The Portland daily press., 1874-01-27
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY.
The Lewiston Journal saysit costs about $500
day for smokers in Lewiston and Auburn to
indulge in the weed.
The Journal says the Mechanic Falls cheese
factory will probably start next season, with
the milk of five hundred cows to manufacture
into cheese.
The journal corrects the item that the Au-
burn city government declined to furnish ref
ence library for the high school. That body
declined to appropriate $500 to furnish Zel's
Cyclopedia, one copy to each school.
The Journal says the Evans Rifle Manufac-
turing Company have so far advanced the work
of creating special machinery, that it is ex
pected that within six weeks the manufactory
located at Mechanic Falls, will be producing
their rifles, which are pronounced by leading
military gentlemen in this State and Massa-
chusetts 10 be OF unequalled merit.
The paper mill of A. c. Denison & Co., Me-
chanic Falls, is run day and night, twenty -four
hours day, Sundays only excepted, year in
and year out.
Capt. Jacob Parker of Greene Corner, with
his wife, on the evening of the 2lst, celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage at
the old homestead, where they have lived to-
gether for half century.
KENNRBEC COUNTY.
Our correspondent writes: The dwelling house
of B. w. Hartman of Kents Hill, was burn
ed at four O'Clock Monday morning. Loss $1,000;
partially insured. The cause of the fire is I'M
known, no fire having been in the part where
it caught since Saturday. The house was occu-
pied by Mr.. Harriman's mother and two sis
ters who were made aware of the fire by the
smoke penetrating their sleeping rooms. 1t
was feared that Dr. Torsey's house, standing
very near; would burn, but the efforts to pro-
tect it and favorable wind saved it unharm-
ed.
PENOBsCOT COUNTY.
Exeter people are agitating the question of
| Free High Schools this year. They propose
two in the spring, at Exeter Corner and Cut
ter's mills; also two in the fall, at South Exc
ter and Kings mills.
The police force of Bangor have arrested
| since August last thirteen persons who are now
| lodged in Jail awaiting trial for crimes, punish
able by imprisonment in the State Prison.
A So bill found its way to the counter of the
! Eastern Bank, Bangor, Saturday. and was
| promptly redeemed although the liability of the
bank. State institution, to redeem its old bills
expired some years since.
PIscATAoUIs COUNTY.
The Brownville slate quarries are doing first
| rate business this winter, giving employment to
about 60 men at each quarry.
The money which is supposed to have been
| stolen from the house of Rufus Lyon of Park
man, some weeks since, has been found be-
tween the Innings Of the wallet from which it
was thought to have been taken.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
At East Machas, the Republican says, Messrs
| j. M. Wiswell & Co., will put a crew in the
woods in a few days to cut and mould vessel
frame Of about 600 tons. Mr. Knight has got
| out frame for q schooner for Messrs. George
E. Burial & Co., which will be built next sea-
season. S. II. Whittemore has crew in the
woods near Holmes Bay cutting and moulding
| a vessel frame Of about $50 tons register.
Two Calais sportsmen, on fishing trip, got
lost on Big Lake in the last heavy snow storm,
| and were out nearly twenty-four hours before
they could find their way to their destination.
Frames for eight vessels, which are to be put
up in the spring, are being cut out and prepar-
! ed in Harrington
The Republican says Arthur Small of Cher
| ryfeld, while driving horse team loaded with
| logs upset the same and drove the pick of a
handspike through the calf of his leg and into
a tree, completely impaling him. Some one
| came soon and released him. He is now said
to be doing well.
| IN GENERAL.
The following is a list of patents issued to
| Maine inventors under date of Jan. 9th: Fran
els Lyford, Augusta, clothes dryer; Nelson
| Tenney, Portland powder keg; S. L. Gould,
Gardiner, belt-tightener; Samuel Taylor Ola
| mon, guage for edgers; G. F. Washburn, Port
land, billiard register; A. d. Huntley and w.
| Fl. Esty, Houlton, Irvine holder.
The E. & N. A. Railway Company are again
| talking about narrowing the guage of their
road, and the present indications are that 1t
| will be done as soon as spring opens.