The Portland daily press., 1876-01-01
STATE NEWS.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.

ANDhOSCOGGlN COUNI1.
Mrs. Howard, residing on Simmer street, in
Lewiston, slipped on the steps few days since
and fractured the shoulder bone.
The Journal says Mr.. johnson Clark of Tops
ham, recently captured crow measuring from
tip to tip, four feet and four inches, and from
tip of his bill to the tip of his tail twenty-six
inches. The bird was caught in a fox trap
which he bore off to the top of high tree 500
yards from the place where he vas entrapped.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
The Sherman farmers are talking of a cheese
factory, to be started the coming season.
Work has been commenced on the dam across
the Pressure Isle stream at the bridge, about a
mile north of Blaine corner.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
Pleasant Hill Lodge No. "a of Good Temp
lars was instituted at Freeport 18th ult. A. G.
Lord is deputy, and it meets Tuesday evenings
This makes % lodges in Cumberland county,
three of which have been organized lately.
The Secretary of the Grand Lodge at Belfast
will give particulars and aid to any locality
wanting lodge.
The Brunswick Telegraph says work on the
O'Bren street f. B. church has commenced,
parties laying the first floor on Wednesday.
The building will be 42x65 feet, 80 feet post, 10
basement and 20 upper story. There will be a
base for tower, finished in French style.
Abel Head, administrator of the Osgood
Whitney estate in Lowell, has lately sold off the
timber land belonging to the heirs, at private
sale.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The Kennebec Journal says that Miss Susan
StanwoOd of Augusta, met with a severe acct
dent early Thursday morning last She slipped
and fell, injuring her hip, on a stone step, in
front of her residence.
KNOX COUNTY
The Rocklapd Gazette says the committee of
the Universalist Society of Rockland, have con-
tracted with the Walworth Manufacturing Co.,
of Boston, to put in steam heating apparatus
for the new church, for about $1525.
The packet Grace Lee, Captain Hendricks, is
to run between Rockland and West Deer Isle
through the winter.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
The News says the Sheepscot bridge is again
passable. AS soon as it was known that the
bridge had been carried away by ice the people
of the villages on both sides of the river took
measures to repair damages, and turning out
en- masse, in two days had up a temporary
structure, substantially built, and travel re-
sumed its wonted course.
OXFORD COUNTY.
Over $4,000 have already been raised towards
rebuilding the Congregational church in Nor
way.
John Marshall, an employe of Stevens Bros,
in Milton Plantation, cut his hand very severe
ly on circular saw last Tuesday. 1t was a
very narrow escape from losing the entire hand.
The Line district are receiving proposals for
the best finished, if not the best school house
in Hartford, to be built between the first of Au-
gust and the last of September next.
William Irish, born 10 Hartford eighty-two
years and nine months ago, died on the 3d.
near the place of his birth, from the effects Of
a paralytic shock. He was known in all this
region as the oldest person 10 the district, the
last survivor of the war of 1872, and an upright
man in all the walks Of life
sAGADHAOC COUNTY.