held in Arson last Sat
urday to see if the town would release the con
dlton annexed to the town subscription to thu
| capital stock of the Somerset Railroad Co., 81
that If the stockholders shatl deem it suitable
and proper, the company may issue bonds Il
complete the road and secure the Same by
mortgage of said road and franchises With
out coming to direct vote upon the question
the town by vote Of 95 to "a adjourned to the
2sth of January, and further voted that the di
rectors OF the Somerset railroad be requested t
confer with the directors Of the CONSOLIDATED
Maine Central Railroad Co, to see on wha
terms, if any, they will lease or otherwise ait
in the completion OF the Somerset road and re
port The result of such conference at such ad
| j0urned meeting.
WALDO COUNTY.
Miss Arethusa Vose, of Belfast, aged sbou
55 years, was found dead in her bed last Mon
day morning. She was we'll as usual the da,
before, and probably died of heart disease.
YORK COUNTY.
The carriage shop of Mr.. Kimhall on Waite
street, Saco, was destroyed by fire on Tuesda
night about II O'clock.