The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-11-26

the post st. tearing his hide for quite distance
md The animal The wound was sewed up,
VIII probably recover.
The journal says the women of Lewiston had
a jubilee ON Monday and passed series of res
olutions, looking to the abolition of Monday
as a wash day.
The architects of Lewiston adhere to the
French roof in their plans for buildings.
John Goss of Lewiston slaughtered a pig
thirteen mopths old weighing $50 pounds, says
the journal.
AROOSToOK COUNTY.
press Correspondence
The High School in HodgdOn closed Friday
evening with an exhibition. Mr.. Francis
Burns was the principal and has done well wi tn
the school. The scholars showed thorough
training: The declamations and readings were
good No doubt but some have been lifted
from the old routine of study in the common
schools a -be
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The Journal says boarding mistress in Au-
gusta buys barrel of turkeys about this time
of year. fills up the "chinks" in the barrel with
snow, puts it away in cool places, and draws on
the turkey bank at will.
Augusta shipped Monday for Boston three
tons of turkeys.
KNOX CoNNTY.
The Augusta Journal says that Louis Wag-
ner. sentenced to be hanged for the crime of
murder. and incarcerated in the State Prison at
Thomaston, has written sad but affectionate
letter to his mother in Prussia, informing her
of his condemnation. and that he has been sem
fenced to be hanged for The crime of murder,
but strongly avowing his innocence.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY
The Commercial says Monday forenoon a
young and well dressed woman, SO drunk that
oh, r1l 1yoav hnrf h.
on downtown street in Bangor. Some of
her friends took her in charge,
Monday evening Mr.. Aaron Hill of Bangor,
left his horse and sleigh a moment while he
stepped into store A stranger jumped into
the sleigh and drove rapidly away. An efforts
to stop him were unayaling, The police were
Informed and an officer started in pursuit.
Whether he was successful remains to be
seen.
Work on the Bucksport & Bangor Railway
bridge piers will probably be resumed when the
ice gets thick enough to admit of the stone be-
ing hadled over.
Two prominent gentlemen of Bangor will pc
tablish steam ferry between that city and
Mr.. Dana Miller of Great Works. was taken
before Trial Justice Sewall, at Oldtown Mon
day, charged with breach of trust, and was
ordered te furnish bail in the sum of $50 for
his appearance at the February term of the s..
j. Court in Bangor.
The ladies' fair for the benefit of the Sisters
of Mercy, will open in Noronbega Hall, Ban.
gor, next Saturday evening, and continue one
week. H
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The Kennebec Journal says that Abner Co
burn left SkOwhegan for Waterville Monday,
to take the afternoon train for Bangor, to at
tend the meeting of the Trustees of the Agri-
cultural College, to be held Monday in Orono.
Gov. Coburn is President of the board This is
the first time he has been away from home
since his sickness, and it is little curious that
1t should be in a snow storm.
press Core dependence
. The Court House at Skcwhe gan will be coz.
plete by the last of December
The railroad bridge at Norridgewock is esti-
mated about half way over the river and is
being completed as fast as possible, asa
John Russell is elected County Commission
er, and H. n. Page County Treasurer is also
elected. The return from one Plantation
shows eight votes for Samuel H. Cragin 1.-THE
Demo- Liberal candidate being Samuel b.
which being counted ont, elects Russell the
Republican. The Democrats ever vigilant.
have procured an amended return upon which
they rely. but the original memorandum from
winch the record was made as well as the
record is Samuel H.
perjury has been pardOned before being fairly
within the prison walls ~
WALDO COUNTY.
A correspondent of the Lewiston Journal,
writing from Blocks, says the indebtedness of
that town is some $35,000 Census valuation
$500, 176. Population in 1870, $685.
YORK COUNTY.
Saturday morning young man named Frank
Allen, while skating on the river in Springvalea
fell through the ice and was with difficulty ex-
tricated from his involuntary bath.
The Times says the people at North Berwick
have stood out in the cold at ''the place where
the station ought to be- on the B. & M. rail
road, and now wants the Legislature to remove
the restrictions as to the limits of locating
their depot; they also ask for such legislation
as shall authorize or compel the erection of
PASSENGER station by, and for the joint occu-
patton of the B. 8, M. and Eastern roads.
equally accessible to and from the trains eff
both railroads at or near their intersection in
that town.