The Portland daily press., 1882-11-15
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY

ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY.
shoe factory, $50 feet long, will probably
be built in Lewiston next spring.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The mystery of the nondescript reptile in
Webb's Pond, Weld has not been solved yet
1t has been seen by number, but always at
such distance, and moving with such speed
as to be impossible to give a correct descrip-
ton of it.
Miss Kate Kurdish of Brunswick spent most
OF last summer in the northern portion of
Franklin county searching for plants. She
says that her labors have been rewarded by
the discovery of several rare species, which
have attracted the attention of some OF the
most eminent botanists in the country
Thompson s. Hall of Portland have large
corn shop in Jay. They employ fifty hands
and put up $50 900 cans of sweet corn, bought
OF the farmers in the vicinity. They are now
canning apples. Richmond & Thompson are
building several houses for the use OF their
employees.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The Mt. Desert Herald says last Thursday
the schooner Susan of Sargentvi Capt. Otis
Candage, finished loading paving, and dropped
down from East Bluehill to Bluehil Neck.
where the captain lived. He anchored in ten
fathoms of water and he and the crew went
ashore for the night When they came down
in the morning they found the vessel sunk,
with nothing but her topmasts out
kENNEBEC COUNTY.
Mr.. Parker Patten of Gardiner dropped
dead Monday He was eighty years Of age
and had been affected with heart disease
The Kennebec and Boston Steamboat Com
pany does not have in contemplation the build
ing of an 500 ton propeller, to be placed on the
route between the kennebec river and Boston
OXFORD COUNTY.
An Andover correspondents of the Democrat
says: Experience is proving that it is not ab-
soutely necessary to emigrate to Aroostook
county or to the Northwest in order to raise
good wheat. The Caldwell Brothers Of that
place get yield of 19a bushels per acre, and
total crop of 79 bushels the past season.
Hon. Elbridge Gerry and wife of Portland
have been stopping for some time in Paris.
Capt. Albert Winslow and wife of South
Paris celebrated their silver wedding on Sat-
urday, Nov. 4. A large company of relatives
and friends met at his home and enjoyed the
pleasant occasion: many tokens of friendship
and kind wishes were left by the party. Mr.
Winslow has always lived on his farm on the
High st,eet road which is one of the pleasant
est places in Paris.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The Wing says that boy in Bangor by the
name of Parsons, living out on Saltwater ave-
nue. about two miles, shot himself accidental
lY Sunday afternoon, the ball taking effect in
his wrist The wound is not serious one.
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
James Henderson was robbed Of watch
and chain, Thursday night, in Bath, while
sleeping.
The Times says boy named George Rich
ardson, employed in Bath livery stable, was
severely hurt by being kicked by horse.
The Bath Times says: When the lady who
represented Dolly button In Hazel Kirke re-
turned to the dressing room in the hall last
Thursday evening al the close Of an act, she
was startled by the sight of a man entering
the dressing room by an open window. The
lady screamed and as the company ran to her
assistance the intruder fed A ladder had
been placed at the window and the would-be
thief had made an entry in that way. The
manager of the Madison Square Hazel Kirke
Company protests against dressing room
with no curtains or window fastenings. The
The window of the dressing room is but one
| story from the ground at tue back side OF the
hall. 1t is most probable that the motive of
the attempted entry was robbery The ladder
was taken from a yard near.