The Portland daily press., 1874-11-17
STATE NEWS.
ARoosrooK COUNTY.

ARoosTOoK COUNTY.
Trains now leave Fredericton daily for
Woodstock and Florenceville on the Inter-Co-
lonial railway.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Three ladies were thrown from their carriage
in Phillips Wednesday; one of them, Mrs.
Plummer, had her collar bone broken and was
seriously injured otherwise, and was taken up
for dead. She will probably get well. The
other two were slightly injured.
Saddleback and Mt. Abram are white with
snow.
KNOX COUNTY.
Catherine Clark of Rockland on Sunday eve
ming smashed in the door of her husband 8
house and store with an axe, broke open the
money drawer and rified it of its contents, and
then assaulted Officer Cook with the axe, but
was finally arrested.
The jewelry shop at Union Common was en-
tered by burglars on Friday night, the 9th inst.
and about $500 worth Of watches and jewelry
were taken. No clue to the robbers
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
Chas. Brett and Chas Kimball of Chelsea
have been arrested for breaking into Mr..
Jacobs clothing store in HallOwell on the
right of Nov. 4th and stealing a large quantity
of clothing. Some of the stolen property has
been recovered. Brett has been out of state
prison only few months.
at the Insane Hospital at Augusta, which has
recently been fitted up for patients, is, accord
ing to the Kennebec journal, totally unfit for
their reception and the money spent upongit is
little better than thrown away, The trustees
don't propose to accept it.
Alittle son of Hamln A. Fall of Gardiner
was accidentally and probably fatally shot by
Edward Palmer, Thursday.
pENoBscoT COUNTY. 9 zaa'1' =
:, ~ IN y1xus,
with its contents consisting of hay. and grain
was destroyed by fire Saturday night. Loss
$1,000. The fire was doubtless the work of an
incendiary.
st. Marys church, Bangor, will be dedicated
a week from next Sunday, instead Of next Sab
bath. The sermon on that occasion will be
preached by the Right Reverend DR.. Lynch Of
Charleston, s. C. H
Geo. Mason of Bangor was considerably in.
jured in the face, Friday, by the explosion of
a gun which he was discharging.
YORK COUNTY.
The directors of the Ocean National Bank of
Kennebunk have adopted the prec3ution OF dis
tributing among the officers of the bank parts
of the keys, thereby placing beyond the con.
troll of any one person access to the funds OF
the bank.
Yesterday forenoon two Frenchmen, Lavine
of BiddefOrd and Samuel Brooks of Saco, took
row boat and went down river slabbing.
Near the lower end of Cow Island they hauled
in heavy slab which proved too much for tn.
boat and swamped it. Brooks, a boy about l.
years of age was drowned, while Lavine wa
saved s..r-
The cross was raised upon the steeple Of thu
new Catholic church in Biddeford Sunda,
with impressive ceremonies. Rev. Mr.. Pom
sardin made an address in French. The eros
| is seven and one-half feet high and forty inch
es from tip to tip of arm, and about six in
ches square in the body. 1t is made of wood
covered with galvanized iron and gilded, ant
weighs about 100 pounds. 1t stands on
turned base, or urn, five feet high.
press Correspondence
Mr.. James B. Huff of Kennebunkport, re
| ported in the PRESS of Monday as probabl.
lost from his dory, was rescued by passins
| vessel and taken to Gloucester.