The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-01-18


eDjoined from setting up his presented title
against that first derived from such original
settler.
The dwelling house of John Smith IN Wash
burn, was burned recently
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
The selectmen Of Brunswick have decided tn
call an inspection of the new bridge between
Brunswick and Topsham, put up by the King
Iron Bridge Company, to be made By engineers
seiuain'ed WIN the construction of iron
0fidges, who are not connected with other iron
bridge companies and who can have no person.
al interest in the inspection. The question is
the safety of the present structure.
KENNEBEo COUNTY.
John %. Crane, an EN- ployee in Aliens Pab.
fishing House in Augusta has been rendered
the position Of head teacher in the Ell afford
Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, at liberal
salary. Mr.. Crane served in similar canacity
In the same institution four years.
William P. Blake of Wess Waterville. re-
Gently sold bis entire herd of Herefords. with
the exception of one bull-eight aninais-tor
Sl35O, three of them being calves; ard Mr..
Hall U. Borleigh of Fairfield Centre, sold
heiIer calf, same breed, 9 months old, to the
same parties, for $500. This stock goes to Hi
nols. me same parties also bought six ami
mails OF Mr.. Charles II. Atkins of Mercer,
$500. ' pau
LINCOLN COUNTY.
They are excited in Bristol over some strange
animal which is prowling about the woods.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
Edmund s. fancy of Bangor, has received
an appointment under the United States Coast
Survey. He is assigned on the coast of Malice,
from Mt Desert Island to Narraguagus Bay
He will commence in May. He is son Of
Joseph fancy, Esq. He graduated with high
honor in the Department of Civil Engineering
10 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
last year.
DIR. Sanger of Bangor, has OBJ tained more
than 600 signatures in that city to his petition
10 the Legislature for change of law on NAL.
practice, requiring the plaintiff to give bond for
taxable costs in case of failure to maintain &C.
ton. He says the petitions are meeting with
equal success throughout the State.
1t is expected that Gen. Mcclellan will al
tend the grand camp fire to be given in Ban
gor soon.
In the Supreme Court at Bangor, Thursday.
lady was testlfying in case relative to bad
disposition OF some party and one of the coun-
sci looking sharp at the witness said, MADAM,
dId you not on one occasion uSs profane lau-
guage in your conversation with Mr.--?"
And the witness replied: "Yes sir, told him
he was id liar! and Henry Ward Beecher,
under the same circumstances, would have
told him the same thing"
PIsCATAQUIS COUNTY.
The house, barn and shed in Atkinson, be-
longing to Warren L. Damon, was burned to
the ground recently. Loss $1,000; insurance
500. The fire was caused by the upsetting
and explosion of lantern.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Miss Susan B. Anthony delivered her lecture
entitled woman wants bread. not the BALLOT
at Coburn ball, Skowhegan, last evening.
Mrs. Abigail Lyford, one of the Oldest resi-
dents of ST Alhans dad ,ptIy @ho 80 -
Sc years.
Melzar Gushing, an old and respected citizen
of Skowhegan, died Monday.
Nearly all the men in the logging camps on
Dead river are sick.
WALDO COUNTY.
The venerable Hiram o Alden of Belfast is
now so Frustrated by weakness resulting from
long illness, tnat he rarely leaves his bed for
more than an hour or two each day. Twenty
one years ago, at the Inauguration Of President
Buchanan, MIR. Alden was victim of the mys-
FERROUS National Hotel poisoning aud is one Of
the few who survived the Calamity From that
time he has not seen we'll day, and has UNDER
gone an amount of suffering that would have
killed any man not possessed of an iron coz
stitution.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
A daughter of William Goldipg. living at
Boyden Lake. was burned to death a few days
ago, her clothes catching from an opcn fire.
around which she was playing.
Forest Station, on the European & North
American railroad. year ago had but one
family. Now there are several, and the new
steam mill built by the Eaton Brothers of Gal.
ais, has built up quite business. The Eaton
Brothers cut about million and half feet of
lamber last season, and expect to increase this
to two millions this winter. There are two feet
OF snow in the woods. Wages are low.
There are five tanneries in the northeastern
part OF this county, some OF them the largest in
Maine. The tanDery at Grand Lake is the
largest.
The cars run bat once day to Princeton
this winter.
YORK COUNTY.
Rufus Duran and Martha A. Noble have
been the subjects OF much gossip in Kennebunk
Depot for several months. Both are married
and have children. Duran's wife left him last
September, AMI she has since worked in Law
renee. Mass, boarding her IL year old son at
her brothers. Martha has lived with her
husband until last Saturday, when she started
to follow Duran, who left via b. & NJ. for Port
land at noon. She went on the D. m. train.
leaving her year old girl behind. Her Inns,
band went TO his work and returned at 6 m
Her mother told him his wife was gone, and IL
is generally thong BIT that it is an elOpement he
tween Duran and Noble. 1t is said a sheriff
has been sent after them and it is thought thew
have gone to Buffalo, N. Y.
Arthur l.. S nall, VINO carries on the Staplss
farm on the Hollis road, was badly hurt last
Tuesday by blow from a hay-rack which his
oxen were drawing ont of his barn.
IN GENERAL.
The Senate has confirmed the following post
masters for Maine: Alfred L. Skinner at
Bucksport; Allen Miller, Jr., Camden; Isaac
q. Coffip, Wiscasset; William H. Emery, Fair
field.