The Portland daily press., 1886-12-06
THE STATE.


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A session Of the Montville Free Baptist
Quarterly meeting will be held with tue
North MOntville church the lIth, 18TH ana
10th inst.
The post Office at Eureka, Kennebec cOun-
ty has been discontinued.
KNOX COUNTY.
The Camden and Rockland Water Com
pany viii apply 10 the Legislature for an
amendment to its charter 70 enable IL 10 In
crease its capital stock and issue bonds 10
extend It's works. in Camden ana Th1mast0n,
as projected, and also 70 authorize Il TO take
water from FiSh's pond and Hobbs pond Ia
Hope, says the Roekland Opinion.
PENOBscor COUNTY.
F. NJ. Laughton and associates win apply
10 the Legislature 10 charter an electric or
other street railway In Bangor.
The Methodist Church at Orrington was
dedicated December Sd.
st. Johns Catholic Church, Bangor. IL 10
have a new bell 10 weigh $500 pounds.
The normal academy at Lee Is more -four
lshing than at any time since II was founded,
AZ years ago.
PIscATAQUIs COUNTY.
There Is hitch In the negotiations for the
sale Of the Lake Hebron Hotel and the Mon
son Railroad, at M0nsOn, 10 the new eOrp0-
ration called the MOnsOn Slate Company,
and there are likely 10 be lawsuits before
the matter Is settled.
g. A. Mathews, J. H. Sprague and James
Mitchell will apply for a charter for a tele-
graph company with line from Hartland TO
M00sehead Lake.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Mrs. Alexander Beckett OF Eastp0rt was
very severely, though not dangerously, In
Jured last week by being thrown from her
carriage.
Among the contributors to the relief fund
for the EastpOrt sufferers By the nre was a
convict at the State prison, fh0maston, who
sent through the warden $50, says the Sen
tinel
The foundation walls have been built for
new hotel upon the site Of tins Island
House, in EastpOrt. Il. ). Kinney and The
odore q. Bucknam will manage II.
Eastport will not buy a steam FIRE engine
but viii wait for her water-works next
spring.
The Sentinel says that the selectmen OF
EastpOrt have forwarded. through Congress
man B0utelle, petition asking Congress to
allow building materials used In the erection
Of buildings on the ground burned over BY
the late fire, to be imported free Of duty.
A party Of four men left Calais, Friday
morning, on the track OF Graves, the mur-
derer. 1t is reported that a strong clue to
his whereabouts had been obtained, One of
the searchers Is prominent game warden.
The Eastport Sentinel says the foundation
for a two-story building, IS K 126 feet. with a
other ON the south IL q feet, has been CON-
pleted on the High street front Of the govern
Inent reservation at Fort sullivan. The
building Is being erected BY the relief COM
mittee for the accommodation Of those who
were burned out Ia the fire aud are unable to
lind tenements for their families during the
coming winter. The building will be neatly
and comfortably finished, and so constructed
as to accommodate quite large number Of
persons.
WALDO COUNTY.
An unsuccessful attempt was made one
night last week to ire the new farm build
ings OF A. X. Fletcher in Monroe.
schooner Prescott Hazeltine OF Belfast,
Capt. j. w. Ferguson, now at JaeksQnEille,
has chartered 70 load lumber at that port for
Boston ut S775 per thousand. This is the
highest freight on lumber q Belfast vessel
has received for a number Of years, and one
which will leave something for the owners.
SchOOners Charlotte Il. Slbley and Penob-
scot got S7.25 on lumber from Jaeksonville
10 New London, says the Journal
YORK COUNTY
Joel B0othby, one Of the oldest and best
known farmers In SacO, died at his home on
the Portland road Friday morning. after
long Illness.
The following Il the report III York county
jail for the year ending Nov. 80, 1886: Com
mtted during the year, 22i males, 2i3; fe-
males, s; foreign birth, 94 under n years,
Z poor debtors, g.; tramps, 30; intoxicatlOn,
III: violating prOhibitory liquor law, o.; one
month or less, 100; two months, o, three
| months, 10, four months, / eleven months,
| twenty-nine days, 4 sent 10 state prison, ;;
for nOn-payment Of tine, Is; safe keeping, 1.