The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-04-16
THE STATE.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.

CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
The spring term of Bowdoin College open
ed Tuesday morning.
Landlord Brewster has leased the Tontine
Hotel at Brunswick to Mr.. Hale, of the De-
Witt House, at Lewiston, for six years.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The Bucksport Clipper reports that the
consisting of barrels, half barrels, ETC., con
tanning liquors. Bucksport is Bangor's win
ter sea port
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The steamer Star of the East will make
her first trip to the Kennebec on next Tues
day.
Ice freights on the Kennebec will start in
at 65 cents per ton.
The Great Falls Ice Company began to
tear down their ice houses at South Gardiner
last week They will tear down four houses
and two stacks. The ground will be grad
ed up nearly level, and five new houses
will be built to take the places of the old
ones.
KNOX COUNTY.
Concerning the Camden railroad scheme
the Rockland Courier Gazette says: The
lime manufacturers of Camden are well sat
istied with the proposition, while the rank
and file, when they take into consideration
the amount of heavy teaming such an enter
prise would remove from the Streets can but
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little opposition to the scheme
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
News has been received that John Thur
low, Jr., of Bath, was on the steamer Beda,
entering the Columbia river, when the ves-
sci sprung leak and foundered. All hands
took to the boats, but out of fourteen only
one beside Mr. Thurlow was saved. They
were in the boat and water three days and
nights, and Thurlow was suffering much
from the effects of the long exposure and
want of food.
Mr.. Benjamin G. Sewall died at Des
MOineS, April 9th. He was born at Edge
comb May IA, 1906, and was the youngest
son of Rev. Samuel Sewall and Abigail
Trask. .-,During his life he occupied positions
moving to Des Moines At the time of his
death he was treasurer of the Des Moines,
Osceola & Southern railroad.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Hal L. Marsh, recently editor of the Dex-
ter Gazette, young man of much promise,
died of consumption at Ripley, Me-, Wednes-
day evening, aged % years.
A curiosity in the bird line is reported in
Cornville, viz: a crow that makes noise
like crying child. The bird has been in
the same vicinity for five years past, does
not associate with other crows, but "focks
by himself" Several of the citizens have
gone mile or more out of their way, think
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child.
There have been an unusually large num-
Der of deaths in Skowhegan within the last
two weeks covering all ages from the infant
to the octogenarian. There were five fun
erals in that town on Saturday and Sunday
last.
WALDO COUNTY.
The Andrews Bros, submarine divers, of
Biddeford, who took the contract to remove
the wreck of the schooner Waldemar, sunk
in Belfast harbor last fall, have finished the
contract. The wreck was blown to pieces
with dynamite.
Belfast may now be credited with an elec-
trio light boom.
Mr. Reuben Mansfield, who is supposed to
have gone down with the schooner Chas. II.
Morse, is brother of Mr.. Lewis Mansfield
of Belfast. The latter said to Journal
reporter: 'My brother Reuben and Mr..
Abbott were on the schooner Joseph Barker
of Bangor, my brother being mate. The
vessel was wrecked in the Chesapeake, the
crew reaching Baltimore, where the men
shipped on board the schooner Charles II.
Morse" Mr.. Mansfield has not given up his
brother as lost, but thinks it possible the
crew of the schooner might have been taken
off the wreck and carried to some foreign
| port. Mr.. Mansfield has family at Verona