The Portland daily press., 1883-05-23
STATE NEWS.
AvpRoscoaerN COUNTY.

ANDhoSCOd9iN COUNTY.
The Journal says Auburn's school popula
lation has fallen off by the assessors recent
census. The present population is 30ie
against 5Ooo, last year, q decrease OF 36.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The installation of Rev. @. II. Pope as pas.
tor OF the Congregational church at Farming
ton ia appointed for June 9th. A large coun.
ell viii be called
The journal says the Methodist society at
Pennington have kindly offered the use OF
their church TO the Congregational society dur
ing the coming conference june 1921.
The journal says the death OF Miss Eva I
her sister, Mrs. Thomas Newall, on the 14th
instant. Miss Whittier was student of the
Pennington Normal School some seven wears
since, and young lady Of superior mental en-.
dowments and brilliant prospects, but who II
VIII De remembered, met with terrible acci.
dent by being run into by a spirited team on
Main street, which inflicted an injury to her
back and shock to her system which not only
made II impossible to continue her course OF
study but confined her to the house an invalid,
I and as we learn, greater part of the time TO q
couch OF acute pain from then until her death.
Lewiston has closed a contract with the
North JAY Granite Company for 10000 or
more OF granite paving blocks TO be delivered
before September 18th. The contract demands
thirty.iye blocks TO square yard. The price
to be paid is Sil per 1000. The granite COM
pany will also furnish the stone for the foun-
dations and underpinning Of the State Fair
building in Lewiston.
KESNEBEc COUNTY.
The contractors will commence laying brick
Tor the new institute building at Wateryille
this week. While excavating for the founda-
ton the worknen found portions Of two sksi.
etons, one OF grown person, the other OF a
child. This Is accounted for in the fact that
the lot was used for burial ground. before
the old graveyard was laid out. CONNECTING
with this lot, now Monumental Park there
were three lots, given by Timothy Boutele
and Abel Hovey, for meetnghouse, academy
and burial.
OXFORD COUNTY
The Democrat says diphtheria is raging al
Bryants' Pond, and in some cases has resulted
fatally.
PENoBscor COUNTY.
The salmon caught this season in the Penob-
scot river have nearly all weighed over twenty
pounds apiece, and IL is thought, by fisher
men, that the run Of salmon will this year be
large.
The Commercial says few days ago Mr.. @.
H. Haokett, proprietor of the Patten House,
fatten, was driving span OF horses. He
stood up In the wagon to put his oyercoat on
when the horses suddenly started and he was
thrown out of the wagon, striking on his head
and shoulders. Il will be some time before he
will fully recover from the effect of the fall.
The Whig says that Charles Stevens. who
made an assault on the family OF Rufus Lamb.
near Moosehead Lake on the 10Th OF last
April, Is now in custody 1t will be remem-
bered that the fellow was arrested in Kineo
shortly after the deed, but subsequently made
his escape An attempt was made to recapture
him at the East 5utlet, but Stevens had q
rifle and by threatening to shoot any one who
should come near him, he escaped into the
woods. On Friday Of last week he was finally
captured by Deputy Sheriff Otis Martin
sAGApAHoc COUNTY
The Times says Bath is excited over the
hnding Of trunk IN the woods near Sewall's
mill pond. When found the trunk had In il
various articles, iewelry, etc., which would
lead one to suppose that IL belonged to q lady,
On the leaves Of Bible was the name Of b
II. Meader. IL Is possible, says the Times,
that from the way the things were found
strewn around on the ground and the broken
condition Of the lock would indicate that some
one had stolen the trunk and having hid it
there, had taken from time to time all the
valuable things which 1t contained and left
only the relics found in 1t.
IN GENERAL.
The Oxford Democrat says that a mutual re-
lief association has been organized In the
Order Of Good Templars with similar aims
and purposes CT tho reliefs OF Masons and Odd
Fellows. The Good Templars now humber
over 10000 in Maine.
The penalty for catching blass bass OF white
perch between TIE fret day of April and the
first day OF July following is not less than $40
nor more than $50, and further penalty OF
81 for each fish thus caught or killed. The
Commissioners of Fisheries have made ar
rangemeDts for the prompt enforcement OF
this law, especially Ia those sections where
black bass are beginning TO multiply.