The Portland daily press., 1886-03-08
THE STATE.
ARoosTooK COUNTY

AkOOSTOOk COUNTY.
In Houlton the other dav three-horse
team loaded with rum, cases of gin, and
potato sacks filled with brandy, was sold at
public auction There were ii gallons sold
for 30 cents per gallon, and 62 bottles of yari-
GUS mixtures only brought 10 cents each
Six cases of gin were disposed of for S3 25,
The liquor was seized by the Deputy Collec-
tor of fCustOms after having been smuggled
across the border
HANCOCK COUNTY.
Albion Friend, a young man at Bluehill
Falls, while out cunning Wednesday, aeei-
dentally discharged his gun, and the whole
contents entered his shoulder. He probably
will not recover.
RENNEBEC COUNTY.
Miss Emma Bodge, daughter of Conductor
William G. Bodge of the Maine Central deu
at Waterville Tuesday.
Waterville has voted not to adopt a city
charter by a majority of S4. This was
third trial.
Sydney is prosperous town and seems to
be booming under Republican admlnlstra-
ton. The town is now out OF debt and mas
$62033 in the treasury.
Augusta has flourishing snow shoe club.
Lawyer Heath is its most active member.
An old resident of Augusta who has kept
diary since 1910, finds that on April 10Th,
1910, East Day it began to snow at 10 a. M,
and continued without intermissiOn for
were hardly seen for the depth of the snow.
Ephraim Ballard was street commissioner,
and he and his men broke out the streets
with six oxen, and logs chained together.
| That storm, and one in 1852, when Augusta
| had no mails for three days, were the only
storms that bear any comparison to the re-
| cent one.
The second crop of ice on the Kennebec
! averages about IL inches in thickness.
Mr.. o. W. Simms of Hallowell has re-
| ceived an appointment from Grand Master
Workman L. b. Powderly as District Or
| ganizer of Knights of Labor.
Hon. S. G. Whitehouse of Augusta in an
| open letter declines the nomination for
Mayor rendered him by the citizens temper
ance caucus.
OXFORD COUNTY.
The Norway Light Infantry has been re-
vived. A company of good men has been
formed. They, organized by choosing Geo
II. Howe, Capt; 5. 5. Stearns, 1st Lieut.;
VIM. K. Reed, I'd Lieut..
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
President Hyde of Bowdoin leetured in
Bangor last evening on Ethics of Earning
and Spending.
Mr.. George Bray, a we'll known citizen Of
Bradley, was blocking up shed Thursday,
| when some of the blocks gave way and the
| building fell over on him. Mr.. Bray was so
seriously injured internally that he died at
half past o'clock In the morning.
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
1t is said that out of 70 children in the
| Home for Soldiers and Sailors Orphans at
Bath, "a are sick either with the mumps or
| the measles.
| SOMERSET COUNTY.
Fairfield will adopt the incandescent sys-
tenn of electric lighting.
The Kennebec journal says that the unse-
cured creditors of the Kennebec Framing
| Company of Fairfield, whose claims are
some $4,000, have agreed to settle at 25 cents
on the dollar, and the business will be con-
| tinued.
| WALDO COUNTY.
| Only thirty paupers were helped by
| Belfast, last year, against eighty-eig the
year before.
1t is reported that DR.. d. Dyer q Son of
Burnham have sold their pill factory to
Isaac c. Libby, ESQ.,, of Burnham, mem
Der of the Maine Senate, and Mr.: J. ".
Harmon of Unity, formerly head clerk in the
railway mail service between Bangor and
| Boston.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The Calais Times says that the st. Croix
cotton mill is running along as smoothly and
| satisfactorily as though no unpleasantness
had ever existed.
| YORK COUNTY.
The annual report of the town of Lining
| ton shows the amount of real and personal
| estate to be 1924, ,496; amount of money raised
and assessed SO, ,03340; number of polls 307;
rate of taxation % mills.
The city of Biddeford has Jared pretty well
| at the hands of the present administration.
George B. Goodwin has been appointed con-
sui at Annaberg, Germany, and his brother,
Harry III. Goodwin, has been appointed to
subordinate position at the same place.
| Frank w. Roberts has been appointed con-
sui at CoaticoOk, Joseph II. Cate and Daniel
| Hooper have received appointments in the
Portland Custom House, and Charles b.
Harmon has been appointed United States
Marshal for Maine.
| IN GENERAL.
A number of young men resident in Bos
ton, who are in the habit of spending their
summer vacations in Maine, have formed an
association known as the Maine Club, and
| Thursday evening about % of the members
dined at Youngs Hotel. Mr.. Frank b. Rich
is president of the club.
The New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad has contracted with the Judkins
Railway Train Signal Company for the in
PRODUCTION of its electric substitute for the
bell cord upon its trains The work of
equipping the Shore line trains, including
cars of the Boston & Providence, New
York, Providence & Boston roads and the
Wagner drawing room and sleeping cars,
| will begin this week.