The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-22
STATE NEWS.

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ANDROsCoGGN COUNTY.
The candy-poisoning affair at, Turner, is not
done with yet DR.. Oaks having stated that "a
large number of persons partook of the candy
at the levee and no one was affected except one
family which suffered from other causes" a
correspondent of the Lewiston Journal gives
the names of fourteen persons who ate red and
white candy at the levee, or that which was
purchased there, and who were all sick with the
same general symptoms, although with differ
ent degrees of violence and their sickness was
the same apparently as young Rogers, in its
early stages, viz: pain in the stomach and vom-
iting 4q.
The Lewiston Journal says the committee ap-
pointed by the corporators of the Lewiston &
Auburn Railroad Company to confer with the
Grand Trunk Railroad Company left Tuesday
noon for Montreal where they will meet the
managing Director of the Grand Trunk, Mr..
Bridges.
The Journal says Henry S. Clarke gets $3.50
for damages sustained by defective bridge
near Clough meeting house.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
From our Correspondent
As the men in the employ of VIM. M. Adams
of Hodgdon, were cutting cedar last week, they
found bear in huge hollow tree, and fearing
to kill him with an axe lest they. should spoil
the skin, they got gun and shot him.
held in Houlton the last Friday in this month,
Judge Dickerson, presiding
The Penobscot Baptist Association will hold
a semi-annual session with the Baptist church
in Houlton next month. IoTA. =
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Our Phillips correspondent sends us the fol-
lowing items:
c. C. Bangs has been appointed Deputy
Sheriff at Phillips, vice j. e. Thompson, re-
signed.
A. H. S. Davis, Esq, editor of the Farming
ton Chronicle, will lecture before the Farmers
and Mechanics Club at Phillips, Thursday eve
ming, the I'D inst.
An enthusiastic meeting of the citizens of
Phillips and the adjoining towns assembled at
Fuller's Hall, Phillips, Feb. 18th, to hear the
report of the survey, and estimate of cost of
way from Pennington to Phillips. Messrs
Reade and Moore of Lewiston have made a
very careful survey, and estimate its cost at
little over 1921, 000-much less than expected
Much enthusiasm was manifested and stirring
remarks were made by Abner Toothaker, Esq,
S. Dill and others. All seemed to think that
as there twas a time for everything" the time
had now come for railroad from Pennington
to Phillips. The people of the towns ON the
proposed route are awake and alive to the sub
ject, and when the time comes will vote to loan
the credit of their towns, twenty per cent of
their valuation, if need be, to secure the desired
result. 't
OXFORD COUNTY.
We understand that Arthur E. Dennison,
Esq, of Norway, is to be the cashier of the
new National Bank there.
The Oxford Democrat says that Mr. Moves
who worked iu Hornes tannery, fell into the
I've pit on Thursday, feet deep. He was res
cued after going under twice, and went to work
the next day. He died suddenly on Saturday
night, from stoppage, caused probably by a
cold taken at the time.
The Democrat says Hon. Noah Prince of
Buckfeld, who has been i'll for some time, died
on the 18th inst, aged "a years. He was pub
lie spirited citizen, whose influence has been
felt in public affairs for many years. When a
Democrat he was member of the Maine Sem
publican, he labored earnestly for the success of
the party, and his advice was always judicious
He was an honest man and a worthy member
of the Baptist church where he lived.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
Mr.. Charles w. Mayo, formerly clerk in the
freight depot of the E. & n. A. Railway, has
been appointed station agent at Bangor by that
company, vice Mr.. f. w. Cram, appointed Gen
eral Freight Agent.
Mr.. Robert Davis had sudden attack of par
alysis while in Augusta, Monday. He has been
taken home, and it is hoped may soon recover
from the shock, which seems to affect the head
the organs of speech being partially paral-
yzed. -=4
Hon. Josiah H. Drummond of Portland, and
I. III. Hubbard, esq.,, of Biddeford, arrived in
Bangor Tuesday evening. They are counsel for
Hon. Charles A. Shaw in the Abel Loom case,
which is to be tried this week, as we are inform
ed.
Tuesday, and prices declined to $50 and 1872
per ton. a 1-
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The stable of Mr. Moses Aver, in Arson, was
partially destroyed by fire last Friday.
The 4Adyocate says Friday evening fire was
discovered in the second story of Lords store
in Scion, occupied as dwelling, while the fam
lily were absent. The goods in the store and the
furniture were removed, while the fire was ex-
tmguished with no further damage than burn
ing the partitions and fixtures of the room
where it caught. A defective stove pipe is said
to make up the case.
WALDO COUNTY.
The dwelling house on the Mansfield farm in
Winterport, was destroyed by fire Tuesday af-
ternoon. Some of the furniture was rescued,
and the barn saved by tearing down a shed con-
Meeting the buildings. The fire caught around
the chimney. Insured for 5000.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The Machias Union says Mrs. Fitzgerald. in
PASSPORT, met with very serious if not fatal
accident, one day last week. She had just COM
pleted hanging out her clothes when her basket
now empty, slipped away from her, and in her
efforts to regain it, she lost her foothold in the
snow, and was carried upon its surface and pre-
cipitated over the bank falling distance of
twenty feet into the beach beneath. She was
picked up and carried home insensible and lies
ina critical condition. . L ...,7, .ts,
David Pomeroy's house in Pembroke was in
lured by fire recently to the extent of $500; no
insurance. The fire is supposed to have caught
from ashes put in a wood vessel.
The Machias Union saws COW belonging to