The Portland daily press., 1888-03-08
THE STATE.

ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.
A. d. Cornish has been appointed judge OF
the municipal court at Lewiston.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
Z. G. Stevens has been appointed judge OF
the municipal court at Hallowell
Sheriff McFadden has appointed G. W..
Jones of Benton, Deputy Sheriff in place OF
Hon. A. III. Barton of Benton. Mr.. Barton
has held the office of sheriff and deputy
sheriff for thirty-five years.
At the yearly meeting Of the Gardiner
Hose companies Captain John Kendall was
reelected foreman of the Eagles, and Mel
vim Mclaughlin of the Alerts. Maurice w.
Pray was chosen captain of the Continental
Hook, Ladder and Hose company.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
About all the fishing vessels of Boothbay
and Southport win go to the Banks Goldfish
ing this spring.
PIsCATAQUIS COUNTY.
George Canney of the Eveleth House,
Greenville, and Henry l. Wilson, of the East
Outlet House, have been indicted by the
grand jury at Dover for the illegal sale Of
liquor.
AT this term of court Larrabee will be
tried for trying to shoot ArbOo at Moose
head Lake. Larrabee is said to be insane.
PENoBscoT COUNTY.
At the annual meeting of the Passadum-
keag Log Driving Company the following
officers were elected for the ensuing year;
President j. w. Porter; clerk and treasur-
er, Lester Dwinel; directors, John Morrison
G. B. Page, Frank Gilman. The first drive
was awarded TO A. w. Bradbury at 19 cents
per M the second to Isaiah Morris at 30
cents and the third to G. b. Page at SO cents.
The Whig says that the story Of Mrs.
Lamb of WinslOw, relating to young stain Is
not considered of much Importance by Ceun-
ty Attorney Appleton. The motion filed for
a new trial for Stain and Cromwell, signed
by their counsel, Lewis A. Barker, Esq, and
p. III. Gillin, Esq, respectively, is brief
document, and sets forth the reasons why
such a request is made as follows: First
Because said yerdctis against the law; sec
Ond, because said verdict is against the eVl-
dence; third, because said verdict is against
the weight of evidence; fourth, because SAID
verdict is against the law and 1.-THE evidence
A special train was sent over the Bangor
& Plscataquis Railroad on Monday with 70
tons of powder for the Canadian Pacific
railroad contracts. This makes about 200
tons in all sent over the road since the be-
ginning of operations on the line.
sAGADAHoc COUNTY.
The ship joiners who went out of the New
England yard last Thursday are still out.
It is generally understood that Rev. John
L. Hill, pastor of Wesley church, Will be
transferred to some other city at the April
conference.
One of the X. tS L. mail clerks in making
his report to headquarters referred to the
late trouble at the Bath ferry and suggested
that his equipments be increased by pair
Of wings.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The schooner Henry, of Jonesport. from
the Sd Of March. 'S7, to February 20, 'SS,
stocked S5,94342. The expense, repairs,
ETC., was S718.S5.
IN GENERAL.
The records in the office of Secretary of
State show that Maine still has numerous
tribe of bears, and that the hunters have no
difficulty in securing a goodly number of
them under the inspiration of the $5 bounty
which the State allows During the past
wear 343 bears were killed in the State and
S1710 paid out for bounties. Ninety-two
were killed in Washington county, "a in Pc
nobscot, 66 in Aroostook, and Al in PiScata-
ouis