The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-01-06
STATE NEWS.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.


The Bridgton Ne,os says on Monday last Mr..
George Foss caught pickerel in Crotched Pond
which weighed rs pounds.
The NetCs says the man sick with small pox
at Harrison is slowly recovering, and the panic
occasioned by the breaking out of this fearful
disease is fast subsiding, though doctors are
still kept busy vaccinating. .e--..b
Z The Neacs says it is estimated that upwards
of a million feet of hemlock timber is being
landed at Long Pond and Crooked River this
winter from Harrison, and the bark stripped
from the same is also finding market at vari-
GUS tanneries.
The Ne,os speaks in high terms of the lecture
on 'sSweden-Old and New" delivered by Hon.
w. w. Thomas, Jr., of this city, at the South
Bridgton Church last Tuesday evening.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
Andrew Morang upwards of 60 years of age,
residing in Mud Mills locality of doubtful
character, short distance from Augusta, the
Journal says, was up in the Municipal Court,
on the charge of having carnal knowledge of a
little girl II years of age, the conduct covering
the space of some three or four years. He was
adjudged guilty and committed to await trial at
the March term of the Supreme Judicial Court.
In the Waterville bridge case, the law court
rendered Judgment against the town on the Sd
inst The case involved the constitutionality of
the special act of 1869, by virtue of which the
road was located across the river at Waterville,
the bridge ordered to be built and the expense
apportiOned between Waterville and Winslow.
The decision afirms the constitutionality of the
act, and is regarded as conclusively settling the
controversy, which has been very exciting one
in that vicinity, and though the town was NOM
inally defendant it was only the west village
which opposed the erection OF the free bridge,
Waterville village unanimously favoring it.
There is curious case at the Military Asylum
which excites considerable interest among the
members of the medical profession. One of the
inmates there had some disease of the scalp
which resulted in necrosis Of the bone, so that
quite a large piece of the plate of the skull
dropped out taking away with it both the dttra
and piu mater, leaving the delicate drachnoid
membrane as the only covering over the sub
stance of the brain. The man seems quite
cheerful and other than this is enjoying quite
good health.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The two mammoth oxen in Bangor have been
sold, as we learn from from the Commercial at
"a price trenching on $10O0.' They are to be
slaughtered. Their weight is about $500 pounds.
The Penobscot County Agricultural Society
offered and paid more premiums last year than
any other society mentioned in the annual re-
port of the State Board of Agriculture. The
twenty-five societies reported, offered in the
aggregate $12, 25945, and paid SIS, 63O.75 in pre-
miums-an average of $557.25 offered and $780,
30 paid. The Penobscot Society offered s. 900,
and paid 1916.
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
:. Auouo oo9cH ciooh IIudy HorHlHg, IRE was
discovered in one of the tenements over Adams
saloon in Marbles wood building on Front
Street, Richmond the fire having caught from
defective chimney. Alarm was given and
engine brought out, but was found frozen SO
that some time passed before stream of water
could be got on the fire. Meantime water was
carried in pals, but the thick coat of snow on
the roof kept the fire subdued long enough to
get an engine working, when the flames were
soon subdued. Had it not been for the snow on
the roofs, Browns shoe factory and other wood
en- buildings adjoining would have been burned
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The Somerset Reporter says the following
story comes from hotel not a thousand miles
from Skowhegan. One day at dinner one of
the guests ordered an egg omelet. The waiter
left the room to fill the order, and presently
returned bringing two boiled eggs and medi-
cine almanac. That waiter took the train next
day for home. -tI ati iBi y
YORK COUNTY.
j. E. Butler ESQ.,, has sold part interest in
the. Biddeford Union and Journal printing estab-
lishment to Oliver Butler, and the business will
hereafter be conducted under the firm of j. E.
Butler & Co. The editorial department will be
conducted as heretofore. -.
The Supreme Judicial Court commenced its
session at Saco Tuesday, JAN I'd, Judge Tapley
presiding.
IN GENERAL.
The Maine Farmer estimates that the Weld
OF hay in that State is about one-half the yield
OF favorable seasons, the total amount of the
crop being 4S7, 900 tons. Comparing this with
somewhat startling as the comparison with
former years will at once show, as follows: In
1868 the yield was ZOO, 900 tons; 1862 500. 900
tons; 1870, zoo, 900 tons; 1871, 487, 600.