The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-03-28
STATE NEWS.
HANCOCK COUNTY.

HANCOCK COUNTY.
Judge Drinkwater, of Ellsworth, either fined
or sent dozen young men to Jail for drunken
ness, last week. 9Gls $50 b -5ss55 sgssf
Orrington Squirting, of Cranberry Isles, was
seriously injured last week, while firing gun.
A Cranberry Isle skipper sails under horse
shoe nailed to the mast head of his craft.
KENNEBEc COUNTY. EEl
j. G. Abbott, ESQ.,, was admitted to the bar
at Augusta, at the Supreme Court in Augusta,
Wednesday. He graduated at Bowdoin in 1872,
and as 'Van Augustus" has written some very
readable letters to Boston papers.
The Wing says there is report in crcula-
ton that the Maine Central Railroad Company
are making endeavOrs to gain possession of the
steamboat line between the Kennebec and
Boston.
q4sstn OXFORD COUNTY. , u5.,.
Gen. Perry and Seth 81, Faunce, of Oxford,
were badly injured IA few days since by being
thrown from sleigh.
PENoBscoT COUNTY. f-E
The Wing says that the night trains between
that city and ST. John will be replaced on the
e. & N A. Railway next Monday.
Mr.. VIM. Ryder, son of Capt. John A. Ryder
of South Orrington, was killed on the 18th
inst, by falling from aloft on board the brig
Clara Jenkins, bound from Montevideo, s. A. !,
to Boston. He was about nineteen years of
age.
Greenfield has voted $3.50 for the support of a
free high school,
The Wing has it stated that the gauge of the
E. & N. A. Railway is to be narrowed so as to
be uniform with the Maine Central, the present
season.
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
Z Hon. H. 0. Pratt, member of Congress
from Iowa, is on visit to bis friends in Fox
croft, where he formerly resided.
Foxcroft for the new line from Dexter to that
place.
Col. q. II. Chandler and WV. Clark, ESQ.,,
are engaged in quarryng limestone ON the
farm Of the late Samuel Greeley in Foxcroft
The stone is to be used in smelling the ore at
the Katahdin Iron Works.
SOMERSET COUNTY. -
The Fairfield Chronicle says that Hall c.
Burleigh sold last week to Mr.. Douglass, of
Alvin Jones sold Mr.. d. his bay for $3.50; E.
r. Jones sold him one for $3.50; and Charles
Seavey sold him another for 5000.
Fairfield sold Boston and New York S27 600
worth of horses last year.
A Reform Club has been organized in Nor.
ridgewock.
WALDO COUNTY,
There are now four cheese-factory associations
in Waldo County, namely: Northport, Sears
H.,
just been organized. They will go into opera
ton next summer. : q CT
YORK COUNTY.
The Times says that on Wednesday Hon.
S. L. Goodale, of Saco, met with an accident
that came near proving fatal. He was at the
mandatory of the Cumberland Bone Com
pany. and while standing near a vat descend
ing elevator struck him in the head, knocking
him senseless.
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U. 5. steamship Plymouth, 2400 tons, now in
the European fleet, will be ordered to Kittery
Navy Yard for thorough overhaulding and re-
pairs. She VIII probably arrive in May. ~
Work on one of the new Government sloops
of war will be commenced at the Kittery Navy
Yard soon.
Ezekiel Towle, who was engaged in Mute s
shoe factory at Berwick, met with a severe ac-
cident last week, while feeding side of sole
leather into machine where the cutting was
done by knife rising and falling, when, by
some means, his right hand was caught by the
knife and the thumb taken off near the first
joint and about half of the other four fingers
Some time since Mr. Towle met with similar
accident whereby he lost a portion of his left
hand 5s-ls.. N sa,
IN GENERAL. -f,a a.
Toby Candor writes to the Boston Journal,
that the total cut of logs the present winter
will reach nearly 50.000,0 900 feet in the State,
VI WHICH tue IcHOuSCO1 hINtI tdhGS tuc lGdu,
the suit on those waters being liz, O00, 900. The
cut on the Kennebec waters is some 81, 00O, 600
feet, while the Androscoggin loggers make an
exhibit of 41,0OO0O0 feet The cut of this win
ter, with the old logs on hand, amounts to over
590,000,00O feet, showing fallipg-off as com
pared with the logs on hand last year at this
time, of some 180,000,000 feet.
The President of the Maine Industrial School
for Girls, Judge Kingshury, has called meeting
of the Trustees, to be held at the Hallowell
House, next Monday at three o'clock, P. NJ q,
to take immediate action, so that the institu-
ton may go into operation at an early day. An