The Portland daily press., 1872-12-06
STATE NEWS.
,ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY,

.. ,ANDR0SCOGGIN COUNTY.
The Lewiston Journal says that Col. Keene
has seven coons hanging their well-arded sides
from his market, one Of which weighs twenty
pounds.
AROoSTOoK COUNTY.
silas Ireland, jr., of Presque ISLE is Sc years
years old, has had a family of 16 children, and
his wife, being widow previous to her mar
rage with him, had three children of the first
marriage; the whole nineteen he has reared.
All of the children are living but two. One Of
his sons was instantly killed at the battle of
six rounds at the enemy. One of his wife's sous
also died in the army, leaving them II children
now living.
FRANKLIN COUNTY
The citizens of West Pennington will hold
meeting at the school-house in that place next
Saturday, for the purpose of instituting meas
ures for erecting and setting in operation at an
early day cheese-factory
The Congregational Society of Pennington
will hold festival and fair in the Court House
Thursday and Friday evenings, Dec. 18th and
18th.
HANCOCK COUNTY
The Anaeicdn reports two new cases of small
pox.
In Ellsworth, on Thanksgiving day, two
brothers by the name of Durham were playing
with loaded gun, and as one was struggling to
TAKE tue weapon ITOul bne OlnoT, IL was QIS-
charged, and the ball passed through the arm
near the wrist of the younger boy, George Dun
ham, shattering the bone badly.
The Hancock Woollen Company at Orland
has suspended operations for the present.
Bluehill is shipping granite to New Orleans
Mr.. and Mrs. John Clough, of Bluehill, cele-
bbratsd their golden wedding Wednesday.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The Journal says that the Governor and
Council were in session Tuesday and portion
of Wednesday. Routine business was trans
acted The Council will meet again on. the
10Th, and will remain in session for some time,
for the purpose of closing up the businessa accu,
muating near the close of the year. An Asso-
ciate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court
will then be appointed.
The Gardiner Journal says that the farmers
in that section are impoverishing themselves by
rushing hay to market after fearful manner,
KNOX COUNTY
Rockland people now have two through trains
to Boston.
A large temperance meeting in Rockland
passed a resolution asking the city government
to prosecute rum-sellers, in consequence of
which several prosecutions have been begun.
The annual conclave of Claremont Com
mandery of Knights Templar of Rockland was
held Monday evening last. at which the follow
Jug officers were elected for the ensuing wear:
Leander Weeks, Eminent Commander; John
Bird, Generalssimo; Edwin Sprague, Prelate;
o. G. Hall, S. W.; H. NJ. Brown, j. w. T. E.
Simonton, Recorder; Fl. G. Bird, Treasurer.
rRNoBsoor COUNTY.
The Wing says that Capt. L. L. auckland,
G. E.. with an engineering party of ten, started
on Wednesday from that city towards Els
worth on the survey for route for the proposed
Shore Line Railroad.
At a meeting Of the subscribers to the Maine
Lloyds, held ON Tuesday at their Office in Ban
gor, it was voted to declare sem-annual divi-
dend of II per cent.
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
Pleasant River Lodge, f. & A. NJ, will be
constituted at Brownsville by Grand Master
Cargill, on Thursday, Dec. 18th.
A Welshman started from Milo about week
ago to a slate quarry at the head of Sebec Lake
He did not arrive when expected nor did he
return. and it is feared that he missed his way
and was lost in the woods. The insane man at
the Aims House in Bangor remains yet un-
identified, and can give no account OF himself
and by some he is supposed to be the missing
Weshman.
WALDO COUNTY
Belfast has two cases of smallpox, of Boston
origin, Capt Patterson, pilot of the steamer
Cambridge, and Charles B. Hezletine, being the
victims
VIM. II. Bryant of Freedom, died in Boston
recently of the smallpox.