The Portland daily press., 1885-07-10
THE STATE.
ARoosrooK COUNTY.

ARoosTooK COUNTY.
The Rev. Father Pineau, of North Carl
bOu, is making life miserable for the rum
sellers,in in his town.
ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.
The maddest man of the season is said to
be the Lewiston bass-fsherman who caught
the keel of a neighboring boat one day re-
Gently, and reeled in and spun out and played
with the keel of the boat about two minutes
before he found that he was trying to land
Cobosseecontee skiff with a 12-Ounce trolling
rod.
KNOX COUNTY.
City Constable Orne still wages war against
the Rockland liquor sellers. Thursday he
was arrested for trespass on a civil suit in
stituted by John Welsh, and placed under
bonds. Welsh's attorneys viii attempt to
prove that Orne was not legally elected,
claiming that as the city charter says the
cOnstables shall be elected on the second
Monday in March, or as soon thereafter as
convenient and as Orne was not elected un-
til May 18th, the law was not complied with,
and also that the city clerk was Illegally au-
thorized to cast the vote of the convention.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
Last Saturday morning the deck hands on
the steamer Star OF the East were ordered to
do some cleaning up before the boat arrived
in Gardiner so they could get through earli-
er when they got there. 1t was the 4th OF
July and they showed their independence
by refusing duty. Capt. Collins discharged
them all when they arrived at Gardiner, and
a new crew employed before the boat sailed
Monday.
The Kennebec journal says the action of
the HallOwell city council in taking steps to
establish high school instead of sending
the high oohool eeholars to the Classical
School as heretofore, has awakened great
deal of discussion among the people as to
the. adviSability of the courSe-as without
the income received by the Classical School
from the city for the tuition Of its high school
scholars, that institution cannot go on.
The June number of the Classical has been
eceiVed.
Rev. c. F. Penney, pastor Of the Free Bap-
tist church at Augusta, has been obliged on
account Of i'll health to send in his resigna
ton. The matter has M not vet vet been be acted up-
on by the church. This is Mr.. Penney's
first and only charge, says the Kennebec
Journal, having come directly from college
here, and next August will complete his %
years as pastor of the church. Mr.. Penney
has been an earnest and devoted worker, and
is today one of the strongest elergymen of
his society. He proposes shortly to go-to
some retired place in the country where he
can recover his health.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
Mr.. r. V. Moore Of Bangor, postal clerk
on the Bangor and VanceborO route, has re-
signed his position, to take effect July 18th.
Mr.. Moore is one of the Oldest clerks in
Maine, having completed his sixteenth year
on the European branch July 1st.
sAGADAHoc COUNTY.
The steamer and apparatus for raising the
steamer Mary Lee which lies off Small
Of the wreck. They entertain the most SAN
guine hopes in regard to raising the boat.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Mr.. j. c. Pillsbury and wife returned to
their home in Palmyra Sunday. after short
absence, and found two valuable Jersey cows
dead on the barn floor, and another in the
barnyard dying. An investigation showed
that a large quantity of rotten apples and
potatoes covered with Paris igreen had been
thrown into the pasture, where eight or ten
more cattle and two valuable colts were also
| pastured Another COW was found near the
| fence sick, and has since died.
WALDO COUNTY.
One day last week, says the Belfast Jour
| nal, woman arrived in this city on the BOs-
| cured team and driver and was driven to
| the town of Brooks Arriving at the home
| Of Mr.. Levi Miles, she entered and seized a
| child about three years old, jumped into the
the afternoon boat for Boston. The woman
/ was MRS. Nathan Miles, and the child was
| her own daughter There had been trouble
| in her family. Her child had been taken
| from her some time ago, and it was not until
/ last week that she knew of her whereabouts.
YORK COUNTY.
The little daughter of Mr. Leonard Allen,
| of Wells, was so severely burned two weeks
4 ago as to die from her injuries Saturday al
ter severe sutferings.
IN GENERAL
Barnum has had hard luck in Maine on
| this trip. Rain and mud have curtailed the
street parades and interfered with the per-
| formances, to the pecuniary loss of the man
agement and the disappointment of the poo
pie.