The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-04
BATH.

BATH.
The new ship B. f. Packard, Capt. Water
house, was towed to sea Thursday, by the Ade-
liza and Resolute. While going down the river
in taking the anchor aboard, the man that was
tending the fall let it go before the men were
ready, and it cAme down on one of the sailors
feet and mashed il fearfully. The man was
brought to Ba ID ia the tng. The foot was al
most mashed to jelly, and three of the toes
had to be amputated.
BRowNFIELD.
Within the past week, eight persons have
been buried In this town, and many others are
now sick There have been more deaths in
town during the past month than the whole six
months preceding. Coughs, sore throats and
severe colds are very common.
DEXTER.
Last Friday, while Joe Leighton was up to
his place, on the Eaton road, with his team,
his horse suddenly commenced to tremble vic
len,ly, says the Gazette. Leighton commence
ed to unharness it, and had succeeded in re-
moving all but the bride, when the horse
dropped TO tha ground. 1t laid there two or
three minutes, when it jumped up and attack
cd Leighton with moath and feet. Leighton
took to the woods, where he lodged the beast
among the trees for some fifteen minutes. when
it again fell. Leighton, not wishing another
attack, killed the horse where it lay.
GREENWOOD.
John Roberts met with a bad accident by
cutting OF two of his largest toes and cutting
another severely, while in the woods, Friday.
HALLowELL.
Friday forenoon there was fire in the bar
ness shop of D. W. Flagg. The fire was well
under way before it was discovered. The stock
was badly damaged, and the building WAS
thoroughly Quilted. There was an insurance
on the bulldog and stock. The building be-
lopged to the estate of the late Charles A.
Page.
Mr., NJ. Y. Stone, blacksmith at Jay bridge,
on Wednesday. while attempting to pass an
other team ,colided with q team bitched by the
side of tne road near the steam box mill aud
was thrown violently from his carriage, break
ing both bones OF his right leg below the knee.
The bone was driven through the flesh and
skin so that about four inches of it protruosd,
yet MIR. Stone hoped up, picked up his robes,
put them into his wagon and was going to get
Ill himself without help, but some who had
come TO hls assistance helped him in ana
wanted to drive home for him but he preferred
to take the reiHs himself, and drove home.
His recovery is doubtful.
NEWCASTLE.
Among the works of art that adorn the home
of Hen. Edwin Fl,e, in Newcastle, none are
more admired than the superior pictures by his
daughter, Addie. Miss Fiye is an amateur
painter of rare talent, She is now in Boston
availing herself OF the best instruction the city
affords in her iavorite art.
PARIS.
The Advertiser understands that response
BILE party will soon rebuild on the sits of the
late Jackson's Mills Co. at So. Paris.
IN GENERAL.
At a meeting of the York County Teachers
Association which closed Saturday in Bidde-
ford, the following were elected officers for the
ensuing year: President, B. P. Snow, Bidde-
ford; Vice President, w. g. Lord, Lining ton; |;
Secretary and Treasurer, Miss Lydia M. Chad
wick, Saco; Executive Committee, Moses j.
Haines, Biddeford; Theodore L. Young, Saco;
Miss Luella Jordan. .Kennebunk. The next
meeting of the association will be held in Ber-
wick in May, 1884.