The Portland daily press., 1874-05-28
STATE NEWS.
ANpRoscoGG1N COUNTY.

ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.
Wilmot Leighton, who was one OF Loweii 8,
the wife murderer, principal witnesses, mas
absorbed in Lawrence in criminal prosecu-
ton.
At the annual meeting of the corporators of
the Androscoggn county savings bank, the
following Trustees were elected; -. f. Pack
ard. S. r. Bearce, j. Y. ScrutOn, Thos. File
brown s. e. May. w. F. Goulding and A.
NJ. Jones were admitted as corporators.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
Mr. j. d. Smith of Ellsworth, engaged upon
the drive Of the Berlin Falls lumber company,
while breaking jam on the Diamond river
Sunday morning, was precipitated into the
stream and drowned
The ware house of N. H. Pierce of Orland,
was burned Friday morning.
From our Correspondent
The prospect now is that there will be rush
to Mt Desert the present season
as the hotel rooms are all engaged there. Five
or six new hotels and number of private res
licences have been built this spring besides
large additions to quite number of the old
hotels. The Water Company are bringing wa
ter to supply the place from Eagle Lake, a
distance of three miles, aud intend to have it
by the time summer travel arrives. New
York gentleman has commenced private
residence here to cost 1000 or $40, 900, to be
Finished in the fall. The citizens are building
by subscription, good plank sidewalks. Other
improvements are in progress in the shape of
drainage and better roads. The Knox 4 Lin
cold Railroad Company intend to run steamer
from Mt. Desert to cOnnect at Rockland with
the road.
KENNBBEc COUNTY.
The manager of the Comique Company per-
forming at Gardiner got up row at the Evans
house, and attempted to beat his wife. The
city marshal took him in hand
OXFORD COUNTY.
A daughter of Andrew Evans of Fryeburg,
while at play, caught her head between two
boards, and, but for the intervention of hired
man, would have been strangled.
Henry M Stanley of Dixfield, Fish Commits.
| siOner, has Matching house upper his person
al supervision, which is doing finely. He has
about one hundred thousand young salmon
which he will soon turn into the Androscoggin
and about two thousand land-locked salmon
for the lakes at the head waters of that river.
[Press Correspondence
A sharper, claiming to be ship wrecked
mariner, has been swindling the 'gullable''
people of FryeburgIand surrounding towns with
s'shoddy cloth" and shawls. Some of his
paisleys upon examination prove to be part
cotton with fringe and border pasted on.
Some of these which are in reality worthless,
have been sold as high as 500.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The Wing says there is rumor that party
of Bangor yonths have formed combination
| against the Crusaders. They will call them
| selves the Santa Cruz-aders.
The directors of the e. & N. A. railroad
have decided to run their road in sections.
| A man whose name we did not learn had a
very narrow escape from death Monday after
noon near MeAdam junction. He was lying
| on the track and was pushed aside by the COW
catcher and received only slight injuries.
| SOMERSET COUNTY.
The eighteenth annual exhibition of the Ea-
ton School will occur Wednesday, June 18th,
and the annual reunion the day following.
| The pressure of the water in the Kennebec
| burst the 1ume in Hiram Burrilps grist mill at
| Skowhegan. The wheels were smashed, and
| the damages by some are estimated as high as
| $4,000, and besides the mill must now lie useless
until it can be repaired at low water in the
| summer
| WALDO COUNTY.
| Belfast has cerebro-spnal-meningitis
| Two three-masted schooners, the W. F. Par.
ker, 300 tons, and G. L. Fessenden, 416 tons
| will soon be launched by Carter & Co., Bel
| fast.
Mrs. Abbie Fernald aged forty years. oil
Lncolnvile, deranged by sickness, committed
suicide on Sunday by jumping into well.
YORK COUNTY.
Up to Saturday night over $1,000 had beer
| paid over to the Clerk of Courts at Alfred as
| fines in liquor cases.
The voters in the ninth school District in
Kittery having voted to establish a free high
school are now undecided just where to locate
| it. After spending $500 or $500 in fitting ur
| ArmOry Hall for the purpose they come to the
| conclusion but few scholars in the district will
be accommodated.