The Portland daily press., 1872-08-24
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

The programme for the races at Lewiston APP
pointed for next Wednesday and Thursday is
published and the number of entries is very
large. In the three minute race there are nine
entries of new horses. In the $50 class there
are eleven entries, some of which are excellent
horses, There are six entries in the As class
of whom Happy Jack is one. In the 40 class
there are nine entries, including King William,
Meddlesome, Sheridan, Dagon and Billy Bum
pus, horses well known in this vicinity. The 40
race will occur on Thursday.
The new City Hall at Lewiston will seat $500
persons
The journal says the scarcest article in Au-
burn is 'rent." 100 families who want to
live in Auburn can't, because of the dcarth
!. The same poverty of shelter affects Lewiston.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
The canning factory at Bridgton is now en-
gagged in putting up blueberries, of which fifty
bushels were received in one day last week.
Robinson Cook, of Bolster's Mills ground a
grist of corn, on the Goth inst which grew in
his garden the present year.
Albert Chase of Raymond, killed rattle
snake in that town recently. The snake meas
ured feet 9 inches in length and had 10 rat
ties.
The Ners says that Mrs Lyman Martin of
Bridgton, while backberrying Tuesday, fell
and broke her wrist.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The cheese factory at Strong is in successful
operation. The number of patrons is sixty.
Some of the milk is brought milss. The COM
pany have on hand about ten tons of cheese
which sells readily in the market at from one
to three cents per pound higher the New York
cheese brings.
HANCOCK COUNTY
Miss Elizabeth Trundy of Surry, who has
been blind from childhood, had her eyes oper-
ated upon by Drs. Sanger of Bangor ands Hard-
inc of Ellsworth IN that tho Sin Of
was restored.
OXFORD COUNTY.
Mr. Samuel Keene of North Buckfield, on
tuesday the 10th inst, was struck in the alb To-
men by piece of wood, hurled from circular
saw, from the effects of which he died.
Edwin P. Quincy of Hebron, has cut 30 tons
of hay on his farm without hiring any help
and worked out II days besides
The Iocke's Mills House was burner last Tues
DAY, at IL o'clock in the forenoon, and Bwas en-
tirely consumed in about forty minutes. The
Surroundings were saved with tgreat difficulty
The loss is estimated at from $1,000 to S25OO; in
sured for $1700 in the Etna of Hartford, ct.
A portion of the furniture was saved in dam
aged condition. Mr.. Purington who boarded in
the house. and near whose room the fire broke
out, lost all his clothing, two watches and his
money. The fire started in the attic and is
supposed to have caught from defect in the
chimney. The house was thoroughly repaired
at an expense of 500, and opened last spring
and the loss will fall heavily upon Mr. A.
Coffin, who owned and run it.
Messrs. Burnham & Morrill, intend to put ND
1000 cans of sweet corn at South Paris this
fall.
fnNoBscoT COUNTY.
The earnings of the European and North
American Railway for July were 1874, 111.79
The house and stable of Capt John M. Cort
OF Glenburn were burned Wednesday night.
Loss $500; insured.
Fred Dunbar of Bangor, was at play upon
some logs Thursday, when one of them started
10 toll unexpectedly, and before he conld get
out OF the way it struck his right leg, breaking
the bone in two places between the knee and
hip.
A few days since George Jewett of Garland,
was out shooting squirrels, when his gun was
acsidently discharged, the contents entering
ms wrist The bone was badly splintered, and
between thirty and forty shot taken from the
wound.
Dexter is to have a new hook and ladder car
rIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
A horse belonging 10 Mr. r. 3D. Gilman, of
Foxcroft dropped dead in the harness Satur-
day. He was valued at $780,
The Observer says that the farmers of Piscat-
aquls have sold and sent out of the county
within a few day over 100 head of CATTLE and
still set up the cry that their barns are filled
with hay and grain, and nothing to eat it!
SOMERSET COUNTY
The Kennebec, swollen by the rains on Sun
day, carried away between seventy and a hum
bred RATS of logs belonging to the millmcn in
Fairfield; and but for the precautionary meas
ures early laken, the entire number, boom and
all, would have been lost. The mills are sup
piled and will run, as heretofore, day and
night, to cut them up before cold weather sets
in.
Mr.. Stedman Bartlett has been making an
extensive addition to his mill, which is occcu-
pied by additional rooms and spinning jenny.
The horse thief, John Hale, stole valuable
horse from Hamlen F. Eaton of Norridgewock,
Tuesday night. Mr.. Eaton heard the team as it
was driven from the stable and after half an
hour succeeded by the aid of his friends in cap
turing the thief and getting the horse, This is
the second horse he has stolen from Mr.. f.
Hale is just out of Stote Prison, where he has
been serving term for horse stealing He is
nearly so years of age.