The Portland daily press., 1873-11-14

carpets of her own manufacture, which it
would be hard to beat They were woven by
Miss Lizzie A. Hall. If any young lady, who
plays divinrly, is disposed to sneer at this item,
we assure he- that Miss II. is equally at home
at the loom or piano. N
The American says the granite quarries at
Sullivan are beginning to look up.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
Hamlin. Farr Il Co. g shirt manufactury at
West Waterville, caught fire Tuesday after
neon and the building was badly damaged be-
fore it could be eXtingushed. The loss IL not
far from $500. The fire caught from defec.
tive chimney.
that the Halowell Manufacturing Co., have re-
duced the wages of their operatives twenty Der
cent This intelligence has not been confirmed.
however, by its Haliowell correspondent.
The journal understands that the Vassa-
boro Mills Co., will this week or next make a
reduction in the wages of their employees.
Small pox has made its appearance in Au-
gusta.
Simon B. Norton. a Gardiner merchant, left
home on the 9th inst. with much money on his
person and has not been heard of since.
KNOX COUNTY.
A child at the Rockland Aims House was
burned to death Thursday week, by her clothes
catching fire.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
LAUNDERING parties have already gore to
camp ON the Peno0scot there being six inches
of snow in the woods.
The new bridge at Kenduskeag will cost
about $4,000. 1t is built in thoroughly SUBJ
stantia manner, with sidewalks each side of
the roadway.
A little girl, aged about four years, daughter
of John Bntler of Orono, was left bv her mother
for few minutes while she went to GET some
dry wood to light fire in the cook stove, Tues
day evening last, and probably attempted to
build the fire in her mother $ absence. when her
clothing took ire and she was SO badly burned
that she died Wednesday morning
The Brewer Brick Co., has turned out 27O.-
600 this season.
According to the Commercial. Bangor is the
residence of man who possesses lovely tenn
per, when drunk if at no other time He was
arrested on complaint Of the neighbors On
Friday of last week, the mans wife had to get
up from bed and hide her new born babe, only
one day old, in the attic. because she was af-
frad that the father woald destroy it,
PIsc ATAoUIs COUNTY.
The stage running between Gulford and
Moosehead Lake is now on runners, and sleds
and sleighs are in general use in that region.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
George CIocker, an ex-Reform school boy,
was arrested in st. Adams, Friday, for steal
ing the horse of S. A. Norton of Readfield
Mr. Silas Bates of Fairfield, says he don't
know of such a thingas mice breeding in horses
head, bit he is ready 10 swear that horse of
his recently erected live mouse from his nos
trels while In the act of sneezlng.
WALDO COUNTY.
The Journal ihtinlates that the fire in Bel
fast Friday night was set for the purpose of
trying the speed of the engines. The building
fired was upoccuped. m
In Belfast in the case of Isaac w. Larabee,
charged with burning the barn of George
Holmes in Frankfort, last April, the jury disa-
greed.
The journal says that Judge DicKerson did
not discharge the jury for making noise
while out OH case, He reprimanded them and
discharged them because the term had been
long.
YORK COUNTY.
The big Odd Fellows Fairat Biddeford oven
ed Wednesday night auder fattering auspices.