The Portland daily press., 1880-05-14
STATE NEWS.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.

FRANKLIN COUNTY.
DIR. P. Dyer of Pennington visited Boston
| last week and negotiated a sale of about $4,000
| of Pennington Village corporation coupons
| The parties who purchased them are taking
steps to have them put in suit at once in the
| U. S. Court, in order to enforce their collec-
| ton.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
| A little daughter of Hiram Huston of South
| West Harbor aged three and half wears. was
| drowned in well last Friday.
During the shower Sunday evening the
| lightning came in to the telegraph office at
| Ellsworth and set fire to the woodwork and
| operating table, but fortunately went out with
| out doing serious damage. A large number of
| telegraph poles were struck and thrown down.
carriage house belonging to F. D. Hodg-
| kins OF Lamoine. was struck and badly shat
| tered, but did not burn 1t struck in the yard
| between the house and barn of j. w. Wood,
| Salisbury's Cove, tearing up the ground but
| doing no injury to the buildings which were
| only few feet away. An OK belonging to
Eben Peach of Salisbury's Cove, was struck
and killed. A barn belonging to the widow of
the late Elder Watson, Hancock Neck, was
struck and burned with all its contents, in
| Guiding two COWS.
| KENNEBEC COUNTY.
A new building to be used for the milder
cases Of insanity for the female patients, is
| to be built on %he insane asylum grounds at
| Augusta. 1t is to be erected from the accumu-
| lated fund and income of the hospital, not to
exceed $4,000 in COST
| A correspondent of the Kennebee Journal is
responsible for this: During the shower on
Sunday last, the lightningi struck the barn of
Mr.. Elms, in Manchester, the bolt first en-
tering the gable of the barn, passing down.
| ward, cutting three braces and two girts en-
| tirely off, and entering shovel-handle which
stood on the floor, splitting it into three equal
| parts, as nicely as it could have been done by
Intnry inn fhnr, ..%, 81,
where a horse stood harnessed to a wagon,
took every buckle and strap from the harness,
completely embarrassing the horse without in
jury, except to the harness. 1t then struck
pile of cord-wood, splitting and piling up near
ly three cords. From thence it entered the
cellar, Swimming eight pans of milk, going out
at the chimney, down the roof into the
ground, leaving hole as large as the house
itself. Fortunately no person about the
premises was injured"
PENoBsCOT COUNTY.
Theodore S. Dodd, an old resident of Ban
gor and for many years cashier OF the Ken
duskeag National bank, died Wednesday.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Diphtheria has again broken out in Skowhe-
gan. Last week two daughters. only children
of Hiram and Nora Spaulding, died after a
few hours of intense suffering. The death
of the second occurred within q few hours of
that of the first
A Frenchman, by the name of Philip Cur
ney, left the house of A. f. Adams in jack
mantown, the I'd inst. to go to Moose River,
and since that time has not been seen. Search
was made for him for three days and only re-
suited in finding his overalls and one boot in
the road. 1t is thought that he was taken in
sane and wandered into the woods and was
lost.
WALDO COUNTY.
Mr.. George Merrill, prominent citizen of
Searsportl died Monday. He was native of
Portland.
Hon. A. G. Jewett and wife of Belfast
celebrated their golden wedding Monday.