The Portland daily press., 1874-01-26
STATE NEWS.
ANpRoscoGGIN COUNTY,

Machinery IS being set up IN the Auburn Jail
workshop, preparatory to giving the prisoners
a chance to amuse themselves, says the Journal,
The Journal says Wednesday afternoon, Graf
ton F. Keys, n the employ of Messrs. Miller &
Randall Of Auburn, had both hands caught in
a moulding machine, and three fingers of the
right hand were badly jammed, while the third
finger of the left hand was so badly crushed, it
is feared it will have to be taken of.
The BEAUTIFUL hall completed for the Andres
coggin Lodge of Odd Fellows, No. "a I. o. o.
F. in Phoenix Block, Auburn, was dedicated
with appropriate ceremonies Thursday evening.
The dedicatory exercises were conducted by 0.
B. Written, NJ. w. g. NJ, assisted bv several
others of the Order.
The Knights of Pythias had a grand bal
masque at City Hall, Lewiston, Thursday night,
which is said to have been successful affair.
In the dresses of the ladies calico predominated.
The journal says the Grand Jury at Auburn,
on Saturday. returned an indictment against
James NJ Lowell, of Lewiston, for the murder
of his wife in that city, three years ago last
plead plead Not Not Guilty. Tuesday February 10th,
was assigned for the trial, and Messrs. Pills.
bury and hidden named as the prisoners coun-
sci. Judge Walton will preside at the trial.
The prisoner appeared well and composed
though naturally somewhat hleached by his
three months imprisonment.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
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Aroostook can furnish double the ship timber
that can come from elsewhere in Maine.
Ten thousand dollars worth of honey waa
sold from AroostO0k in 1873.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The Post Office money order business in Gar
diner averages over $500 per week.
Mr.. J. X. Osgood, the Gardiner reformer,
has returned to his labors in Massachusetts.
The Gardiner Reporter states that an earnest
worker in the cause of Zion notified some OF
| the sinners at work on the ice last Sunday near
South Gardiner that unless they quit work he
should have them arrested for violating the
Sabbath.
KNOX COUNTY.
Rockland and Thomaston are to have pure
water brought to them by company with
100000 capital.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
The News says Messrs Joseph Clark & Son
of WaldOboro' will build a barkentine of 800
tons in the spring, to be followed by ship
later in the season.
The News says the porgie factories in Bristol
have now disposed of nearly all their oil at fair
prices.
About $4,000 gross of matches are produced
annually at the match factory at Damariscotta
Mills
PENoBscoT COUNTY
James f. Rawson, Esq. has been nominated
as GQe D0mOCT8blC CO0OIOaG0 1OT representative
from Bangor. Election to day.
The Bangor Mechanic Association have voted
to consolidate their library with that of the
Bangor Library Association.
The school district of Exeter Corner have
voted to pay the Trustees of the High School
$40 per week for instructing all the pupils, both
large and small, in that district for term not
exceeding eight weeks.
The Reform Association in Dexter is doing
great good. At the last meeting forty applica-
tions were made for membership and twenty
more candidates were initiated.
The Gazette thinks that the success of
cheese factory in Dexter is sure thing.
The stolen railroad tickets, found in possess
sion of Mike Whalen of Bangor, amount to
about $500.
WALDO COUNTY.
The Lewiston Journal says the barn of Dan
lei Wyman in Burnham, containing fifteen to
twenty tons of hay, farming tools, etc.. was
totally destroyed by fire between twelve and
one o'clock Thursday night. Said to be fully
insured.
A company are preparing to harvest ice from
Unity Pond, the shores of which they bought
for this purpose when the Belfast railroad was
opened.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The house and barn of Mr.. Osburn on Wash
ington street, Calais, were totally destroyed by
fire Friday morning
There is growing dissatisfaction among the
Indians on the head waters of the st. CrOix, on
account of white men being allowed to huut
and trap on Chepdtneticook Lake, Grand Lake
and their tributary waters. They say that there
are only miuk and Musquash enough for the
Indians, that they belong to them and that
white men are killing them off so fast that the
poor Indian not get one.
YORK COUNTY.
Gardiner L. Foss of Saco has been taken to
the Insane Hospital.
A horse thirty-nine years old, belonging to
Mr.. Isaac Varney of North Berwick, died last
week. Mr.. Varney had owned the beast
thrty-one years.
William Prime, charged with stealing gun
at North Berwick from party to whom it had
been loaned, has been tried at North Berwick
and sentenced to Jail for lsixty days. 1t came
out on trial that Prime borrowed the gun from
the man to whom Mr. Butler loaned it, and
then came to Biddeford and sold it. Portland
officials stand ready to put their hands on him
as soon as he shall have served out his term at
Alfred.