The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-04
& STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY

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The Lewiston Journal says one of the most
notorious rumsellers in that city left town Mon
day, bag and baggage.
The citizens of Lewiston are to vote next
Tuesday upon the proposition that the city shall
subscribe for 2245 shares of the Lewiston &,
auburn Railroad Company 1924, 5OO) Auburn
VIII also vote next week upon the proposition
Tor that city to subscribe for its proportion.
The whole stock $500, 000) is divided between
the two cities according to notwithstanding
ten shares to be taken by whosoever may be d.
rectors. so a.. s.. ~ -
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The Bangor Whig says the mills at 'sToddy
early Tuesday morning The establishment
| comprised saw and grist mill, and was owned
by Axel Hayford, of Belfast. The loss ;s ast;-
mated at $4,000 to $4,000 - - 90
gas LINCOLN COUNTY.
Our correspondent at Damariscotta Mills ovs
the inhabitants of that village had the neasmre
Ct listening to an able temperance lecture by
b. u. Winslow of that place A deem interact
is manifested in the cause. H-f
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The Lewiston Journal says John Pierce of
Denmark, had his buildings DESTROYED by fire.
last Friday, about 2 o'clock in the morninp
The buildings consisted of one story bouse
ana woodshed, stable, barn and corn barn Ten
ss.., OF corn thirty bushels Of wheat and
| new sleigh, also a lot of bedding and household
goods Inc ire is supposed to be the work of
an incendary. Loss about $1,000: insured in
the Home, OF New York, for $1,000.
The Journal says Edward NJ Smith, of Den
mark, had his leg badly broken below the knee
by DelnS caught between two logs which he was
assisting IN rolling into Moose brook last week
The Democrat says that the cattle disease has
MADE IT'S appearance in the herd of Rawson
hutchinson, of Albany. Two cows and one
yearlng have died, two other cows are sick and
ne thinks they will die. First symptoms are
loss OF appetite and dullness, in some cases n
little bleeding at the nose, followed by indica-
tions of pain in bowels. They usually die in
about two days after they are taken with the
disease. a-siar
WASHINGTON COUNTY
The Union says a report came to Machias last
Friday, of attempt to murder at Cutler 1t
seems that DiOnysious Davis and his son. q lad
of fifteen years, were at work in the woods
The father ordered the boy to do piece of
work and when partly done the boy refused to
go on, when he received some chastisement-
few minutes later the boy approached his
father with an axe, dealing blow which took
effect i'll the head, not, as it was Thought. pene-
trating the skull, but glancing cleaved off one
OF the ears, and opened the side of the neck
down to the shoulder, causing fearful and
perhaps mortal wound. .a
+.t -'4i-s IN GENERAL 'f-rs-
Inc a Maine Central Directors have voted to
pay 80 per month to the widow Of VIM Bar
ron, the brakeman who died from severe inju-
RES received at the terrible Gardiner railroad
accident last year.
The railroad bridge between Brunswick and
Iopsham, OF the destruction of which we had
a brief telegram yesterday, caught fire about
half-past one o clock Wednesday morning from
a steam wood-sawing machine that passed
down from Bowdoinham after the down Phil
man train had passed. 1t caught in the west
end, and the flames spread with liebtenino
rapidity the whole length, and in an hour scarce
a timber was left of the structure. The Pull
man train for Bangor could not pass but the
passengers were transferred with but little de-
lay, to train that had been made up above
the bridge. The local trains will have passen-
gers and mails transferred by teams, and all
through trains will be run via. Lewiston, till the
bridge is replaced. The structure was about
eight hundred feet long, aud rested on stone
piers which are not damaged 1t cost about
$4,000,
+, L; Jones, Esq, informs the Bangor Com
nerc!dt that on the first day of May, 1862, he
rode in sleigh from Houlton 10 Lincoln, and
found no bare ground until he got within six
miles of Lincoln village