The Portland daily press., 1875-04-07
STATE NEWS.
ANpRoscoGGIN COUNTY.


The Journal says that the new directors of
the Lewiston & Auburn Railroad Company
have organized by the choice of Thomas Lit
tlefield as President, Geo. III. Pillsbury. Clerk /;
j. L. Ii. Cobb Treasurer.
Everett A. Nash, Esq, of Lewiston, clark OF
the municipal court, has been elected city clerk
to fill the vacancy caused by the decease OF E.
p. Tobie.
Sixty-one teachers have been employed in
Lewiston the past year.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The Kepnebec is open between Waterville
and KendalPs Mills, though the ice still holds
firm above the falls at Waterville.
Mai. John D, Myrick formerly of Augusta,
has accepted an Invitation to deliver the ora
ton before Seth Williams Post, in that city, on
Decoration Day.
KNOX COUNTY.
According to the Camden Herald, silver
vein has been found on the farm of George Ok
ton, in that town, and the prospects OF getting
considerable quantity of the precious metal
is quite hopeful. They have sent away two
specimens to see if they contain silver and gold,
one of which has been returned with the lnfor-
nation that it does contain silver, and that TOO
in good per cent, perhaps thirty.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Newcastle has a smart old lady aged 81.
named Elizabeth Dodge. During the year 1874
she knit 45 pairs of stockings II pairs OF double
mittens, spun 112 skeIns of yarn, and did some
sewing, besides her own house work She has
ten children, 60 grand children, 56 great grand
children.
OXFORD COUNTY.
Our Norway correspondent "B" writes that
the water is so low in the pond and streams
in that vicinity that destructive freshet is out
of the question-That the Savings Bank peo'
nile are considering the matter of building
building which will cost $4,000 FOR the saw
of3ioa Odd Fp1l0WS
and Masonic halls-That George p. Whitney
of Oxford, who owns large tract of land on
Pixies Hill, contemplates building Summer
boarding house on its summlt--That the
Changers are growing and seem pleased WIN
the orranization-That the spelling match
mania has reached Norway village.
DIR. Rounds of South Paris was quite severely
bruised and his carriage smashed by his horse
being frightened when passing dangerous
railroad crossing.
The lodge of Odd Fellows at South Paris
numbers 80 and is fourishing
The Democrat says that Herbert. son of s;
TT, Perkins, while passing through the shed
connected with Hathaway, Davis q % s Inr-
nitnre mandatory in South Paris, Saturday
afternoon, caught his foot in piece OF shaft
| inc and had it so badly mangled that Drs.
, Rounds and Sawyer found it necessary to am
putate above the ankle.
A Grange was organized Monday evening of
| last week at Bethel Will the lolioWihS oiuCoiS
Master. d b. Grover; o, A. A. Grover; L., Il
| e Wheeler; S., e. B Shaw;A S., 0 S. Need
| ham. Chap, w. L. Grover; Treasurer, John
Barker; Sec, A. w. Grover,
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
Miss Susan M. Hallowell of the Bangor High
School has received and accepted an invitation
to the professorship Of natural history. in
! Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass, at salary
| of $500.
The Wing says that Hon. Elisha Ell. Allen,
| of Hawaii. Chief Justice of the Sandwich Is
lands, arrived in Bangor on Saturday and will
remain in town for a few days.
The Bangor and PenobscOt Savings Banks
/ have declared semi annual dividends of PEI
cent
| sAaADAHoC COUNTY.
The April term of the S. j. Court for Saga
dahoc county opened Tuesday morning at ter
o'clock, Judge Barrows, presiding.
| YORK COUNTY
Saco had its "spelP' Monday night. 104 boy
| and girls of the high and grammar schools par
ticipating Sorghum" was the word whicl
brought down the last, who was Clara Smith
She got Sc.
Improvements have begun on the Camp
Ground at Old Orchard.
The Biddeford Times that r. I. Larrahee
has sold to B. f. Hamilton, Esq, his celebrat
J ed trotting colt "Eareka" for $780,