The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-10-02
THE STATE.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.

A horse was stolen from the pasture Of
James Smart of Weston Thursday night Of
last week. 1t was traced to Kingman and
found in the possession of a man named
Roman who had married Smart's divorced
wife.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Wilton Record advocates the chang
ing the route of the Maine Central through
that town so that the line may run through
the village, and not mile one side as now.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
In Clinton new pant factory, to operate
twenty-five or thirty hands, is nearing COM
pletion.
Henry C. Green was seriously injured at
Milliken's saw mill, Augusta, Tuesday fore
noon, by the end of piece of a board, tear
ing the flesh on his right leg.
The women suffragists of Augusta are
moving. 1t is proposed to organize an aux
iliary to the State society at once. There
are many Augusta ladies interested in the
matter
The Maine Farmer says that from one
acre of greensward which he turned under
Mr.. J. Fl. Bean Of Sidney harvested 2S BUSH
els of oats from one bushels sowing.
Mr.. Arthur w. Hall of Rockland, son %
Judge Q: G. Hall, has bought half-intereS0
in the Waterville Sentinel.
KNOX COUNTY.
Seventeen divorces were granted at the
last term of court in Knox county.
William George, who attempted to commit
suicide at the Wiscasset Jail short time ago
by cutting his throat with spoon, is slowly
recovering.
The Roekland Courier-Gazette says A
Kockland liquor seller, sentenced in the po-
lice court and appealing to the Supreme
Judicial, pleads that the police judge who
tried him, being resident taxpayer of Rock
land and therefore an interested party, had
no jurisdiction in the case. What the Law
Court will say remains to be seen. On its
face the proposition seems the essence of alb
surdity. Must police judge be pauper in
order to try rumseller?
OXFORD COUNTY.
A teachers institute will be held at South
Paris, IN Academy Hall, on Friday and Sat
urday, Oct. 22d and 23d.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
Mr.. L. G.. Paine of Bangor, a graduate Of
the class of 'S5, Maine State College, has en-
tered Stevens Institute of Technology at
Hoboken, N. j., where he will pursue a
course of one year and take diploma from
that Institution.
The report of the champion apple tree
comes from Hampden. Capt. VIM. Rogers Of
that place has an immense rusSet apple tree
in his garden from which he gathered II
barrels OF apples, and they were heaping
full, too. A better tree than that would be
hard to find.
John Ryan, who was sentenced August
18th to four months for assault and battery.
recently escaped from the Bangor Jail Ryan
has been very well behaved lately, and was
selected as one of the men for out-of-door
work He labored all day steadily, and at
dark, as they went to take the prisoners in,
Ryan was nowhere to be found.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The Skowhegan Reporter SAYS: A gentle-
man who is building here this season tells us
that he has great difficulty in getting work
men and materials. This is good indica-
ton certainly. Any kind of a mechanic
commands the best of wages.
YORK COUNTY.
The BiddefOrd journal says that last June
citizen of Biddeford named Nahum Morri-
son was drowned in the Saco river by the
upsetting of a sail boat. The body was re-
covered and buried by Undertaken O'Con-
nor. The dead mans widow afterwards
paid O'Connor S27 for expenses 1t was af-
forwards rumored that the body had not
been properly buried,-that it had been
dumped IN wooden box just as it was tax
en- from the water and so inferred. The rel
ativeS of Morrison have lately had the BODY
exhumed and found the rumors well found
ed. The matter is to be investigated.
IN GENERAL.
;, A gang. of burglars have been operating in
the interior towns of the State for some
time. Much damage has been done and
goods and money stolen.
The following fourth class Maine post
masters have been commissioned: George A.
Brodman, Abbott Village Samuel I. Brown.
Blaine; Mary A. Coombs, Bowdoin Centre:
Peter Walker, Brighton; Samuel McNear
Kents' Hill Robert w. Perry, Lincolnville,
and Horace Maxheld, Waterford.