The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-08-22
THE STATE.
ANnRoscoGGrN CouNrY

ANDRoSCoGGIN COUNTY.
A correspondent writes from the Empire
Grove camp ground, East Poland that the
regular annual meeting commences August
oath and closes the 31st. There is every
prospect Of q M large gathering It will be in
preachers have been invited and are expect
ed to be present during the meeting. The
association is managed by board of direct
Ors and is free from debt Among the sum-
mer residents are several families from
Massachusetts, Portland and other distant
towns in the State.
KNOX COUNTY.
Capt Edward Nye, prominent citizen of
Warren, died suddenly Tuesday while at the
dinner table, by the bursting of blood
vessel.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The cook house was in process of erection
ON the muster grounds Thursday. 1t is
but about fifty feet in length. The boiler for
the steam cooking has arrived on the
grounds, and there will be ten tanks in
which all the food for the troops will be
cooked. All the tents for the occupancy of
the Second Regiment are pitched and por-
tion Of those belonging to the First. From
appearances now this will be one of the best
arranged camps the State has ever had.
The Hallowell Granite Company has sue
eessfully quarried a long stone for the shaft
to monument 1t is 43 feet long and four
feet square, without blemish in it, and will
weigh about so tons. 1t is doubtful if such
stone could be quarried anywhere else in the
country.
The Kennebec Journal states that the
plans for the new steamer of the Kennebec
Steamboat Company have already been pre-
pared. The craft will be larger than the
Star OF the East, and similar to the steamer
Cumberland She will run between Boston
and the Kennebec
The ceremony of laying the corner stone
OF the new Episcopal church at Augusta will
occur on Saturday, the 29th inst. The Bishop
will be present and clergymen of the
denomination.
Detective True of Hallowell wanted pho
tograph of Wood, the murderer, but he would
not consent to be took" for he said some
body wanted to make money out Of the sale
of his pictures.
Miss Hattie l.. Estey, graduate of Welles.
ley College, has been engaged to fill the chair
in COburn Classical Institute, Waterville,
filed by Miss Kicker whose protracted i'll
ness now renders it very doubtful of her
ever being able to resume her duties
PIscATAQUIs COUNTY.
Mr.. Charles Chase, while attempting to
board moving engine at Blanchard, missed
his footing and was thrown under the train.
But With presence of mind he lay still and
the cars passed over him without injuring
him. Those who saw it say it was very
narrow escape from serious injury.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
The members of the Junior class at the
Maine State College have elected officers as
follows: President, j. Fl. Burleigh; Vice
President, G. t. Vose; Secretary, Miss A. A.
Hicks; Treasurer l.. p. Cilley; Historian.
A. r. Saunders; Executive Committee-H
S. Webb, E. V. Coffin and H. A. McNally.
There is an air of life at Katahdin Iron
Works this season owing to the rebuilding of
the Works, which were burned year and a
half ago, such as has not been witnessed for
some time. The company, through Mr.. o.
W. Davis, agent, is replacing the buildings
burnt, with better ones, reconstructing the
furnace, rebuilding the dam, repairing the
saw mill, and making many other improve
ments This gives employment to large
number of men.
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
A meeting of the Good Templars of Saga
dah0c county is called to meet with Merry-
meeting Lodge of Bowdoinham, on Wednes-
day, Aug. Goth, at O'Clock in the afternoon,
for the purpose Of recognizing the District
Lodge, which has for some months been
dormant. There are eleven lodges of the
order reported in Sagadahoc county.
The marriage Of Mr.. Arthur NJ. Thomas
and Miss Carrie A. Odiorne took place at the
Congregational church at Richmond at
O'Clock Thursday afternoon. The contract
ing parties having been connected with the
Richmond High School for a number of
years as principal and assistant teacher
have many friends in the village and the
ceremony being public, the church was filed.
Our Richmond correspondent writes as
follows concerning recent race ON the Ken
bee, reported in the State papers: The item
in Thursdays PRESS regarding race be-
tween the steamers Islander and Wiwurna is
rather misleading in its statements. The
W1wurna, upon which was an excursion
party from Richmond and Dresden, made
two stops between Richmond and Bath, and
at the second place, Thwing's Point, four
miles below Richmond, she waited, after
taking aboard her passengers, for the
Islander to go ahead then started out and
kept an easy distance from the Islander
without perceptible gain or loss until Bath
brush would have been relished by some of
the passengers on the Wiwurna, at least, but
Capt. Lowe said, with the party he had on
board he would not race; and if any extra
eexertions were made on the Wiwurna to hold
her place. it was unknown to the interested
passengers This statement is made only in
the interest Of fairness.
". F. Morgan & Co. of Richmond, whose
lease Of the shoe factory has lust expired.
have renewed it for term of five years.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Wednesday afternoon during the shower,
as the local passenger train for Bangor was
Scudd1ng along inst this side of Clinton,
thunderbolt leaped from the heavens appar-
emily in direct course towards the smoking
car. just before reaching the coach, how
ever, 1t yeered to one side, struck a post by
the roadside and entered the ground, tearing
up the earth in a singular manner. The
crash of the bolt was deafening and passen-
gers on the train were momentariIy stunned.
At first it was thought that a car had been
Struck