The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-11-17

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ter quality than the gas produced BY previous
aud the remaining products are also
more valuable. A French company has
bought the use of the patent in France for
$500 900, and the shares in the English COM
pany are at high premium.
State News.
ANDRoscooGIN COUNTY. /
We learn from the Journal that the aoore- |
gate shipment of shoes from Auburn and Lew
iston stations the past week have been AIT |
cases 10 745 cases for the preceding week Tbe |
receipts of leather have been 48,S7O mounds |
to 52,420 pounds for the preceding week. /
The journal says first class turkeys call in |
Lewiston at IA 16c, chickens II 14c. reese |
ard ducks IA 16c, fowl 10 a 12c Provision |
dealers decline to contract ahead for first class
turkeys at over 12c per Id. The live stocI. are |
yery large Last year, it will be remufnbered, |
.peculators in chickens and turkeys GOT very
badly bitten in the Boston market-many of |
them having to stand in the street by Faueuil
Hall market and peddle turkeys that cost then
zoe for - a 15c This year the runners tbrnngh
Maine for the Boston market are rather more
sby-remembering that turkeys sold on
Thanksgiving day higher in Lewiston than
they did in Boston. ....r-n
FRANKLIN COUNTY
A Farmers and Mechanics Cub has been
organized at Chesterville under flonrishipg
auspices President John w. Lothrop; Sec
retary, Thomas j. Wheeler.
Mr.. Bletben, of Little Blue, has ENGAGED the
services of Percival j. Paris, of Paris Me.
son of Virgil D. Paris, as Assistant Master
in his school. .ftr -fafalt
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The American says horse belonpino 10 T.
hale q 20. was killed between Ellsworth ard
Bangor by fast driving.
The Ellsworth American saws George Iul-
lam's house on the shore road was burned TO
the ground last week. Insurance $500.
house in Ellsworth on the Surry road. be-
longing to William Murch was burned ON
Sunday morning WIN an IIs contents. No in
ance.
The American says fellow on the stage be.
tween ven a,iswortn ard Bangor, having insulted
lady passenger, was summarily disposed OF
by Mr. kingshury, who left him in the middle
OF the road, and the verdict was served him
rightly.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The Gardiner Journal says, James Capen
who died in Gardner on the 305h u!t, aged
", was probably the oldest Mason in the
State He was made Mason in 1906 and
had been a member of Hermou Lodge in that
city, from its incorporation.
I The Gardiner journal matches the "Three
Black Crows" story with the following: Last
| told him, that her father told her, that Dr.
| Hidreth told him, that there were four cases
| of smallpox at the New Mills. So, off we
posted to DR.. Hildreth for first-class item,
| and he told us he never said anything abou
| it to the young lady's father, but thtr was
| one case of mild varioleid there. Here was
| direct, story with all the names given. and
| about as correct as stories generally are. We
did not mention smallpox last week, but as
| it has got out we tell the facts.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
Edward Lake, who assaulted Policeman
| pistol has been held for trial in the sum of
| $4,000.
The Ellsworth American hears that Mar.
| celIus Emery of the Bangor Democrat in
| tends starting daily.
The Wing says il is agreed on all sides that
market thus far this year than ever before in
| the~same time and season. III =
The Wing says clerk in a Bangor store
returned TO his duties after tea the other eye q
ming, and as he entered, thrust the pipe he
had been smoking into his coat pocket, and
| hung the coat up in closet in the store A
short time afterward, some one vent to the
| closet and found two good coats burned and
| the wood work of the closet in flames. A few
| pals-full of water extinguished the fire, and
the smoker, smashing his meerschaum against
the wall, "swore off, the use of the "yle
weed" forever. ...-.
The Wing learns that VIM. Fletcher, Jr.
the young man who SO mysterously left his
fathers house in Bangor last Friday noon.
has been heard from. He was seen on foot
near Pittstield and probably can be traced
further until found No reason for his sud-
den departure is known. and as he has been
in feeble health for some time, il is feared
that he may be deranged in mind.
