The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-01-03
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
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A young man by the name of Farnham, of
Sangerville, while chopping in the woods near
MoOSehead Lake had a limb of tree fall on
him, badly fracturing one arm. A
Jesse Barber, ESQ.,, of Abbot, has been elect
ed and installed w. M. of Mt. Kineo Lodge of
+. q A. Masons at Abbot. Mr.. Barber is a
proficient in the science of Masonry and will be
an honor to the institution which has thus hon
ored him. rs go r.-f
> Rev, Anterior Clark, formerly pastor of the
Baptist churches in WATERFORD and Newfield,
IN York county, subsequently pastor at Cam
bridge, in Somerset, and Sangerville, in Piscat-
aquis, is now very sick of dropsy of the chest
at his residence in South Dover, in his S7th
year. He became widower in his list year,
and when his family learned that he was con-
templating another marriage they objected ON
account of his advanced age but he told them
that he was as likely to live fifteen years as
they were, and adhered to his own Judgment by
getting married. If he lives till April the fif-
teen years will have expired 49, rr
There is great scarcity of school teachers in
Plscata9uis. Girls who wish to earn money
prefer the factory to the school-room and Young
men prefer the lumber regions to either Both
escape the severe censures and criticisms of
fault-fnding and capricious parents. School
teaching was once regarded as genteel and hon
orable employment, but that idea is becoming
obsolete. S.
sAGADAHoc COUNTY.
The Oldest Mason in the State is Andrew
Heath, Esq, of Bath, who was made Master
Mason in Solar Lodge in that city on the first
day of August A. d. 1905. The Times says she
is now enjoying good health and likely to re-
main much longer with u.s.
The Bath Times says if some of the primeval
inhabitants Of Bath could rise from their graves
to-day they would be amazed at the change
wrought by the temperance reform movement
and the Maine liquor law. In looking over an
ancient tome containing the records of the
Selectmen of the Town Of Bath we find the fol-
lowing under date of October, 1S14:-''Paid p
Osgood for spirits furnished at fire, $5.17
SOMERSET COUNTY. -ss
William Collins, Jr., of Harmony, commit
ted suicide on Thursday of last week. He was
taken sick at O'Clock in the morning and was
in the greatest distress till P. NJ. when he
died. 1t took several men to hold him on the
bed. Z, Mr.. Collins, few moments before his
death, informed his attendants that he had
taken half an ounce of arsenic. 1t is impossi-
BILE, to understand the cause of this terrible
deed. Mr.. Collins was an estimable man, a
member of Christian church. and no signs of
insanity had ever been noticed in him.
YORK COUNTY. t-a
The conveyances of land in Biddeford to the
Boston & Maine Railroad corporation, for the
purposes of the extension of their road, amount
to S32, 800, and in Saco to S23,351. sH
The Independent says horse belonging to
Eben Todd, of Saco, slipped at the corner of
Beach and Middle streets on Friday last and in
Jured himself so that it became necessary to
| kill him. - -g@7
A small dwelling house in Biddeford, near
the depot, was injured by fire last Saturday.
The loss, which was not large, was covered by
insurance. 80