The Portland daily press., 1872-02-10
STATE NEWS.
ANDROsCoGGIN COUNTY.

STATE NEWS.
sF ANDROsCoGGIN COUNTY.
Mr.. Norris Litchfeld of Lewiston, who has
for some time been experimenting portion of
the work at the dam now being built on the
Little Androscoggin river, in Auburn received
fatal injuries Wednesday by being crushed un-
der falling gravel bank. He died Thursday.
Mr. Litchheld was about IS years old and serv-
ed his country honorably several wears during
the late war, being sergeant in the 9Th Maine,
was in seventeen battles without receiving
wound, and never before had a serious injury.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
The Bridgton Neaos says Mrs. Farnsworth
Kilborn of ''Side City," recently had twenty
two teeth extracted at one sitting. The patient
was under the influence of ether. The opera
ton was performed in thirty minutes.
From an article in the Brunswick Teleqroph,
it appears that the destruction of the dwelling
house of Mr.. j. /. Merryman, in that town last
| Saturday was caused by culpable negligence of
the town authorities in not providing for
ala ms to be sounded and making it imperative
on the engine company to turn out The tele-
graph walks into" the authorities, but not
half hard enough, if the premises are correct.
Such state of things existing would cause the
property owners vast amounts; for no insurance
company would take risks there except at extra
hazardous rates. @L = rfsEIsr
FRANKLIN COUNTY. t'
who has been operating with a crew of lumber
| men in the WOODS during the winter, committed
suicide on Thursday morning Feb. 1st., by
shooting himself. He had been very much in
terested in religious revival which has been in
progress in the vicinity for several weeks past,
imagining he was called to preach and mani
| Testing at times considerable alteration of
mind.
The Chronicle learns that the recent death of
Carlton + Emery, formerly of Industry, in
| Beatr ce, New, was caused by being struck over
the head with billiard cue Sin the hands of
rufhan named Blythe, who has been arrested
and is now in prison awaiting trial for the will
full murder of Mr.. Emery. sl SD
The Chronicle says that larger amount of
lumber is being hauled in North Franklin than
ever before up to this time. A number of par
ties in Madrid are hauling logs to True's, Pres
colts, Commits and Chick mills The Bangor
company are operating largely in No. 6, and
VIII run their lumber down Sandy River
Abner Toothaker has fifty-one teams inYthe
woods and about three hundred men.
KNOX COUNTY.
A correspondent of the Rockland Gazette who
attended the lecture of Horace Greeley in that
city, thinks that Mr.. G. is much better adapted
to the worF of editing the Tribune, than to the
lecture platform. His style is awkward, and
his ideas of elocution and oratory seem to be in
their milk teeth period. His voice is pitched in
a medium between monotone and falsetto and
he drawls through one sentence and rtlshes
through the next.
OXFORD COUNTY.
The oldest inhabitant of Brownfield, Mr.
Lancaster Hodges, reached his 101st birthday
anniversary, January 31st. He is a colored man
and went there from Salem, Mass, about eighty
years ago
The Lewiston Journal thinks the Portland &
Oxford Central Railroad will be able to resume
regular trips about Nay LIST.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
The Bangor Commercial says some go-ahead
young ladies who are alive to the privileges of
leap-year, took their beaux out to Veazie, We'd
nesday evening on surprise party
The Wing says Mr.. Israel Bemis of Levant
slipped and fell as he was descending from q
scatfold in his barn a day or two since, fractur-
ing both bones of his leg between the knee and
ankle The fracture was very bad one and it
it will probably be long time before he re-
gains the use of the limb. ID So
The Wing understands that the petitioners
for bill authorizing the city of Bangor to loan
its credit to aid in the construction of the North
ern Aroostook Railroad have signified TO the
city government their desire to withdraw their
application, stating that they are not able to
to undertake the enterprise for the sum (SSOO9
per mile) reported in the bill approved by the
City Council at their last meeting, ON Monday
evening. In the same communication the peti-
TONERS express a Willingness to surrender the
charter to any parties who will build the road
with the amount of aid proposed in the bill
The city government will probably be called to-
gether at once to decide whether to rescind or
adhere to their vote recommending the passage
of the bill by the Legislature.
WALDO COUNTY.
There have been four suicides in Lincolnville
since June last
Capt. Daniel Lunt of Lincolnville, claims to
be the first man that ever run a steamboat in
Maine, especially up the Penobscot river
Gen. Cilley of Rockland, with A. Spaulding
and W. G. Tower of Lincolnville, have invested
Sl0, 600 preparatory to the manufacture of lime
in Lfncolnville.
Slate has been discovered in Belmont. which
is said to be equal to anything of the kind in
this State.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The Calais advertiser says ship-building
promises to be pretty brisk in that city next
summer, if nothing happens to prevent it
Messrs Robertson Brothers are putting the
keel OF large schooner together now, so as to
get her OFT early next summer Besides this
we understand Messrs Rideout & Lord and
Niekerson & Rideout, are getting out the tim
Der for two, and VIM. Kinds is going to build
one, and Capt. Parrott one, for which the tim
Der is being hauled into the yards The con-
struction of five vessels will make pretty good
beginning for ship-building season.
In abiding to the bill of Mr.. Peters to attach
certain towns and townships in Washington
county to the Bangor custom district, the
Calais Advertiser says the fact that these towns
are nearer to Calais than to Bangor and that
their people prefer to transact their business in
the future rs they are now doing, at Calais
ought to enable any sensible Congressman to
see the absurdity of Peters proposition. The
pluck of the Bangor people is only excelled by
their lack IF modesty in their efforts to out
strip other cities. Petitions from the parties
most concerned will be forwarded to Mr.. Hale.
and Peters will probably drop the subject as in,
tended only for sarcasm on the acquisitiye-
ness of Bangor
YORK COUNTY.
A few days ago Mr.. j. 7. Lewis's barn in
kttery, was entirely consumed by fire and with
it two hogs, over ninety fowls ten or twelve
tons OF nay, carriages and farming TOOLS
Slightly insured.
The second class frigate Sabine, now living in
ordinary at Charlestown, is to be taken to the
kittery Navy Yard, and fitted up Temporarily
for service as receiving ship, to take the
place OF the Vandalia, which is to be altered
froma fourth class sloop of war into third
class screw of about 800 tons.
IN GENERAL
Patents have been issued this week to Reuben
Kent of Portland, for dough mixer; William
Heath OF Bath, for reclining chair; Andrew f.
Whitney of Bath, for door lock; also to same
for key for locks, and for combined latch and
lock for sliding doors; HenryL. Gooch, Machias,
for shingle machine,