The Portland daily press., 1875-11-02
STATE NEWS.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.


And now the boxes found in the haunted
house in Greene prove to be those of pig OF
sheep and the "hauDter' is no less a creature
tnan an active cat of the Thomas persuasion.
The Journal says the telescope of Prof.
Wendal of Bates College has been received
and will be mouDted at once. This instrument
is of 81 inches aperture and from to feet in
focal length 1t is equatorally mounted and
furnished with fender The object glass is
unsurpassed BY any of its size, aud is said by
the Clsrks. who manufactured iJ. to be speci-
men of their best workmanship. The instru-
ment combines some of the latest improve
ments.
From the Lewiston Journal: A man called
into a store in this city Friday, aud asked for a
writing while, the proprietor noticed him
scratching on slip of paper, and shortly came
this request, "Look here, friend, it's some time
since l wrote much; won't YOU show me how
to make z, l want to write Isaiah" The
merchant helped him out of his difficulty with
suppressed mirth.
The Journal hears that a petition is being
circulated asking the Legislature to set off to
Lewiston portion OF territory on the Little
Androscoggin in Auburn.
The Lewiston Journal says that Moses
White, employed in Pingree & Co.'S mill, on
Tuesday had the thumb and Two fingers of his
right hand sawed off.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
Our Bucksport correspondent writes: Mr.. J.
L. Buck is now building several houses on his
lots in Smithville, so called. This is a public
benefit as there has been large demand for
houses there of late.-Messrs Green & Co. are
making fine progress on their ship Messrs.
Beasley & Go. are building a schooner in their
yard on the Island. - Mr.. A. S. Emerton,
having entirely repaired and reitted the hotel
stand formerly known as the Riverside House,
opened the same on Monday, Nov. l, under the
name of the Hancock House.-Mr. Geo. w.
Crane, former station agent here, has been ap-
pointed to the responsible position of train dis
patcher at Bangor.--A large number of ves-
winter quarters The temperance reform
still continues. The Sunday meetings of the
club are largely attended, and much interest
seems to be ielt 10y our people.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The new town hall at Waterville has been
leased for five years by Col. L. S Bangs, f. A.
Smith and G. G. Carleton for $500 a year and
the town is to have the use of the hail. free, for
all town purposes.
Considerable interest has been manifested in
Winthrop because of the tria. of two men, JO-
seph O'Malley and Andrew Mckay, who have
been selling packages OF goods for $3.50 which
they represented to be worth much more than
that sum, but were not After an extended
trial in which experts were called as witness.
$500, but he afterwards settled with the COM
plainant and went his way to sell more $3.50
packages.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
The News says that no place in that county,
if in the state, has grown with such rapidity as
Boothbay HarbOr. La school district number
one, there are $50 dwellings, hotels, leweler
2 druggists, and 20 other stores, 2 ice houses,
marine railway, 2 hurches, 1 circulating libra
ry, l savings bank, custom house, school
houses, porgy oil mauufactory, mandatory
of lockwood fertilizer and 1 OF bone fertilizer
1 coal and WOOD wharf, daily steamer to Bath
Ninety-two buildings have been built in thir
teen years.
PENOBsCoT COUNTY.
The temperance reform meetings in Bangor
are crowded on Sundays.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
G. D. Lawrence and G. e Wood of Fairfield
have been granted patent for adjusting feed
rolls for planlng machines.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The Machias Republican says ten or twelv'
men were engaged last week in arranging tn
camp meeting grounds recently purchased
Jacksonville By the East Machias Camp-Meet
ing Association. Roads have been made ant
other work done. Buildings are soon to b.
erected and other Improvements made.
On Sunday, the Oath ut., John Bowling o
Machias accidentally discharged loaded guI
into his right arm, severing the artery. He Il
dong well.
Stephen Averil of Mortified says he ha
camped out in the logging woods fifty fou
| years in succession, and now laments that ow
| ing 10 dull times he has no expectation that hi
| services will be called for the coming winter
| He is seventy years of age, is hale and hearty
and apparently good for several winters loggn
yet.
YORK COUNTY.
The boys of the Spruce Street Gramma
| School at Biddeford, who have been stOniD
Boston & Maine passenger trains, were arrest
| ed Saturday.