The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-03-05
STATE NEWS.
ANnRoscoGGIN COUNTY.


John r, Perkins, overseer in the Lewiston
Mills, died suddenly on Friday. He was ma
tive of Exeter, n. H.. whittier his remains were
taken and buried on Sunday, the funeral cere-
monies being conducted by the knights of
Twelfth Rhode Island Regiment, and was Sc
yerely wounded in the battle of Fredericksburg
He leaves wife and four children.
John Read & Co., of Lewiston, have had
twelve miles of Missisquoi & Clyde River Rail-
ROAD, IN Northern Vermont, awarded to them
to build, as we learn from the Journal
The Lewiston Journal says it is expected that
work on the new French Catholic church in that
city will begin the coming season. Father
Hevey is the present pastor of the church, and
is laboring very successfully in the church
building enterprise He has instituted a saw
ings deposit system for securing funds for the
new church building enterprise. A lot for the
proposed new church edifice has recently been
purchased of the Franklin Company, corner of
Pierce and Ash streets. The lot is 100 feet GU
Ash and 200 feet on Pierce streets. The main
church editice will be 10Ox6o feet, and subse-
quently choir, 20 feet Deep will be added, and
eventually vestry. The architecture of the
vestly will be Gothic.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
The North Star says that few days ago
child was born to Mrs. Albert, of Fort Kent,
with seven fingers on each hand.
The North Star says that recently as Mr..
William r. Morse, of Caribou, was endeavor-
ing to separate two belligerent oxen one of
them caught him on his horns and threw him
some six feet into the air, and when he struck
the ground the other OK stepped on him, hurt
ing him severely, though not fatally. He is
unable to move i'll his bed.
A lodge of Free and Accepted Masons is to
be formed at Caribou.
The North Star is publishing in the Swedish
language the report of w. w. Thomas, Jr.,
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PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The Bangor Commercial says young woman,
well dressed, whose name for the sake of her
parents we will not publish, was reeling down
Water street Sunday afternoon. Several young
men, who ought rather to have helped her
home, were tormenting her. 1t is long time
since we have seen more saddening sight on
our streets.
During the year ending March LIST there were
twenty-three fires in Bangor and two in Brew
er. The amount of losses during the year was
$4,000 of which $19, 46O was covered by insur-
ance, leaving total loss above insurance of
only $3.50. @
The Wing says late Thursday afternoon last a
little boy named Harris, about five years of
age broke through thin place in the ice on
the pond near the blacksmith shop at Brewer
lower village and was drowned
The Bangor Wing says Mr.. James Thompson,
OF burlington, was seriously and probably IA
tally injured on Friday by being run over by a
sled heavily loaded with hay. He was stand
ing in front by his team, and as it started he
slipped and fell before one runner, which passed
over him crushing him fearfully
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY
The Bangor Wing says the house and barn of
Mr.. Ruel Thomas at 'Moosehorn,' some nine
miles this side of the lake, were destroyed by
fire on Sunday of last week. The fire started
in the barn, probably from spark blown from
the house chimney, and had made such head
way that only little furniture and few house.
hold goods were saved from the house before it
was destroyed. The loss was probably from
$500 to $780, and as the buildings comprised
about the whole of Mr.. Thomas property it
falls heavily upon him and the large family
supported by his labor. On hearing of the dis
aster party of lumbermen coming out of the
woods generously made up handsome purse
for the destitute family.