The Portland daily press., 1885-11-28


bears this fall.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The annual. meeting for the election OF
officers for Franklin Central ASricuitnral %
cety for the ensuing year occurred WeuheS-
| day. The following officers were elected
President. Adam Hunter: vice president J.
NJ. Lambert, J. NJ. Hutchins; secretary, T.
j. Giikey: treasurer, A. j. Norton; trustees,
NJ. A. viii, j. NJ. Lambert, M. A. Spaul-
ing Strong: A. S. Briggs, Freeman; ). A.
Norton, Avon,
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
NJ. X. Kallock, son of the well-known Rev.
Isaac S. Kallock, ex-mayor OF San Francis-
co, is attending school at Coburn lnstitate'
The KennebecJ Journal says that the Execu-
tive Council voted to to commute blaney
sentence, and unanimously to reprleye MIS-
A petition to dig out the channel Of the
Kennebec is receiving large number OF sig
natures in Gardiner. 1t VIII not cost very
much to deepen the channel so that VesselS
drawing eighteen or twenty feet can come up
to that city.
Hon. VIM. E. Chandler was in Augusta
this week, the guest OF Mr.. Blame.
The Kennebec and Somerset Law students
| Association was organized at Materylhe on
| Monday evening, the 90 inst, The following
officers were elected: President, Sidney NJ
Heath vice president, Appleton WeDD SCI
retary, Geo. w. Smith; executive conlnlttee,
W. G. Philbrook of Waterville; ). w. G0rsoh
of Augusta, E. V. Stevens. of Waterville.
The wooden mill at Readfield is now being
put in frst-class condition by the new com.
pany and they will undoubtedly MAKE IL
prove paying investment. 80, .,-
Marshal Morse of Augusta this week
spilled u dozen bottles of contraband lager
beer, 800 bottles hop beer and barrel rel anu
half Of cider at the police station. The mar
shal now has ON hand lbs gallons OF
contraband whisl1ey and rum which VIII pc
forwarded to Bangor next week to the otaee
liquor agency. - A.,
gusta the other day. He says that 1t Is the
| intention of the commissioners to place lOO,-
600 salmon in the Kennebee river next year
and as many in the Sato The operatlohs ol
| the commissioners nave Desn very suOOo09
| full the past year. .
There will be another meeting of the legis-
| latiye reunion committee at the Augusta
| House on Tuesday. Treasurer Burlelgh con-
tinues to receive responses TO lnvltatloQhs Q
and there are about 250 names booked at the
| hotels for reunion week.
The item which appeared in the B9stoh
| Globe and afterwards copied by the Maine
papers saying that former representative
| tc the Legislature from Augusta was now
| an inmate of the almshOuse, Is now pro,
nounced by the Maine Farmer to be devoid
The Governor and Council adjourned
| Wednesday, to meet the 22d day OF Decem-
ber.
ru 1tA Be Affss 1fy cato, Whose maiden name
was Philbrick. She was ninety years old the
| 3Oth of October and retains her faculties re-
markably She was born in Standish, and
| was one of II children.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
Messrs A. b. Sutton of Saltwater and
| VIM. B. Hayford of Bangor, have COM
menced to build their mill to take the place
of the one which was recently destroyed by
fire.
Mrs. Ann Brown of Paris, is to pass the
winter in Bangor, with her brother Hon.
Hannibal Hamlin.
The graduating exercises of the Senior
class in the Brewer High school occurred III
the Town Hall at that place last evening.
! Samuel A. MaXfeld Esq, OF Bangor sold
| Tuesday to Boston firm $4,000 pounds OF
| fleece wool. This is believed to be the larg-
est sale ever made at one time in Penobscot
| county. The wool will be forwarded by rail-
to Boston, requiring some eighteen or twen-
-ty cars.
