The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-26
THE STATE.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.

ARoOSTooK COUNTY.
On the 18th inst, Elijah Bishop, a young
| man Of Presque Isle, about 10 years old, Dor
rowed team belonging to his brothers, John
| E. and Lincoln Bishop, to go to Fort Fair
| field. While there, entirely without the
| knowledge of the owners of the team, he
| took in one John Miller and drove across the
line, where they bought five or six bottles o1
whiskey. On their arrival at the Fort on
their return, Deputy. Collector Lowney seiz
ed not only the whiskey, but the team. The
liquor was appraised at $3.50, and the team
at $125 The officer refuses to release the
team, and an appeal has been sent to the
Treasury Department.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
.Albert S. Matthews, Bridgton boy, had
his ankle crushed while at work in the Pom
dicherry mills last Tuesday.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The House of Representatives passed sew
eral days ago bill to pay Bangs 4 Brownell
of Waterville $4,000 for a shipload of tai
seized by the government during the war
This history of the claim is given by the
Waterville Sentinel: In 1865, Bangs &
Brownell were engaged in the manufacture
of tar and pitch in Pensacola Harbor, under
the authority of the government, the senior
member of the firm being Col. l. s. Bangs OF
this place. The government was very anx-
ious to get tar at that time, and it was worth
$40 barrel Gen. Asboth, who figured in
command there at the time, and seeing that
Bangs 81 Brownell had a good thing, he de-
manded that the profits be divided with him
Mr.. Brownell was alone there at that time,
Col. Bangs being in New Orleans. Brownen
refused to comply with Asboth's unreasona-
Bile demand. A short time after Asboth
caused his arrest on trumped-up charges, ,and
kept him confined for six months. When he
was tried, the charges were dismissed as
trivial. At the time of Brownell's arrest the
cai1o6 o,1d ncQ6 n ehinlnod n nf
tar belonging to the company.
KNOX COUNTY.
The Camden members of the Old Ladies
Home Association of Rockland have seeded
and two associations will be kept up, both Of
which propose to found home.
OXFORD COUNTY.
On Saturday last two young men, Charles
Milliken and Charles E. Grover, were out in
a boat on the Heald mill pond in Lowell. The
boat filled with water and began to sink,
when the young men started to swim for the
shore. Milliken reached the shore, but
Grover sank when nearly there and was
drowned. The body was recovered Sunday
morning. He was the oldest son of Edsel
Grover and aged about % years.
sAGADAHoc COUNTY.
The domed steamer Meteor has left Bath
for New York.
Major Thomas Harvard is the oldest resi-
dent of Bath. He is 81 years old.
WALDO COUNTY.
Mr.. j. F. Rich, principal of the Belfast
High School, and Miss Mary P. French,
daughter of Capt. w. 0. French of Belfast,
were married on Saturday evening. They
are making tour by private conveyance,
and may visit Moosehead Lake in their wan
derings. Miss French was until recently
assistant in the High School.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Edward G. McAllister of Calais has been
recommended for appointment to West
Point after a competitive examination.
The Italians who are working on the new
water works at Calais are known by num-
bers. One of them hurt his leg Wednesday,
but the Calais Times could not learn his
name; his number, however, was $40"
A poaeher named Mahar was caught at
Calais a few DAYS ago by Game Warden
French. He threatened the life af the war
den and resisted arrest. Monday he was
brought into court and fined. While there
he was charged with being one of the par
ties who placed revolver at the head of an
officer and obtained the release of James
Buckley at Calais few nights ago. Mahar
turned pale, rushed for a partly open win
dow in the judges Office, and would have
thrown himself headlong on the sidewalk,
had he not been caught by the officers. He
foot, and locked up. Tuesday he was again
before the Municipal Court and sufficient
evidence was found to bind him over in the
sum of $1,000 to appear at the next term of
the Supreme Judicial Court.
IN GENERAL.
The big ship Frederick Billings, Isaac w.
Sherman, master, arrived at San Francisco,
June 18th, from Yokohama, after passage
of 20 days.