The Portland daily press., 1873-01-06
STATE NEWS.

ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.
Diptheria RACES in Lewiston says the Jour
Lewiston proposes to build $4,000 engine
The Lewiston Journal says that Joseph w.
Perkins, ESQ.,, has sold a fine family horse to
Boston parties for $400. Two other horses have
recently been sold by parties in this city, to go
to Boston, one for $500 ando e for $500.
The Lewiston Journal says that Boston pa
pers complain that everybody within two or
three hundred miles Of Boston, charges his
small pox to the Club" 'We don't know
how it is elsewhere, but it is a matter of fact
that all the cases that have occurred in this
city and Auburn are directly traceable to Bos-
ton
The Jonrnal says that a one-legged and
doubtless deserving lad, seeking aims, stepped
on the slippery steps of an Auburn store, when
his foundation slipped from uuder him and he
went head foremost into big window pane,
| hurting the pane good DEAL but fortunately
! not cutting the lad s face or person in tn least.
! He asked no further aims, and was glad to be
forgiven for poking his face so unprecedented
ly through the window.
Hon.. M. T.. Ludden and Col. E 7. Luce have
formed Il law partnership, and will occupy the
rooms in Central Block which have been occu-
! pied by Mr.. Ludden. .ft
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
ed to keep the memory of the war fresh by a
soldiers monument which is nearly completed
They did not ask Chawles.
.,..f (Press Correspondence
The horse disease has so delayed lumbermen
that but little has been done thus far compare
lively. Parties are hauling logs five or six
miles,
does not seem to affect either of those papers,
as they both continue to rise and set as usual.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
Gardiner has another case of varioloid of
Boston origin. alf f..f
j. K Osgood the Gardiner temperance re-
former, is doing good service in the cause In
Boston and vicinity.
/ KNOX COUNTY.
The Gazette says that several young men in
Rockland are proposing to provide themselves
with homes on the plan of co-operative house
building. They design to purchase an eligible
lot aud build a block of nine houses, by which
plan they will obtain good tenements very
| moderate cost.
OXFORD COUNTY. Fiji
Mr.. Frank Cox of No. Norway, has sold from
| twenty-one hens the past year, 239 dozen eggs,
for which he received $56.38, and raised 100
| chickens. ,...--
PENOBSCoT COUNTY.
George R. Thurlough has been appointed
| postmaster at Newburgh, vice A. w. Knowlton
resigned.
The West Penobscot Agricultural Society
has elected George S. Hill of Exeter, Pre- tide mt
and L. p. Bachelor of Kenduskeag, Secretary
The Bangor Wing says that Hon. S. Fl. Blake
! was seized with a sudden and violent illness
Thursday evening, which continued through
tine night and Friday Friday evening he was
more comfortable, though his condition was
considered critical
The Wing says that there are eleven cases of
varioloid under medical Treatment in that city
at the present time-al of whom are either in
the hospital or guarantined in their own houses
There have been eleven deaths from small pox
since the disease first made its appearance, "a nd
the other cases are either perfectly recovered or
are convalescing.
sAGADAHOC COUNTY.
The Supreme Court finally adjourned Friday
having tried II cases by jury and SIX by the
Judge, with good number of divorces.
WASHINGTON COUNTY
DR.. Lincoln, member of the House from
Dennysville informs us that during the sixteen
years of his practice in that town, that in one
locality, embraced within a circle of diameter
OF half mile, pairs of twins have been
born and two sets of tripets. These quite re-
marka6le little episodes have occurred at nearly
all the houses embraced within the limits men
toned.
The Eastport Sentinel says that from forty to
fifty vessels have loaded with frozen herring in
that vicinity during the last few weeks, leaving
on an average over a thousand dollars for each
vessel for the fishermen, besides the large guam
titles shipped by steamer from this place Over
three hundred thousand frozen herring were
steamers last week.
The public schools of Eastport have been
closed on account of the small pox.
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