The Portland daily press., 1873-11-20
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.
rs The Journal says the Glass of rs, of Bates
College, have chosen A. s. Whtehouse and f,
II. Smith as editors, and j. H Hutchns as
manager, of the Bates Student for the ensuing
year.
It is settled fact, that Livermore, to be up
with the times, is to have cheese factory,
says correspondent of the Journal ~
Drifts of snow four feet in depth are reported
on the road between Lewiston and Minot.
I saso ers .ARoosTooK COUNTY. 40, CT
"Chipman bills bring greenbacks or nation
al bank currency on presentation and Aroos-
took is happy again.
Silver circulates in Houlton, and there is fine
sleighing all over Aroostook.
Course of lectures on Phrenology is the regu-
lar thing in the humbug line in North Aroos-
h., CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
A correspondent of the Journal writes: S.
A. Miller q Co., iron founders and machinists
at Brldgton, are running on full time, and are
busily employed in turning out the futile self
regulating water wheels and Norton's single
machine, Tor hIch there is a constantly in
creasing demand. Ia @ NH
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
A correspondent of the Journal writes that
the panic has already reached the derricks on
the Granite Works of Jay, which have fallen
strangely of late, slightly injuring Purington
Tracy and Mitchell, and others narrowly escap-
ing serious injury.
pl2esfrgtrg \ HANCOCK COUNTY.
The directors of the Bangor & Calais Shore
Line Railway have given notice that they will
petition the next legislature for permission to
build a railroad bridge over the Penobscot at
Bucksport to connect with any railroad at the
west side. q
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
After thorough Investigation into the
charges made against Marshal Sims of Hallow
ell he has been exonerated and the police Off
GERS making the accusation were dismissed
r5I. OXFORD COUNTY.
A son of Abram Whitcomb, of Waterford.
aged about IA, while out cunning a few days
since, was. it is feared, fatally Injured by the
bursting of his gun. One of his eyes was COM
pletely blown out, writes correspondent of the
Journal .,-s .tt,-.er ..fF..g 49,
The South Paris Savings Bank, since its
organization last spring, has received over
$4,000 in deposits from two hundred different
depOsit0rs. y = W e'1& V4f y#ffa
PENoBsCoT COUNTY Fl
An ice rush at Bangor, Monday, broke
booms, carried vessels down the river, and
made people think for a few minutes that the
bridge was going.
Prof. RandallWhittier has been elected to the
chair of Modern Languages and Mechanics, at
the State College, and Mr.. George E. Hamlin.
c. E., of the class of rs. has been retained as
assistant in the Department of Civil Engineer
ing. The chair of Chemistry is at present va
cant. The College is prospecting finely.
Mr.. R. w. Sawyer, who was recently severe
ly injured by falling under freight train at
Lincoln Centre, has so far recovered as to re-
sumo his place ia the senior class at Harvard
College.
The twenty.slxth annual session the Penob-
scot Musical Association opened at Bangor,
Tuesday forenoon, under the direction of Prof
George f. Root of Chicago. The attendance
was very good. E
SOMERSET COUNTY. .H
The winter term of Anson Academy will be-
gin next Monday.
line monument erected by the friends of the
late George ID. Knowlton. at one time edi tor az
| the PRESS, was set up in Greenwood Cemeterv
Biddeford, last Friday. The monument rests
on granite base 3 feet inches square and ia
| 10 feet high. -- /. -" =
| Alfred jail at the present time has but five
| prisoners. Eli fEr EsftEEffts
IN GENERAL.
| The State Bank Examiner finds that the to-
tai amount Of deposits in the savings banks of
Maine will probably reach nearly thirty mil
lions OF dollars, showing an increase of some
three or four millions over the total deposits of
1872 and exceeding the total capital, crcula-
! ton and deposits of all our national banks by
| sonf four nj five rnj1Iions III W