The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-05
STATE NEWS
NnRf,snoaGIN COUNTY.

This weeks review of the Auburn shoe
market makes very gratifying exhibition.
The total number Of cases shipped is 658, or
one hundred and seventy-one cases more than
last week, aud nearly three hundred cases in
excess of the total shipments for the cores.
ponding week of last year. The leather
receipts are almost three times as large as they
were in the corresponding week, last year. All
on extra time. The spring "run" is at its
height now, and the shipments will probably
begin to fall off some in few weeks. The
demand holds on better than last year.
The county commissioners are about to issue
$40, 900 in five per cent bonds to fund the
temporary loan.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Methodist Society in Pennington have
been holding variety entertainment the past
and closing with sbaby show Thursday.
Twenty-Five ofthe little cherubs were exhibited
to delighted audience.
KENNEBEo COUNTY.
Mr. John Barron, son of Mr.. John Barron
of Gardiner, died recently in Hot Springs,
Arkansas. He was for several years clerk
10 the Treasurer's Office Of the European &
North American Railway.
The Southern Journal of Practical Education
thus speaks Ct Fayette boy; "A most
valuable acquisition to our educational work
South is Jesse 7. Parker of Fayette, Maine.
MIR. Parker was educated at Kent's Hill, Me-,
and at Wesleyan University, MiddletowD,
Conn. He is a thorough scholar and an ex-
perienced and practical educator He has un.
dertaken the herculean task of building up at
Rome, Georgia, seminary under the auspices
of the Savannah Conference work for
which he is fully qualified. MIR. Parker came
South without any assistance or encourage
ment from the Freedmen's Aid Society, and
began work bravely. He certainly deserves
no has rxrvtSh r. 49,
South"
Qaite plumber of people in Manchester
have been swindled recently by peddler of q
magic mpound, certain amount of which
compound being put into kerosene lamp
would cause quart of oil thus treated to last
equally as long and give as good light as two
gallons of ordinary oil. 1t is needless to say
that those who invested in this wonderful
powder were very much dismayed when they
perceived the new tangled oil to settle in their
lamps according to its usual custom before be-
ing doctored.
KNOX COUNTY.
Mr.. e D. Winchenbach who has been can
wasting Warren Ia the interest of the Beet
Sugar Company has arranged with between 70
and 100 formers to RAISE sugar beets this
season.
Mr.. njamin Webster of Owls Head while
on his way from New York last week was rob-
bed of $3.50 by pickpockets.
Last Friday morning a little child Of Mre.
John W Ox.on of West Camden came near
losing his life. Another little daughter, three
years old, lighted stick and threw it into the
cradle where the child lay, and set the
clothing on fire. The mother was in an ad-
joining room but seeing the imminent danger
of Der child, snatched the burning clothing
from the cradle and saved its life had she been
a moment later the child must have persisted.
A Friendship correspondent of the Rockland
Opinion says the pOrgie companies will dis
regard the porge law and fish in all rivers and
sell fishermen bait as usual, and if prosecuted
carry their casesup to the highest tribunal for
adjudication.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The Hon. John A. Battrick, one of the old.
est and most esteemed citizens of Lowell,
Mass, and well.known throughout the State,
died on the 31st Ilt., aged nearly &c years. He
was born in Stetson, Me-, and went to Lowell
in 1899. Until 1843, when he was chosen city
was treasurer until 1847, when he left to be-
come first cashier of the Appleton bank, and
also treasurer of the city Institution for savings.
He resigned the former position in 1851, and
afterwards devoted all his time to the savings
bank. In May, 1875, his mental powers be-
came affected, and he was removed to S0mer-
vile, where he remained until about six weeks
ago. He leaves widow, two sons and one
daughter. He had served in the school Gem
mittes and both branches of the legislature
being Senator in 1866 and 1867.
Robert Geaton, who was acquitted at the
February term of Court of the murder of
defence, was married in Hampden last week
to Miss Carrie Lit,letield, in defenca of whose
house be fred the fatal shot.
warm couNTy