The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-03-24
state News.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.

state News.
ANDRosC0GGIN COUNTY.
The shipment of shoes from Auburn and
Lewiston last week were 912 cases, to 1O14
cases the previous week.
The Senior class of Bales College have en-
gagged the Mendelssohn Quintette Club of Bos-
ton, assisted by Mrs. ]. w. Weston, for their
Commencement Concert.
The following are the whole bids for Lewiston
City buldings;-C. HI. Stewart, $3.50 1879; S. q.
& G.. NJ Chase, $163, 1858; A. B. Kurdish, $154-
800; Norton & Edwards, $144,4OO. The latter
bid, as has already been stated. was the sue
cessful one.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
s. s. e. Colby are erecting door, sash and
blind factory on the site of the one recently
burned in Brunswick.
Track-laying for construction trains will be-
gin on the Maine Central road on the LIST of
April. Three hundred men will be employed
and it is intended to have the cars running on
the LIST of July.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The dry house connected with Austin &
Sanborn's spool factory was burned Tuesday
morning. Loss in property between $500 and
400 dollars. There was no insurance.
The Pennington Chronicle has been shown
natural curiosity by r. Henderson, Esq, of
West Pennington, in the shape of piece CT
beef weighing something like pound, in the
centre of which, thoroughly imbedded in the
meat, is hard substance, resembling rough
stone, perhaps quarter of pound in weight.
How it came there is a question for scientists.
1t has the curvetures and grain of a Comedian
stone, with nearly its solidity and hardness.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
Says The Gardiner Home Jommal:-Last fall
Capt B. A. Neal, T. b. Grant, and others
chartered vessel to lake load of potatoes,
hay and bricks to Jacksonville, Fla. The
vessel was delayed long. time, having put
into Holmes Hole, and finally into New York.
When returns came from the cargo, only some
half dozen bales of hay, out of some forty put
in, were returned. Smelling rat, Capt. Neal
went to Boston, where the vessel arrived last
said he threw the hay overheard. AS it had
been slowed in the hold Capt. Neal asked why
this was. He said he had a right to, twas so
on the bill of lading-and so it was on the bill
the captain had. Capt n. saw in moment
that the permission to put on deck was forged,
and on comparing it with the one he had the
captain admitted it. Capt. Neal then told the
fellow that he sold potatoes out of the vessel at
Holmes Hole, and he could prove it. The
matter ended by the scamp saying Capt. Neal
$500. He will not try sharper game en- down
casters again probably.
The Halowell Manufacturing Co. are now
employing $50 hands in the manufacture of
sheetings. They have recently added twenty
four S-4 and two 40-inch looms manufactured
by the Lewiston Machins Co. Two spinning
frames of 1900 spindles each have also been
added. They have in all 10000 spindles and
81 looms.
KNOX COUNTY.
The town election in Warren, (adjourned
meeting) last Monday resulted in the election
OF an entire board of Republican town officers.
DR.. Buxton was up for Selectman and Town
Agent, but was defeated. For years Warren
has been Democratic. Such change was
hardly to be expected.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Rev. DR.. Balkan, of Lewiston, has been
preaching for the last two Sabbaths in the
Congregational Church in Wiscasset, the scene
of his earlier ministerial labors for many
years-the pastorate being now vacant by the
removal of Rev, Mr.. Strout. 1t is understood
that DIR. b. will remain some time among his
old parishioners and friends, and that negotia-
tions are pending with view to induce him to
settle there again, permanently, but with what
prospect of success is not known
The citizens Of Boothbay, at their late town
meeting, voted to loan the credit of the town
for $4,000, for ten years, to boot and shoe
factory.
PENoBscoT- COUNTY.
A barn in Ororo, owned by Mr.. H. C. Pow
ers, was consumed by FIRE Wednesday after
noon, together with a large amount of hay
owned by Mr.. A. b. Mosher, of Bangor.
Fifteen barrels Of intoxicating liquors were
seized at the railroad station in Dexter on
Tuesday. Twelve barrels belonged to parties
in Dexter and three to parties at Moosehead
Lake.
We learn from the Wing that on Sunday last
= barn on the premises Of Mr.. John McAipine,
in VIM, was destroyed by fire with most of its
contents, including horse, wagon, harnesses,
farming tools, and number of tons of hay.
heifer in the barn was got out and saved
Mr.. McAlpine was away at the time, and it is
supposed that the fire took from spark from
the house chimney, as the wind was blowing
from that direction. The loss is estimated at
$1,000, on which there was $500 insurance.
sAGADAHoc COUNTY.
The Bath Times says Gen. Thomas w. HYDE
has resigned the position of Inspector in the
Bath Custom House, and the vacancy hes been
filled by the appointment of Mr.. Edwin A.
Morse.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Says the Belfast journal The young ladies
OF Pittsfield, who are very pretty, have habit
of happening at the depot when the trains pass.
While Conductor Beal's train tarried there on
Saturday afternoon several of the admiring
passengers got out out and mi Dgled with the
crowd. So quietly did the train creep away
that its departure was unnoticed until some
distance of, and then began a scrub race for it,
a prominent lawyer of Belfast taking the lead.
A dozen coat-tails Strengthened out in the
breeze, and twenty-four legs did their level
best. Viewing the race from the rear window,
we offered odds that the disciple of Blackstone
H would win. when brakes were whist'ed and the
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
There were sixteen vessels at the Machias
wharves on Saturday last receiving freights of
lumber.
WALDO COUNTY.
The Belfast Journal says the Bangor Demo.
erdt case will come up for new trial at the
April term of the s. j. Court at Belfast, be-
fore Judge Dickerson.
1t is reported that an effort to annex South
Montville to Liberty will be made next winter.
AT the Winterport town meeting the Select
men wero directed to prepare list of all the
men who entered the army or navy, with their
age, the regiment, company or ship in which
they served, the battles or engagements in
which they participated, and if dead, how and
where they. died, and report the same at the
next annual town meeting.
YORK COUNTY
A Cape Neddick correspondent of the Ports
mouth Chronicle asserts that Mr.. Donnell
Weare has COW that gave birth to a calf that
weighed 140 pounds.
Jeremiah Libby, of Eliot, was seriously in
iured last Friday by being thrown from wag-
on which was upset in consequence of the
horse being unmanageable.
Mrs. Mary P. Bragdon, wife of Christopher
Bragdon, of Wells, committed suicide on the
10Th inst. by hanging herself with skein of
yarn attached to sappling in a thicket near
her house. She had been ow.spirited for some
time.
one OF the crew of wreckers at work upon
tne steamship Clotilda, at Wells Beach, fell in
his leg.
cur correspondent at Lebanon writes that
on saturday last, as Mr.. John Clark. of South
berwick' was driving his team over a piece Of