The Portland daily press., 1886-01-15
THE STATE.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY.
The Lewiston Journal appeared Thursday in
handsome dress Of new type.
KNOX COUNTY.
The Waldoboro colectorship is still an un-
settled question as regards a new appointment,
saws the ROckland Courier Gazette. Several of
our city Democrats were discussing the matter
Thursday, and they concluded that there would
be no appointment until Collector Sprague's term
of Office expired.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The committee to examine the State Treasurer's
accounts commenced their labors Wednesday.
They WILDE occupied about ten days.
Laborers from Nova Scotia who had come to
the Kennebec to obtain employment ON the ice,
departed for home yesterday, being thoroughly
discouraged with the prospect
On Tuesday, the 10th inst, the annual meeting
of the State Experimental Station will be held at
the State House, and on the following day that of
the State Board OF Agriculture. The sessions OF
both will be chiefly devoted to closing up the
business of the year and election of officers. The
selection of secretary, which will be made by the
Board of Agriculture, occurs only once in three
years.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
Two gentlemen and their wives commenced
playing whist in Bangor, Jan. 1st, 1885. An
agreement was made to play games as often as
was to furnish a fine supper at the end of that
period. The victorious party ended the period
238 points ahead and expect to feast most heartily
a few evenings hence
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The anchor ice in the Kennebce last week was
great source of annoyance to the SkOwhegan
mill owners @ a., The . wheels had to be stopped, and
the village was endangered.
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
A Richmond correspondent says: The situa-
ton here and along the Kennebec valley is
serious. Men are seen on the street corners with
troubled faces, anxiOuSy talking over the situa-
tion and hoping that some way will be devised by
which they Will get employment, and thus keep
the wolf from the door this winter. Nearly two
thirds of the men in this and other villages on the
river depend directly upon the ice business for
living. Many of them have been getting their
groceries on credit, thinking they would pay It
when the ice business began and it is no wonder
that they are discouraged at the outlook. The
indications are that this winter will be one of the
aad Unless assistance IS 1roered II tem poOF su4ne
must be the result ere the winter ends 1t is still
hoped that there will be an effort made TO
clear the river by using explosives, but with the
sibility.
WALDO COUNTY.
Mr.. NJ. NJ. Tidd of Boston, civil engineer, was
in Belfast last week, making enquiries reIatlVc 10
the introduction of water into the elty'
The first book for the Belfast public library was
a donation from Mr.. Albert Otis OF Boston.
Mrs. lydia Larrabee of Jackson, indicted for
murder last week, is the first person in Waldo
county to be indicted for such an offence since
Iahn n Gordon of Thorndike murdered his
brother and family III 1873.
The Belfast Journa! says: IL was remarkable
business out of town on the day the grand 1ury
convened at the court house in this city II was
another coincidence that their business away ter
minated al tne same tlme with the rising of the
grand jury. Strange things happen in these days
The Journal says that the year 1886 ought to
see soldiers and sailors monument dedicated in
Belfast,
YORK COUNTY.
A patent on marine way has been issued to
John E. Staples of York.
Rev. c. G. Tilley, pastor of the Dover and Fox
croft Baptist church, has received call from the
Baptist church in Biddeford.
IN GENERAL.
There are % Maine students in Dartmouth
College.