The Portland daily press., 1873-04-21
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

> t..Alt ANDRoSCOGGIN COUNTY. a.-4 E.
The Journal says that Gen. j. A. Hall will
deliver the address on Memorial day before
Folsom Post q. A. r. of Auburn. ---
The Journal learns that hand car loaded
with liquors on the Maine Central was run in
to- by the Pullman train Thursday night near
Leeds Junction Dangerous.
Auburn "humilated' Fast day by observing
with gusto foot race between Herman and
Allen, two native runnists. The distance was
600 feet and the race was won by Herriman.-
Time and pedigree not given.
l9ir. ARoosTooK COUNTY. i.
Three feet of snow Fast day in most parts of
the country, yet the foolish people are not
thoroughly happy. OF II .itfsl a7.t.l &.
The Sunrise says the Caribou hens have not
taken to laying horse hair eggs The sample
sent the North Star was 'sput up job to get
an item. III r,3 ,lr Ia a-.- - - n. -.
The venerable of the Sunrise says that the
only way many pc rsons have s'to seek for glory,
Immortality and eternal life is to send items
OF big eggs, ETC., to the newspapers. There
are worse ways. - .,--
g Houlton Correspondence.
Charles Kimball & Co., have been buyino
quite large lot of potatoes at Houlton and
sending them through to Boston on the cars
They pay fifty cents for the '.Red Rocks" a
kind that seems to rot less than others and
yield well. They send some Of these for seed
to be used in the south part of Massachusetts
and Rhode Island. -e
The streets id Houlton are quite muddy. AS
there is scarcely any frost in the ground, the
snow is going fast, and the sstream drivers
haveseveral of them received marching orders.
Lewis Brown has leased the well-kn own
Hodgdon Mills and will engage largely in the
manufacture of deals to be shipped. on ei.
EteaH CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
The Bridgton News says: The man who sat
down on the end of our keg of printers ink to
watch the progress of the fire, and carried away
goodly quantity on his pantaloons, is tc be
used as mixing apparatus until our new press is
received. lt-5 se Nrr-tf .asg-4
Bowdein's class of 1874 will have reunion
and dinner at the Falmouth, in July. -.g.4
Mr.. LeBaron of Harrison, has small China
saucer made in 1647. 10 I,i.
KENNBBEc COUNTY. l slt
A lodge of Odd Fellows was instituted at
Augusta, Thursday evening. David, Cargill
was chosen Noble Grand. It is known as
Asylum Lodge No. TO- l.I-,-lr =
The Gardiner Reporter says that on Wednes-
day evening last, as the evening train from
somebody fired shot into it when passing near
the Tarbox estate on the river road The shot
passed through the smoking car, but as few
passengers were in the car nobody was hit
The wife of Marshal Syphers Of Gardiner.
died suddenly last week, and the death OF Dan
lei Nutting Of that city, aged 81, is also record
ed. 1900 .s.fsf r... ...-.-.t.5
Clark Drummond of Winslow, refuses $4,000
for a four years old Knox and $1,000 for ten
years old. oil e
"Fort Halifax" the old block house near the
railroad bridge in Winslow, is to be preserved
by some pnblic spiritedscitizens OF Winslow and
Waterville, says the Mail. ci.---
PENoBsCOT COUNTY.
DR.. Jordan delivered his temperance poem in
Bangor, Thursday night. 1t is highly spoken
Of ...-,.', .s- .-.s
Bangor had its annual ice freshet last week.
YORK COUNTY. .fq
The Biddeford Times says that Mr.. John L.
Davis, an aged an esteemed citizen OF that city,
died last Thursday evening.
Rotation of crops is generally advocated by
farmers, but Mr.. George Gowen aud his
father Of Sanford, have raised early blue 9ota-
toes from the same piece Of ground for hf 4Se
Times, that the potatoes begin to grow small
and talk of changing the seed this year.