The Portland daily press., 1873-12-19
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

ANDRoscoGGN COUNTY.
The Journal learns that Enoch Littlefield,
| esq, of Auburn, who was struck with paraly-
SIS on Mmoday, remains partially unconscious.
The shock seems TO affect the entire body. Mr..
L. is 70 years of age. His physician reports
that unless another stoke intervenes he will be
likely to recover, but the danger is of further
| paralysis.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The A. & W, Sprague trust deed was entered
Deeds last week. 1t is one of the longest doc
uments recorded in that county.
Pennington is to have course of home lee
lures, commencing January LIST.
HANCOCK COUNTY
Buildings, mostly houses, have been erected
in Ellsworth the past season to- the value of
about 100000.
Some of the citizens of s. W. Harbor have
recently purchased an organ for the use of pub
lie worship in that place.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The Gardiner Journal says on Tnesda y a lad.
about nine years of age, named Keenan,, while
SLIDING near the lower dam, broke through the
ice and would have been drowned, had not his
sister, aged sixteen, gone to the rescue. She
in turn would have drowned hat not William
Brown and James Dill gone to their assist
ance.
The Kennebec Journal says there is no i'm
house, the Methodist clergyman who was COM
united to the Insane Hospital a few weeks
since.
OXFORD COUNTY
Our Brownfield correspondent saws the in
habitants of Brownfjeld have again been the
recip ents of the munificesce of Hon. Samuel
Tyler of Portland, by the gift deed of the old
Congregational church in Brownfield. to be
used as hall for public lectures, to be known
as Union Hall The church is in good repair
and was dseded to him by the Society in. con-
slderation OF his gift of new church and par
sonage to the Society. Union Hall is decided
to some twenty trustees, by him designated
There will be public installation of the off,
GERS of Pequawket Lodge, No. 46, l. o. o. F.,
ON "Wednesday evening, January 9TH, 1874, af-
ter which an address by Hon. Benz. Kingsbury,
Jr., of Portland, will be delivered at the Uni,
versalist church in this place. B.
PENoBsCOT COUNTY
The poultry show at Bangor closed Thursday
evening, More than $50 coops of fowls were
- Inc convention of Catholic Total Abstinence
Societies OF this State. TO be held in Bangor.
occurs on Jan. 9th.
New York parties talk of cutting ice in the
Penobscot and have been in Bangor looking
over the situation, etc.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Mr.. John Sterry of Stark, recently ESCAPED a
filled a pipe with powder and LAID it on the
mantle-pece. Mr.. S. took the pipe and lit it.
when it exploded with a report like pislol He
lost only his eye-lashes.
WALDO COUNTY.
The Belfast Journal says Gordon has again
turned his attention to his violin, ana once
more the Jail resounds to the lively strains of
music.
The Journal says on Friday evening lamp
carried into the clothes press in the hands of
Mrs. Robert White in Belfast set the clothing
on fire. Ii was not noticed at the moment, but
soon fiared up, and the house was barely saved
by the ladies and Mr.. Collins, who came to
their assistance. An amount of valuable cloth
ing was destroyed, and Mrs. White had her
hands burned.
An unsuccessful attempt was made on We'd
nesday night to break into the store of Howe &
Co. in Belfast.
The Journal says two young men in Belfast
recently got into dispute about their weight
and made bet The scales showed that each
weighed just the same Then one accused the
other of having on the most clothes, and offer
ed to bet that his naked weight was the heav-
''est 1t was accepted and amid shouts of
laughter the disputants peeled to a state of ma
ture, when it was found that each weighed