The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-05-16
STATE NEWS.
ANDRosCOGGIN COUNTY

HA'DANSoNOUUAN COOcIA
The Journal says: People are taking ont
new deposit books at the Auburn Savings Bank
just as though there hadn't been much of a
shower after all.
The journal says there are but three cases of
small pox and five of varioloid now in Auburn,
confined to those sections of the city where it
originated. Mr.. Noyes is doing well. Mr..
lescing. Mrs Frank Noyes has varioloid. The
CASES OF varioloid are all trivial, and three of
them are partially recovered. The Auburn
city fathers have just located a small pox hos
pltal on the poor farm. The committee to
erect the new hospital are Dr. Cakes Alder
man Goss and Councilmen Sturgis and Ride
out. 1t is to cost not exceeding $500.
The city of Auburn asks the franklin Com
pany to pay $500 alleged damages to the high
way by the raising of the dam at the outlet of
Lake Auburn.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Our correspondent o. writes from Farming
ton Fails: The roads are improving very fast
in this vicinity. The high water in the Sandy
river did considerable damage to the roads,
making them impossible for teams; the mail
team did not make its regular trips until Sat-
urday night, the 18th inst.-People are be-
ginning to think about farming; it is getting
so late in the season that they begin to worry
from fear that they will not be in season for a
crop.-We are glad to see some little stir in
this vicinity towards improving the looks of
the place. The old stand known as the John
Young stand has been bought by j. T. Covill,
and he has moved the old two story house to
one side of the lot and is going to fix it up into
tenements to let. The house is one of the old
est in the place, having been built about seven
ty years. 1t will make splendid house for
the business. We hope Mr.. G. will have good
luck as he is stirring business citizen.
KENNEBEo COUNTY.
The Journal says the water in the Kennebec
hos cit1 1xy ,ho;1 1n1
and logs have stopped running.
Major Shorey, one of the trustees of the In
sane Hospital, says the patients at the hospital
have entered upon a new existence since the
completion of the new amusement hall, and we
predict in consequence that the officers will be
able to report an increased percentage of re-
coveres.
The Journal says that Edmuuds. who was
assaulted by the inmates of the Insane Hos
pital, is recovering from his injuries. Lake
aud Page, two of his assailants, have not been
captured.
The liquor agency at Waterville is to be
closed.
KNOX COUNTY.
The Press states that Saturday Capt. john
Holbrook of Rockland received serious injuries
by the upsetting of a bucket of coal that was be-
ing hoisted out of vessels hole, striking him
on the head.
OXFORD COUNTY.
A correspondent of the Lewiston Journal
writes: Burton Shaw of Hartford, second son
of Edward Shaw of Auburn, late of Buckfeld.
committed suicide on the morning of the 9th,
at Buck6eld, aged 80 years. He had spent the
night at his uncle Thurman Shaw's He was
found near hop field, where his uncle would
have found him when he went to work in the
field, in sight of the house. His head was blown
TO pieces, gunstock broken in two at the lock.
Indentation in the sod BY the recoil of the gun
was q inches deep: effects of the discharge
We're seen in all directions, being a hundred
and sixty feet between the extremes; gun dis
charged by the ramrod. He sustained a good
character, was member of Co. G, 23d Regi-
ment Maine Volunteers and member of the
9TH Battery of Maine.
PENoBsCOT COUNTY.
The Whig says an old lady 10 Bangor who
had laid up something for a rainy day. recently
took from the place in which sbe had long con-
cealed them, some old bank notes issued years
ago by the Hallowell and Sandy River Banks,
and sent them to the drug store for medicine
and found, to her sorrow, that she had kept
them until they were worthless.
The Whig says that J. s. Kicker, ESQ.,, cash.
ier of the Mercantile Bank for the past 81 wears
will act as Treasurer of the Bangor Savings
Bank, in place of Mr.. Patten, whose i'll health
has prevented his attending to the duties for q
sort time past. Mr.. Patten was very low on
Saturday.
Orono at o'clock p m. Saturday. accompanied
with much thunder and hail 1t lasted about
twenty minutes, and during that time three
fourths of an inch of hail fell A heavy hail
storm also passed over Bangor early Saturday
afternoon.
city of Bangor for damages sustained from a
defect in the highway in April, 1875.
sAGADHAoc COUNTY.
The Times says that Saturday two sailors.
John Geisley and Fred Winter of the schoon-
er Melissa A. Wiley, lying at one of the
wharves at Bath, got into quarrel. Geisley
struck Winter several blows with handspike,
and injured him seriously but there is pros
pect of his recovery.
The Times says that party of fishermen be-
longing to porgy catcher, went ashore We'd
nesday at Mr.. Charles Spinney's at Cox Head.
and wanted to get some shad; after stringing
up three or four, they swore they would not
give but hVe cents apiece, when Mr.. Spinney
refused to let them have them at that price (;
whereupon one of them collared Mr.. Spinney
and iammed him Gown among the barrels: old
Mr.. Caleb Spinney then spoke to them, when
one of thom struck hi m on the head with a
jug and knocked him down sense)ess and beat
1t Is feared he will die from the effects of the
beating he received, he being an old man eigh-
ty-hye or eghty-six years old. They were in
liquor.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
James Crane, Esq, has been appointed liquor
ageut for Machias, vice VIM. I'll. Phinney, re-
signed.
The Union says Aaron Andrews, aged a. and
James Cook, aged 20 years, Of East Machias,
have the exclusive care of the logs ia tae mill
pond above Jacksonville mills, selecting and
bringing them to the mill for the millmen.
These two men have been engaged in this labor
during the past twenty years, and they are now
as spry and can go on logs as well as many of
the young men of the present generation.