The Portland daily press., 1882-08-02
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STATE NEWS.
PENoBscor COUNTY.

The Whig says Capt. j. s. Kicker, of Ban
gor, broke his right leg Saturday by junping
from his carriage.
The Commercial reports ravages of the army
worm about Bangor.
The Bangoreans complain OF the dead eelS
they haul out of their water pipes.
The Whig says the farmers in Penobscot
county are making splendid progress haying,
and large part of the immense crop is already
housed in prime condition. Mr.. Elijah Smith,
of Bangor, has already housed over two hum
dred tons and expects to harvest in all nearly
three hundred tons from about one hundred
and fifty acres
The Wing says two of Sargent & Sons ice
houses at Brewer Village were struck Friday
evening and injured to considerable extent.
A barn in Newport belonging to Charles Saw
yer, was struck by the lightning and much
damaged, but was not much burned. A barn
in Garland. belonging to A. Merriam, was also
shattered IN the storm.
The Whig says ID. D. Stewart, esq, counsel
for Barron estate, Hon. Joseph Titcomb, and
W. w. Bolster, ex-bank examiner, have been
at Dexter most of the time since the adjourn
ment of the examination, looking into the
bank books and records in the Cashier Barron
affair. They claim to have made encouraging
progress in their labors, but the exact nature of
of what they have done is not announced.
sAGADAHoc COUNTY.
Goss & Sawyer have bought the land along
the east side of Water street, Bath, and other
property upon which the Maine Central are
going to run track to the new lower yard.
The firm is going to build a larger machine
shop, and intend in year or two to build iron
ships.
The steam whaler building at Bath is all
right now, and will make trial trip Monday.
The Times says Mrs. Enoeh Reed, of Bath,
while at the sink, Thursday was Mortified by
the sudden appearance of a snakes head at
the sink hole. Mrs. Reed was so frighten ed at
the sight that her cries reached the neighbor's 8
ears and they came running - see what ser-
GUS thing had happened. Mrs. Reed snatched
her child at the outset and got up on the table.
The snake glided out of the hole and around
the floor A boy got an axe and killed it. 1t
proved to be spotted adder, three feet long
by actual measurement. The sink spout runs
| off into box, and it is supposed the snake
| crawled up it for water.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
| The Times says Mr.. Daniel Morrison, a
| workman at Extract SO, was severely scalded
| by the bursting of o tube while he was cleaning
| out boiler last week. His recovery is doubt.
| full.
The Times says the Topsfeld people have in
| troduced new method of defraying church
| expenses. A dance " as held in that place last
| week. the proceeds of which we're given to the
| minister towards payment OF his salary.
The Times says the affairs of the firm of 2.
| Rolfe's Sons of Princeton, will probably be ad-
| justed by the payment of % per cent. There
| seems Dc general ulSpOSltlOu aLnouS tuo olcu-
| itors to accept that amount, and permit the
| firm to continue the business
| The Herald says Mrs. Jane Mahar of Penn
| broke has been missing from her home since
| Tuesday of last week, and all efforts to solve
| the mystery of her sudden disappearance SO far
| have been unsuccessful. Mrs Mahar is lady
| 81 years old and has for some time lived alone
| at her home Mrs. Mahar's mind has been
clouded for several years and it is thought dur
| ing one of her attrcks of alteration that she
wandered away into the thick growth of wood
| which covered large tract in the near vcini-
| ty of her home, and perished of hunger and
| exnnSurR