The Portland daily press., 1872-10-23
STATE NEWS.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.


Whiskey develops natures tendencies on
Lincolo street, Lewiston. Sunday several faces
were dressed in polonases of the popular sage
tea color, and in very summary manner
Rev. George HI. Hepworth says ithe Journal,
is to deliver the first of the lyceum lectures in
Lewiston. .ao EHlF
The Journal says that on Monday morning.
about O'Clock, Mr. Chandler E. Wiggin fell
dead at Lewiston Mills, where he was employ
ed. Deceased was "a years of age native of
China, Maine His disease was disease of the
heart. <
Mr. Lucius Barrel of Lewiston, has in DOS
session chair 125 years old belonging original
" TO his grandfather, Joshua Barrel, who more
than century ago removed from Massachus-
etts to Turner.
AROosTooK COUNTY
The Bangor Wing says that the cattle supply
OF Aroostook seems inexhaustable Monday
IL car loads of cattle and II of sheep came over
the +. & N. A. Railway from that county.
There are giants in Arosstook, Judging from
the dimensions of pair of boots made in Ban
gor for boy of 49, The boots were a little
over ID inches long, IL wide and on the in
side around the ball II inches. 81 .T7
press Correspondence.)
The farmers in Hodgdon are losing their
sheep by the dogs Mr. Henry Sherman lost
eight one night last week, and Others have snf-
fered to quite an extent from the ours. =
The rain this fall has prevented many from
harvesting their crops Pototoes are still in
the ground and rotting badly. The Oldest in
year taken as whole, in this region
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Lewiston Journal is informed that hears
have been making serious depredations in the
sweet apple orchards in Phillips and vicinity.
Several have been shot, hides and heads brought
into the village. A; j. Parker discovered that
frI11f hatvr Ia,@
able to obtain sight of the thief set his pun az
night on the trail of Mr. Bruin, and next morn
ing found him dead at the entrance to the or
chard.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
Saturday, in Gardiner, c. 7. Somes took
some landanum, hoping thereby to find the
undiscovered country" but a cruel doctor
pumped his stomach. He proposes to try il
again.
Inc Governor has appointed Thursday, the
18th OF November next as a day of public
Thanksgiving and Prayer.
The steam mill in Hallowell has greatly in
creased business in the vicinity where it is To-
cated, and the citizens of the place now see
very plainly, that the $1,000 investment in
order to locate it there, was money iudicionslv
expended.
OXFORD COUNTY.
Norway contemplates shoe factory
1 ne starch factory at Rumford Falls converts
20 bushels of potatoes into starch daily. The
pays rs cents bushel.
line oxford Democrat says that 15OO bushels
Of apples have been raised this season in the
village of Paris Hill
An Andover correspondent of the Democrat
says that some people in that section are having
yet ~, ''- ''io 'i "' Ing
A young man named Rand. of Andover shot
ms sister recently. As he was in the act of
hrlng at bird, she ran before the gun threw
up her arm and received the contents in her
elbow and head. putting out one eye, and badly
nangling her arm
Samuel d. Wadswortb. Esq. of Hiram hos
live otter, which he caught last spring. and
Which is as gentle and playful as dog.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
A partially finished house in Stetson. belono.
hg 10 w. +. Hersey was burned Sunday night |
ncendiary and well insured. $50
Inc steamer Cambridge has made III trips |
rom Bangor to Boston the present season. not |
osing one in all the bad weather Y
The Bangor Wing says that thirty men from
'lscataquls county, most of them farmers.
assed through that city Monday morning on
heir way to Nebraska, where they will indulge
. agricultural pursuits. Twenty-six men from
'angor also started for the West on the same
ram. They are in the employ of Messrs. Eddy
murphy, and are bound for Saginaw, Michi-
an, where they will go to work numbering.
The Commercial says that Booth takes IA OOO
rom Bangor. ~''O'0
SAGADAHOC COUNTY tHHl
The Times says there is a rumor that the
pragues OF Rhode Island, who have furnished
nd are still furnishing Augusta with mills and
'ctories, are going to build in Bath. and have
cen negotiating with view to the purchase
land in Bath. PO"''
A two story house on Washington street. in
lie south part of the city, owned by BENJAMIN
ewett OF Topsham, and occupied by two or three
IN, miles, was destroyed by fire Thursday. Loss
500. -0''
SOMERSET COUNTY.
W. z; Pitman, Esq, of Bangor, has taken
e contract to lay the track OH the Somerset
abroad, which is already graded, from West !
aterville to n orridgewock, and will Commences
Drk this week with large force of workmen
ne rails will be furnished from the Portland
CLING Mills at the rate of 45 tons per week
re snow flies" though it is possible that the
Lasting will not be completed until next /
ring
WASHINGTON COUNTY
Geo. c. Burnham of Calais, gathered from a
ape vine growing alongside his house in the I
en- air, this season, 100 pounds of nice, rich
apes
Benjamin Shattuck, of Red Beach, Calais q
IL gather off his cranberry field this season
tween four and five hundred bushels of Gran,
rries of a superior quality. He intends to
re four hundred bushels to Boston this week.
which he expects the handsome sum of $500 IT
YORK COUNTY a
'aco is to have musical convention the u
ond week in November. r
he County Commissioners have laid out a q
d around Pine Hill, says the Times, which b
irely obvates that steep ascent.
he vestry of the Methodist church in Saco
been much improved by partition divid- r
it into two rooms The smaller will seat 2
nut one hundred persons, and, being quickly .
rmed, is well adapted for social meetings
ing the week, while the large vestry is still
cious enough for Sabbath evening services -,
here is movement to make the bridge hA -