The Portland daily press., 1886-03-19
THE STATE.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.

thANhL1N NOtNI1s
The spring term Of the Pennington Nor
in attendance The entering class numbers
80 with ten more certainly coming. The
two new teachers in place OF Misses Swift
and Pinkham resigned, are MISS Harriet Z.
Young of Mattinicus, and Alr. Holmes IL.
Bailey of Industry Both are graduates of
the school.
HANCOCK COUNTY.
prominent lawyer of Bangor says he
does not anticipate any endeavor Delng
made by the parties who nave recently
secured the title of the Goodwin and sever,
ance heirs to the large tract of unsettled land
at Bar Harbor to force settlement upon the
present owners of the property. They VIII
probably give the present owners qultclalm
deeds to any parcels of the land for reason
able consideration, and no one need be
afraid of any legal proceedings in the matter
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
The Kennebec river was open to navlga-
tion in 1878, March 18th. The present con-
fore the 18th or Goth of next month, as 1t Is
unusually thick and strong.
OXFORD COUNTY.
The Colby Quartette Club gave a concert
in the chapel at Hebron Academy Tuesday
evening.
The new Free Baptist church just COM
pleted at East Hebron will be dedicated
w MdICu A9Iu IcN. u. ID.
will preach the dedicatory sermon.
PEEoBscoT COUNTY
The State commissioners on contagious
diseases of animals have issued an order
establishing strict quarantine at the barns
of the State College at Orono, where the
tuberculosis has appeared in herd of Jer-
Seys.
Mr.. Charles Brown OF Orrington, who
sailed as mate with Capt. Kendall on the
coboopor Ammo ord iS ranOrtp0 tn have
been lost overheard. Mr.. Brown leaves a
wife and two children, and if the story Of
his death is true, the widowed mother will
have lost her third son sby drowning at sea.
The board of management of the State ex-
perimental station, met at the State College
recently, and elected Prof. l. III. Merrill, at
present of the Smithsonian Institute,
Washington, assistant chemist. A plan Of
field experiments for the year was mapped
out. Prof. Jordan was induced to make
an exhibit at the State fairs Of products OF
the college farm, in cases or otherwise, and
the fertilizers employed
PIscATAQUIs COUNTY.
The members of the Baptist Society in
Dover are talking about rebuilding their
church and enlarging it at q cost of So, 900 or
Sc, 200. Several of the members have offered
to give from five hundred to one thousand
dollars for this purpose. The church will
be 60 feet square with a chapel SO feet long.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
The pring term at the Maine Central In
stitute at Pittsfeld began on Monday last:
There were 100 students registered the first
day.
WALDO COUNTY.
Mr.. B. Hazeltine, one of the trustees of
the P Il. Hazeltine estate, says the legacy of
the city of Belfast for free public library
will be the first public bequest he will pay.
Hon. Maurice c. Blake, whose death re-
int Co Erappican NO fnrfOnr.
lv a resident of Belfast, member of the
Waldo county bar, and well-known through
out Maine. He was a nephew of ex Mayor
Blake of San Francisco.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Capt. Shadrach L. Wass, formerly of Ad-
Olson, and for many years keeper OF the
Cape Foulweather lighthouse in Oregon,
| died racnntlu AGED 60 Vaars