The Portland daily press., 1882-08-15
STATE NEWS.
ANDRoscoaGIN COUNTY.

ANDROSCOGGM COUNTY.
The Journal says it is settled that pink-eye,
as we'll as lightning, may strike twice In the
same place. Many horses in Lewiston and
Auburn stables are suffering second autacK
of severe type.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Phonograph SAYS that Mrs. Il. Hinkley
of Rangeley, saw two small deer not far from
the barn, Monday evening. They were very
tame, and as she said, very pretty. She
watched them for some time. when finally they
left and went into the woods
Albion Young of Pennington, has a sword
that was used in the French and Indian war
by an ancestor by the name of Tyler. 1t bears
the marks of its hard usage in the war.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The Jouryal SAYS Thursday G. M. Bailey's
large black dog, Nero, ran mad. The rabld
animal was shot Thursday afternoon in Man
chester. in the woods The dog when discov-
covered was swapping at and tearing MS sldes
in q frightful manner. 1t is not known
whether the rabid animal bit any other dogs
or not.
The Augusta Journal says Hon. j. W. Pat
terson has five barns filled with some seventy
five tons of hay which, on Thursday came
near being set on fire in singular manner.
Some men from the quarry near by, had taken
refuge from the hot sun in the shady side OF
the building, and while there blaze was seen
to suddenly spring up in the grass and famed
by a breeze Immediately start to run towards
the barns. The men quickly took steps to ex-
tinguish the flames, but had they not been
there the property would soon have been de-
stroyed. On seeking Tor the the cause cause, ~ IL WAS sSs
hot sun on pitch pine board and the dry stuff
which surrounded it.
The Mail says Mr.. H r. Butterfeld OF
Wateryille, who has long been known as an
Alabama claimant, for the loss OF cargo OF
shovel handles during the war, IS encouraged
to hope that his claim will be allowed.
The Waterville Mail, one of the ablest of
our State exchanges, has just entered upon its
thirty y-sixth volume.
OXFORD COUNTY.
Nellie G. Churchill, a little girl ten or twelve
wears old, of Paris while climbing, fell and
broke her arm.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
correspondent of the Whig doubts very
much that any Messina quails have ever re-
turned to Msine.
The Commercial syas mackerel fishing is an
ent1re failure this season. Very few have been
taken from Penobscot up to the present date
Many people along the shore are inclined to
believe that the menhaden steamers are, not
withstanding the oft-repeated denials OF the
charge, seining for mackerel along the Maine
coast.
Charles Libby OF Exeter, son OF A. L. Libby,
died Of lockjaw, Saturday morning. He was
Is years of age.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
South Waldoboro reports not so dry for If
teen years as now.
WALDO COUNTY.
Bya falling stage at Carter's yard, Belfast,
Saturday, Joseph B. Varnum had an arm
broken. Three others were badly bruised.
The Ellsworth American affirms that the
statement that Gardner, who was arrested at
Northport, Sunday week, formerly lived IN
Penobscot county, is an error. IL Is now stated
that he was born and raised in Ohio, and
never lived In Maine.
YORK COUNTY.
The Journal says a twelve year old girl
named Susie Giblin, while bathing with other
girls. below Whites wharf, at Biddeford, fell
into hole, and had it not been for the timely
arrival of Edward Brennan, would have
drowned.
A woman in Biddeford, who has had consid-
erable to do with the nursing OF children,
| claims that she can cure any case of Group by
sim ,ly taking a piece of cotton batting, pull
| ing it out and twisting and tying it about the
| afflicted ones throat.
IN GENERAL.
| Over twenty barrels of mackerel became en-.
| tancled in the eelgrass between Fishing and
| Gerrish's islands, Portsmouth harbor, OIL
| Thursday last. and were left on the flats when
| the tide ebbed; they were secured II lots o.
| from two to five barrels each, by parties from
| Kitterv point. Two barrels of mackerel wert
takan with lines the same day by amateur fish