The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-02-27
THE STATE.
ANpRoscoGG1N corNr,

The Lake Auburn Mineral Spring Hotel
has been leased for a term of three years to
Mr. James Stetson, clerk of the Quincy
House in Boston, and to Harry Ellsworth, a
well known Boston commercial traveller.
We have received the first number of a
neat looking monthly publication, the
"Growing Pines,' edited by A. L. Swift of
Lewiston. 1t is published in the interest of
the little folks
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Wilder Bros. of Temple lost an OK the
other day while logging on Mt. Blue. Mr..
Wilder was driving two teams, letting one
go ahead without a teamster, and they ran
against tree, breaking the neck of one.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
There has been quite boom in timber
land in Hancock lately, Hall Brothers hav-
ing purchased several pieces in this vicinity,
says an Ellsworth American correspondent
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The Governor and Council held brief
session at Augusta, Thursday morning, con-
firmed a large batch of nominations and ad-
journed to meet on the 23d of March. The
board will make an official visit to the Re-
form School on the 10th of March,
KNOX COUNTY.
The Opinion tells of spunky woman in
Hope who, rather than be shut up in her
house by snow storms took her team and
broke out the roads herself, then she sent i'll
her bill to the Selectmen for the job and they
calamity settled
OXFORD COUNTY.
man is serving out sentence of five
months in Oxford county Jail for selling
cider, his first offence, and another in the
same jail is serving sentence OF sixty days
for breaking and entering in the night
building connected with a dwelling house
and taking therefrom twenty bushels of
grain.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
The Dexter Gazette tells of man in Pitts
field who had acquired several thousand
dollars with his buck saw. He is intelligent
and liberal, recently gave hundred dollars
in lump to a public enterprise, has repre-
sented the town in the Legislature, is an ac-
tive politician, and though he is over 60
years old has sawed nearly 800 cords of
wood the past year.
Michael 0'Brien, young man about 28
years of age, belonging in OldtOwn, lost his
arm in Boston, Tuesday, while in the employ
of the Old Colony Railroad. Mr.. O'Brien is
an expert telegraph. operator and formerly
worked at Oldtown for the E. & N. A. Road.
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
Frank Worster had an liberated tooth and
was obliged to have his gum lanced. Then
the rest of his teeth on the upper jaw began
to loosen one by one, and finally all of them
dropped out.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The boot and shoe manufacturing shop of
VIM. Mccullough d Son in Calais was en-
tered on Sunday evening last and goods, in
Guiding six valuable calf skins, shoe bristles
several pairs of boots and other property,
amounting in all to about two hundred dol
lars were stolen.
A correspondent of the St. Croix Courier
says there is less destitutiOn in Calais this
are many who say that this fact is due to the
coming of the salvation and Gospel armies
in our midst. If these religious organiza-
tions have been the cause of this change in
the condition of many of our poorer citizens,
they have indeed accomplished good work. 3"
IN GENERAL.
The PASSPORT Standard says that the other
day at Grand Manan, Walter Cheney and a
companion went to Cheeney's Lodges and
found great number of large seals OH the
rocks. They landed and attempted to kill
them with clubs, but the seals showed fight
and drove the men to the boat. They return
ed soon afterwards with guns, and shot 30
of the largest of the flock, the skins Of
which will yield handsome profit
The State Board of Health has the past
few days been sending out circulars to the
towns in Maine where local boards of health
are not established, urging the town author
tiles to insert an article in the warrants for
town meetings looking to the establishment
of these boards.
The New York and Maine Granite Com
pany of New York, paid for pavings blocks
purchased in this State last year, S723, ,355.
The stone used by them is as rule nothing
but the waste material at the different
quarries At the Mount Waldo Granite
Works in Frankfort the company contracted
for all the waste made and have crew of
$50 or more men constantly at work prepar-
ing the paving. The stone for paving could
not proftably be used for anything else and
the above sum is almost clear gain to the in
dustries of the State, says the Bangor Whig.