The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-04-29
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoSCoGGIN COUNTY.

ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY.
At the Auburn High School, out of IS pupils
bred dollars year are spent for text books
Mr.. Gay, the Principal, thinks that fourth
of this sum should SUFFICE as they are furnish
ed by the city.
w. Millett has been foreman with James
Monroe & Co, shoe manufacturers at West
Auburn, twenty-one years. This firm seLd off
5000 cases yearly.
The Auburn liquor agency sold S3933 worth
of liquors for the year ending Feb. IS, 70, with
net profit of $73l to the city.
At Lisbon a force Of forty or fifty men is en-
ployed in preparing for the erecting of the adj
dtion to Mr.. Farwells MILL and in making
ready for brick making.
Twelve hundred children attended the public
schools in Auburn last year.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
l. Hardison of Lyndon is to plant thirteen
acres of potatoes this year for the starch facto-
ry. He gets Is cents per bushel. They cost
him to raise, net, 10 cents per bushel.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
n. X. Sawyer ESQ.,, of Ellsworth, has pur-
chased residence in Jacksonville, Fla.
L. A. Emery, Esq, of Ellsworth, has been
appointed commissioner to take recognizances
under the act of last winter
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The Journal thinks that the bridges at Fair
held and Waterville will both be abandoned
and that an iron bridge across the river at tie
College Narrows will be substituted.
OXFORD COUNTY.
[Press Correspondence
The ladies at Fryeburg village are soon to
have supper in aid Of the Maine State Hospi-
tai.
A little boy five years old, son of MI. Hazen
Osgood, depot master at North Conway, fell
from cart Monday morning and broke his
arm.
A party of young people from Fyeburg are to
have an excursion to Sebago Lake, May the
first. The ice has begun to break up and the
lake will probably be clear by that time.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
| The labors of Prof Stone close at the State
| College with the present term and he is sue.
ceeded by Prof. W. o. Atwater of the Tennes.
see Agricultural College. The students of the
| State College have organized a society called
the Scientific Society of Maine State College
| The object is to awaken interest in and promote
inquiry into science as applied to industrial pur-
suits A member by paying $50 receives the IT,
| tie of "Patron."
The Wing says that the schooner Naonta,
Capt. Armstrong of Bangor, has not been heard
from for sixty days, and fears are entertained
| that she is lost.
The first raft of newly sawn lumber from the
mills has reached Bangor.
The Wing states that an early change will be
made in the gauge of the L. & N. A. Rail
road.
The bridge between Bangor and Brewer is to
have a new draw.
A young man, fined by the Police Court at
Bangor for drunkenness, on his release went to
the man who sold him the rum and demanded
reimbursement for his fine. 1t was paid.
Early Saturday morning, the tide being out,
the schooner Juliet, which lay at a wharf in
Brewer, parted her fastenings and keeled ever
with fearful crash. Both masts were broken.
1t will cost $1,000 to repair her.
PIscATAoUIs COUNTY.
Blanchard is to havee an excelsior manufae-
tory.
WALDO COUNTY
Winterport voted last Saturday to take stock
IN the bay 81 River Railroad to the amount of
I'VE per sent OF the valuation of the town. The
vote stood 540 yeas to Isl Nays
YORK. COUNTY
=. ILe snoke-house OF Mr.. Charles Hill in Saco.
together with about $3.50 worth of hams ras
destroyed by fire early Monday morning.
Ajury is engaged in ESTIMATING land do,,o
ges between the Boston & Maine r. r. 60 and
parties interested. ' ""0
Bishop Nicely preached to large copsreoa.
ton at Christ's church, Biddeford. SUNDAY.
Tho Times says another hotel is to be imme
dately built at Old Orchord Beach, by q. c.
Staples, ESQ.,, the popular proprietor of the Old
Orchard House.
IN GENERAL.
The following patents have been issued to
Maine inventors: J. NJ. Morrison and T. H.
Fletcher, North Hollis, scythe-stone holder; C.
b. Pettengill, South Paris, barrel header; G. S.
mechanism for washing machines. d. Tilson.
Rockland, steam crane