The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-02

time to answer, the stranger said-"What,
have you night watch in FarmlngtonY Be
ing answered in the affirmative, the man saun-
tered around the room for awhile, and finally,
remembering that he had important business
in another place. called for his team and took
his departure That night robbery was COM
mitted at Pennington Falls, and this same in
dividual was charged with the crime, arrested
and convicted. gt Fkffftfrf
The Chronicle says Mrs. Rebecca Gay, of
North Pennington, lost a valuable cow last
Saturday night, in consequence of eating dry
meal 1t is supposed that after the family re-
tired the cow broke loose and made her way to
the meal barrel, and there helped herself too
freely for her own benefit.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The revenue cutter, j. G. Dobbin, at Castine,
awaits a new captain, the late commander hav-
ing been ordered away recently.
The daily mail line from Ellsworth through
Hancock, Sullivan, Gouldsboro, Steuben and
Milbridge to Cherryfield. went into operation
last Friday and is appreciated by all along the
route.
The Bangor Commercial says on Tuesday,
Mayor Peck of Ellsworth, had despatch from
an officer in st. Stephens, saying that for
hundred dollars he would deliver Brackett and
Mosely, who are suspected of committing the
late depredations in Brewer, Dedham and vicin-
ity on this side of the line. We understand
the offer was declined, it being feared that the
pIOOI tutih uiay hioe " w Coh-
vict them.
The american says on the evening of Janu-
airy 10th, Colonel Rowland Carlton and Mrs.
Susan NJ. Carlton celebrated their golden
wedding" at their residence, in Brooklin. OF
ten children born to them, six are still living
three of whom were present. The absent three
were represented by tokens of filial regards be-
fitting the OCCASION.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The Augusta Journal says Mrs John Dunn
died at the city farm house of Hallowell, Jan.
25, aged one hundred and eleven years. She
was born in England, came to this country in
early life, married man of prominence and
property, who died Oct. 2. 1857 The residence
where she dwelt for many years on Water street
and where she said she hoped to die, passed in.
to other hands, so that the last few years she
has been an inmate at the city farm house.
The Gardiner Home journal says the wife of
Morrill, Cove, of West Gardiner, awGke him.
throat He raised her up and she diod almost
instantly without saying word. She had been
in her usual health, and doubtless died of heart
disease, as she has been some subject to it,
Franklin Division, Sons of Temperance,
Augusta reports one hundred and two more
members than its October quarterly report. The
Sons are mott played out in that city, says
the Gardiner Home Journal.
KNOX couNY.
The Rockland Free Press intimates that the
suicide OF William Tarbox, the guard at the
State Prison. on Wednesday morning, was the
result of indulgence in liquor.
The Free Press learns that the liquor traffic
has been carried on to such an extent in
Thomaston, that the public spirit there, which
has hitherto smiled blandly upon it, and passed
it with no words of condemnation, is lat last
aroused to sense of the fearful ruin it has
wrought, and proposes to take some steps to
check it. N
LINCOLN COUNTY.
The Wiscasset Oracle says Deputy Grand
Master Cargill of Augusta and Grand Tyler
Phillips of Portland, on their way to dedicate
Anchor lodge at South Bristol (Rutherford s
Island) visited Alma Lodge on the evening Of
the I'D inst, and on the day following quite a
large number of DamariscOtta brethren accom-
panied them to South Bristol, and assisted at
the dedication of the Lodge in the afternoon and
the installation of officers in the evening. The
visiting brethren received most hearty well
come and were generously and Hospitality en-
I tertained by the brethren of Anchor Lodge An
excellent time is generally reported. e
Mr.. Randall Brookings, of Wiscasset, who
had the misfortune 10 have his leg crushed
while working on Stinson's "canal," at Birch
Point, some four months ago, and has since
been confined to his room, recently had visit
| from some twenty-five or thirty gentlemen who
took along goodly quantity Of -four, and gro
ceries to the amount of some thirty dollars. A
purse of $40 in greenbacks was also made up
and presented. 1 rl5e .f4r 5fv..T
-i n SOMERSET COUNTY.
The Auson Advocate says that G. Steward of
that village has two cows, Ayrshire and Jersey,
from which he has received the last four wears
in butter, cheese and milk, twelve hundred aud
fifteen dollars and sixty-seven cents-has sold
three calves for one hundred and thirty dollars,
making the gross proceeds one thousand, three
hundred and forty-five dollars and sxty-seven
CENTS The cost of keeping the two has never
exceeded one hundred dollars a year, leaving a
clear profit of nine hundred and forty dollars
and sixtyTseven cents, on an investment of
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The Bangor Wing says some reckless burglar
who evidently hadn't the fear of small pox be-
fore his eyes, broke into the pest house, at the
City Farm, and carried off cooking stove,
three beds and bedding, and all other articles of
value therein stored No clue to the robber has
in his familyshis guilt will come to light
WALDO COUNTY.
The Belfast Journal says Mr.. Frank Knowl-
ton and wife were thrown out of a sleigh last
Saturday in that city, by coming in contact with
another team, the horse of Mr.. Knowlton hav-
ing run away. Mr.. X. was seriously injured on
the hip, Mrs. x. escaped with some bruises
The Journm says a man calling himself Capt.
Cutler, last week engaged in some financial OPP
eratiens in Durham. Processing to have moth
ing less than 800 bill, he borrowed So from
Mr.. Brown of the hotel, and afterwards $40
more. Then he negotiated loan of IS with
Mr.. Bagley, by using a neighbours NAME He
then took the cars for Pittsfield, where Mr.
Brown and others found him hid in woodpile,
recovered $1S of the money, and let him go on
promise never to return 43
Judge Dickerson has been chosen a direstor
of the Belfast 81 Moosehead Railroad, to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the death of Prescott
Hazeltine.
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