The Portland daily press., 1873-01-13
STATE NEWS.


| ANDkOSCOGGlN COUNTY.
The Journal says that the aldermen of Levi
| ton have passed an ordinance forbidding tn
! erection of wooden buildings on Lisbon street.
The Journal says that there is quite specu
| lative movement inst now in horse flesh -
| Promising two years old colts sell as high Al
$500, and everybody thinks that 'his'' colt is
born trotter.
Mr. Frank Robinson, aged %, of Sabattus
| died on Tuesday, from disease contracted while
| in the army.
The Journal says that there came near being
| fire in Auburn. a few days since, from curl
| GUS source; toilet bottle full of water, Of
white glass, with bullying base, sat on a table
| The morning sun shone into the room of which
an invalid was the only occupant. She soon
snuffed an odor as of burning wooden and quer-
led what it could be. Turning her face toward
the table, she discovered wooden mat on
which the toilet bottle Stood on fire in several
places In few moments the table and room
would have been involved had she not speedily
extinguished it. The concave surface of the
bottle had acted so as to converge the warm
rays OF the sun upon the wooden, and set it on
fire. Several experiments made since have re-
suited similarly, but the bottle emptied of it's
contents did not produce the same effect
There is movement among the physicians
of Androscoggin county to establish public
hospital In Auburn
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The new school house in Augusta will be ded-
icated Jan. 10TH
Free vaccination is again offered by the city
of Augusta.
A new Masonic hall will be dedicvted in Bel
grade next Wednesday evening.
The late defaulting treasurer, Caswell of Bel
grade, is in Augusta Jail.
The Kennebec Journal says that the engine
of Friday evenings train from Portland lost
driving wheel between Freeport and Bruns-
wick, and in consequence the train was about
two hours late in Augusta.
The Augusta Journal says that Mr. Kenns-
ton, master car builder at the Maine Central
shops in that city, has built car platform that
is much stronger than the "Mller platform"
The Mansion House of Augusta is offered 70
SALE
The Mail learns that the citizens of West
Watcrville are quite generally signing a re-
monstrance against the proposed division of the
town.
KNOX cUNTY.
The Camden Herald says that MIR. Decrow
and Capt. Bailey of that town will build three
masted schooner the present season.
There are 900 men at work in the Dix Island
quarries at present.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
The new steam Mill, building in Alma by
Treat, Lang Co., is fast approaching comnle
ANesNJ
the first of February next 1t will consume
some 5000 cords of hard wood year, to be
sawed into slaves.
The last issue of the Wiscasset Oracle speaks
twice of the death of old "Sllver Tail,' a VEN
cradle equine representative, 26 years of age.
TheOracle says there have been So marriages.
divorces and ia death In that town during
the last three years, in Wiscasset. There were
but marriages in 1872, against % in 1871.
OXFORD COUNTY
And now it is the Norway Advertiser Hear
it: We hardly believe in the doctrine of total
depravity, but our opinion has been terribly
shaken of late, while viewing two loads of wood
that cost us $11.
The Norway Advertiser says that Whitcomb
& Oxnard of that village, received and put out
during the month of December, four thousand
garments, which have been made aud returned
to Boston. They employ thirty hands in their
shop, besides hundreds of girls throughout the
country, and make as good work as goes into
Boston.
All through Oxford county there is an in
creased activity in the manufactures of wood.
Shovel-handle, short lumber and box factories
are doing more business than ever