The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-13
THE STATE.
HANCOCK COUNTY.


The Bar Harbor Herald says that there is
prospect of Boston company taking charge OF
the Pembroke Iron Works and opening them In
the spring.
The question OF the proposed shirt, collar and
cuff factory at Bueksp0rt still hangs I'm the bal
ance and two meetings held recently IN reference
to it have been unable to effect a decision.
KNOX COUNTY.
A Boston company is at work upon the exten-
sive Indian shell heaps of Damariscotta. The
shells are barreled and sent TO Boston, where
they are ground up and placed IN the market as
KENNEBEe COUNTY.
Kimball Bros pay roll at the Gardiner shoe
factory last week amounted 10 S2lOO.
The commission of the Gardiner postmaster e1-
piTes Feb, co. 1886.
The Republican committee of Kennebec county
was organized last week by the selection Of 4. W.
Atwood, Gardiner, chairman, and Hon. O. G.
Cornish, WinSlOw, secretary. The committee
consists of E. w Atwood Gardiner; c. G. Corn
sh, Winslow; j. S Abbott, Wateryille; John w.
Fogler, Augusta; j. s. w. Hewitt, Fayette
Dr. Lapham of Augusta has his History OF
Norway nearly completed. 1t is to be 60 page
book and will probably be issued immediately at
ter the towns centennial in September.
Twenty barrels of beer shipped from Ports
mouth to the Soldiers Home, T0gus, froze up and
burst at the Augusta depot Saturday.
If precedent is followed the next Republican
State convention Will be held al augusta; fOrt-
land and Bangor have had the convention since Au
gusta and it will undoubtedly be held here, says
the Kennebec journal
The Kennebec County Pomona Grange will
probably meet with the grange in Augusta next
month.
The electric light will be in operation in the Au-
gusta cotton mills in about week.
The ice question still remains uncertain. Some
of the head officers of the leading retail dealers
are daily expected, and when they arrive some
decisive action will probably be taken. Arthur
Berry of Dresden has commenced scraping
small field of ice out of which he hopes to obtain
400 tons. The wholesale dealers say that If they
were sure of 50 per ton for ice they would not
spare any expense to secure the same. They have
sold ice for so, go and 75 cents ton for the past
three or four years, and have lost money by it,
and they would rather not touch a pound of ice
unless there was a surety of good price. The
merchants, as general thing, complain OF dull
trade because of lack Of work on the ice The
rough ice now extends from the Augusta bridge
to the lower end of Swan Island.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Miss Elizabeth U. Yates returned last week to
her home in Bristol, after residence Of five years
in China as missionary.
Lakeside Lodge. No. A3. Ancient Order of
United Workmen, was Instituted at East Jeifer-
son recently.
The store of VIM. Gray OF Southport. was brok-
en- into last week and three barrels OF -four DeanS
sugar small stores and some five dollars in cash
TAKEN
OXFORD COUNTY.
The nav roll of the Norway shoe factory last
week was S., ,962. .93 The number Of persons en-
ployed is 387.
The Paris Manufacturing Company has had or
ders the past year tor theI sriae b,o s
and Manitoba. as well as this country
PESoBsCoT COUNTY.
There have been many caribou in the vicinity
of Pleasant Lake this seas season oHe ~ Is sad that
The KNIGHTS of Labor already have a member
| shin of about eighty in Bangor. The managers of
| the order expeetto nave zoO OF more members
| there inside of six months.
| The Commercial says: Gentlemen from away
say that very few cities in proportion to its size
| has so many fine horses as has Bangor.
The Penobscot river ice men are constantly re-
ceiving inquiries in regard to contracts for the
harvest, says the Wing. The most of them ex-
pect that there will be greater demand for ice
and better prices offered for it than ever before
while the loss of the crop on the Kennebec will
not affect prices in Bangor so very greatly as some
have supposed, yet it Will produce some change as
a matter OF course.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
Nathaniel Bee, hailing from Frankfort while on
his way from Fairfield to the wosds, became ex-
hausted by the cold and fell in the road hye miles
below towhegan, Monday morning; an lie was was
will probably recover.
G. d. Laughton, who was appointed postmas-
ter at Harmony, has hired Mr.. II. w. Bartlett,
the late Republican postmaster, to run the ofllce
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
After an absence Of thirty-three years twenty
eight of which were spent in Minneapolis Mnn.,
and the past FIVE years in Dakota. where he now
resides Mr.. Frank w. Hanscom returned TO MS
native town in Machiasport last week on Vlslt'
Mrs. Daniel Leighton, OF Steuben, ms an ~ a.
cient pocketboOk Inscribed John lawIeheee, 81 i niS
book North Yarmouth, 1888" Ihis shS eia,tns nil
is an heirloom of her atgrandiather, the orig
inal John Lawrence of Lawrence-Townley lahe'
YORK COUNTY.
Twenty-Five acres of timber land IN AHreu were
recently sold for $4,000 cash.
IN GENERAL.
There have been three murder trials in the
state the past wear as follows: Libby In Cumber-
land Hodgdon' In Sagadahoe, }. Frank Walker in
Somerset The verdict in each has been murder
ia the second degree. Attorney General Baker
has attended each one Of them.