The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-11-06
MAINE.
Premiums mt the Late State Fair-sum,
Taken by the Different Counties.

MAIN ii.
Premiums at the Late State Fair--Sums
Taken by the Different Counties.
AUGUSTA, Nov. 5.-The treasurer's accounts
show that the total receipts of the State Fair
for 1883 in round numbers are rising $4,000.
The trotting premiums awarded and paid
amount to $S,275, divided among the several
counties as follows: Androscoggin $50; Cum
berland, $445; Hancock, $75; Kennebec, 1920:
Lincoln, $50; Oxford, $45; Penobscot, $367.-
30; Piscataquis, $50; Somerset, 1925; Waldo,
$3.50; Washington, $50, York, $4,000. Mas
sachusetts took $780, first prize in free for all
race, Halifax, N. 1925; Fredsrickton, N. B..
$1S750. The last two won for running races
The amount paid in 1882 for trotting premi-
ums was but so, ,335.00 Col. H. S. Osgood,
Treasurer, has just received the premium
books, from the Secretary, and is now prepar-
ed to pay to each person the amount awarded
The total amount of premiums awarded on live
stock is So, 1890; on agricultural implements,
crops and miscellaneous articles, $635.00; on
exhibits at hall 1886; paid to Maine State Pom
illogical Society, 1926.
One of PoIand's Summer Houses Gone.
MECHANIC FALLS, Nov. 5.-rhe Island
House on Thompson's Island, in Poland, was
burned Friday night. 1t was owned by Mr..
VIM. FL. Hutchinson and was built last season.
,& Burglars in WatervilIe.
WATERvILLE, Nov. 5.-The music store Of
G. ri. Carpenter was broken into and entered
last night and many articles taken therefrom.
The Old sabine.
RocKrAND ME- Nov E-Tha old war shin
Sabine, purchased by Capt. J. L. Snow, was
towed to this port from Portsmouth yesterday.
Intelligence has just reached this city of the
death of Mrs. Carrie E. Goodrich in Walla
Walls, w T., Nov 1st, aged 35 years, wife of
Levi J. Goodrich, Esq, and daughter of Rev.
S Allen of Augusta. Mrs Goodrich was
graduate of the female college at Kent's Hill
and took a high rank in scholarship.
BDDEFoRD.
A. & G. III. Goodwin have contracted to fur
nish 1000 yards of stone for a new bridge in
Lowell, Mass.
BUXTON.
Rev. d. W. lie Lacheur of Portland viii lee
ture in the Buxton lecture course at Grange
Hail. Buxton Centre depot, Wednesday even
ing, Nov. Il. His subject will be "Courtship
and Marriage"
The Calais Times says Mr.. Harris Hill,
nightwatchman in Calais city, has killed 73
bears on the st. Andrews road alone but has
not kept record of the large number he has
killed on other grounds. His only rival for the
bear Staying championship of Washington
county. is Mr.. Samuel Day of Wesley, who
has killed $50 in 20 years.. Mr.. Hill contem-
plates resigning his office of watchman, that
he may cultivate further acquaintance with
bruin. " . - - -
BRYEBURG.
Franklin Freeman Hutchins of West Frye
burg was thrown from his carriage Tuesday
evening, and died from the effects of injuries
then received at o'clock Thursday afternoon.
Mr.. Hutchins was born in Fryeburg in 1885.
He was graduate from Bowdoin College in
the class Of 1859.
HALLowELL.
There came very near being fatal accident
at the quarrieS last Friday afternoon. Chas.
s. Lane, engineer of one of the hosting en-
gines, was hoisting large stone, when the
rope passing over the drum not running right,
he attempted to kick it into place, when his
overalls were caught between the rope and the
drum, drawing his leg up to the thigh under
the rope and throwing him over the drum; as
he won't over he had the presence Of mind to
reach over and catch the throttle and throw it
back and at the same time throw the lever to
reverse the engine; and SO unwound himself
In another instant he would have been crush
ed to death if it had not been for his coolness
AS it was, his leg was terribly crushed and it
will be long time before he will be able to
work again.
LIMINGToN.
The children in this vicinity are doing quite
business in the woods, picking beech-nuts.
Mr.. Cyrus Small, of North Limington, and
family have moved to Fall River Mass, to
spend the Winter.
The firm of r. s. Webster & Bros, North
Limington, are building a new tenement for
the use Of their workmen. Mr.. John Hill has
the job.
A farmer in this vicinity has taken the
trouble to count the kernels on an ear of corn
He finds one which has 604 kernels upon it,
and 1884 kernels that grew upon one stalk, the
yield of one kernel.
Mr.. Charles e. Dimock of Limington Viii
lage has placed street lamp in front of his
residence, which lights up the street for quite
a distance in a dark night. 1t is hoped others
in the village may contract the same disease.
Mr.. j. f. Bracket of this town has an
apple tree of the "greening" variety, from
which he has taken upwards of 40 bushels of
apples this year, and all of the tree not bear
ing. This tree has produced about this crop on
every second year for number of years.
Rev. G. E. Blake of Madison, Me-, supplied
the pulpit of the Rev. T. F. Maxim at South
Limington on Sunday last.
LIvERMoRE.
Mrs. Thomas Gylfoil met with serious ac-
cident Tuesday, Oct 30th. She went into the
stall side of her horse, and the horse, feeling
cross opened his mouth, seized her by the
throat and side of the neck and face and threw
her down. He then began to paw violently,
and struck her with his foot upon the side of
her chest, breaking one iib A flesh wound
was made upon the throat over the windpipe
! and the jaw, near the angle, was bruised, and
tho scalp was also bruised. Mrs. Gylfoil is an
| old lady and partially crippled by former se-
| we're injuries caused by being run away with
| by horse when not quite all the bones in her
| body were broken, but she says there were
| "twenty-six breaks" in them at that time
Having been thus crippled, she could not save
herself so we'll on this last occasion. She is q
| widow and lives about three miles south of the
village of Livermore Falls.
NORWAY.
John Cfockett, one of the cutters at the
| Norway shoe shop, has, with the aid of his
dog and gun, captured eighty partridges this
| fall.
| PORTER.
| Mr.. Timothy Brooks, while at work telling
trees, Tuesday, Oct. 29th, was struck by fall
| ing tree and injured SO that he lived but two
| and one-half hours, says the Record.
! sACog
| Today, Mystic Tie Lodge, K. P, of Saco,
| will receive and entertain the Grand Lodge