The Portland daily press., 1874-04-30
STATE NEWS.
ANpRoscoGGrN COUNTY.

e. ANDhOSCOGGlN COUNTY.
The City Council of Auburn has voted to 60
ahead, and, III connection with Lew Ston, to
build another bridge across the Androscoggin
river at an expense of some forty or fifty thou
sand dollars. The City Council of Lewiston
hesitate in the matter.
The Auburn City Council has elected Mr..
Addison Small Superintendent of Schools, at a
salary of $3.50. .....-.s
The Journal says on Tuesday Frank Lover
ing, employed upon the shoe mandatory at
Auburn, fell from scaffold and was severely
injured.
The Lewiston Journal says Tuesday afternoon
man named Jones, at work on Mr.. Estes
house, near Barker Mill, while carrying NOR
tar on the roof, was seized with a fit. He fell
down the roof and then twenty-five feet to the
ground. Hestruck so as to tear large part Of
the scalp from his head. He recovered con-
seriousness after the wound was dressed, but it
is not certain whether he received internal in
juries.
AROOSTOOK COUNTY.
The North Star says it is rumored that Pc
tition is being circulated at Presque Isle for the
removal of the present Post Master and the
appointment of Mr., B. B. Gldden to that Of
flee.
The town of Lyndon has 292 polls and a val
uation of $154,775.
KENNBBEC COUNTY.
lhC oOuludl SdyS tuItc uUlIdTS anu d UdlI u
ton for six thousand tons Of ice were offered
Tuesday to parties in Augusta. and refused.
That price would bring a splendid profit but
these ice men are inclined to wait for warmer
weather; they haven't been venturng their
money for nothing.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
The Supreme Judicial Court, Judge Barrow,
began its April session Tuesday. at Wiscasset
The famous divorce case of Emma G. Call VS..
Moses Call, will come up on question of ali
mony. The principal criminal business will be
prosecutions for violations of the liquor law.
Our Waldoboro correspondent says about the
first OF March young woman named Della
Groves started to cross Pemaquid Pond, in Bre-
men, on the ice, and was drowned. She in
tended to go to Damariscotta in search of work,
and not being heard FROM the parents became
alarmed, search was made and Tuesday her
dead body was found floating in an obscure
place near the shore.
OXFORD COUNTY lHs
Sullivan Fuller, esq, of Oxford, made 125
gallons OF maple syrup this season.
The voters in the school district at Harmon s
Corner have voted 10 build a school house.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
The Wing says an E. & N. A. freight train
was thrown from the track near Tomah station,
Tuesday, by broken journal, and two cars
we're smashed up.
The decision in the Reed case as to new
trial based upon the exceptions filed by Mr..
McCrillis, counsel for the prisoner, win not be
announced until the June term.
Alden Merry of Pattec. met with quite Sc
rious accident on Friday night while at work
in the saw mill His foot was caught between
timber in the floor of the mill and the carri-
age, and jammed sideways into space one and
half inches wide.
Referring tothe buring of the bridge at Mat
tawamkeag, on the e, & N. A. Railroad, the
Wing says the company have been peculiarly
unfortunate with their bridges during the past
year. Last July the long bridge was blown
down by tornado, few months ago several
smaller bridges were damaged or carried away
by freshet, and this last disaster has followed
just as the road had been placed in good condi-
ton for crossing all the streams on the line.
WALDO COUNTY.
E. Blodgett, workman in Carter & Co. s
shpyard at Belfast, received serious internal
injuries Tuesday, by falling from staging.
A Norwegian sailor, whose name is unknown
was lost overheard Tuesday from the schooner
Prescott Hazeltine, which left Belfast Tuesday
morning for Southern port