The Portland daily press., 1872-10-26
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY,


The Lewiston Journal hears of quite num-
Der of horses who have been taken with the
distemper recently Two horses belonging to
Messrs. Day & Neatly were seized Monday with
coughing, running at the nose, sore throat, dull
eyes, etc. The horses have been growing worse
an the week until Thursday morning, medi-
cines were applied that gave relief and the
horses will probably recover. An application
was made to the throat outside and internal
remedies administered Smoking is employed,
or what is better, carbOlic acid is used freely
about the stable. -,.-s.,.
The Lewiston Journal reports cases of severe
poverty In that city. Recently child was
found in a 7x9 room, sick with the typhoid
fever with no bedding except quilt. The suf
ferer lay upon couple of boards across two
chairs. -
The North Star complains that the non-resi-
dent proprietors of some settling townships op-
pose the building of roads through them.
Aaron Kelley of Caribou, was badly cut by
being thrown from load Of shingles upon an
adze last week. r-s.. -, -e.r NJ
The Madawaskans have purchased a large
number of Wagons, paying for them with cat
tie. A few years since they were unable to pay
town taxes.
The North Star calls for State aid to build
roads through the towns between Houlton and
Presque Isle, which the towns are unable to
keep up in consequence of the heavy travel
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
The stone dam across the Presumpscet at
Little Falls is completed; next spring w. f.
Wardwell will build paper mill on the Wind
ham side.
The Bridgton Neaos says that Orren j. Lib
by's new carriage factory is boarded in and is
larger than the one burned.
Messrs. Browns of North Bridgton are put
ting new sixteen feet wheel into their bed
stead factory.
The Neacs announces that the people of
Brldgton are taking active measures to secure
course of first-class lectures.
The other day large hen-hawk flew into the
barn of Thomas p. Kimball, in South Brdgton,
aud seized a fat hen which he at once proceed
ed to devour Mr.. Kimball shut the doors and
proceeded to dispatch him with hoe handle
Inc hawk measured nearly four feet from tip
to tip.
FRANKLIN COUNTY
Typhoid fever is raging fearfully in Phillips
and vicinity.
The Maine Central R. R. Co. is building a
paint shop at its machine shops at West Far
mington. .- -
Changes and improvements are being made
en- the county buildings at Pennington.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
Ellsworth has voted by large majority In
aid the Shore Line Railroad
hENNEbEC COUNTf.
The Kingsbury and Sturdvant gold medals
at Kent's Hill were awarded Thursday evening
to A. f. Abbott and S. T. Pope. A third prize
was awarded to M. B. Holt A. F. Morrill,
photographed the class in front of the College
building. The winter term begins Dec. I'd, a
week later than usual.
OXFORD COUNTY.
Mr. Clark Stanley of Porter, has picked this
season, from bit of ground only sixteen feet
square, seven bushels of very superior cranber-
ries, and says that there 10 at least one bushel
more on the vines which he cannot Get at
present on account of the water
A woman from Hartford went into the store
of Mr. j. c. Fuller.in Buckfield village last
Monday, and while she supposed herself not
her some $40 worth of dry goods, ribbons, sc.
M. Fuller had his eye on her during the time,
and when she was about to leave proceeded to
examine her basket, and found his goods
PENoBsCoT COUNTY
The Bangor Wing says that the bachelors of
that city, having been pushed into the mud by
couples of young ladies on the cross-walks, have
formed \ stick-to-yOur-half-of- the-cross-walk-
clubs.
The Wing says that two coats, belonging to
men who were hurt in the Seabrook disaster,
were taken to Bangor by mistake, on the train
next day, and await owners at the Baggage
Masters Office at the NJ G. depot Both are
spattered with blood and showed indications of
hard usage. In the pocket of one was an en-
velope marked "Mrs. Charlotte GodsOe Bald
win Place, Boston," and the other, judging
from some papers found in it, is supposed to be-,
long to Capt. Blaisdell of Brunswick
Silas B. Farnham, truckman, of Brewer, was
thrown from his team on the Hampshire road
and so severely injured that he died immediate
ly. He was 70 years of age.
WALDO COUNTY.
l<,o a al lad
been spoiled by the bad weather, and that
many fields of potatoes have rotted so badly as
not to be worth digging.
WASHINGTON COUNTY. a-f
Campbello has held fish fair
Farmers about PASSPORT find it impossible to
hire men.
The house of James Owen, Jr, West Penn
broke was burned Sunday morning, the 10th
YORK COUNTY.
A man aged about 40, by the name of Fran
els H. Butler, boot and shoe manufacturer at |
Springvale, committed suicide by hanging, at |
his residence, Thursday about noon. AZ his |
request his family went away to spend the day. |
and on their return found him dead in the attic |
leaves wife, but no children.
The Biddeford Times says that Mrs. Almira
Wood, aged IS, fell down stairs Friday morn
ing receiving serious but not fatal injury.
The double tenement house in Biddeford.
Known as the Frog Pond House," was DESTROY.
ID by fire Thursday hight, Loss S., 900.
Maxwell, theiassociate of Bickford, the burg
ar, by whose testimony asIStates evidence the
after was convicted, was arrested at North
Berwick recently for stealing harness of a
Lebanon man, bound over to court in $1,000,
md is now in Portland Jail,