The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-22

The French element is getting so large in
Lewiston that French physician from Mon
treal has settled there.
4 Mr.. Edwin S. Nelson, of Minot, an extensive
fruit raiser, now has on hand two hundred
bushels of apples to be made into cider. His
method of keeping his cider apples from Fall
till mid Summer following, without rotting, is
by freezing them and then putting them into
bin and covering the whole with hay i'm which
condition they are kept in perfect state until
July ~ ~ nv tttfLf
$50 III ARoosTooK COUNTY
VIM M. Adams, of Hodgdon, had two fin
gers and thumb from left hand sawed off in a
single machine. ~ ~
Mrs. Dunn, of Amity, ruptured blood vessel
in the head and came very near bleeding to
death.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
Two Sebago correspondents of the Bridgton
Nea0S are enlivening the columns of that paper
with school district scandal.
The Ne,0S says that the Forest City Mills will
shut down week or two in August to repair
their dam. ,.sa ei..t - u4t
The following, as we learn from the Neps,
are some of the heaviest taxpayers of Bridg-
$35364; Taylor & Perry, LBS; Moses Gould,
$22737; rate, 81. 43 per $780,
There is to be boat race on Crotched pond
on the Fourth. Jg.
Harrison village has two base ball clubs bear
ing the expressive titles of stubborn Nine"
and Ragged Nine"
The Harrison Farmers Club propose to unite
with the Otisfield Club in fair at BOsters
Mills in October.
Richard Green employs eight hands in his
stave mill at Edes Falls.
Weber Kimball has charge of the Bridgton
Town farm.
And now it is Mr.. John jackson, of Naples,
aged IS years, who walked three miles to do
days planting and returned home at night as
lively as boy.
The Methodist Society in Naples have bought
new organ and have added sxty-two volumes
to their library lets oi
The Telegraph says there was family meet
ing of Quints at the house of William Gross,
New Meadows, on Wednesday, Five sisters
and four brothers met after separation of forty
| years.
| 1t is expected that hundred students will
enter the next Freshman class at Bowdoin q
KENNEBEC COUNTY
The Mail learns that there is good prospect
that the rails will be laid on the Somerset Rail
road from West Waterville during the present
season.
| Dr. A. Crosby, one of the early volunteers in
| the Third Maine Regiment from Waterville
| College, who did good service through the war,
| filings out the first banner for Grant and Wilson
| in Waterville. si si= t-aEz -z& 3,
The Mail ridicules the sensational dispatches
which the imaginative agent of the Associated
Press has been sending out in regard to troubles
| between classes at Colby University.
A new Masonic lodge has been constituted at
| Vassalboro.
1t is proposed during the summer to hold a
| grand temperance meeting in the Coliseum,
over which Mr. j. X. Osgood, of Gardiner is
| to preside 1aN
l. T.. .fA -. =
| are upon the market. ai.ilg+.f l isa
Col. Lambard, of Augusta, has received an
order for 100 freight cars from the Eastern road.
The Maine Central are to build large Gull
vert OF great strength at the point of the wash
out near the east end of the Augusta bridge.
An attempt is being made to endow the Wat
erville Classical Institute.
School examinations at Augusta this week.
OXFORD COUNTY. -r'.ma
The town of Paris voted not to EXEMPT i'm
provements upon the jackson privilege, by
vote of yeas IA, nays Is.
Oxford county is the champion county in the
State in the production of cheese and working
Trout are plenty in Greenwood, two fisher
men having caught 80 last Saturday.
Joseph Carpenter, of Norway, takes charge
OF the Eagle Hotel, Gerham, N. H., next Nom
day.
The soldiers graves in the vicinity of Norway
will be decorated june 3Oth
The first Lockwood prize at Dartmouth Col
lege has been awarded to Clinton B. Evans, of
fryeburg, member of the Junior class. -
A little daughter of w. S. Partridge, of Nor,
way, not quite two years of age, last Sabbath,
caught her foot in the carpet and fell breaking
her arm near the elbow. -t9toD5
The old wooden factory power at Dixfield has.
been sold, to be employed in the manufacture
of tooth picks ,r-1.F'f CI,Lg
Moore & Farrar, at Buckfeld village, have
put into their mill a new set of wool cards.
PENoBscoT COUNTY
A son of James Mulvaney, of Bangor, fell
over large rock Thursday, breaking his arm
Capt. Alden Parker well known and popu-
lar packet master between Bangor and Boston,
died at Winterport the 10th inst, aged 63years.
Mr.. Amos L. Colson, of Bangor, Thursday,
rescued sailor from drowning The Wing
says this is the nineteenth man Mr.. Colson has
gallantly saved from watery grave.
A quantity of railroad tickets were stolen
from the Passadumkeag station on Wednesday
and boy has been arrested as the thief
The house of Nicholas Sands, near French's
Mills, Dexter, was burned Tuesday moon. to
family. No insurance.
A dove and a hen at Dexter are having
pitched battles every day, says the Gazette to
see which shall set upon hens egg and hatch
WASHINGTON COUNTY 80
Real estate in Barring is rapidly changing
hands. ...4 -
A correspondent of the Sentinel has made a
visit to the veteran Isaac Bearce, of Meddy-
bemps, and proposes to repeat the visit when
Isaac's apples are ripe. ret. aHr
A schooner belonging to the Eastport Fishing
Association arrived from the Banks Monday
with full load.
A son of Otis Huckins of Lnbec was Sc
verely kicked in the face by a horse last Sunday.
=, Mr. John Koran, of Lubec. has completed his
10lst year and is hale and hearty
Last year 10000 boxes Magdalen herring
were taken, against 5000 boxes this year in the
Lubec district. H t'f
Twelve Thousand dollars were paid to the
hands OF the Pembroke Iron Works last Satur-
day. f.Irrll-
There are ne more cases of spotted fever at
Pembroke. -----.-----------
The propeller Norwich has been purchased
New York.
.no,.Ia fseR YORK COUNTY es1 alf sr-
The Maine Democrat says that Henry Annis,
employed on the B. s. M. railroad extension
near Wells, was struck by fragment of rock
from blast, dashing out portion of mis- brains
and causing other very severe injuries. There
are hopes OF his recovery.
Horace Woodman, middle-aged farmer of
Dayton, was severely injured few. days since,
by log rolling upon him. Two or three ribs
were broken, besides several severe bruises on
different portions of his body. AT last ac-
counts he was doing WELL .tss
The Democrat is informed that Messrs Little
field, OF the firm of Lttlefield,- Leavtt & Co.. I
OF Alfred, will after the first of August devote
themselves to the business of paper manufac-
turing at Yarmouth, having purchased there in