The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-01-21
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoeG1N COUNTY.


The Auburn City Council appropriated $50
to purchase book case for the High School,
but declined to appropriate $500 for the pur-
chase of books. The City Council have adopt
ed the plans of Messrs. Fasset & Stew ems for a
new grammar school-house.
The Journal says the Auburn City Council
has refer ed the subject of constructing new
bridge over the Androscoggn river, to joint
special committee, who will confer with a com =
mittee of the Lewiston City Council, which
will probably be appointed at the next meeting
OF the Council. to be held on Saturday evening.
The Journal says Mayor Littlefeld has been
directed by the Auburn City Council to request
the l.. q A. X. r. Directors to call a meeting
OF the stockholders of the company to consider
the expectancy of raising 100000 to complete
the road by an issue of bonds secured by mort
gage CT
.yse.5e KENNEBEC COUNTY. rs. . t.4
The Journal says from fifty to one hundred
cases Of scarlet fever are reported on the east
side of the river in Augusta; there have been
two fatal cases. One little boy died after three
hours sickness lr DEL r.at
A cheese factory is talked of in Winthrop.
The students at Kent's Hill Seminary, to the
the number of 14O, had a skating holiday last
week. | t-@
OXFORD COUNTY.
The Democrat says Mrs. Luther Cole of
Greenwood, So years old, has made butter
own family use, and has sold ITO pounds be-
sides.
Horace Cutting of Andover. while at work
last week in the woods, was struck on the head
by a falling tree and was so much injured that
fears are entertained of his recovery.
Fifteen thousand hides were tanned in the
Norway tannery last year. Forty hands were
employed, ynd the amount paid was $35000
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
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day evening, in W lich Joseph Cobb stabbed
John Wall in the neck, intiicting serious
wound. Cobb was arrested, i,r
The city authorities of Bangor are about to
take action in the matter of REMEMBERING the
streets.
A young man in Newburg was so contempti-
bly, mean as to steal the stove-pipe in the
school-house. He was arrested.
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
Mrs David Stevens of Gulford, now on the
sunny side of f1fty-five, has had sixteen chill
dren, the youngest being nineteen. She had
only one pair of twins. Next!
The Wing says Deputy Marshal Head, whose
arrest at Guilford was mentioned Monday, was
taken before Trial Justice Addison Martin.
tried. convicted and fined on two complaints
for assault on battery. The fines and costs
amounted to $3.50. Monday morning Mr..
Head was still under arrest and had not ap-
pealed. The matter will, we understand, be
thoroughly ventilated in the United States Dis
trict Court
sAGADAHoC COUNTY
The County Commissioners of Sagadahoc
will never make their fortunes in that office.
The pay of Mr.. Colby last year was $87. go; Mr.
Parks $1,000; Mr.. Marble $780, Total for the
three Commissioners, $245.50.
A little son of Mrs. Mary E. Loring of Bath,
was badly scalded Monday, by falling into a
pail of hot water. He will recover. %
YORK COUNTY.
correspondent writes that ferocious Wild
cat was shot in Sanford on the 18th lust. meas
urng four feet, four inches in length and
weighing As pounds. This was the largest ami
NAL of the kind ever seen in this section and
attracted much attention when placed on exhi-
bition at Sprngvale. A Dover saloon keeper
has purchased it, and when stuffed will use it
as a window ornament