The Portland daily press., 1875-03-30
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoGG1N COUNTY.

| ANDROsCOGGIN COUNTY.
The Temperance reform in Lewiston anu a."
burn shows no signs Of waning.
The Journal says that Fl. w. Briant, iatt
| liquor agent in Lewiston, was arrested S SaSoo
| day, on the charge of embezzlement Vi gov ~
| the deficiency in his accounts shown Dy Gne t1
| port of the committee of the city couhcll. iie
| COVE bail in the sum of $4,000 for his appoJf,
| ance before the Municipal Court, Iue'u"J
| morning, for examination.
! Over hundred names were added to the re-
form club at Mechanic Falls tie night tnG Au l
burn people visited that town. Three cn ,ans
| were given to Hon. A Q. Denison, WIN sa'o
| them a cordial reception.
E. P. Tobie, Esq, the venerable city CLERK VI
| Lewiston, died Monday morning.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
|. Rev. John Taggart, a well known local
preacher of the Methodist Church in fhlillp %,
| died very suddenly March 9th, aged ABOUT oo
| years. Mr.. L. was man OF ability.
The people of Phillips and Strong are to have
O telegraph to Pennington. OF the $l2OO nee
essary to construct the line $500 has been rals-
ed.
KENNEBEo COUNTY.
Fifteen thousand dollars have been sub
scribed for remodeling the Baptist meetirg
house in Waterville.
The Baptists of Massachusetts propose to
raise $500, 900 next year as a Centennial oHer-
ing for educational institutions OF this
amount $50, 900 is designated for Colby Univer-
sity.
The Augusta journal has despatch saying
that it is understood that at the next meeting
of the Board of Overseers of Bowdoin College,
the resignation of President Chamberlain will
be presented and accepted. Prof. Young, or
the college, is mentioned as the possible sue
cessOr.
OXFORD COUNTY.
~ In 1of
jah Blake, and mother OF Gilman Il. biahe,
Esq., died Thursday, aged 81 years ana o
months. She was the Oldest person IN Betnel.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
The Wing says that a loose wheel on Maine
Central sleeping car threw it from the track
Sunday morning, when the Pullman train was
but mile or two below that city. NO one was
injured, although the passengers were Wen
shaken.
On Sunday the son of Major Bolton OF
Bangor, without surgical or other assistance,
removed a piece of bone two and even-eghtns
inches IN length from his own limb, which was
injured few years since. In performing the
operation pair of pincers was the only lnstru-
ment employed.
At the annual meeting of the Bangor Reform
Club, Norumbega Hall couldn't contain the
people who focked thither.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Lie MdCuldS hepuuiiCdu says Iuab iaoo Luoo-
day morning as the eight year old son of Chas.
Mclaughlin of that town was sliding down
slight hill near the store of S. W. Pope q Co.,
on to the river, his sled was precipitated into
an open place III the ice and he was drowned.
A large number of men were Immediately col.
lected, who commenced to break up the ice and
searched all the afternoon without success. In
the morning the work was resamed, and they
were soon rewarded by finding the body.
The store of William M. Flynn, in which is
kept the post Office in Whtneyville, was en-
tered Sunday night of last week and goods and
money taken to the amount, probably OF sixty
or seventh dollars. Suspicion rested on certain
parties in Machas, and search warrant was
procured, but the search disclosed nothing.
The tracks of two persons in the light snow
disclosed that those who made them went to
Whitneyvlle and returned between Sunday
night and Monday morning.
Much complaint comes from the town of
Prescott, about the depredatiCns of Wild Cats.
In the Murray settlement they have carried oil
sheep and geese and have even come around
the dwellings The deep snow in the woods
has forced them to the settlements for food.
A framed house owned by David Thurston
was burned in Calais Sunday; loss $5O0.
YORK COUNTY.
On Saturday morning of last week j. I.
Nutter Of Alfred shot gray eagle which
measured seven feet and four inches from tip to
tip of wings.
E. G. Moody of York has in his possession a
clock which was brought to this county in
1880 or 1884 by William Moody, the principal
progenitor of that name in New England, he
having left Wales in 1858 or "a, came to lps-
WITCH, Mass, and wintered there, and moved to
Newbury with the first settlers of that place in