The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-03-19
STATE NEWS.
ANDROsCoGGIN COUNTY

ANDROsCOGGIN COUNTY.
City Marshal ESmith made raid ON a gam
bling saloon in Lewiston Thursday afternoon
and captured nine men. The Journal says
that list of the men in the saloon would
startle Lewiston people.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
Last Sunday night Mr.. Alfred Stanwood of
Brunswick smelled smoke and on examination
found fire set in three places, in the woodshed,
washroom and attic of the ell, kerosene being
poured over shavings, &c. One fire had burn
ed out and the other two were extinguished
with few buckets of water.
Rev. c. b. Atwood has resigned the pastor.
ate OF the First Brunswick church.
PIsCATAoUIs COUNTY.
Messrs. Dyer & Hughes of Foxcroft sent off
135 organs last month. They are employing
40 men and their weekly pay roll amounts to
$1,000.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Mr.. Enoch Avery, well known citizen of
Pennington, died on the 9TH inst, at the age
of 70 years. Mr.. Avery has always resided on
the homestead farm since when half a century
ago. he came with his axe and hewed down
the forest, cleared the fields and erected his
dwelling.
PENoBsCOT COUNTY.
The ice.in coming down the Mattawamkeag
carried away large lot of logs lying near the
bridge at Winn owned by John D. McKain
and d. F. Martin. The river is open from
Winn up, the ice having come down Tuesday,
doing considerable damage. The tannery was
overfowed so that the fires were put out and
work was suspended for the afternoon. About
four hundred logs lying below VIM village,
owned by W. II. Connors and B. +. Fernald,
were carried away from the landing. They
did not pass into the main river, however, and
may be saved. Quite number of telegraph
poles also floated down river.
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
Tuesday, at about noon, the barn of Mr.
Francis Whitmore of Bowdoinham was con.
Sumed by fire. AS Mr.. WhitmOre had not
visited the barn since that morning, he at once
came to the conclusion that it was the work of
an incendiary, and so informed P. X. Millay,
deputy sheriff, vino searched for the fre-bug.
Within an hour he arrested suspicious per-
son on Bowdoinham Ridge, named Wilbur G.
Austin, 20 years old. Thursday of last week
Austin was released from Wiscasset Jail,
where he served 80 days, having been placed
there as tramp. He afterwards appeared at
Richmond where he worked day or two and
then went to Bowdoinham He was lodged in
the lookup at Bowdoinham Monday night and
released the next morning. Tuesday afternoon
Austin was taken before Trial Justice j. S.
Patten of Bowdoinham. and pleaded guilty to
the charge.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Miss Eliza G. Longfellow of Machias, who
has devoted much time to collecting a histor-
ical or family record of the Longfellows,
dating back more than 200 years, has an in
vitatiOn with liberal compensation to visit
Cambridge, Mass, to assist by the written re-
cord she has, as well as by oral relation, in
making up the record of the family, now
numbering many hundreds of persons.
YORK COUNTY.
A mad dog was killed in Berwick Sunday.
Dayton elected board of Republican Off
GERS last Monday for the first time since it was
incorporated.
corn canning factory is to be build at
South WATERFORD the coming season.
David Clark is building ship of 1900 tons
at his yard in Kennebunk.