The Portland daily press., 1873-03-18

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shor" M,;n ~, crying out, Come back boy,
u;a5 fb n0 Soy Sers 70 hurt NO
P, ne. Tue ofy, % lie cont come that on me;
A seven pound trout was caught in po,ona
pond fe days ago.
The Journal thinks that bricks will fall to 60
q thousand during the season. The price is
$12 now.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY
The Orient says that Senior parts for the ex-
hibition at the end of the term at Bowdoin Col
lege have been announced as follows: n. D. A.
Clark, Sautatory, w. A Blake, A. j. Board
man, B. I. Deering' j. n Lowell, A. F. Moul-
ton, C. M. Walker and F. E. Whitney.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
E. L. Huston of Jay Bridge, sentenced to six
months in the county jail for selling liquors
without United States license, received re-
prieve on Friday and was discharged from Gus
tody.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
Capt Chas. E. Nash of the Kennebec Jour
nal has been elected President of the Augusta
Common Council. -t..
OXFORD COUNTY
A. F. Lewis, ESQ.,, will deliver one of his fine
Lectures OF California travel at Norway next
Monday night. Mr.. Lewis lectures are very
highly spoken of.
PENoBsCOT COUNTY.
The Bangor Wing says that in New York
last week hire made some havoc IN a building
which contained the Office of Hubbard, one Of
the notorious sawdust swinders. In his room
was found box filled wi h sawdust, addressed
to man in Glenburn The receipt of an ex-
press company was also found, which showed
hat Hubbard mad received $50 fIom his Glen
burn victim
SOMERSET COUNTY.
somerset Correspondence
The roads bad and nearly as high as the top
of the fences.
Horsemen are giving great attention to the
training of some valuable horses for the New
York market. ..se
The Maine Slate Company are working some
| very fine slate at East Madison, said to be of
extra color, fine, tough and promising all the
properties to make fine and durable roofing
The Jail at Norridgewock has been tenantless
| for ten weeks-a useless neutrality-suspicious.
| of the honesty and uprghtnes of Somerset peo-
| pie or poor administration of the laws un-
| doubtedly the former.
Bad roads have delayed marketing, which is
| being done on an extensive scale just now. The
| shed occupied by Gale & Hilton to store car
riages fell in, doing great damage.
| o. L. Billings, teacher of the High School at
| Skowhegan, is to leave after the close of the
present term.
The County Commissioners of Somerset will
| advertise in few weeks for proposals to build
| Court House above the basement
The docket of Somerset numbers 500 cases.
| Trouble somewhere. ~
Messrs. Coburn & Robinson, late CO. partners
| in law, have dissolved.
! Reports from Skowhegan say that Gov Co
| burn will be out soon as the weather is pleas
| ant and the streets passable.
Francis Murphy of Portland, the reformed
rumseller, lectured here last Sunday evening;
| at the close of the lecture large number sign
| ed the pledge.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
| The Machias people have among them wo-
| man who weighs 300 lbs. and measures 43 inch
| es around the waist How is that for an airy
| creature?
| The Calais Advertiser says that the quickest
| time on record of sail vessel between Calais
| and Boston was made last week by the schoon-
er VIM. G. p. Mowry, Capt Jerome Eaton
| On Friday marning at 10 o'clock he got through
| taking in freight; at II he got under way, and
| arrived in Calais at $50 a. m. on Saturday
| thus making the trip in twenty and one half
hours, and would have come quicker if his lib
boom had not been carried away. Next?
YORK COUNTY.
| Wentworth Encampment, Post IA, G. A. R.,
| of Kttery, has voted to present to the town Ii
brary the likenesses of all the soldiers from Kit
terry who lost their lives in the war of the rebel
lion, SO far as the Post has been able to secure
| them. The pictures of the deceased soldiers in
! possession of the Post number about thirty.