The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-30
STATE NEWS.
AROOSTOOK COUNTY.

| G. A Hunt of Houlton, let livery team
| about the first of the month to a man named
Marcellus Grant. After two weeks had passed
| Hunt began to suspect his team was stolen.
| He then searched and found it sixteen miles
| away.
| The Pioneer says some idea may be formed
| of the number of sheep that will be driven
| from Aroostook this fall, when we state upon a
careful estimate that not less than 1000 sheep
| and lambs will have been purchased by droyers
| before the season closes.
"Toby Candor guilty of SANDER" is the
rhythmcal way in which the Pioneer puts it, re-
ferring of course to the statement regarding
| New Sweden.
| The North Star says little daughter of Mrs,
Josiah Moor of Lyndon was fatally scalded on
the 18th inst
The North Star says Charles H. Bugbee, on
his way home to Washburn from California,
where he has been about four years, land this
| side of New York;, was robbed of about $780,
| Thinking himself out of danger in New Eng
land he was less watchful, and thus met with
his heavy loss.
| George E. Brown while on his way from Con-
| uecticut to visit his parents, who live in Wash
| burn, had his pocket picked in Boston and lost
| over S75.
A movement is on foot to have strip half q
mile wide on the West side of Limestone, in
| GLIDING the families of Messrs. Henderson,
Leonard and Sawyer, set off from Limestone
and annexed to Lyndon this winter
KENNEBEc COUNTY
| The following are the officers OF the Senior
class OF Colby University: President w. HI.
Kelly; Orator, I. f. White; Poet G, E. Young;
Address at Tree, III. w. Stewart; Historian, A.
b. Gates; Prophet, A. B. Allen; Odist, c. E.
Williams; Secretary, III. W. Stewart Commit
tee of Arrangements, A. B. Allen H. W. Stew
art.
KNOX COUNTY.
The schooner Union of Rockland, Captain
Bert Ulmer, loaded with lime and bound to
Boston, got on fire in Rocklana harbor Monday
great damage.
PENoBscor COUNTY
The town of Orono has just cleared up a debt
OF $4,000, incurred in aid of the Penobscot
Railroad (now part of the N. A. & E. R R,)
twenty years ago. The work was suspended,
and finally changed hands, having paid $780, 900
interest on it, or more than the original debt.
| This debt" says an official of Orono, ''has
hung like dead weight upon us for twenty
| years."
They are having ripe strawberries in Carmel,
and the strawberries are not canned either.
The Wing says three regular prairie schoon-
| ers or big covered wagons, each drawn by six
horses, passed through Bangor Aroostook- ward
Tuesday.
Hon. Franklin Muzzy of Bangor died Tues
day at his residence in that city, aged 81. Mr..
ness and politics. He represented the city in
the Legislature five years-three in the house
and two in the Senate.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
West Waterville and Skowhegan will turn
| out half a million dollars worth of axes this
| year.
WASHINGTON COUNTY
The Machias Union says Robert Colson,
ship carpenter, employed in G. r. Campbell &
Co.'S yard, in Cherryfeld, was struck upon the
head and shoulder by a falling post last week,
and quite seriously, though it is believed not
dangerously injured
The Union says several relics of the Stone
age were dug up about four feet below the sur
farce of a gravel bed in Cherryfield few DAYS
ago, and with them few bones
WALDO COUNTY.
A house belonging to Mr.. Howard Cummings
of Prospect, was burned down on Saturday
night. Loss $500; no insurance.
YORK COUNTY
The good people of Biddeford are saddened
by the acquittal of profane druggist who was
on trial for breaking the Sabbath by keeping
his shop open and dispensing prescriptions for
ungodly invalids on that day. And now, 10
discover whether religion has altogether fled
from the land, they are about to prosecute an
impious barber for shaving his customers on
Sunday.-N. T. World.
Tuesday evening about eight o'clock, as the
Bangor train was nearing the Salem depot
brakeman named Nelson Grant, while standing
upon the top of the car, came in contact with
the Castle Hill bridge, was thrown down run
over and instantly killed. He resided at North
Berwick, and was % years of age.
The Times says boiling spring has been dis
covered at the corner Of Main and Lincoln
streets in Biddeford
tPress Correspondence
The Newichawanick wooden mills at South
Berwick, owned by Hon. j. H, Burleigh, are
running full time The panic has not effected
their orders and the mills have all they can
possibly fill.