The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-19
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

The grocery dealers in Lewiston are running
one another on granulated sugar, which costs
IL IA cents per pound by the barrel They are
advertising it at 10 cents pound, and one al
ready advertises it at 8 cents, but he will sell
only one pound to a customer. Meanwhile the
consumers ere enjoying this fun and are having
their buckets filled up day after day. The con-
sumption of sugar in Lewiston, just now, APP
pears to be enormous. The consumers can
stand this sort of fun longer than the grocers
can.
The Lewiston Journal says a rumseller
brought to that city few nights ago, ON the
late train, five twenty gallon kegs of liquor. He
had just got one of the kegs into his shop when
some of the sly and thirsty ones raised an alarm
of an officer approaching. The owner of the
other four ON the platform. Returning some
time afterwards he found that it was false
alarm, raised by the bystanders, who had stolen
one of his kegs during his absence
KNOX CoUNY.
The Camden Herald says fire was discovered
in Carleton, Norwood & Co.'S counting-roOm
between twelve and one o'clock Friday morn
ing. 1t burned many of the valuable papers
upon the shelves and two holes in the floor of
the hall above when the alarm was given Pa
cific Engine Co. No. soon had a stream of
water playing upon the fire and quickly quench-
ed the flames The damages had not been as
certained when we went to press, but probably
the loss of papers will be the greatest
The Herald says Mr. Alexander Thomas,
highly esteemed citizen of Camden, who de-
ceased last week, died at the very hour that he
was to be married, and was laid out in his we'd
ding suit. He had his will made five hours be-
fore his death.
The, Cobb Lime Company manufactured, du-
ring the year ending January l, 1872, nine
hundred and seven thousand 1907 ,000) casks of
lime.
OXFORD COUNTY.
The people of Fryeburg contributed one hun
bred and six dollars to the American Bible So
ciety, in connection with the visit ON the 18th
inst. of Rev. VIM. H. Gilbert of Hartford.
Conn.,, who is experimenting the work of the
A. b. S. in New England.
YORK COUNTY.
Elijah Wadleigh of Parsonsfield will, if he
lives until March, have reached the advanced
age of one hundred and three years. He re-
tains his faculties to a remarkable degree, and
can converse quite tuently on incidents that
hundred years, he rode four miles to the polls
to deposit his vote, privilege which he always
esteemed as one of the highest guaranteed by
the Constitution of the United States Mr.
Wadleigh has been a successful farmer and
owns one of the largest and best farms in that
section.
Mr.. Edwin Parsons of New York, whose mar
rage to the daughter of Justice Swayne, of the
Supreme Court was one of the Washington
high life sensations of last week, is a native of
York county, being born in Alfred. Mr. Par
sons mother and brother now resided in Ken
nebunk. The President, Vice President, sew
eral members of the Cabinet and the Supreme
Court were present at the wedding.
- IN GENERAL r.----.-
Patents were issued last week to G. H. Mer-
riman, Portland, for railway car brakes; G, II.
Tihbets, Augusta, for hreech-loading fire arm;
Charles Gatchell Oldtown, for machine for
cutting blanks from sheet metal; c. j. Hall,
Mt. Desert, for stave jointer. Reissue, S. l..
Abbott, Deering, for countersink.