The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-02-25
State News.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY

ANDRoscoGGN COUNTY.
c. w. Pickard, Esq, of the TRANSCRIPT. who
has been sOjournng at the West for some
months, is now in Lewiston, and we are glad
to note it, is now recovering.
One hundred cases OF shoes are now daily
shipped from Auburn.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
The masonic installation will come off at
Bridgton on Thursday next. The Grafton is to
be delivered by Hon. j. H. Drummond.
A steel bell, weighing 1862 pounds has been
placed in the tower of the Universaist church
at Bridgton. rrE eEr
The News chronicles an amusing case that
occurred in Bridgton. The subject of dispute
was big ash tree, standing at the corner of
three lots belonging respectively towel we
will call them Smith, Jones and Brown. Smith
felled the tree, saying it was on his side of the
line; Jones claimed it as his; there was great
tempest in a teapot; and, to settle the matter,
David Chaplin was engaged to run the line !;
which, after two days hard work in the snow
and brush, aided by corps of assistants he
accomplished, when, 10 and behold! it was
found that the tree belonged to Brown!
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
Good skating on the Kennebec. Some stu
dents of Colby University skated from Water
vile - Augusta and back last Thursday.
The house of w. s. Ward, in Farmingdale,
was injured by fire, last Wednesday, to the
amount of 5000
AOoA SOONIIs
Mr.. Robert Rankin, workman in the lime
quarry Of Messrs Carlton & Co., of Camden,
was killed on Saturday of last week by a piece
of limestone from blast, falling upon his
| head. l.9t III ~.
Iin LINCOLN COUNTY.
Our Bristol correspondent brags on Lincoln
| County pork, and well he may. He says Bris.
tol produces four pigs (eight months old)
whose united weight was 1902 pounds. and one
hog, eighteen months old, weighing GOO pounds
The following are the weights: Pig slaughtered
by Mr.. VIM. McClintock, Bristol, $50 pounds
ono by Chandler Bearce, ESQ, Bristol, 36t
pounds; one by Hon. Arnold Blaney. Bristol
1865 pounds, and one by Eliphalet Thorp, South
| Bristol, At pounds. The hog was killed BIZ
Carpenter Bearce, Esq, Of Bristol.
! OXFORD COUNTY. f,s
A party of five persons lately returned from
a fishing excursion in Richardson's Lake. II
three DAYS they caught with hand lines through
the ice SIS pounds of trout, and could EASILY
have obtained 1000 pounds more if their bal
/ had held out; they used up all their bait, con
sistlng of 225 live sinners. In another POND
they caught 125 pounds of pickerel, making i,
| all 700 pounds of fish. ,- .l -
| Fifteen hundred bushels of potatoes wer,
sent to market in one week from Bryant Pone
station. 100
They contemplate holding baby fair a
Bethel. with premium of four dollars for th
handsomest, and three dollars for the latest 0
each sex.
+ Old sugar boilers predict big flow of sal
from the maple trees the coming spring.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
A Nolridgewock correspondent of the Re
porter writes, that Dea. Andrew Kennison o
that place, on Sunday morning last, coughe,
up head of herdsgrass which had been on hi
lungs more than thirty-six years. The hea
had become as hard as stone, but still retaine,
its shape. - - -
The Reporter says M. P. Waterman, the los
of whose dwelling by fire we chronicled som
two weeks since, finds on inquiry that hi
policy is worthles and that the company ha
not been in existence for a number of years
The policy was obtained by an agent at Water
vile who never notified him even of its failure
ei-Ns~ IN GENERAL.
Mr.. James Woodbury. of Maine lectured OF
temperance Monday evening at Bristol, an
secured seventy-five names to the pledge
Steps are being taken to form Good Samari
tan organization.
The appropriations for Maine works, a
agreed upon lin the river and harbor bill il
Congress), are as follows; Kennebunk river
$1,000; Saco river, $4,000; Portland harbor
$40 900; Kennebec river, above HalloweH, $40,
0OO: kennebec river: between Gardiner an,
Rlchmond, $1,000; improvement of navigation
vt the Gut" opposite Bath, $50, 200; Uniol
river, $15,ooo; Royal river, $4,000; Narragau
gus river, $12, 600; Sullivan river, $4,000 Sur
veys are also ordered at Wells harbor.
/ The revenue received by the State for com
mission of Justices of the Peace, &c., durin,
the past year. amounted to $25OO. This woult
make some 500 commissions, which is proc
that somebody wanted the honor and that con
| siderable swearing is necessary.