The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-04-26
STATE NEWS.

ANDROsCOGGIN COUNTY.
Work of laying the pipes for supplying Lew
iston with water has begun.
The house, barn aud stable of Otis Holt in
Llvermore were burned April 16. No insur-
ance.
Lewiston sells 300 baby carriages annually.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
A house in Fort Kent belonging to Mrs. j.
G. Miller of Fredericton aud occupied by Wal
ter Stevens, was burned last week. Loss ST.
000; no Insurance
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Rev. G. B. Hannaford of Rumford was made
tue victim of comardiy assault by two ruff
fans in Farminy ton, Tuesday evening. While
goirg from the church 10 his home he was at
tackled simultaneously by one in front and one
behind him, and barely escaped serious Injury
from the blows which they inflicted The af-
fair creates quite a-sensation in that orderly
community where incidents of this character
rarely occur.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
1t cost Hancock county $4,000 to convict
Smith, the Bucksport murderer.
The mail agent on the Bucksport railroad on
turning out his mail the other day, found a
parcel from which was dripping sticky, yell
low substance, which had besmeared nearly
the whole contents of the bag. Upon investi-
CATION the package was found to contain hens
eggs, nicely packed in cotton.
KENNEBEo COUNTY.
At the recent term of the Supreme Court at
Augusta eighteen divorces were granted, five
on petition of the husband and the remainder
OF petition of the wife.
OXFORD COUNTY.
The Odd Fellows of South Paris ara con.
templating the erection Of building for the
the purposes of their lodge. The plans have
been drawn and very large amount of stock
| has tak Tha hu ho
stories in height and seventy-6ve by forty-three
| on the ground. 1t will cost about six thousand
| dollars. 1t will prove a great ornament and
| addition to the village.
PENoBsCOT COUNTY.
A Greenback club bas been formed in Cd
town.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
| AS evidence of the early spring our New
| Portland correspondent mentions that Hiram
Burrell of Skowhegan drove several head OIL
| young cattle through New Portland, Wednes.
| day, to his pasture in Lexington-she earliest
instance of stock being turned away to pasture
| ever known in that section, Many of the farm.
ers have commenced work on the land and
considerable wheat and oats have been sown.
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
| The body of the young man Page, who was
through the ice, was found Wednesday after
| noon.
| WALDO COUNTY.
Since December Justice Sawyer of Ssarsport
has sent forty tramps to jail.
Waldo county is quarrelling with its jailol
about his charges for prisoners board aud q
suit is likely to be the result.
On Wednesday, Judge Dickerson, holdinl
court at Belfast, quickened the memory of 8
witness 10 liquor case. 1t has been the dodge
of witnesses ia such cases, under instruction o
COUNSEL to testify that they Couldn't remem'
Der" that they had bought liquor at certain
times and places. In the case referred to il
was so evident that there was evasion on the
part Of one witness that the judge directed the
sheriff to commit him to Jail for contempt
Them he remembered that he had drunk at the
place of the accused.
Rev. Josiah Walker of Monroe died very sud
denlye@ Friday, aged % years.
In the disputed bill of w. 81. Mcclellan
against the town of Unity for professional ser