The Bangor Wing says Tuesday afternoon as
ayoung man named Joshua L. Tebbetts was
seated in saloon on Exchange street. limo.
thy Clifford came in, walked up to Tebbetts,
and without word drew a knife and stabbed
him in.the right side, making a cash nearly
four inches in length, and deep enough to pc
citrate the outer coat OF the stamach. He then
| ran OUT and made off He was fighting drunk,
| vidual. The same day he struck John Nc
Donough, without provocation, aud Knocked
him down. Clifford cleared out before the po-
nee were ,s, informed Of his stabbing Tebbetts,
to arrest him, he has not been seen in the CITY
since 1t is not known why be attacked Teb-
Detts, as there was no provocation whatever.
1 WALDO COUNTY. 4o@
The Supreme Judicial Court which has bee n
| In session at Belfast for three weeks adjourn
| cd, finally, on Friday. In the contested will
case of VIrum B. Paul VS.. lido X Paul, the
jury returned verdict for the defendant, thus
sustaining the validity of the will. The case
! of Eastman and wife, OF Freedom, indicted for
|
| did not come to trial. j
| A shooting ARRAY occurred at Belfast Thus
| day evening of last week in which man nam
| ed James Dutch was shot in the thigh. Dutch,
| and two or three others, says the journal
| were elevated by drink and made an assault
upon the wife of Mr.. Wescott, railroad conduc-
tor, near the saloon of Mr.. Benner,. on Main
street: Mr.. b: interfered, and they then at
| tackled him. One of them seized him around
| the neck and brought his head down while
the others aided him. The saloon window was
smashed during the row. Finding that he was
in danger of being seriously hurt, MIR. Benner
| drew pistol and fred at the one who was
| holding him down, man named Jas. Dutch.
| The ball entered the upper part of the thigh
| and ranged along towards the knee. The as
| salants then ran, but were met near the Cor
ner by Mr.. Wescott who had been informed of
what was going on, and who promptly knock
ed down the whole lot. 1
The house, barn and shed on the Ben. War
rem place, in Swanvlle, occupied by Josiah
Curtis and sons, was burned on the 9th In
sured in Bangor for $1,000.
The record of remarkable families multplies.
Capt. ii. ID. Herman writes the Belfast Jour
nal that In the town of Prospect, Mr.. Crocker,
on reading tue notice of the Sanborn family
remarked that he lived under the same root
with four generations, consisting of father.
grandfather, and greatgrandfather-a mother,
grandmother, two children, two grandchld-
rem, great grandchild and an aunt And vet
there are only four persons u the house.
Simpson contesses that this is beyond his gen.
ealogical figuring.
YORK COUNTY.
Asa Small's dwelling house in Limerick
was destroyed by fire Monday afternoon about
o'clock. The family were engaged in pre-
pairing poultry for market. The. fire original
ed from defect in the chimney in space over
the attic. Loss So, 800. Insured in the Quin-
cy company for $500.
One of the clergymen of Saco, in the course
OF his sermon last Sabbath afternoon, remarked
thot be under stood there were one hundred
and twenty-eght licensed grog shops in Bid
deford.
6 The Democrat says the Methodist vestry in
Biddeford was crowded last Sunday evening to
listen to DR.. Colby of Portland, on the subject
OF temperance The Doctor gave very inter-
estng lecture, dropping most of the old stereo-
typed stories and giving several striking and
apt illustrations. He was followed in few re-
marks by MIR. Murphy of Portland, whose ex-
periences, according to his own account are
somewhat chechered. Mr.. NJ is posse ssed of
good deal of energy as a speaker, and may do
service in the work of abolishing traffic in
which he was formerly engaged.
Mr.. Joseph Smith, 4th at the present time,
ovrrseer in the dressing room of the York cor
poratiOn, Saco, has received an appointment
as superintendent of the Warren Cotton Mills,
West Warren, Mass, at a salary of $500 per
year. Mr.. Smith has been in the employ OF
the York Manufacturing Company for about
twenty five wears