The Portland daily press., 1875-10-11
STATE NEWS.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.

The Journal says that Messrs.J B. Brown
& Sons of this city were the purchasers of the
entire issue OF Lewiston & Auburn Railroad
bonds, and that they have disposed of $75, 900
OF the amount issued, at par, and ask that
figure for the mainder.
The Androscoggin Lodge, 1. o. of o. +. have
secured a burial lot at Oak Hill cemetery,
where the remains of stranger brethr n will be
laid.
ARoOsTooK COUNTY.
The Presque Isle Sunrise complains that the
cattle show there did not call out the stock and
products of large number of the best farmers
in that region.
Fort Fairfield is to have local paper, 24xS6
inches in size. The first number will be issued
Nov. 9th, and it will be continued weekly. Mrs.
Agnes G. Paul will be associate editor and bus
iness manager. 1t will be called the Fort Fair
field Aurora.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
The Telegraph says that scarlet fever has ap-
peared in Brunswick.
The Telegraph says that Mr.. VIM. Fl. Merri-
man, Principal of the Harpswell Academy
while splitting wood one day last week, met
with severe accident A stick few and
struck him in the face, injuring very badly one
eye, and the other to some extent. At first it
was thought that he would lose the sight of
one if not both eyes, but his case looks better
at present.
hENNEbEC COUNTY.
The Gardiner Reporter says: "We thought
during brief career of twenty years in print
ing Office we had met with about all queer ex-
periences ever likely to happen; but it re-
mained for party to astonish us this week by
endeavoring to hire one of our printing presses
and a few fonts of type to take home and do a
little printing on his own account. The enter
KNOX COUNTY.
The Gazette says that there have been sew
eral burgaries at Vinalhaven recently. A boy
stole from the store of Rufus Arey, at midday,
between $50 and $40 The store of James Mo
Donald was entered about o'clock p. M,
Thursday, his money drawer broken into, and
between $50 and $40 taken. The store Of NJ
FL. Keff was entered at back window and
robbed OF about $40 in scrip, a REFER jacket
and hat.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Capt. Freeman Hodgdon of Boothbay recent.
tenn developed the fact that she died of too
much shaw-pin in her gizzard.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
From the Dexter Gazette: Mr.. Hodgkins
writes us word about Twins. He says his
ten sheep brought him nineteen lambs, his corn
yields two or three ears to the stock, his cucum-
bers grow in the twin form, and now his COW
has produced some twin bull calves. He thinks
1T too bad to kill them, and rather than do this
will sell them and their mother for a low
price,"
The Whig says that the Kenduskeag Cheese
Factory Association have closed operations at
their factory, after running four months. They
have 1885 cheeses, of an average weight of 48
pounds, or thirty three tons in all; using 343
tons of milk, for which they have paid about
$500. They have now on hand between eight
and nine hundred cheeses, for which there is
good demand.
YORK COUNTY.
The Times says that during the recent vio-
lent storm, about 40 feet of the Russell and Ste
vens dam at North Alfred (near what is
familiarly known as Jefferson) gave away,
the stones and earth being carried some ways
down the stream and spread over a large terri
tory. 1t was very narrow escape for the
Jewett and Bean mill little farther down the
stream.
The Biddeford Times says that the language
of the crowd attracted to the race course Friday
in consequence of the announcement that
Palmer Knox would trot, would not be appro.
pirate for Sunday school book.
The ladies of the Alfred Congregational So.
ciety, by their recent festival, realized $3.50
towards furnishing the church, which is now
being thoroughly renovated.