The Portland daily press., 1882-09-22
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoeeIN COUNTY.

ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY.
Mr.. James Harrison of Lewiston has sold,
to Boston parties his blood hound, the price
paid being $25. The dog will join an Uncle
Toms Cabin company, and went to Boston by
American Express Tuesday night. He will no
doubt be advertised as a genuine Louisiana
slave hunter.
The house occupied by e. Mason, head of
Sabatis pond, Greene, was burned Saturday
A lad discovered the fire in the stable, and Mr.
Mason had only time to get out one cow Be-
sides sthe buildings, two cows two swine,
eight tons of hay and all his farm produce
were burned. The house was owned by Mr..
Reed.
A leading Auburn shoe manufacturer said
Thursday, that that business has not been so
good since the war as IL is at the present time,
and the outlook for good fall and winter
trade is very bright. The Auburn shops are
running at their full capacity, and some exec +
lent goods are being made. The shipments
are hot quite SO large as at the corresponding
date last year, as several firms, during the year
have gone out OF the business, but the trade was
never SO steady, and full of good prospects for
the future.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
Through the enterprise OF many of the per-
sons who were harmed out in the great fire at
Gardiner, new houses of modern style and of
greater value. are in the process II erection in
every part of the burned district.
In the dwelling house occupied by Mr. Peleg
Wilcox, near Monmouth Cent 9, during one
of the recent hot days. tin pan was put in
such position in the sun, to dry, that its re-
hected condensed rays burned hole through
panel of door, and was only prevented
from burning the house by an almost acciden-
tai discovery.
Egbert G. Vincent of Waterville, N. Y,
who is visiting friends in Brooklyn, after stroll
ing along the bay shore on Saturday afternoon,
lay down and fell asleep in an inviting spot
shaded by pear tree, near the Delapaine
House, in Twenty-ninth street. A goat came
along, and shifting about, discovered the edge
of a roll of greenbacks, amounting to $175,
protruding from vest pocket drew them out
and devoured $16o before Vincent awoke.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The Commercial SAYS: A valuable mare. be-
longing to Mr.. John Lyons, of Bangor, was ae-
cidently driven, Tuesday night into a trench
on state street, Bangor, and, it is feared, is
ruined.
sAGADAHoc COUNTY.
OF the 100000 required to build the pro-
jected machine shops in Bath, $50, 900 have al
ready been subscribed.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Boomer & Fields, North Arson, have shipp-
ed three car loads of canned corn to Detroit,
Michigan, by the way of the Grand Trunk
railway. The canned corn business is fast be-
coming an important industry in this part of
the State.
The Reporter says the Somerset Mutual As
ISOLATION have issued circulars for their 10Th
annual convention, to take place in the Meth
odist chutch in Skowhegan, October Sd, 4th,
9th and 9th.
The Reporter says: Mr.. Alonzo Kimball, of
Harmony, who applied for pension, about
three years ago, has just received a cheek for
nine hundred and fifty dollars with pension
certihcate OF four dollars per month, which
was received from 1862.
While assisting to extinguish a FIRE on the
Ira Page house, last week, Mrs. W. Gray tacci-
IDENTIFY fell against a window, and cut her
wrist badly by the glass.