A Bangor lady recently met with very
narrow escape from death. She had stepped
onto train at the railway station to see
| friend off and staid too long, the cars in the
meantime starting. After the train had at
tanned a good rate of speed the woman came
out of the car and jumped. At the same
time her dress caught and threw her under
the car steps and the brakeman caught her
Just in time to save her from going under
Ever since the assault made upon COnSta-
BILE Moor of Brewer, by mob in Bangor
| Sunday afternoon, Nov. 10Th, Marshal Whit
ney and the members of his force have been
diligently engaged in endeayoring to ascer-
certain the names of the.guilty parties. This
work has been accomplished with much diff
ficulty as it was very hard to find any person
who would furnish information inregard to
| the disturbances, but finally nine persons
were arrested and brought into the Police
! Court Wednesday morning charged with
| participating in q riot. Six of the parties
were bound over in the sum of $500 each for
| their appearance at the February term OF
| the Supreme Judicial Court.
No men are allowed to be employed in the
shoe factory at Gardiner, who are obnoxious
to members of the Knights of Labor. Their
action in this respect has been especially Sc
| we're toward young man named VIM. Leav-
| lit, against whom they became offended be-
cause of his hostility to the organization. He
is no longer allowed by the knights to be
employed in the factory, and is understood
| to have been refused situation in several
1 other places. His father-in-law, j. p. john
II SON. is member of the knights of Labor,
but appears to be powerless to help him.
sAGADAHoc COUNTY.
Mrs. Mary Small of Bowdoinham, was 1903
years old November 18th. At the celebra-
genorasions GEM M ION present. oiie mas Iz5 descend
| ants, and lives with her son aged so years.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Gen. Connor relates a narrow escape
| Wednesday evening, while he and his wife
| were coming on the train from Augusta to
| father, Hon. VIM. Connor just after the
the train had crossed the iron bridge at Wat
| ervile, stone nearly as large as mans
| fist was thrown through the car window
near where the General and his wife were
sitting and passed between their heads,
barely missing Mrs. COnnors head. Fortu-
nately no one was hit The stone appeared
to have been thrown with great vlolence.
Mr. Josiah Lassell wealthy capitalist OF
Whitinsville, Mass, has purchased large
block of the stock Of the Kennebec Farming
Co. of Fairfield and the mortgages on the
property, held by the Coburn estate and
The Kennebec Framing Co., is loading
this week at Bath, a schooner for Ponta
Rosa, on the Appalachicola river, Florida.
The cargo consists of two large houses,
summer house. one bowling alley, steam
launch and a river scow, for Il. A. Edison Of
the Electric Co., New York. The same COM
pany have furnished four depots this season
for the Old Colony II; r., Boston, and are
working ON another for the same company,
25xl0l, eighteen feet posted.
In cutting off the mail service from New
Vineyard to New Portland, the government
compels the people to wait for their mail
half hour later at night than formerly. The
query is, says a correspondent if I'VE are to
have but one mail, either from North Anson
or Pennington, each at about the same eX-
pense why we cannot have the one the pee
pie want
WALDO COUNTY.
Mr.. Clarence 0. Poor has at his store in
Belfast pair Of turtle or ring-necked doves
from Monteveido, South America, which are
supposed to be of the same variety as the one
sent of out the ark They are of choco-
late color on the back, lighter underneath,
with black ring around tne nech, Inc ne
birds are very gentle and attract much atten-
tion. - ,.
Hon. Fred Atwood and wife, celebrated
tbe 95fh anniversary of their wedding Cay at
Winterport Monday evening.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
DIR. Young of the State Board of Health is
in Calais, where measures are to be taken to
vaceinate the Passamaquoddy Indians.
YORK COUNTY.
Miss Abby Greene of Free street, Saco
jumped from the second story window of u
tennement house at an early hour on Thurs
day morning. The deep snow broke her fall
and prevented what might have been fatal
leap. As it was, a broken wrist was sus-
tanned The city physician attended the in
jured woman. She was insane at the time.