The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-07-27
THE STATE.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. COUNTY.

ANDRosCOGGIN COUNTY.
Lewiston's pet stallion. Glenarm, won the
| 224 class at Saugus, Wednesday,, in three
straight heats.
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
Eighty-three Swedes have arrived this
| this season, nearly all Of whom have settled
| in and about New sweden.
The prizes for scholarship during the past
| wear at the Richer Classical Institute have
| been awarded as follows $40 to Mary ID.
| Chadwick in the college course. and So to
| Alice M. Porter in the academic course.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
President Hyde of Bowdoin, thinks that
the proposed Bowdoin astronomical observa-
tory can be built and equipped for $4,000. OF
| this, $1,000 has been promised by John j.
Taylor of Fairbury, Illinois. The friends of
the college have been invited to make up the
| balance.
Father Germans French Catholic Society
| of Brunswick, 500 strong, enjoying their an
nual excursion at Maranocook yesterday
HANCOCK COUNTY.
| S. p. Hall, ESQ, who died in Bucksport
Monday night, was one of the most promi-
nent and highly respected citizens of the
| place. He was largely interested in ship
| building in times past and much Of the work
| done in the town in this line was due to him.
| He was also well known as corn and grain
| dealer.
John j. Jameson of Ellsworth, has been
| bound over to appear at the October term of
| court to answer to the charge of burning the
| buildings Of William b. Mitchell.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
There win be competitive examination
at Colby University. Watervillee, on the 4th
| day of September 1888, of candidates for APP
| pointment as Cadet of the U. S. Military
| School at West Point, and one alternate.
| The dates set apart for the races in Angus
| ia have been changed to the first week in
| September, as 1t was feared they would con-
tiict with the muster which had previously
| been assigned the same days in August. The
| muster will be held on the Park, the associa-
| ton having leased the grounds for that pur-
pose.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Captain Newall Gray of Southport, who
| was out ON Monday with sailing party dis
| covered a little distance from Captain A. w.
Gray's wharf the big fin of an ocean sunfish.
| lie speedily transferred himself to a row
boat and in little time caught the fellow BY
| SO tough he could not penetrate 1t, and after
a hard fight the fish escaped. BE was proba-
bly, 600 pounds in weight.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
| Section Foreman Carter of the Maine Cen
| trail railroad, lost leg at Etna Wednesday
| while trying to get aboard a freight train.
WALDO COUNTY.
One of the most prominent of the recent
| eltine and Miss Annie A. Durham. The
| young couple departed soon after the cere-
mony on the steamer Rockland for Rockland,
| where they took the train for Boston. They
will settle In Washington Territory.
That insect so destructive to wooden car
pets, known as the Buffalo bug, has made its
| appearance in Belfast. II is small, of dark
color, and the body covered with coat of
| thick, short hair. Oil of cedar is said to be
an eradicator
Mrs. Maggie Van Colt of Catsl1ill, N. Y, is
| expected to conduct second camp meeting
| at Northport, beginning August % and con-
tinuiDg till August 81.
| WASHINGTON COUNTY
A party of Western men, who are cruising
along the eastern coast of this State, examin,
| ing the bays and harbors to select and secure
| point that would prove advantageous as
| winter port, visited Garnett's Head a few
| days ago, and expressed themselves as well
satisfied with that place for such purpose
Garnett's Head is three miles distant from
the business part of Pembroke, stands out
| in Cobscook Bay as a bold promontory and
overlooks some of the finest scenery on the
| Atlantic coast.