The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-09-18
Rockland, and hotels: makes it very desirable
landing place for passengers and freight.

Rockland, and hotels. makes it very desirable
landing place for passengers and freight.
OXFORD COUNTY.
The Lewiston Journal says Mr.. Nathaniel
Glover an esteemed and respectable citizen of
summer committed suicide by hanging on
Monday last. Mr.. Glover evinced no sign of
INSANITY and up to the time of the fatal act ap-
neared as usual No satisfactory cause can be
assigned for the deed, as he was calm, de-
liberate man. in fair circumstances as to prop
erty, and enjoyed good health. His age was 81
years. -
Tuesday afternoon, says the Commercial.
Waldo Pierce of Bangor was thrown from his
carriage and slightly injured
Daniel Howard of Bangor, has been rad
paid $1,000 by the Eastern IA .lroad for damages
suffered at tbs Seabrook disaster. Mr.. How
ards left arm is crippled aud he is badly used
I'D by reason of internal injuries.
Frank McCulloch strnck John Kirvn on the
head with poker in Bangor Tuesday, intlict-
ing painful wound.
The Wing says small house on the Hamp-
den road. occupied by Mrs. Hal, was consumed
by fire Tuesday morning,
Owing to the severe drouth the Hampden
paper mills are running only part of their
machinery.
West Hampden is going to have farmers
grange. 1t is now anxiously looking out tor
p0lltlc1aDS Win Gne requlSitc alHouu1 VI nay
seed in their hair.
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
press Correspondence
The quarterly session of the I. o. G. T. will
be holden at Blanchard ON the Goth INST. at 10
o'clock a.. m.
The Western Psoataquis Sabbath School an
nual festival will occur at Abbott on the last
day of September. Meeting at ten o'clock
a. M
A Union Camp-meeting is in progress at
Greenville.
Hay is plenty at $40 per ton.
The crop of early planted potatoes is fair in
quantity and excellent in quality.
Corn is ripening finely. s.
sAGApAHoC COUNTY.
The annual regatta of the Maine State Row.
in, Association will he held at Bath, Wednes-
day Oct. 9th, at 9 a. m. There will be the us
ual four cared, double and single races for the
champion flags and cups and in addition there
will be a single sc1ll race for the junior cham
pionship.
The Times says about two o'clock Wednes-
day morning, the house of Capt. John 2. Stn-
son, which stood near the Nequasset meeting
house in Woolwich, was burned down. Insured
for $1,000 on the house and $500 on the furni-
ture. Most of the furniture was saved,
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The Lewiston Journal says Mrs. Cephas
Walker of Embden, who swallowed her hus-
bands jack-knife, in a fit of insanity caused by
sickness. is low considered out of danger. The
knife passed off last week, it being over ten
days from the time she swallowed it. 1t is
rather singular case, as it was large sized
knife, and it was thought would prove fatal.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Ebridge Bryant of Machas, says the Union,
was severely injured Thursday. by bolt SHOT
IL In.x Oh, f,a@
The Union says, the men at work in the
granite quarry. at Jonesboro, one day recently,
by the use of three kegs of powder. about Is
pounds, started $4,000 cubic feet of granite at
one blast. This immense weight or piece of
the ledge could then be split into blocks of any
desirable size by drills and wedges.
Frank Alternately, aged about twenty years,
of Columbia Falls, was lost overheard from the
brig Whitaker, Capt. A Cotton, 1T about 8
p. M. Sept. 5, when between Pettmenan and
Mt. Desert Rock. The brig encountered a ter
rble tempest and heavy squat.
Edward Dennison of Cutler lad of IA, was
sentenced to tine Reform School. by Trial JUS
tice Wilder, of Machas, last Wednesday.
Edwards offence was breaking and entering
stores at Cutler.
The Union says, a young man who lived with
William Freeman, Jr., Esq. in Cherryfeld,
aged about 16 years, fell a few days ago from a
tip cart, with only 80 pounds weight in the
cart and the latter light one, in such way
that the wheel passed over his body. He died
in few hours from the injury.
YORK COUNTY.
The Portsmouth Chronicle says: The new
ship Frank Jones, now building at Kittery
Foreside, near the Navy Yard bridge is to be
launched early next week. She will be one of
the finest specimens of marine architecture
ever sent out of Portsmouth harbor. Her di-
mansions are as follows: Length Of keel, 1870
HI
80 feet inches; depth OF hold, 25 feet 9inches
number of tons, 400. She is owned by Daniel
Marcy, John Neill, William Ross, and Others
Her builders are Neil & Matthews, and she will
be commanded by Capt Ross.
Judge Bourne of Kennebunk, well known in
legal, Literary and historical circles in Maine, is
very seriously and dangerously i'll at his home
His term as Probate Judge expired by limta-
ton of age few months since; and it is
thought he took fatal cod on a recent visit to
the White Mourtuns, where it is well known
his daughter Lizzie met her sad death some
years since, on the spot where her monument
now stands, near the summit Of Washington.
Biddeford woman attempted suicide,
Wednesday, by drowning in the Saco River;
but the water felt so cold she gave IL up.
The Times says Wagner succeeded Friday
night in digging through the wall between his
own and an adjoining cell, crept through,
picked the lock, walked into the corridor, found
he couldn't escape by the scuttle as before, went
into cell occupied by three women, picked the
lock and entered. Then he went back to his
cell and waited for the jaiors wife, who usually
goes into the jail about six in the morning But
the jailor came instead, and the plan was dis
covered.
The Times says the house of Mrs. Roberts in
Alfred, opposite tie school house. was set on
fire Monday night, but the flames were soon
extinguished. Joe Bel and Jim Avery of Saco
have been arrested on suspicion of incendia-
rism. 1t is believed that the fire was part Of
concerted plan to liberate the prisoners in Al
fred Jail.