The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-17

ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.
Percval Bonney, esq.,, lectured in the Turner
course Saturday evening.
The Lewiston Journal quotes Friday morn
ing as one of the cold ones, the mercury falling
to $50 below zero in that city, and 800 below at
Danville Junction.
ra KENNEBEc COUNTY. ia sns
S. L. Boardman, Mr. Wasson's Secretary of
the Board of Agriculture, writes letter to the
Waterville Mail, saying that the reports that he
was elected by trick or fraud, or after Mr.. Good
ale was elected by reclamation, are false The
Mail suggests that the Maine Farmer copy the
letter, Mr.. Boardman being its editor. Perhaps
at the same time Mr.. B. will correct the rumor
that he voted for himself.
The Watervlle Mail says that in 1922 there
were q persons licensed to sell liquor in that
town.
KNOX COUNTY.
The New York Post Office contract being
nearly completed. most of the workmen on Dix
Island have been discharged, and in few weeks
there will be very few of the 1400 of last season
remaining.
Mr.. w. w. Flye of Camden realized the past
year from his flock of poultry $135.S5, at a cost
of SOLO, leaving $S4.75 profit. This, too, with
nary State pension ON We sly fox.
LINCOLN COUNTY. r.s
The Lincoln county Agricultural Society
slected the following officers the 4th inst: Pres
ident, Henry ingalls,, Wscasset; Vice. Presi
dents, S. w. jackson, G. w. Turkey, G B. Ken
niston, John X. Erskine aud Samuel Kennedy;
Secretary, j. j. A. Hofses, East Jefferson;
Treasurer, John BODICE, Jefferson Board of
Trustees, G. B Sawyer, Wiscasset, Eden Chap
man, Damariscotta, Allison Bond, Waldoboro,
0. E. Glidden, Whitefeld, Luther Maddocks,
Boothbay.
The Wiscasset Oracle 'goeth" for that kind
OF gambling which is intended to fill the Golfers
OF ''our Zion" among other kinds tLFl
Theannual meeting of the Boothbay Marine
Railway Company was held last week, and
he following directors were chosen: j. H.
Allen, Bath; Joseph Maddocks, Southport;
rage, Warren Reed and ID. w. Sawyer, of Booth
bay. A meeting of the Directors was SUISSE
quently held, and Joseph Nickerson was chosen
President, and A. r. Nlckerson Clerk, Treasur-
er and Superintendent.
THE last Friday governs Tor indicates the
weather of the next month" say the weather.
wise,. and yet a careful examination of the
weather record for 1872 shows us that in ouly
tlco cases february and March) was it any
where near correct So says the Oracle.
OXFORD COUNTY.
AUNT Tabitha," through the Norway Adver-
tiser eXhorts young ladies' to ignore absurd fash
ions. Right every time, Auntie; but then,
they won't listen to you. .. .r.
The South Paris Dairying Association has
tai. 1t means cheese factory.
Norway is soon to have q town house that its
people will be proud Of
II PENoBsCoT COUNTY. M
The Bangor Wing says that it is feared that
Perley Wiley, the little step.son of Mr. Geo.
Fairbrother who lost his way while returning
from an Grand on Thursday morning and was
found in the afternoon in Mason's pasture, w.
ing insensible, with his hands and feet frozen,
will lose both legs below the knee.
A correspondent of the Northern Border ap-
peals to young ladies to learn to cook. Good
advice, but dreadfully old-fashioned.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
w. L. Hathorn, esq.,, of the firm of Going
Hathorn & Son. of Pittsfield, died suddenly
Thursday night. He was a member of the Leg.
isature of 1870.
WALDO COUNTY
The house, store and barn of Harrison p. Ia
Dor at Belmont Corner, were burned Saturday
afternoon. Loss about $4,000; covered by in
surance
YORK COUNTY.
A young man in Biddeford has been fined
$40 for having little fun in an Advent meet
ing At that price he don't want any more Ad-
vent fun.
The Sheriff jury in cases of Bracket Hall
and Charles w. Hobbs Of Berwick VS.. Boston
& Maine Railroad Company, for damage sus-
ny Vic OI tIldU TOdu, nave aW ard
ed Hall the sum of $4,000, and Hobbs the sum
of $500.
John Main of York, about six miles from
Portsmouth, farmer, was examined Friday
afternoon before Hon. John B. Nealley of So.
Berwick, on the charge of an attempt to out
rage his daughter, Eleanor, a child 10 years old,
on the 10th of August last He was arrested
by Deputy Sheriff II. e. Kicker, THURSDAY, He
was held for trial in $780, He is abouts55 years
old.
Patents have been granted Maine citizens as
follows w. g. Brown, Monmouth, car coup
ling; j. W. Judkins, Monmouth, car coupling
j. Peabody, Bangor, mechanical movement for
converting oscillating into rotary movement;
b. e. Barrows, Benton, potato digger; VIM
Todd, Portland, car coupling; design, H. A.
Wood, Bangor, cooking stove.
Gen. Daniel White Commander of the De-
partment of Maine, Grand Army of the Re-
public, has re-appointed the following officers
upon his staff: Edward E. Small Of Bangor
Assistant Adjutant Generals; j. A. Dole OF
Bangor, Assistant Quartermaster General; John
f. Godfrey of Bangor Judge Advocate; VIM.
H. Pencil of Portland, Department lnspec.
tor.
A proposition is pending before the Legiala-
ture to build new Insane Hospital at Angus
ta and fifty thousand dollars are asked there
far. A substitute was offered in the House
Eric ay 70 the effect that committee of three
be appointed to take charge of the matter, re-
ceive proposals from towns which would assist
in the erection of the hospital that could be 10.
Gated there, an report to the next Legislature.