The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-06-30
STATE NEWS.
HANCOCK COUNTY.

HANCOCk COUNTY.
A modest census enumerator called at a
house in Sedgewick and the proprietor drove
him away with a club.
The jury OF inquest in the case of Mary E.
Slower, who, it will be remembered, was found
dead in Jordan's river, met again in Ellsworth
on Friday last, and reached a verdict, in sub.
stance as follows: Deceased came to violent
death at the hands of some person or persons
unknown.
James E. Bird of Albany went into his barn
the other day to shoot crow that was pulling
up his potatoes. His gun "kicked'' and
knocked him INTO an unconscious state. When
he recovered he found the hay around him on
fire. He was unable TO extinguish it, and his
barn and shed were entirely consumed. Fortu-
nately for him he had an insurance of $500 in
the Grange Mutual Company.
OXFORD COUNTY.
S. B. Twitchell has been nominated for rep
resentative by the Republicans of Bethel
A recent Chronicle published an article
charging Hon. John P Swasey and other Ok
ford county citizens with bribing clergyman
in one OF our plantations, at the last election.
We are authorized to denonncs the charge as
a lie from preface to fms. If there is any re-
sponsible head to the Chronicle, some one will
have to father this libel.-Orlord Democrat.
A new Universalist parish has been organ
nized in Oxford.
A company of forty-five men from w oodstock
were mustered into the reserve militia of the
State, the 18th inst, by Capt. H N. Bolster
of Paris, assisted by DR.. R. P. Savage, exam
lining surgeon. The commissioned officers are
Captain Horace G. Berry; First Lieutenant
j. l.. Bowker; Second Lieutenant, Ansel Dud-
ley; non-commissioned orderly sergeant, w.
third sergeant, j. G. Harlow; fourth sergeant,
Luther Farnum; fifth sergeant, f. M. Cole;
corporals, D. A. Cole, Frank Cushman, j. II.
Farnham, H. J. Libby, F. P. Cole, Emerson
Billings.
PENOBSCOT COUNTY.
The Governor has nominated Christopher
V. Crossman as special constable to enforce
the liquor law in Bangor. There will be a
special session of the Council July 9th to con-
slider the nomination and that of J. X. Osgood
who has been nominated for the same Office in
Gardiner.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
On one day last week the underpinning of the
| file room connected with the Dublin gang
| mill, Machias, gave way the floor and con-
tents of the room were dumped into the
stream, followed by large lot of laths (which
| had been piled Eclose to the building. Mr.
Frank Mclaughlin, the filer, was occupying
the room but two or three minutes before.
YORK COUNTY.
Nearly one hundred men, mostly French
| Canadians, are employed at brick making in
| Eliot At the Abbott yard more than half a
| million bricks have been made this season
One yard is owned and managed by woman
and is managed well, too She employs none
| but Americans.
| The Republicans of Biddeford and SAGE
| propose to have union flag raising next Tues
day evening. The Biddeford flag will be
thrown out from city building about quarter
to eight, and the flag. in Saco little later
| Music by the band and speeches.
| A boy named Vindette was drowned at Bid.
deford Saturday while bathing