The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-08-13
FULTON talks of the electric light.


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Houlton talks of the electric light.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.
The Androscoggn mill at Lewiston started
up yesterday. The interval since the shut
ting down of the mill has been improved by
a change of position of the shafting and a
general lining up of the shafting throughout
the mill
An Auburn lady called on Mayor Haskell
the other day with the alarming news that
there was a dead cat in the street near her
house. She had put her bonnet on and had
come Immediately to tell him and to find out
what to do. The Mayor told her to advise
her husband to bury it.
Heretofore the expense in postage and
labor OF mailing the premium lists of the
State Fair to all of the life members has been
very large the postage alone amounting to
number of hundred dollars. This year the
trustees propose to mail to the exhibitors
only, and to deposit in some leading business
place In each city, town and village enough
copies SO that all who wish may call and get
one.
Says the Lewiston Journal In a town in
this county, Sunday the day was marked by
a vigorous sermon preached from a pulpit in
the town. to prove that the earth doesn't re-
vOlye on its axis, but that the sun do move. 2
The preachers best argument was Joshua's
command to the sun to stand still From
logical basis the preacher is said to have
settled the question in favor of the superior
activity of the sun.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
Carpenters are busily engaged on the fair
ground at Gray, and buildings are being COM
pleted as fast as possible
A Bath Times correspondent saws that
brunswick needs no police force since the
Salvation Army came to town; $500 has been
saved in police court expenses.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
On the 4th inst, at Surry, Mr. BENZ. Lord,
q gentleman IS years of age, and in his
dotage, went into the woods near home, in
the afternoon, got lost, and remained out all
search for him as soon as he was missed,
which was continued until late into the
night, but he could not be found till the next
morning. When asked if he was lost, he
replied, mo, but was afraid I should get
lost, ears ago, when he was a child, a
family lived on the other side of the belt of
woods, and he left home with the idea that
ne was going to cross these woods as of old,
to visit that family.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
A Monmouth correspondent of the Lewis
ton journal reports the following feat
clarence, aged IL years, son of John Wing,
Of the firm of Robinson & Wing box manu-
facturers North Monmouth, nailed together
| $50 boxes in six hours. 1t took 80 nails to
each box, and two edges of each box he
planned.
The only murder ever before committed in
Gardiner was in August, 1898, when a crazy
man thinking he was inspired to make a
sacrifice and offer burnt offering, burned
the Episcopal church, then nearly completed
and intended to kill the minister as the sacri-
fee, but not being, able to do this he killed
woman OF the same name.
The Kennebee Reporter displayed its en-
terprlse in issuing an extra Tuesday noon
with good account of the Gardiner murder
The Gardiner murderer was taken to
Augusta in carriage to avoid the crowds
that surrounded the railroad stations.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Miss Blanche Willis Howard had row
boat called the dude stolen at Wiscasset,
Monday night.
OXFORD COUNTY.
AS Mrs. Araminta Merrill of Andover was
! sitting. by an open window at her home a few
| days since, a rifle bullet lodged in the shrub
berry only few feet from her
The Democrat says that a Mormon elder
has been holding forth in Norway. Some
say he has made few converts.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
| The ice on the Penobscot is pretty well
| cleaned up, says the Commercial and has
been sold at fairly remuneratiye prices.
The. present season, among all lumbermen,
is by far the dullest summer for numbering
| OAPCllCliNSu VI bllG GilODSCOG lOI Il llllI0DeI
| of years.
The Freshman class at the State College
numbers rs. The new monthly to be pub
| lished will be called The Cadet, and will
appear the last of the present month.
The Cambridge carried 400 passengers from
Bangor to Boston Monday night, the largest
number for the season.
The trustees of the East Maine Conference
| Seminary have secured the services of Miss
/ Eva r.. Pike who will haun oh - flo
music department of that institution during
] the ensuing year. Miss Pike is graduate
from the New England Conservatory of
MUSIC, with supplementary studies in the
| College of Music of Boston University.
There is to be a grand reunion of the
Patrons of Hnsbandry at Phillips Pond. near
Bangor, next Wednesday, The following
| speakers are expected to be present and adj
dress the meeting: Gov. Frederick Robbie,
| Worthy State Master, Hon. d. H. Thing OF
Mount 1l Vernon Past Worthy State Master,
Hon. Isaac X. Clark of Bangor A. j. Lock
hart OF Orrington, and others. There will be
| basket picnic dinner in the grove
| The salmon fishermen have had bad luck
| at Bangor for some time past. Not a salmon
| has been taken there for three weeks There
are large numbers of the fish, and their re-
1usal to bite cannot be accounted for by the
| anglers.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
| Detectives Ira True of Hallowell, and A.
7. Mahoney of Boston, went to Pittsfield
| Monday and succeeded in arresting Albert
1; Wright, wanted in Boston for embezzling
$500 from his employers
Mrs. Ruth Bowman, wife of ]. ]. Bowman
of Fairfield, was found dead in bed Sunday
morning, She had been having some trouble
Win her heart Tor year or more.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Since Vanceboro was Incorporated. eleven
| years ago, it has nearly doubled its popula-
ton. 1t is yet growing.
An Eastport young lady has pet alligator
| which she carries around in velvet bag
YORK COUNTY.
Mr. Absalom Bowdoin of Saco, rs years
| old, was lost in the woods five miles from
that city, Monday. A searching party went
| after him the next morning. After securing
the woods for several hours the old gentlee7
man was found about 10 o'clock in a weak
| condition.
IN GENERAL.
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