The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-10-12
FRANKLIN COUNTY.

FRANKLIN COUNTY.
A correspondent says that apples are very
plenty in the towns about Wilton, and farmers
are 10th to sell them at S1.50 a barrel.
Arrangements have been made to have
course OF lectures at the Academy, Wilton
They will be given by Mr.. A. G. Herrick, of
Canton, Oh his recent travels in Europe.
e HANCOCK COUNTY
The American says the typhoid few er has been
quite prevalent in Penobscot and vicinity, and
in some cases proved fatal. Whole families
have been Frustrated with it. 1t is time of
general ill-health, and the per cent. of mortal
ity is large. rs7Gs
Eliakim Hutchins, of Penobscot, aged eighty
years, died very recently. He served as an Off
Ger during the war of 1872, and furnished three
sons to aid in putting down the late rebellion
His father, William Hutchins, was the last
surviving soldier of the revolution, in New
England, living to the ripe age of 1O1 years.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The wooden mills at North Vassalboro' con-
sumo 1000 lbs. of wool per day.
A French peddler was selling fine imported
shawls and other wooden goods at North Vas
salboro one day last week. A lady paid $1S
for fine imported cashmere" but afterwards
found that the cashmere was all in the fringe
which was nicely sewed to the borders of a cot
ton shawl
The Augusta Journal says accommodations
two hundred and fifty workmen.
llH KNOX COUNTY.
The Rockland Gazette says that there has
been much sickness in the city of late, and the
mortality for the past week has been unusually
large.
Fourteen intentions of marriage were record
ed in Rockland last month.
A grand trotting exhibition is to take place
at the Knox Trotting Park, Rockland, on Fri
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are offered, and there will be three races, gov
erned by National rules, the first for horses that
never beat three minutes, the second for horses
that never beat $50, and the third for all horses
OXFORD COUNTY.
Probate Courts will be held as follows: AT
Paris Tuesday next at Waterford Wednesday
forenoon; at Lowell Wednesday afternoon; at
Fryeburg Thursday forenoon.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
The monument erected by the people of
Brewer to the memory of the soldiers from that
town who died in the war of the rebellion, will
be formally dedicated on Wednesday next The
services will commence at o'clock in the after
noon.
The Wing says the manly bearing of the Co.
burn cadets of the Agricultural college, is gen.
orally remarked
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Skowhegan has an attack of shoe factory.
4NoIou NOW OItlAhu Purposes W cuJOy
luxury of a Brass Band
The Reporter says that c. II. Bartlett, of No.
New Portland, employs several men, and is
doing Furnishing business manufacturing salt
boxes, hand-sleds and snow-shovels.
G WALDO COUNTY.
Belfast has the champion skunk killer. He
has killed eight in two weeks with strychnine
and eggs. rs.ar t.r..s
The Belfast Age says that dealers are pur-
chasing large quantities of hay in that part of
the State, paying from $13 to $15 per ton at
railroad stations. They are introducing the
practice Of chopping the hay before pressing it,
as most of the Boston stable keepers now feed
chopped hay, and they are setting up hay cut
ting machines in several places.
YORK COUNTY.
The Times says the oath anniversary of the
Roberts family meeting was held at the resi-
dence of Diman Roberts, in Lyman, the I'd
inst About seventy members of the family
were present.