The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-07-30
THE STATE.
ANpRoscoeG1S COUNTY.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.

ANDRosCoGGIN COUNTY.
The Western Union has purchased the tel
egraph line from Poland Spring to Lewis
ton.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
The editor of the Brunswick Telegraph
advertises for business partner.
The following are some of the heavy tax
payers Of Brunswick: John Bishop. Jr.,
S2l0.81; Alexander Boardman (heirs OIL,
S21081; Cabot Manufacturing Co., $3.50;
Marshall Cram, S44424; Benjamin Green,
s4S4; Sarah 9. F; Hammond, $2aS67 Fran
S233; FL. G. Martin. S242.25; Paul @. Merry
man, S352. Al; Nathaniel T. Palmer, S262.5
Elizabeth +. Riley, $205.25; Samuel Skol-
field, I'd, S525.33; Isaac L. Skolfeld, S6iO.i9;
ssas.oI; Daniel H. Stone, s2ss5s Benjs@in; B5sSNh;
E. Sweet, S200.05; Amherst Whitmore (heirs
of, $4,000; Stephen j. Young, S1,4S7; An
droscoggin Pulp Co.. S66265; Dennison
Manufacturing Co., $7l1. q; Maine Central
Water Supply Co.. $3.50. The total valuation
Is S., 1888, ,136. The total is rate S14.50 on a
thousand.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
AT the meeting of the Pennington Village
Corporation Friday afternoon, presided oy-
or by Henry III. Richards, Esq, 1t was voted
to instruct the corporation assessors to con-
tract with the Pennington Electric Light
Company to furnish 25 electric lights for
street Lighting purposes, and the necessary
appropriation to carry into effect this vote
was made. With the private electric lights
now in use on the streets. this number win
handsomely light the town. The matter Of
supplying the town with thorough water
system goes over until another meeting, to
be held next Wednesday,, to determine
the Pennington Water Company for that
purpose.
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The addition to the weaving department
of the Lockwood mills, Waterville, will
soon be completed and 200 broad looms
ready to start up in few weeks. 1t Is ex-
pected that this addition can be paid for
from the surplus profits Of the past year and
the year TO come.
Capt. Geo. ID. Armstrong, Brigade Com
missary on Gen. MitchelPs staff, has resign
ed andhis resignation has been accepted.
General Selden Connor has been confined
to his house, Augusta, for the past ten days,
being unable to walk on account Of lameness
in his left knee, the right being stiff from
the wound received during the war.
PENoBsCor COUNTY.
The Eastern Maine State Fair authorities
are trying to make arrangements with the
Eighth Massachusetts Regiment to make
their excursion to Bangor during Fair
week.
People in Newport think DIR. George +.
Weed is the victim OF a conspiracy of set
of scoundrels who want to save themselves
from trouble.
Canton Shawmut of Boston, spent Satur-
day in Bangor and had good time.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
DIR. Fred Z. Varney Of Norridgewock, will
soon remove to Skowhegan, and DIR. Phillip
S. Lindley will locate there.
KNOX COUNTY.
Bark Samel ID. Carleton, S43 tons, built in
Rockport in 1868, has recently been sold by
Carleton, Norwood & Co., to the quarantine
be used as a hospital ship on the lower bay
at New York.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
William Larner, young son of Customs
Inspector John Larner, of Calais, met with
painful accident on Thursday last. lie had
been given dynamite cap, which he took
home, and while sitting. at the window
shattering the thumb and two first fingers of
his left hand.
Fire in Danforth last week burned Foss's
Hall, together with ID. p. Tuck's partially
completed barber shop and a building be-
longing to William Jellison. Mr.. Dewitt,
on being awakened, died of heart disease.
YORK COUNTY.
The Eastern Division station of the Boston
& Maine at Saco, was broken into Friday
tween $40 and $50 stolen. Railroad tickets
and about $500 worth of mileage tickets were
left unmolested. The explosion blew the
safe door to the opposite side of the office.
The Office clock stopped at 1920.
The officers of the York Agricultural So
ciety have voted to hold the annual show
and fair on September 25, 26. q and 2S.
four days Of the fair. The fair will be held
on the new grounds in SacO,