The Portland daily press., 1875-05-03
STATE NEWS.
ANDROsCOGGIN COUNTY.


boys, seven or eight years DID, sons of Mr.. Farr
and MIR. Estes, living on the old Lisbon road,
who went out fishing on Wednesday and dld
not return at night, having tried camping out
on pasture three miles from home, WheIe
they were found next morning safe and SOUND;
of Livermore, being threatened with paternal
discipline disappeared. The whole nelghbor-
hood turned out and secured the country and
dragged the mill pond, in vain. About twenty
four hours from the time of his disappearance
the young gentleman crawled out of the hay
NOW in his fathers barn, where he had been
secreted.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The Waterville Mail says the small pox. has
obtained quite foothold in Benton. Two men
have died, and there are now seven cases.
The authorities are doing all they can to stamp
out the disease, which thus Tar has proved OF a
very malignant type.
Priests shoe peg mandatory was burned
with its contents. Loss of building and stock
5000 The same day fire occurred in the
office of DR.. j. i. Williams, dentist, destroy
ing stock and tools valued at several hundred
dollars, on which there was no insurance.
KNOX COUNTY.
From the Camden Herald we learn that
Mrs. Mary Swan of Camden, severely burned
her hand while putting out fire which some
bows had built in the woods near her house.
Her dress was nearly burned off of her.
A cargo of 600 bushels of wheat is on the way
to the Camden Grist Mill Co. to be ground in
the new flour mill.
The S. S. Committee of Camden have an
bounced change to be made in tire readers
used in the public schools. The Franklin Sc
ries are to be used in place of the Progressive.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
A mysterious affair occurred in Bangor on
Wednesday evening, to which there is yet no
exclamation made public. Samuel Barker
came home with bad pistol wound in his
breast, and said man demanded his money as
he was walking along the road, and GU his re-
fusal drew his revolver and shot him. The
wound is very serious and will probably prove
fatal. Baker claims to know who his assalant
was, but refuses to reveal his name, which
gives rise to the suspicion that he was shot by
jealous husband
The stations on the Bangor and Bucksport
railroad have been numbered for purposes OF
baggage traffic
VIM. Clifford of Pattep, has ground nearly
10000 bushels of wheat il his grist mill since
last fall.
ADexter man tells the Gazette that on the
Both of April, 1887, it froze ice thick enough to
bear his oxen, which weighed about 1900 lbs,
and the ice formed on their mouths, and that
MAY I'd six inches of snow fell, and he hauled
ton of hay four miles on an iron shod sed. line
crops that season were more than an average.
The Dexter Gazette cautions the Masonic
fraternity against woman named Stiles. VINO
is travelling about with little girl, claiming
that her husband is connected with the frater-
nily in Troy n. Y. She is an imposter.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The Eastport Sentinel says the April term of
court draws number of citizens to Calais to
testify as to what they know concerning rum
selling in that place.
The cutter "Woodbury' has been having an
overhauling at Eastport.
James Hutchinson of Eastport, while out
herring fishing on Monday of last week IN a
small boat, was blown off from the shore and
drifted about till Wednesday morning, when he
was picked up by vessel. He barely escaped
death.
Mr.. S. 7. Chambers of Calais, had his leg
broken while leading lumber day or two
since.
Mr.. JoshuasPineo of Midtown, has been TO-
tated in the custom in order to give Mr.. r. b.
Lowell a chance Mr.. 2. has been in five
years.
gentleman in Machias received letter last
week from Mr.. eBeecher's counsel, inquiring as
to Mr.. Titon's conduct when at Machias in
1872 intimating that unfavorable reports had
followed him from there.
YORK COUNTY.
VIM. King of Biddeford, declares that in ex-
cayatng on bis land, he. has discovered cream
tartar in large quantities and in nearly pure
state He has now only to unearth a soda
mine to secure rise in his real estate.
Biddeford and Saco are to have new Direc-
tory. as it has been three years since the last
one was published
The mining fever, or rather speculation in
land, supposed to he rich in mineral deposit is
beginning to rage in Saco.
Capt Levi Hanscom of Berwick, died
Sunday from the effects of an injury received