The Portland daily press., 1872-05-03


longing in Portland, left ON the train for home
Tuesday, but being unwell, was returned from
Bath by special train the same evening She
was sent to the hospital, but it is reported the
physicians have not thus far discovered any
evidence of small pox about her, and is hoped
she is laboring under indispositon from nervous
excitement or some other cause
OXFORD COUNTY. &
A G. Kinds of Oxford, has sold five years
old colt to Mr. Comlee of Boston, for $500.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
The steamer Katahdin will probably be plac-
ed on the line between Bangor and Boston by
Wednesday of next week, to run in connection
with the Cambridge.
The Bangor Commercial has been informed on
reliable authority that work would be COM
menced on the projected railway between Ban
gor and Bvcksport within go days, if the owner
of share front in Bucksport could be induced
to sell it at a fair valuation We hope that this
this gentleman will see that generous and lib
eral policy will be for his own interest as well
as that of his own townsmen. ThisIshore front
. is wanted for wharfage purposes, and if it can
be bought, a long line of wharfs will soon be
built for the use of lumber dealers and river
steamers e ssfsg zss
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
From our own Correspondent e.
q. The dwelling house and outbuildings of John
E. True of MOnson, were consumed by fire on
the Both ult. The buildings were entirely new
and insured for $1100 in the Piseatauuis Mu-
tual. -9Tr sH&
Farmers are at work upon the land in Abb
bolt and Parkman.
ways be seen in the spring and that the rain
will kill them all off when it comes Funny,
that they survive the rigors of our winters to
be killed by drowning S.
ol. sAGADAHoc COUNTY
A temperance reform meeting was held
Wednesday night at Columbian Hall. Bath
and about six hundred persons were present
The meeting was addressed by Rev. David
Boyd of Rockland. G. H.
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The Gardiner Journal says, David Wing,
Esq. of Somerset Mills, had a narrow esca be
from drowning, on Moosehead Lake, last week.
He had been examining logs, and returning
across North Bay, the horse and driver and MI.
Wing all went through the ice. With difficulty
they extricated themselves and horse, and ere
long, the horse again went down. Rescuing
him again, they finally got to the Kineo House.
Here they they learned that that a Mr. Little
| field and a Mr.. Knight We're out with three
horses, and were expected in over the same
track. A party was sent back to warn them
of their danger, but when they got to them
they had found the hole without difficulty, and
| all were splashing around in the water. They,
too, were rescued, and had fairly got to the
kineo House, when an alarm was again heard.
| two women, with two horses With difficulty
they were rescued, and one of the men insisted
on going back, but was opposed by the others,
who wished to take safer route. While they
away and ran for home, and the men and
women had four miles to walk The next
morning Mr.. Wing hired another man to take
him to the foot of the lake, and narrowly es-
capped getting in again. l 6os sa
A large pile of wood at Pttsfeld owned by
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stroyed by fire Wednesday, probably caused by
sparks from passing locomotive
WALDO COUNTY 4
The Belfast Age says fears are entertained of
the safety of the Bark Samuel Larrabee, Capt.
William Thompson of Winterport, out 60 days
from Savannah to Bremen. ---.fers
The Age says man named Josiah Flagg was
almost instantly killed by the falling Of the
timbers of building ON the east side of the
river, last Saturday, during the heavy wind.
The Age says the first alarm of fire in Belfast
for over year. occurred last Monday evening.
The house and ell owned by Mrs. Meek, on
Wilson HILL near the cemetery, was burned
with most of its contents Loss about $4,000;
insured for $500. ssf Il f-aL
The Journal says Ivory Lord, a resident of
Montville, near Freedom village, died very sud-
denly last Sunday of heart disease. He was in
his usual health about his house, and dropped
dead instantly. liisa,saE- .r II
Mr.. Daniel Boulter, very old gentleman,
died at the residence of his son, in the south
western part of Unity, at the advanced age of
"a years. He was one of the early settlers, hav-
ing lived in that vicinity about so years.
- WASHINGTON COUNTY.
In colored population the towns in Washing
ton county report, Calais, "A; Eastport, "a; Ma
chias, II. In all the rest of the county there
are but 81 colored persons. Cherryfeld Lubec,
Pembroke and Dennysville report one each.
By the census reports Eastport has popula-
ton of 1886. OF these 1131 are foreign"
eign, having 453 out of 2551. Calais is down
with 1886 foreign out of 1914. Vanceboro, for
an American town, caps the climax, having 1O1
native and 228 foreign.
A sad loss by fire last Saturday, occurred to
Mr.. Wilder, between Pembroke and Dennys-
ville Near the middle of the day, whilst
high wind was raging, fire was discovered in
his dwelling house, which, together with his
barns and other out-buildings were all laid in
ashes in very short time. Nothing of any
consequence was saved, so rapid was the fire.
The Maine delegation in Congress has agreed
upon the following named gentlemen as Corpor-
ators of the State of Maine for the centennial
exhibition at Philadelphia, in 1876: At large
Abner Coburn, Philander j. Carleton, Henry
r. Prentiss, William L. Putnam; First District,
Joshua L. Chamberlain, VIM. P. Haines; Sec
ond District, James I. Patten, Josiah G. CO.
burn; Third District, Anson P. Morrill,, Ed
mund Wilson; Fourth District, Chas. Shaw,
George w. Ladd; Fifth District, Charles b.
Paine, Charles B. Hazeltine.
The Grand Army Journal says Gen. Jas. A.
Hall of Maine, is preparing new lecture which
he calls From Night to Light" 1t embodies
our national history from President Lincoln's
assassination to the days when peace was firm
ly established. ~ ~
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