The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-03-16
STATE NEWS.
KNOX COUNTY.

KNOX COUNTY.
Hart who has been arrested on suspicion of
having murdered Mrs. Meservey at St. George,
is nearly fifty years of age. He has been twice
married and has family of grown up chill
dren. He is cousin of the murdered woman
He is perfectly cool, betrays none of the sensi-
bility Datural to most men in such position,
aud talks with entire freedom about the TRACE
dy with those who c0nversed with him since
his arrest, answering all questions freely and
inviting any inquiries those conversing with
him desired to make. He says that he knows he
is under very strong suspicion, but that he is
entirely innocent of the crime. Hart has fol.
lowed the sea nearly all his life, except for the
intervals when he has been at home upon the
small farm which he owns.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
s On Thursday morning Mr.. George Crocker,
of B0Othbay, was found IN his shop, where he
sleeps, with his hands tied behind him and his
feet fettered. He relates that three men came
to his place, and with threats of instant an
Inhalation forced him to comply with their re-
quests to allow himself TO be bound, sign pa
per they produced and other things, after
which they left him and went away in boat.
1t seems to be che general opinion that he
tied himself
The old porgie ship Alabama, lying at South
by the Geo. G. w. Miles Company of Bridge
port, Conn.
PENoBscor COUNTY.
Subscriptions for monument to the late Mr..
Barron, the Dexter Savings bank treasurer,
will be received at the Dexter National bank
A barn owned by John Mitchell, in Etna,
was burned Thursday morning. Loss, $500;
insured.
SOMERSET Co0NTY.
Dptheria is raging at Bingham and Moscow.
The Scion Savings bank which has been en-
gagged for some time past in winding up its af-
fairs has Just paid dividend of 8 per cent.
This is the third one and amounts in the whole
to SO per cent. which it has paid depositors,
with another thin streak yet to come.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
A little child of Samuel Garnett of Marion
was burned to death last week by Its clothes
taking fire from an open stove.
YORK COUNTY.
Thehouse of Mr.. Blazo in North Parsons
field was not burned as reported. The barn
and contents, however, were destroyed.
Nathaniel Smith OF Dayton had one of his
fingers bitten off a few days ago by hog that
he was trying to kill.
The will of the late Daniel Austin OF Kittery,
besides giving one-third of his resduary estate
in trust to the city of Portsmouth for building
bridge across South Pond to Langdon Park
and other improvements in that vicinity, leaves
$1,000 to the Unitarian Sunday School, the in
come to furnish lectures on reverence, purity.
honesty and good manners; $500 to the Mer-
camille Library Association, Internationally,
and the same amount in trust to the overseers
of the poor, the income thereof to furnish the
colored population of Portsmouth the means of
effectively celebrating the anniversaries of EN-
ancipation day. Antioch College gets $4,000,
conditional to its adhering to the principles of
government established by Horace Mann in
regard to the color and sex of students and
noH-use of premium or awards Harvard
College gets $1,000 for some good college
purposes. a beqnest of $4,000 to Dartmouth
College is for the purchase of modern books.
The total beauests amount to about $41 900. -