The Portland daily press., 1877-03-07
STATE NEWS.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.


The farmers Of Sherman having subscribed
the required 200 acres of potatos, gentlemen
from Colebrook, N. H., Messrs. Merrill, Odell
and Libby. have purchased the land and fur
nshed their schedule for the lumber and en-
gagged an agent to make contracts for furnish
ing said lumber and 100 cords of wood. Every
thing is to be ready to strike on the buildings
the first of May. 1t is good time to build for
labor and lumber are cheap.--In play among
some school boys at Sherman Mills, Edwin
Emery, lad was push down and broke his
wrist near the joint in one bone and dslocated
the wrist. March LIST while two young men
were riding they saw a partridge and one of
them, Edwin Ambrose, drew revolver from
under the robes and it caught in some manner
and discharged, lodging the ball, as is supposed
under the knee cap. 1t is pretty painful and
the ball was not extracted two days after the
accident.
Judge Danforth is presiding at the present
term of the Supreme Judicial Court in Aroos-
took county.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
About two years ago Miss Lila Noyes of
Pownal had the mis- ortuue of losing highly
round of her household duties, while vigorously
stirring an under husk bed, she slipped her
finger through the missing ornament.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
At special meeting of the stockholders of
the Watervlle National Bank held at their
banking rooms on Saturday last, it was voted
to instruct the directors to contract for the
building of a new block to consi t of two stores
and a banking room on the tie of their present
building.
The governor has appointed Hon. Andrew 2.
Wiswell' Judge Of the Municipal Court at Els
worth.
The valuation of Winslow, real and personal,
is $434, 914; Dnmber of polls 239; percentage of
cash assessment. 16 mills on DOLLAR; on high
IL, i H. -
bill, last year, was 81 1856 81 amount of bridge
debt and interest IS, 951. so.
Rev. MIR. Newcomb, pastor of the Baptist
church at Halowell, in the absence of the sex
ton Saturday undertook to Call conference
meeting BY ringing the bell, but rupg it SO viO-
lently that the whole town turned out suppos-
posing there was fire.
The dwelling house on the Davis farm in
Chelsea was burned to the ground on Tuesday
night of last week. The gentleman who resides
there was abseut at the time, ard his son had
| time to save only few articles Loss about
| $1,000; fully insured
OXFORD COUNTY.
Diphtheria and scarlet fever have proved
| very fatal in Greenwood.
Buckfeld statistics. Total interest bearing
debt Feb Is, 1874, 273l %; Can CT led in 1874,
| $3.50 16; in 1875, $50O2. SO; in 1876, $3.50;
three years, $11,712.O5; funded debt Feb Is,
1887 $21 Ol9 amount of interest required In
1874, 2O64; in 1877, $1275.
PENOBSCOT COUNTY.
| The revival meetings in charge of Rev. Geo.
| f. Pentec0st, ID. d., of Boston, were COM
menced Monday evening at the Hammond
street church. Bangor, by preaching service
! at Z 80 o'clock.
| WALDO COUNTY.
The agent of schooner Fred A. Carrie of Bel
fast has been notified by New York bankers
| that the schooners bills of lading have been
forged and money obtained upon them by Mo
bile parties The freight money is all right
but some trouble and delay is expected BY the
owners. The schooner is at Bremen from Mo
bile with cotton. The charterers at Mobile
Carr & Lam, are reported to have forged othel
bills of lading to the amount of quarter OF {
million of dolais aud have absconded