The Portland daily press., 1879-05-24
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoGG1N COUNTY.

| <A-NDiNOoNONo4N NOON11'
Auburn shoe shipments made another GOOD
exhibit this week. The total number of cases
shipped during the week by all the factories is
1850. This number is about the same as last
week; 44O cases more than were shipped in the
corresponding week of last year. The leather
receipts continue very heavy and the factories
| will have to keep busy to work them up.
Another mad dog appeared in Lisbon
! recently. He crept into the Enclosure of Mr..
| John P. Hatch and bit nine sheep and lambs.
Several of them have already died and others
| show strong symptoms of rabies. He also bit
| several sheep belonging to John Rand and
| Eben Rand. He entered the barn of John
Donovan and seized heifer by the nose and
bit her fearfully. The calf sucked the heifeI
and was soon sick. Probably both will die if
not killed. Mr.. Hatch caught the dog in the
| sheep pen, and killed him with an axe, 1t is
not known that any persons were bitted by the
| dog.
| Rev. III. Lochhart, who has been for nearly
five years pastor of the Free Baptist church in
Lisbon Falls, is about to remove to Vermont.
The citizens of Lisbon Falls who heartily ap-
preciate Mr.. Lockhart deeply regret the neces-
sity for this change.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
Two well-known citizens of Naples were
swindled out of $400-the one, a forehanded
farmer, $3.50, the other, farmer who is
obliged to work hard to earn his daily bread
of $150-by the self-styed agent of patent
apple-tree trimmer. Both men gave their
notes for the respective amounts, which the
willy rascal sold in Portland; and now the
victims have been notified by lawyer of that
city that the notes must be cashed forthwith.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Mr.. w. L. Ross of Avon lost his sap house
recently with quite quantity of syrup, and all
his holders, pans, &c.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
Two men pretending to hail from Auburn
are driving about through different sections of
Readfeld, Vienna and Mt. Vernon, selling
worthless blue powder, put up in wooden pill
boxes holding about table spoonful each, to
be used i'll kerosene oil. They represent it to
be a wonderful discovery which will render
kerosene oil perfectly non-explosive, very en-
during, sc. 1t is composed of two parts
whiting and one part blueing. But by much
talking and experimenting they deceive very
many, selling their powder at % cents per box.
KNOX COUNTY.
The workmen employed in dressing the
mammoth shaft for the Gen. Wood monument
have completed one side and are engaged ON
the second side. The sides of this massive
block of granite contains about 275 superficial
feet each.
OXFORD COUNTY.
The house and barn of Geo. Hilton in Water
ford were burned Wednesday last. Insured
for 5000.
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
A heavy thunder shower passed over Dexter
and Foxcroft Wednesday. The barn of j. b.
Mayo was struck but little damage done. The
barn of William Doughty in Sawyerville was
! also struck and hog killed.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Henry Loomis, a native of Madison, was
shot dead at Sidney, Nebraska, recently by a
man named Chas. Reed
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The animal maatiDU Of tho Shore ijnp
Railroad Company is called to meet at Cherry
field .Tuna All IN tl,o xrordC IF tho call il ia