The Portland daily press., 1877-03-22
STATE NEWS.
ANpRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

ANDROsCOGGIN COUNTY.
Auburn paid S13701 for schools last year,
several hundred dollars less than the appropri-
alton.
Monday night the store of Geo. f. Marshall
in Lewiston was entered by burglars and prop
erty to the value of $50 stolen. The stock OF
goods was in the hands of Deputy U S. Mar
shall Wilson of this city.
Auburn City Council has elected DR., w. X.
Cakes City Physician; W. w. Bolster, City
Solicitor. and Mayor Smith, Auditor Street
Commissioner Goss was reelected. The City
Treasurer is D. w. Verrill; Assessors. P Nj.
Woo Woodman, 2 D. BAILEY, VIM: Dngley; Over
Gcss. A. J. Coburn; School Committee, Geo.
D. Dillingham;, B. +. Sturgis, Geo. Fl. Wood
man, A. w. Larrabee, A. M. Fagg; CITY
Clerk, Geo. S. Woodman; Chief Engineer Fire
DeDartment A. A. Miller; Assistants, S. P.
Miller and j. A. Gibbs.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
Henry Putnam, present mail contractor on
the nanforth route. has received the contract
for carrying the mail between Houlton and
Carbou-prce $1150 per year.
A young man named Melvin Eddy of Wood
stock. skated into hole in the ice opposite
that town Thursday evening of last week and
was dro wned.
FRANKLIN COUNTY
Bennington received the past year an income
OF $147 from its dog law.
James Allen of West Pennington. who has
been confined in Jail for some time, serving out
MS sentence for keeping nuisance, died there
between II and II o'clock Saturday morning
he was stricken with fit of apoplexy the
Sunday previous, rendering his right side sense
less.
The new school house in Farminaton is all
completed and also dedicated. The building
a Infr ~, Nh aI, L.
the price received for the old building aud lot
was $500.
KENNEBEO COUNTY.
An important braach of promise case is ex-
pocted to come up in the Supreme Judicial
Court today. Grover Of Gardiner, VS.. Bonney
of Auburn. The claim for damages is large
enough to make the trial very interesting. The
gentleman is said to have accumulated consd-
cradle property since the alleged promise of
marriage was made. Clay of Gardiner will an
pear for the plaintiff; Record of Auburn and
Pilsbury of Augusta for the defendant.
Gardiner City Council has elected the fol-
lowing subordinate city officers: Clerk. A. q.
Davis; Assessors, &c, A. G. Davis, Edward
Robinson, VIM. Perkins; City Marshal, S. W.
Siphers; Treasurer, S. Bowman; Col ector, Jos.
Sphers; Directors of high School, VIM. Per-
kins, M. Wentworth, Edward Robinson;
City Solicitor, b. s. Webster; Street Commits
sioner A p Andrews; City Physician. A Z.
z. Strout; Chief Engineer, B. A. Neal; Second
Engineer, Fred Wadsworth; Third Engineer,
George Gardner.
Mr.. Lot Jones of Winthrop, died at his resi-
dence in that place on Thursday morning last
of congestion of the lungs. Mr.. Jones was one
of the Oldest citizens of Winthrop. and has for
many years been member of the Society of
Friends
A man calling himself Daniel Taylor, but
whose real name is Geo. Coombs, hired a team
at the livery stable of NJ. A. Dow in Augusta,
last Friday. Not returning at the time prom
ised, search was made for him and the horse
was found at ST. Adams. The man escaped
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The tramp who attempted suicide as Skowhe-
gan last Saturday, is still alive and likely to re-
cover. He is, however. quite insane.
OXFORD COUNTY.
The West Summer reform club nov numbers
SO, and of that number more than one-haIf
have ever been drinking men, the remainder
feeling it best to condect themselves with the
club for the purpose of aiding in sustaining it.
The Ladies' Aid has done and is still doing
very much in this noble work.
They have musical prodigy at East Frye
burg. His name is Willie Bennett and he is z
years old. He is violnist. He has practiced
on the violin only six months, and yet he exc
cuted the feat the other day Of PLAYING sDu.
rang's Hornpipe," first in the ordinary way, in
scientific manner, and then reversing the
violin. holding the foot of it from him, in the
the manner OF bass viol. playing the same
tune in fine style. As the execution of this
piece trolling bowing," the difficulty of the
performance, especially by one so Young, is one
which violinists will readily appreciate
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
Bath has elected the following city officers
City Treasurer, Edward c. Hyde; Commits
sioner Of Streets, Joseph r. Mitchell; Assessor,
John W. Ballon; Overseers of the Poor &C.,
Randall D. Ribber, Milton S. Brry, Horatio
A. Duncan; School Committee, GaIen G.
Moses; City Physician, Randall D. Bibber;
City Constable and Messenger Nathaniel
Longley; Chief Engineer Of Fire Department,
John I: Cook Assistant Engineers, Andrew
r. Cahill Nathaniel Hill, Emerson A. Gahan
School Guardians, VIM. Scoilay, Nathaniel
Longley, David III. Clark, Amos Ii. Wall, W.
c. Maines. Alden Sprague
WASHINGTON COUNTY
The losers by the failure Of the Continental
Life Insurance company, of New York, are
quite numerous in Calais and Washington
county.
The Calais Times says that a few years since
it was thought that the wool pulling business
would be an extensive and profitable industry
in Calais. Factories were numerous, the owners
were making money, and mills for the manu-.
facture OF various fabrics and articles, as an
0utgrowth of the business, were contemplated.
But time has wrought disastrous change. An
adequate profit can no longer be realized, the
works are mostly suspended, and the business,
with its associated industries, have been driven
into the Provinces
A company has seen formed, with capital
of 5000, to build telegraph line from
Machlas to MacLiasport. The officers are as
follows: e. n. Tobey, President ant
Treasurer; W. B. Tobey Secretary; Fl. N
Tobey, Geo. Harmon, W. 81. Sanborn, Direct
ors; Fl. B. Wade, operator. Work will bt
commenced on the line as sooD as the frost is
out of the ground.
YORK COUNTY.
Thursday afternoon son Of Joseph Murphy
/ of GOOdwin's Mills was kicked on the head by
l horse, severely fracturng the skull. The lit
/ tie fellow last fall had his collar-bone broken
l by puguacious ram. On Monday last tn,
] wife of r. Ell. Hill of the same village was bad.
l ly burned by her clothes catching fire.
IN GENERAL.
The Wing says that the temperance reform
in the Eastern part of the state has ALREADY
Il accomplished, and is still accomplishing, vas
i amount of good Mr.. 9. II. Taintor, the we'll
known worker in this cause, now of the Ban
gor Theological Seminary, visited Calais in tn
latter part of November and formed club Q
sixty drinking men. This club has organize,
clubs since then, with total membership O
/ 1900, and the interest in the movement JIG grow
ing rapidly.
COMMENTING upon the announcement ths
they have blue glass chimneys for lamps an
argand burners in New York, correspondent
says: "a leading Boston crockery house nea
no t1nr. n IL Il