The Portland daily press., 1881-08-16


stltute begins on Monday, Sept 10.
Mr.. Walker Blaine has presented to the Au-
gusta Library some valuable books. Among
the contributions are the following works: Re-
port on Centennial Exposition, nine volumes;
Report of Vienna Exposition; Report of For
elgn Relations since 1870.
KNOX COUNTY.
The Rockland Opinion makes statement
which seems to tend to establish the theory of
the murder of Willie Cain at Lily Pond, Cam
den, and his subsequent removal to the brook
Richards and Grose, in Wiscasset jail were
Kept in ignorance of the finding of the body.
detective Wiggin then called on them and had
long talk with each separately. The boys
when questioned told substantially the same
story they did when they first confessed, The
demand for money and the sauabble in the
boat. resulting in the Cain boy being pushed
overheard and drowned, were all described
just as they were at first. Mr.. Wiggin then
detailed to them the particulars of the finding
knew nothing of the body being at the brook,
and asserted that the drowning certainly oc-
CURED at the pond as they had just said: if the
body had been removed from the pond it was
without their knowledge.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
James White of Wiscasset, fifty years Of
age, drowned himself last week, in fit OF
mental alteration.
PENOBsCoT COUNTY.
A man living i'll double tenement house in
Bangor, recently placed q water conductor
along the caves, and when the job was finished
found that the end which should have been
the lowest was in reality the highest Being
of a brilliant turn of mind he very soon found
his way out of the dilemma. He employed a
crew of men to dig away the underpinning
from one end OF the house, and with the aid of
Jackscrews raised the corner OF the building
until the gutter has assumed the proper in
cline. But the family living in the other ten
ement have complained that the process has
resulted in cracking the ceiling and spripging
the doors so they cannot be shut.
ESOn Sept IS, 1878, the timber lands belong
ing to the estate of e. d. Jewett & Co.,
amounting to over 100000 acres, and situated
in Aroostooa, Piscataquis, Somerset and Pc
nobscot counties, largely in the first, were
sold by auction by the assignee, J. j. Haley,
in the presence of the leading lumbermen of
Bangor. At the time the Second National
Bank secured 121 ,227 acres. in thirty towns,
and the Merchants National Bank purchased
69,613 acres This valuable timber land has
now been bought OF the two banks, by Hay
ford & Stetson, the great lumber operators in
Bangor. These 10000 odd acres thus pur-
chased are situated principally on the st.
John river.
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
"A reCcut ViSltoT 10 ti2p0 Small POlnG While
excavating in the old fort at that place, I'M
earthed a silver knee buckle marked Thomas
Norton and dated 1920; also what is called a
double-headed shot, that appeared to have
been thrown from a cannon. These were inn
bedded in the ground and masonry about five
feet. The buckle was lost as long ago chat is
according to date) as when the settlement was
called Augusta, aud the people carried on a
fourishing trade in shipping salmon to
Plymouth, Mass. In 1850 it was destroyed by
Indians, and those that were not slain fed in
taeir boats to Plymouth.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
w. S. Marshall. well-known LAWYER of
North Arson, died recently.
Messrs. .McInsire & Woods have sold out
their lease OF the paper mill in Skowhegan to
w. K. Shurtleff, who will continue the bust
ness in connection with his pulp mill.
Three Young ladies of Bingham, Juliet
Goodrich, Edith and Nellie Baker, were out
in a back pasture the other day rasphefrying,
when, as they were approaching a clump of
bushes, they accidentally broke limb, and
almost from beneath their feet, a creature
sprang up and disappeared They described it
as an animal somewhat taller and simmer
than a large dog. 1t had regular stripes of
light and dark running around it's body. He
sported long, slim TAIL while his head re-
sembled large cats.
YORK COUNTY.
Frank Mcclure of Biddeford, known as the
Young Ajax, while performing a very diff
cult feat, in Hillsboro, Ohio. with Pullman,
Shelby & Hamilton's circus, made miscalcu-
lation ard fell, causing fracture of the lower
part of the right leg