The Portland daily press., 1872-04-10
I - y HANCOCk COUNTY. - 2
lr correspondent furnishes thea foil,

Our correspondent furnishes the following
The lobster season win begin this wear about
the 18th of April. More fishermen are engaged
for this year than last.
The abundance of ice this season has swept
the welrs clean from the Shores not stake is
to be seen. AN
There is about fifteen inches Of snow along
the coast on a level ~a's s'a - ~
Flora Flye of Brooklyn, girl eleven wears
old has attended school all winter without miss
ing day, having to walk a mile and a half
juvenilistic example? veta s-+sls.g9 s-fr
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
Five families, embracing thirty persons, left
West Waterville, Tuesday morning to settle in
Tennessee.
The Kennebec Journal says there is great
scarcity of corn throughout that region. Far
mers came to Augusta Monday for the article
from MT. Vernon village, q distance of eighteen
miles, but had to retIrn without kernel
he1 tne river opens there will be corn in
abundance. ~ ~ EaA4Ae&
The Journal says in their report of the tenn
perance mass meeting, the Portland papers
mistake in saying that the Augusta Band was
present. The Gardiner Band was the only
band that went with the Kennebec delegation,
and furnished much excellent music 4 = e
sss The present number of yards of cloth made
- eAAo AA0iiOWCh per uOQGQ, is ABOUT ZlJ)-
600. s.& 51yMgT ~
as.s.a- LINCOLN COUNTY, stryssu
Monday night fire destroyed the store and
Stock OF goods of e. r. Handlette. ESQ. in
Dresden There was small insurance on the
property. - s@ssA ta-ssas 2.1l2-ss
OXFORD COUNTY.
Mr.: G. +. Hammond informs the Democrat
tnat IN 1869, three years ago, he drove a stage
on runners, from Bryant's Pond to Rnmford
from the 10th of November to the 21st of April,
and he was able to go through to Andoyer on
runners, to the 9th of April That Spring the
snow went off rapidly, and cattle got early feed
ao SOON as common and the grass crop was un-
PENoBscor COUNTY.
The dwelling house of Melville Bovnton
situated on the Glenburn road in, Orono. was
burned with IT'S contents Sunday morning. The
FAMILY escaped with scanty amount of cloth
ing defective f1ue is supposed to have been
the cause. Insured for $3.50
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY. = smas
From our Correspondent)
grass noppers have made their appearance in
several localities, such as on windows on the
the sunny side of houses. If they prevail here
TINS year as they did last yearit will be impossi-
Die Ior any except wealthy individuals to sub
sist in the county, ss~g 80
:, We still have good sleighing, the snow hay-
ing settled only an inch or two from evanora
ton IN the middle of the day.
The meeting of the descendants of the late
biting Stevens, which was to have been held
at Great Falls, N. H., in June, is postponed by
the chairman of the committee, who lives in
P1scataquis till the 9th Of October, to accom-
modate parties in the Western States
The inducements which are being held out to
manufacturers are depriving this county of LADY,
school teachers. 1t is hoped that Mr.. Lord Of
Monson, will turn out a few new ones this
Spring, but it will do the schools no good sun-
less ne can do something to keep them from 90
ing to the factories OF getting married
Twenty-nine delegates from Parkman attend
ed the recent session Of the County Lodge of
Good Templars at Dover
tissyery sickly here with influenza. which
goes particularly hard with old people. S.
WALDO COUNTY.
8 b. Grant has been appointed Postmaster
at Prospect -
g WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The Times says Rev. Father Durnin of Calais.
Is afhlcted with the dread small box. and is
necessarily very dangerously ILL., He exposed
himself to the contagion while attended a dy-
ing sufferer by the same disease.
Senator Chase and wife have returned to
Calais. Since the adjournment of the Legisla-
ture they have been making brief visit in
Kansas. @'s~ eA'c7 y