The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-15
a STATE NEWS.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.

ANDROSCOGGlN COUNTY.
The Lewiston Journal says that liquor is reg
ularly transported from here to that city in the
baggage car of the evening train. A quantity
was seized "Wednesday.
The Journal says that Edwin Darrah, the
forger of a check in this city, gets two years in
State Prison; Addie r. Pillsbury, the commu
mist, who stole house in Auburn, and gave
practical illustration of socialist principles, gets
three years in State Prison.
At the special election held by the Androscog-
gin Light Artillery, Thursday evening, E. d.
Wiggin was chosen Second Lieutenant in place
of A. A. Miller, resigned.
The Directors of the Lewiston branch think
that by the first of October the cars of the
Grand Trunk Company will reach that city.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
The Times says that the roads are badly
blocked up, and travel is very much impeded.
Sheriff johnson has raided on the liquor
shops of Houlton with substantial results in q
liquid form.
Hay is worth $40 to $11; butter, IS to zoe. !;
oats, 40 to 45c; potatoes, 40 to Soc, in Houl
ton.
The Times publishes an extract from the let
ter of Special Agent Hines, denying that the
Collector has been exonerated from all charges.
No decision has been made.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
The Brunswick Telegraph says that one night
last week some scoundrels broke in the door Of
the school house No 10 Cooks Corner)the door
itself was smashed, every pane of glass but two
was broken out in two windows, states were
broken, books torn up, and the room left in a
terribly dilapidated state. The school-house
was put in very excellent condition only
year or two since. 4.
Brtdn ID z says that 5
| baro and Bridgton three times d eeWten SE
June Both, 1873. d. up''i
| sPIscATAoUIs COUNTY.
Judge Kent will preside at the February Term
| OF The 5. j. Court for PiscataJuis county, which
begins at Dover on Tuesday, 18th inst
| Mr.. c. O. Palmer of Dover has sold his rot
ting horse to parties in Boston for 81, $50. The
horse was OF the Brown Harry" stock.
sAGADAHoc COUNTY
The New York Herald has part of its payer
made at at the Topsham paper mill
WALDO COUNTY.
Hon. N. G. Hichborn has had the variobid
butts now out again, He had lately been in
Boston and New York and probably caught the
disease there or by the way.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Eastport merchants are selling salt five cents
a bushel cheaper than it is sold on the British
isle Of Campobello.
Washington county people are growing
about the mails That belonging to CALAIS
first goes TO st. John.
-Four Indian ladies, with all the modern I'm.
provements of female dress, attend church il
Dennysville.
Fliver Chase of Whiteing, killed an old bea
and two cubs, which he found in winter quar-
tiers, with an axe. -
Col. A. B. Sumner, Of Gov. Perham's STIFF.
has been suffering from severe attack of G ry
sipelas, but is now better.
The store of G. NJ. Porter of Calais was re-
Gently entered and robbed of $3.50.
West Pembroke has three three-masted
schooners building, with other smaller craft.
The Eastport Sentinel says that the stories
OF small pox in that town are the widest fit-
tions.
YORK COUNTY.
The members Of York county bar express
themselves greatly pleased with the manner il
which Judge Virgin has presided the late term
The Portsmouth mes intimates that some
four hundred persons have this week been dis
charged or suspended from the Kittery Navy
Yard.
The Ne Plus Ultra Collar Companys build.
lngs were sold Friday toaThomas ID. Locke of
Biddeford, for S11 900.