The Portland daily press., 1872-05-04
STATE NEWS
ANDRosCOGGIN COUNTY.

The Graduating class of Bates College hay
secured the Germania Band and Miss Ami
Louise Cary, for their Commencement Con
cert, the 10Th of june. TORN
The Journal says, the Directors of the Lew
iston & Auburn Railroad Company have em
ployed John Reade, ESQ.,, to make a final sur
yey and working plans of the proposed road t.
| Danvlle junction, and he will commence tn,
survey at once. The preliminaries of con
tract with the Grand Trunk ION terms made
public have been approved by Mr.. Brydge.
sent to England for the formal ratification o.
| the English Directors-sO that it will be full,
approved in few weeks. In the meantime, al
Mr. Bridges suggestion, the surveys of the
| route will be made, the line located and promo
| sails for its construction invited. .- &
The whole lumber of deaths in the citv q,
| Lewlston1 the past year was 127. OF this mum.
Der 81 were American, 50 Irish, % French, IL
English and German.
rs.s CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
The Bridgton Ne,cs says last Friday as L.
Davis a. Sons stage was on the way to Bald.
win, one of their horses slumped through the
below, thereby breakingits leg. The horse as
the most valuable one on their lines.
Two men caught ten bushels of smelts at
Songo Lock, one day last week. H
The Ne,os soys N. A. Traitor, who got out
about 100000 of hemleck timber the past
winter, landing it ON Crooked River, having
tailed to sell it satisfactorily, has increased the
amount by purchasing other lots, to half mil
lion feet, and is driving it to Great Falls. on
the Presumpscot, where he will have it sawed
and ready for market the present season he
having hired the Lindsey Mills for that pur-
pose. = 70
Last Saturday afternoon the residence of
John n. chaplin in Naples was discovered tn
be on fire. A large crowd of men and hovs
soon assembled who succeeded in subduinp the
flames. The fire caught in the roof on the
porch, probably from the porch chimney
KENNEBEC COUNTY
The Capital Guards of Augusta have voted
to visit Lynn, Mass, provided IS members of
the corps will go. The time of the visit is NOT
fixed.
PENOBSCoT COUNTY.
The Wing says Joel Littlefeld, the brake
man who was killed on the E. q N Rail.
way, Tuesday, had his life insured for ~. 900.
child he left. -'''o
The Wing says Mrs. Frank Strange and her
eight children, residing on Kenduskeag avenue.
are all sick OF scarlet fever and unable to leave
the house Wednesday afternoon spark from
the chimney fell on the barn and the high wind
blowing at the time famed it to a blaze. II
was soon discovered by the inmates of the
house, but they were helpless, as for them to
go out in the chill damp air would be almost
certain death in their condition. There seemed to
be but one thing to be done-to cry for help and
this they did with such effect that they were
heard by the workmen at Strickland's Mill, and
a deputation Immediately came up and extin-
guished the fire.
The Commercial says woman who gave her
name as Sarah Maria Smith, from Boston, was
arrested on Wednesday, who had been commit
ting extensive larcenies. Her game had been
to hire out as a servant i'm families and deposit
her offerings in various places outside.
The Gazette soys the store of Dustin & Co.,
in Dexter was entered Tuesday night and $50 in
money and cutlery to the amount of 500 stolen
The stolen goods were afterwards found, and
the suspected thief has been arrested.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The Reporter says Miss Jewell, daughter of
Jacob Jewell of Cornville, committed suicide
by drowning in brook near her fathers resi-
dence, April 18th. She had been sick and UNI
der alteration of mind for some months.
The Fairfield Chronicle says some of our
lumber manufacturers we learn, have already
contracted their seasons lumber, delivered at
the depot as fast as sawed, for the Portland
market.
The Chronicle says considerable enterprise is
manifest in the erection of dwelling houses at
Kendall Mills, several having been begun and
still others projected at the present season.
tft+ q WALDO COUNTY. it
The Bangor Wing says on Wednesday, DIR.
Chas. q. Norton of Linconville, started with |
mis- father, mother and wife to go West. but |
was arrested on small debt and obliged to re-
urn with the officer on the steamer City of |
from Portland, Wednesday night |
Some time during the night he was discovered |
o be suffering great pain and apparently in a |
lying condition. DR. DeCOsta of Boston, was
IN board the steamer and was at once called |
de pronounced the symptoms to be those of