The Portland daily press., 1879-11-05
STATE NEWS.
ARoosTOoK COUNTY.

The Commercial says that the steamer Ma
than Perry, which was launched at Presque
Isle sometime ago, made her trial trip Thurs
day. She has been lying idle since she was
launched, waiting for a rise OF water, the
Presque Isle stream on which she was built
having been very low all the fall.
Henry C. Howard of Easton raised on 45
acres of land, 10000 bushels of potatoes, doubt
less the largest crop raised by any one man in
the state.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The Junior exhibition of Colby University
occurs Wednesday evening. The speakers are
Gushing, Gardiner, Knox, Melcher, Preble,
Ryder, Sanborn, Spear,sW hitter and Weld.
Music by the Weber Quartet
The closing exercises of the fall term of Oak
GcoTc Seminary and Commercial College at
Vassaboro occur on Thursday and Friday
Nov. 6 and 7.
The Register says that the FStar of the East"
on Thursdays trip from Hallowell took to
Boston from that market 900 barrels of choice
apples.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Albert Cameron, fisherman belonging i'll
Southport, Me-, but living in Gloucester,
Mass, disappeared from his boarding place
three weeks ago. 1t is feared that he has wan
dered away and may have committed suicide.
He has brother and sister who are insane,
one in the asylum at Augusta, and the other
at Danvers, Mass
PENOBSCOT COUNTY.
Henry Murdoch of West Garland, has prob
ably one of the best orchards in the state. He
has gathered 1900 bushels of apples, the most
of them being gratis of an excellent quality.
The Wing says that o. w. Davis, Esq, re-
turned from the Katahdin Iron Works Satur-
day night. The repairs to the furnace were so
far completed that fires would be started Mon
day, and he expects to get fully at work by the
18th to 18th inst. Tue new water wheel went
up from Milo Saturday.
The Commercial says that in the ruins OF the
barn Of Levi Borden, burned at Etna Friday
night, were found human bones and pipe. 1t
in the evening and that during the night the
hay was accidentally set on fire and that the
fellow was consumed in tbs burning building.
PIscATAQUIs cooSTY.
The Hebron Pond Slate Company is now
making slate on a more extensive scale than
ever before.
Mr. Norton of Dover thinks sugar beets at
S4 ton as profitable a crop as any other. Two
acres yielded 81 $50 pounds, netting little
over $50.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Ellis NJ Smith of Machas shipped 60 bar
relS of potatoes to Boston, by vessel, the other
day, mostly of his own raising.
YORK COUNTY.
A wild cat was killed in York last week.
"
Mr.. Geo. P. Thompson of York, foreman of
laborers in the department of construction and
repair at the Kittery navy yard, had a paralytic
shock early Sunday forenoon. For about an
hour he had no use of his right arm and leg,
but prompt and energetic attention soon re-
stored him, and on Monday he seemed to have
entirely recovered the use of his limbs and
was progressing favorably, though still suffer-
ing from general prostration.
D. F. Littlefield of Saco is receiving from
two to five car loads CT apples per day at his
evaporator. A fin sight is presented there at
the present time The huge storehouse con-
tans about 1900 bushels of very handsome
fruit-a sight not often witnessed in this sec
ton.
A new disease, which battles remedies, has
appeared among the turkeys in York county.
At Kittery alone, within week, nearly 300
have died. The principal symptoms are drop
ping of nails from the toes, complete loss of
feathers from the head and general wasting
away.
Miss Sarah Shackley of Kennebunk depot
village fell into a swoon on Thursday of last
week, remaining insensible until Friday night,
when she died