The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-03
STATE NEWS.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.

ANDROsCoGGIN COUNTY.
The Lewiston Journal says that on account OF
the inability of counsel to be present at court on
Saturday, the hearing before Judge Kent on
the petition for an injunction, restraining the
city of Lewiston from issuing bonds and paying
the subscription voted by the people to the stock
of the L. & A. railroad, is postponed.
Despite the proposed injunction, the work of
grading the Lewiston & Auburn railroad goes
on with vigor.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
Tue grand reunion of the Legi stature of 1872
will be held in the parlors of the Augusta
House, on Wednesday evening the 10Th of
February.
A citizen of Augusta is preparing to go into
egg culture extensively. He is building house
for the purpose 20X100 feet.
A Kennebec Journal correspondent claims
that the vote to divide the town of Wateryille
was acknowledgement, as only 357 votes were
counted out of nearly thousand who were not
present because it was given out that it was to
be ballot vote.
A Gardiner man has been fined So for beat
ing his horse with a base ball bat.
KNOX COUNTY
A correspondence of the Camden Herald, liy-
ing in the town of Hope, gives the following
facts which are worthy of study: OF the nine
hundred inhabitants in the town, forty of them
are seventy years and upwards of age, averag-
ing ScNcuGy 'uNt YEARS. Ol6-Qlntn part of the
population is sixty years and upwards old, and
in one school district, where last fall there were
ffty-two voters, and formerly from eighty-fiye
to ninety scholars that draw school money.
there will not, next April, be more than from
thirty-fve to forty. There are sixteen families
IN the district that have no scholars; six more
families with only one scholar each; and only
five children in said district under four years
old.
A line school house was dedicated in Union
last Thursday evening. Superintendent John
son and other gentlemen spoke
LINCOLN COUNTY
Sheriff Morse has selected the following dep
uties: Seth Patterson. Wiscasset; johnson
Philbrck, Newca tie; William B. Dreamer,
Grover, jr., Southport
The Oracle publisher advertises for bow I'M
der eighteen-as though there were any bows
over that age-to learn the trade, who neither
uses rum or tObocco.
OXFORD COUNTY
The Norway Advertiser says that there has
bees quite scare in that village and South
Paris about case of varioloid in the latter
place. The sick lady had previously been Wis.
iting in Norway. No danger is apprehended-
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
Between Nov. 22d and Jan. 31st, rs inches of
snow fell in Bangor.
oOsepH OakeS q OOnS OF Brewer have laid
the keel for a barkentine, 116 feet in length
which is to be an A 1 vessel, of 400 tons, and
will be finished as soon as possible
Union religious meetings are being held in
Orono, and as a result deep revival interest
prevails Between twenty and thirty CONVEX
sions are reported, and the interest still con-
tinueS.
PISCATAQUIs COUNTY.
(From Our Correspondent sS'')
Wpo IF Do L.,
threshed with a single machine, $4,000 bushels
OF grain, 1000 bring pure wheat of very fine
quality. Mr.. Hanson of st. Albans is invited
to call.
The new NJ E. church in Guilford is to be
dedicated on the 18th of February by Presiding
Elder Pratt
Snow is now supposed to be not an inch less
than six feet deep on an average.
Farmers and Taxpayers do not speak ap-
provinglly of the proposed ''District Commits
Sioners -
SOMERSET COUNTY.