The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-04-08
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

The Lewiston Journal says the annual at
tempt of the billiardists to get I'D a public
Billiard Hall in Auburn has been made and re-
suited IN no Billiard Saloon.
The Journal says on Saturday young man
named Foley, living on what is known as the
Gas Honse Patch, died suddenly, probably
from heart disease. He was reading a paper,
and, saying that he felt unwell, laid down upon
a bed and expired in a few moments.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The privilege of fishing on the bridge be-
tween Bucksport and Verona this season has
been sold for $649, which is more than double
the price paid last year.
Mr.. Willabee Haskell, teacher of languages
in the East Maine Conference Seminary at
Bucksport, has resigned and will probably ac-
cept professorship in Yale College.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The Lewiston Journal says, at its annual
meeting, winthrop declined, by small major
ity, to vote money for Free High School The
voters IN the village district subsequently de-
cided to establish Free High School and the
sum OF $3.50 was voted for that purpose,
OXFORD COUNTY.
A few days since Justus Miller of Norway
received wound from an axe in the hands of
another chopper at work on the same stick,
which will probably cripple him for life. The
axe entered his leg just below the knee, laying
bare the joint and cutting off the ligament
utdT Tue hucc pdll.
The Lewiston Journal says the dwelling
house aud barn belonging to Levi Poland of
Canton, WIS burned last Thursday about nine
O'clock He loses five sheep and nine lambs
He was insured in Bangor company for six
hundred dollars.
Our Denmark Correspondent informs us that
about o'clock, Saturday afternoon the stave
and single mill of Augustine Ingalls of that
village took fire from a spark from the chin
| ney on the roof and burned hole through the
| boards before it was discovered. The workmep
at the mill cut hole through the roof and
poured on few pals full of water which soon
| extinguished the fire with but little dam. oe to
the mill. As it was we just missed serious
confagration. as the wind was blowing quite a
| gale at the time, and the mill was surrounded
by other buildings which would have burned
| with the mill.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
| (Skowhegan Correspondent
The Superior Court closed a session of six
teen days at Skowhegan Friday last. The
| term was a success in business point of view.
Ninety eight actions were disposed of in vari
GUS ways aud 125 were entered. Divorce was
decreed in eight cases. Eight yerdicts were
rendered in civil suits. five for defendant, one
for plaintiff and two disagreements. -Four
candidates were nominated for Thomaston and
having been unanimously elected have received
their credentials and departed for their new
field of labor, three to be absent two years an6
one four.
Measures are being taken to put marble
bust of ex Gov. Coburn in the new Court
House.
The Maine Slate Company QUARRY at Eas
Madson) recently organized under an act o
the Legislature, elected T. III. Dinsmore, E. FL
Mel. S.: W. Lawton, w. w. Thomas, jr.,C w
Snow, Isaac Dyer. and Hiram Knowlton, Di
rectors; subsequently at meeting of the di
.ectors, 7, H. Dinsmore was elected President
Hiram Knowlton, Vice President, DR.. G. W
Snow, Secretary, Col. Dyer and s. W. Lawton
auditors. The quarry is being worked will
profit and the business is to be largely increas
ed the coming season.
| WALDO COUNTY.
The Bangor Wing says Mr.. Isaac Young o
Wintarport one day last week discovered
large female seal, in a pond in the rear o
Stearns' mill, on the Hampden road, and afte
hard fight in which the creature made des
perate resistance. he succeeded in killing he
with a club. The seal was about six and one
half feet long, weighed $50 pounds and mad
ten gallons of oil. How she came to be so ia
away from the river is not known, but it prov
| ed an unlucky trip into the country for her.