The Portland daily press., 1885-05-08

AsHLAND.
Messrs. Clayton OF Ashland lost about $1,000
worth OF property in the recent freshet, aud
| the towns loss is between $500 and $500.
Building operations will be greatly retarded.
BRUNSWICK,
The .cow.catcher on ths locomo tive OF the
midnight train from Lewiston to Brunswick,
was found TO be shivered and splintered when
the train reached Brunswick Tuesday night.
The marks were plain where it had struck o
rock or some other obstacle on the track
BIDDEFoRD.
A new candidate has begun an active can
yass for the Biddeford post Office. He is
Charles e. Goodwin, the cashier of the Bidde.
ford National Bank, and he is liable to come
IN as compromise between the factions who
have bsen making a red-hot fight for the place
Mr. Goodwin's friends seem to think that
Arthur Sewall is power with the administra-
ton.
cAsTINE.
The four young men of Castine who were
trled and convicted for manslaughter last fall.
have served their six months imprisonment in
Bangor jail, and arrived home last week.
ELLSWORTH.
Mr. f. H. Fsssett of Portland, is making
plans for Hancock county buildings. The cost
OF the buildings will be about $50 600 The
lall Will not be removed from its present loca-
tion, but the county offices will all be in the
new building.
KITrERY.
The United States marines who went so
Dravely off to Panama from Kttery, returned
tuesday. They had no fighting except among
themselves.
While Captain Jack of the Salvation Army
was in Boston recently, burglars entered his
house and took tin box containing between
S0o and $75, besides few articles of furni-
ture.
LIMESTONE.
Two horses were killed in Limestone last
week on account of the terrible state of the
roads. Ones leg was broken and the other
burst blood vessel while houndering in the
snow drifts.
MACHIAs.
A young man living in Machias started Fri.
day unbeknown to and against his fathers
wishes to go to Gardiner tu work in the mills.
AS soon as the father found out that his son
mad left town he sent a messenger to Machias-
port to bring him back, the steamer not hav-
Ing arrived from Eastport No sooner was he
delivered at ths parental domicile than he took
leg bail for the Port, and arriving in season,
went aboard the boat in triumph. He had
made up his mind to go to Gardiner aud TO
that place he went.
oRoNo.
Wednesday morning the wire rope across
the Penobscot river at Orono, to which is at
tached the large ferry-boat, broke while the
latter was in the middle of the river and the
boat was taken by the swift current and car
ried distance down the river and lodged on
the rocks in the rapids below.
oRRINGToN.
Wednesday, May 9th, was observed as Arbor
Oay by Enterprise Grange of Orrngton, each
male member planting one or more trees on
the grounds surrounding their hall.
POLAND.
A corporation called the "Electric Piano
Company" with capital stock of 800. 900, par
valua OF shares 800 each, was formed MAY ID
at the Poland Spring House. The company is
formed to push the manufacture and sale of
a device patented by Matthew Delaney of
Boston, which, it is said, when applied to a
piano, gives the instrument the sustained
tones OF an organ. This company elected as
officers: Owen L. Briggs, Boston, president:
George w. Brown, Boston, treasurer; Edward
Z. Kicker, South Poland, secretary.
wATERvILLE.
Abram Perry died at Waterville, Monday,
aged 9o years. He was the oldest man in the
town, and the father of the wife of Judge
Smell of Washington.
wINNEGANCE.
The McCutchings' residence at Winnegance
was built in 1925, and is said to be the Oldest
in Maine. 1t is in perfect state of preserva-
tion. and one of the best in the village The
frame is composed of white oak of the largest
dimensions, the sills being nearly twelve
inches square.
THE ILLINOIS SHN a TOP SurD