The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-09-03
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoaeIN COUNTY

ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY
The large shipments of shoes from Auburn
continue. Seventeen hundred and ninety
five cases were sent off this week
The rails were laid on the Auburn division
of the street railway and partly on the Lewis
ton side Wednesday.
Nathaniel p Sleeper, Esq. lone OF the old set
tiers of Lewiston, and brother OF the late e.
II. Sleeper, Esq, died in that city Thursday
morning.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
A few years ago the furniture business in
Patten was carried on by one man who did all
the work alone. Now there are three estab,.
lishments, employing several men each, one OF
which is run by steam power
The Houlton Iron Foundry is now overrun
with orders, and is casting every day. They
are making some very fine furnaces for drying
starch in the new factories which are being
erected in different parts of the county this
season.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Tie Herald is informed that an execution
has been issued by the Circuit Court of the
United States, in the somewhat noted case of
Eben Il. Pillsbury against Pennington village
corporation, and that the plaintiffs attorney
will soon be there to demand payment OF the
defendant corporation.
The Chronicle says that Elisha Jewett of
Freeman 81 years of age. cuts his hay, five
tons, saws his wood, and does all his work.
He has voted at eighteen Presidential cleo
TONS
The Chronicle says that Mrs. Bursley of
Pennington Falls, aged 67, during the months
ing, besides doing all her homework, and
churning from seven to nine pounds of butter
per week. her family consisting OF five persons
for several weeks during that time. She s at
present living alone in her pleasant home, TAX
ing care of her garden and pig, milking her
COW night and morning. She does all her fam
lily sewing, and has in various ways earned
since one year last May, the sum of S96. She
is always at leisure of an afternoon to enter
tain visitors or go out.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The American says that Albion CHM of Or
land, 45 years of age, attempted to commit SUI
icide on Friday by shooting himself through
the head. Insanity was the cause. 1t is thought
he cannot recover.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
Mrs. Leda Nelson of Clinton is SO years of
age, and has usea no glasses for twenty-three
years. She reads and sews readily and her
eyesight is apparently as good as in her
younger days.
Henry Loves, an upholsterer and furniture
dea Ter in Watersille. Died very suddenly OF
hea rt disease on Wednesday night He was on
the street Tuesday afternoon, apparently in
his usual health. His age was about forty.
Extra stabilized beef cattle are very scarce
this year" says Martin Reynolds OF Sidney,
who has the reputation of bringing some OF the
choicest and tenderest carcasSes OF be3f into
the Augusta market. II never had harder
time to supply my customers" There are
plenty of grass-fed cattle. but stall.fed cattle
are hard to find, and cost me seven and eight
cents pound on the foot = franklin County
sends us the finest beef, and there is quite a.
rivalry between AndroScoggin aud kennehec
butte hers to get droyes OF cattle from that sec
ton. A herd of about forty splendid looking
animals passed through Augusta Monday
morning Tor Lew iston Central Maine also
ships many beef creatures to Brighton for the
Massachusetts bon giydntS-Aug,tsta Journal.
sAGADAHoc COUNTY.
The shoe factory boom is at a stand STILL
The capitalists of Bowdoinham are anxious to
invest in the scheme, but no suitable person
has been found to take hold of the bushes
and operate their factory when it should bs
erected.
Quite business is done this season by the
farmers of Bowdoinham in raising cucum bers
for pickles Some 30 acres or more are given
to this crop A gentleman from Philadelphia
has an establishment there for doing the pick
ling.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The Reporter says; The new hotel at Skow-
hogan is progr essing finely. The fathers are
story is not up. AS soon as the roof is on the
plasterers will commence work. The house
will be opened to the public On December LIST.
WALDO COUNTY.
The Journal says that frankie, a three
wears old son of Thomas Logan of Belfast was
kicked by a horse Monday morning, and will
doubtless die in consequence. He went into
his fathers stable, and it is supposed, threw
apples at the animal. The horses hoof struck
the boy over the eye, crushing in both tables
of the skull, driving the fragments into the
brain.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The Washington County Agricultural So
cietv's cattle show and fair will be held at
Pembroke, Sept. 2Sth and 29th
Mr.. Alonzo Adams, who has been engaged
in running sardines from Deer Island to East
mort in q sail boat, was drowned at the former
place on Monday last. Mr.. Adams was in the
act of hosting his SAIL when the halyards
parted and he fell backwards into the water
YORK COUNTY.
The Mousam Manufacturing Company has
increased its capital stock from $4,000 to
100000.
The Cornish corn factory, which has sprung
mn like magic on the banks of Saco river, is
nearly completed, and will be ready Nor the
corn as soon as the corn is ready for it.
A house containing thirty rooms is being
framed to be built in Little Hampton, or
Quaker neighborhood, in Parsonsheld by
Elder Varney, to accommodate summer
boarders. He will have pickerel pond, aud
one for trout. The foundation is being built
The moss gatherers at Kittery Point are do
ing unusually we'll this season, although the
weather has not been favorable for drying the
moss. They expect to clear $40 month, for
the three months ending Sept. LIST. The moss
is sold to Frank Jones for brewing purposes
The Great Falls Free Press says that I ew
days since George Skilings ofsBerwick, while
in the field, scratched his hand slightly upon a
vine, hardly noticing the accident at the time.
Shortly afterwards, while pulling some pota-
to tops, a potato bug was jammed upon his
hand Immediately over the scratch. lndam-
nation and swelling set in almost at once, and
poison seemed to have permeated the whole
body. The case rapidly grew worse, and in
short time Mr. Skillings died, Whether it was
the potato bug or the Paris green upon the
tops which caused the death is a question.
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good medicine will be appreciated by all who try it.
DR.. Graves Balsam of Wild Cherry and Tar has
given great satisfaction wherever known and tried,
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