The Portland daily press., 1874-08-21
STATE NEWS.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.

FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Last Friday as Edgar f. Blanchard of East
Wilton, aged II years, was crossing the head
scaffold in his fathers barn. part Of the floor
gave away, and he fell to the floor, q distance
OF eight feet, striking upon his right side and
arm. No bones were broken, but the muscles
of the arm were injured in such a manner as to
render it useless for the present.
KNOX COUNTY.
Nathaniel Cow of Washington, seventy five
years old, cut his throat, Monday evening"
Mental trouble was the cause. 1t is thought he
will recover.
KENNEBEo COUNTY.
Mr.. Luther Whitman, the agricultural i'm
plemenu manufacturer in Winthrop, has just
received an order from England for 1000 grind
stone frames This is the fourth rfifth season
that he has made a large number of these
frames for the English market.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
Benjamin Adams and wife of Bangor cele-
brated their golden wedding Monday evening.
John Hanly's house on Pearl street, Bangor,
was damaged by fire Wednesday to the extent
of $3.50.
The false bridge for the first span of the
Bucksport & Bangor railroad Bird ge across the
Penobscot between Bangor and Brewer, is in
position and the permanent span will probably
be completed in week, when the worklnen
will Immediately proceed to erect the Temporal
~ iOI uliC stCOuu span.
At the Bangor trottng park the match be-
tween the trotting horse Anodyne (formerly
Honest Bill), owned by Stephen Jennings of
Bangor, and the pacing horse Young Hero,
owned by Joseph Porter of Calais, for $l100,
was won by Anodyne. The Judges however,
declare all pools and bets Off
sAGADAHoo COUNTY.
G. A. White of Gardiner has purchased PIG
Cove Island for about $1,000. 1t will probably
O.
boat Company and fitted up for excursion par
ties 1t will, however, be Immediately sur
veyed and plated. 1t is not improbable that a
Gardiner colony may settle down on it.
WALDO COUNTY.
At the opening of the New South Basin dock
at Cardiff, Wales, the first vessel to enter was
the American ship William Woodbury., of Bel
fast, Capt. James r. Hartman.
On Sunday party of five men from Belfast
were sailing in small sail-boat for pleasure
When near Searsport and one mile from the
shore, their boat was struck by an invisible
gust of wind-it being nearly calm beforehand
overturned. One of their number, cripple,
had to be held up by his comrades. They all
chung to the overturned boat, by great eXer-
ton, for one hour and fifteen minutes, when
they were rescued by people from the Shore
two men named Gilmore, who saw them by the
aid of glass.
Joseph W., son of William HI. Cunningham
of Belfast, died at Hong Kong, China, July
9TH, of small pox. He was 25 years of age, and
had been in the East Indies seven years; at the
time of his death he was first pilot on the
French Mail Steamships.
On Friday night last Mrs. Amatia S., wife
of Charles V. Follett. of North Searsmont,
committed suicide by drowning She had for a
long time been partially insane, and latterly,
very much so, requiring strict watch upon
her movements.
YORK COUNTY
The court martial to try George Allen, a
private in Tie marine corps, has convened at
Kittery.
Wednesday afternoon Fred Emmons of Saco
jumped from train in motion, near the Camp
Ground, and dislocated one wrist