The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-01-15
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

ANDRoscOGGIN COUNTY.
The Journal says A. w. Sprague asks for
damages resulting from q snow slide from the
Lewiston City Building.
Work upon the foundation of the proposed
cheese foctory at North Turner, has cOmmenc-
1t will be two stories high, and twenty-eight
feet wide, by sixty-ive in length, Its cost is
estimated from twenty-five to twenty-six hun
bred dollars.
AROosTooK COUNTY.
The Merriam mill, about two miles from
Houltou, was destroyed by fire Sunday morn
ing. Loss $500; no insurance. Incendiary.
The recent thaw drove several lumber opera
tors out of the woods.
A cheese foctory is talked of in Bridgewater.
Good authority estimates the amount of hon
ey gathered in AroosrOok County the past sea-
season. exclusive of the amount required to car
ry the bees through the winter, at upwards of
twenty tons-more than any three counties in
the State.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Wood is drng in Pennington at $3.50 a cord.
Hay retails at $12 to $15.
The cash balance in the treasury of Franklin
County at the close of the year was So 354,44
Amos Holt was seriously injured while chop
ping logs in Weld, on January 9th.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
Dress Corresp0ndence)
Mr.. Dunn has contracted tn Mr.. Hanson
mill at Waterviile. The stone and brick work
were contracted for some time since. This
mill will contain $4,000 spindles and the esti-
mated cost of the enterprise is $55O,OOO.
The false bridge of the Maine Central rail-
road at Waterville upon which the iron bridge
was to be built has been carried away by the
freshet of last week. The Kendalis Mills
folks say it was the "act of God.''
A Waterville man Offers his wife and two
children for $1,000. A formerly and still ap-
preciative neighbor offers $780, Negotiations
are pending
The Lewiston Journal says the red school
house in the ''Gambo'' district, Waterford, was
burned on Friday night last, with all the books
of the scholars, etc, The origin of the fire is
unknown.
Widow John Reed, of Roxbury, lost one of
a very valuable pair of steers last week. 1t was
tied with rope and found choked to death.
G. D, Bisbee, Esq, County Attorney. who
has been clerk of the Oxford Central railroad
for some years, has resigned the position, as
his relations to the road might conflict with his
duties to the public.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
The Wing learns that the total loss by the
burning of the buildings of Mr.. Alonzo Good
ing, at Lincoln, Saturday night, was between
$4,000 and $4,000, on which there was no insur-
ance.
Mr.. John W. Mayo of Orono, having just re-
turned from his camps near the west branch of
the Penobscot in the vicinity of Moosehead
Lake. reports fifteen to sixteen inches of snow
on a level there. E
The frame of the new ship in McGilvery &
20. yard in Brewer, is all up, the deck frame
in, and also part of TIE ceiling The weather
has been very good lately for ship-buildipg OPP
erations.
YORK COUNTY.
The old court house, now the town house in
York, has been repaired, and now makes a re-
spectacle appearance.
Last Saturday Jonathan K Plaisted of York
stepped upon round piece of wood, fell. broke
two of his fingers and fractured one of his arms
above the wrist.