The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-12-29
STATE NEWS.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.

ANDROsCOGGIN COUNTY.
The Lewiston journal says Mrs Ann Heanue
slipped at the head of flight of stairs Thurs
day evening, and broke both bones of her left
ankle. About year since she broke her right
arm by a similar accident
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
Oak Lodge 1. O. of G. 7. has the largest av.
erage attendance of any lodge in Cumberland
county, and hopes at the end of the present
quarter to have the largest membership, with
but few equals, in the state.
KENNEBEo COUNTY.
On Friday last two girls who have been work
ing in the Winthrop wooden mill were arrested
on charge of stealing yarn. They plead guilty
and were fined SO and gave up six pounds Of
yarn which they had stolen. 1t is supposed
several hundred pounds have been stolen by
these parties and others.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
The Maine State Pathological Society at theil
meeting at Wiscasset on Tuesday last, m de
choice of James A. Varney of North Vassalbo
ro', for member of Board of Agriculture. The
society voted to hold their winter meeting al
Lewiston the coming winter.
OXFORD COUNTY.
The Oxford Democrat says that in Andovel
at the regular meeting of Lone Mountain
Grange, No. 131, p. of H., Elbridge Poor was
elected Master for the ensuing year.
At the last regular meeting of Alder River
Grange p of H., of Locke's Mills, E. G. Young
was chosen Master for the ensuing year.
A delegate from Bethel to the late meeting
of the State Grange in Bangor, writes to the
Oxford Democrat that during his stay in that
city he heard no one use profane language, saw
no quarreling nor man the worse for liquor
for the time he was there, and lays il to the en-.
forcement of the laws and efficiency of its off
GERS.
The dphtheria is prevailing quite extensively
in Gilead. There has been one death, and nine
cases reported
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
The Wing says during the last three months
one hundred tickets were sold by the agent al
the M. G. depot for San Francisco, forty-two oil
which were taken within the last four weeks.
The salaries of the Bangor grammar school
teachers have beeu fixed as follows for the cur
rent year: Masters $1,000; assistants of the first
class $3.50; of the second class 1926.
Ivory Lodge No. 80, l. o. of G. T., Instituted
at Corinth last week, makes twenty-four lodges
In Penobscot county, three of which have been
formed lately, and movement is in progress
to start several more
WALDO COUNTY.
The Reform Club State Convention will be
held in Belfast March 18th or 10th, in copiunc.
ton with the State Woman's Temperance Con
vention.
1Ohh COUNII.
Mr.. Benning Morrill, of Eliot, the well known
butcher, was found lying insensible on the
track at the Market street bridge, Portsmouth,
on Friday evening, just as the train was about
to pass over. His horse had become frighten-
ed, and Mr.. M. had been thrown from the
team.
The Times says that jeremiah NJ. Eaton.
Esq, one of the most prominent residents of
Wells, lumber dealer and the heaviest tax
payer in that town, died suddenly on Friday
morning of lung fever. He had been sick only
three days, and while attempting to cross the
room to reach lounge, fell on the same and
died in a few moments.
The Times says that the new and large barn
belonging to Mr.. Eben Cook of Eliot. was
struck by lightning on Sunday night and burn
ed to the ground, together with its entire con-
tents, consisting of several tons of hay, grain.
farming utensils and carriages. Loss $1,000:
insured for $500 in the Kittery & Eliot Com pa