The Portland daily press., 1873-02-08

Bickford also lost about $500 in sewing and
pressing machines The fire Is supposeo 10
have caught from the chimney
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The Whie saws there is one case of smallpox
in Bucksport. The harbor has not been frozen
over this winter.
The Bangor Wing says it is reported that in
Ellsworth an entire family of children, ten in
number are sick with small pox. The youngest
of these is less than a month old.
The Spring Term of the Eastern Norma,
School at Castine, begins on Wednesday, the
18th inst, and promises to be largely attended.
John II. JARVIS, ESQ.,, of Boston. formerl7 of
Castlne, has presented the Eastern Normal
red dollars.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
Inc Augusta Journal says that A. w. Kim
oaii OF that city, photographer, is engaged in
making pictures of the Governor and Executive
Council, Heads of State Departments and
Members of the Legislature, which he intends
to frame and hang in the State House as a gift
to the State
The Committee on Jail System, at their
meeting Thursday evening, agreed to the gen.
cral features of the bill previously reported to
introduce the labor system and other reforms
into the county jails. A subcommittee was
chosen to report bill.
OXFORD COUNTY
Thursday forenoon of last week the school
house in the Ridlon Neighborhood-No. Gin
Sweden, was wholly destroyed by fire.
pENoBscoT COUNTY.
The Agricultural Committee of the Legisla
ture are to pay the State College at Orono a
visit on Monday next.
Mr.. Burton of Lincoln, shows specimens of
apples grown in his garden picked from the
tree in the season of 1871 and even now show
ing little signs of decay. The apples are very
| fine for cooking.
An order has passed the City Council of Ban
| gor for the Mayor to obtain advice of Gen.
Thorn as to which of two harbor lines reported
by Asst. Engineer A. c. Both, the city should
adopt.
| A charter has been asked for the West Hamp-
den Dairy Association, with capital of So
| 900.
| The Whig says there are but two small pox
| patients in the hospitals of the city, and these
| will soon be discharged.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
j. p. Cool of Palmyra, has coat which has
been in constant use for ffty-seven years, hav-
| ing been worn more or less each year There
is not a brack in the cloth, and it shows nc
| signs of repair. Mr.. Cool was raised in the
| town of Waterville, end his sister carded, spun
and woye the cloth in the primitive days of oul
! mothers.
The Reporter says that at the annual meet
ing of the members of the Somerset Central
| Agricultural Society, held in >Skowhegan, Feb
| 1st 1873, the following officers were elected fol
| the ensuing year: Hon. Abner Coburn, Presi.
dent; II. c. Burleigh, VIM. d. Hayden, Vice
Presidents; William B. Snow, Secretary and
Treasurer; B. NJ. Hight, VIM D. Hayden Trus
tees.
e. G.. Pratt of Fairfield, member of the
board of county commissioners of Somerset
county, has been confined to his house by sick
ness during most of the winter but is now con.
valeseent.
WALDO COUNTY
The Belfast Age vouches for tho following
| The most singular lusus nature of which We
ever heard is that told us by Mr. L. NJ. Poor Of
Searsmont. On taking some hens eggs from q
nest he observed slight protuberance at the
end OF one, but thought nothing of it till he
heard the she'll snap. Upon looking he saw a
singular substance oozing out, which proved t.
be fully developed serpent, seven inches long
which had apparently lain coiled up in the enc
of the egg. 1t was nearly the color of The
egg, and exhibited some signs Of life when i
first came out.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The Eastport Sentinel says that the small
pox has entirely disappeared from that place.
The Sentinel says that a young man who
passed hi inself off as an English nobleman
aud who spent considerable money at Eastport
while there short time ago, turns out to be 9
st. John clerk who borrowed sum of none,
at that place and cleared out.
Joseph Kimball, one of the Oldest citizens O.
Lubec, died suddenly Sunday; he had livet
| nearly fifty years on the old homestead, ant
continued to work as was his usual custom till
the day before he died.