The Portland daily press., 1879-07-02
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

| A little child of Charles o. Cappers of Lew
! iston, swallowed a two-cent piece the other day
and has suffered much pain since. The coin
| lodged near the valve leading to the stomach,
| and physicians have thus far been unable to
| remove it,
The Journal says that one of the members of
| the graduating class at Bates College, colored
| man from Virginia, was unable to pay his last
term bill, and therefore would have been una
BILE to graduate with his class. Ex-Gov Cheney
of New Hampshire learned the facts in the
case, and at once furnished the necessary
funds. His unexpected proffer, it need not be
said, brought great Joy to the worthy young
man, and afforded another proof of the large
hearted benevolence of the excellent ex-Gov-
ernor
AROOSToOK COUNTY.
The Sunrise says that E. W. Stickney, the
Dexter cloth man, has bought sincehe begun
on his Aroostook trip, over 21,O00 pounds
OF wool.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The inmates of the Soldiers Home at Togus,
are to have a glorious celebration of the Fourth
beginning at 10 o'clock A. M. There is to be
target practice, crutch walking, sack, silt and
foot race, jumping match, wheelbarrow race,
diving for half dollars, etc. Eighty-tive dol
lars are offered in premiums. Music is to be
furnished by the Home Band the day to wind
up with a brilliant display of fire works
Two gentle men from Massachusetts arrived
at Augusta Saturday, prepared to navigate the
Kennebec, on cunning excursion, in a canvas
boat
OXFORD COUNTY.
Charles Whitman, formerly of Bryant's
Pond, has recently accepted a position as
teacher in Japan, at salary of four thousand
dollars.
Most Wershipful Grand Master Collamore,
assisted by other officers of the Grand Lodge,
instituted Granite Lodge at West Paris on the
23d inst, and installed the following officers:
Geo. w. Hammond, w. NJ; Geo. W. Bryant,
S. W.; Chas. w, Chase, j. W.; Chas. M. Nor
gan, Treas; Peter G. Pickett, Sec; Leonard
B. Swan, S. D.; Wellington w. Durham, j.
D.. John Black, M; Rev. Alexander Hill, c.;
Augustus S. Durham, Tyler. The craft was
launched with forty-one charter members.
The village schools of Buckfeld closed Fri
day, June Goth. The intermediate school,
under the instruction of Miss Gertrude F. Nor
rill of Strong, not only passed an admirable ex-
animation, but kept up remarkable attend
ance throughout the term.
Mr.. Sewell F. Millett, of Oxford, has five
children sick with scarlet fever.
The postmaster of South Waterford recently
received a letter from Mr.. Charles S. Brown,
a former resident of that place, but who for the
past thirty years has been living at Westport,
West Coast, New Zealand. The letter states
that there is large property in England
(e45, 000) left by one Mary Ann Brown, of
Fitzroy, County of Middlesex, who died intes-
tate, and if the Browns in this family can
prove kinship they will get the property.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The cheese factory at Newport was sold at
auction last Saturday. 1t will not run this
season, as the farmers in that vicinity do not
furnish sufficient encouragement.
A bar shot, supposed to have been thrown
from one of the English frigates which came
up the Penobscot river in 1914, has been found
on the premises of Mr.. Jonathan Pitcher in
the vicinity of Mt. Hope cemetery in Bangor.
1t was some three feet below the surface of the
ground.
The "Rev." Mr.. Steadman, now in Bangor
jail, has written letter to the Wing in which
he warns that paper to desist from publishing
any further libeous (?) articles relating to him.
He says he has been the victim of ,circumstap-
ovo but % few days viii no able to prove to
has been facetiously termed in the Wing.