The Portland daily press., 1888-07-19
THE STATE.
ANDRoscoeeIN COUNTY.

AT midnight hre was discovered yester-
gay ABOUT the chimney in the kitchen of the
Lewiston Exchange Hotel. Randolph Young
proprietor 1t was shortly under control
The loss is estimated at $1.Cc0 on the house
ana $500 on the furniture; insured
A very pleasant wedding party was enter
talned wednesday morning, by Mr.. and Mrs.
freeman Irish, of Lewiston. The occasion
y. was 81 the g marriage Of their daughter, Mary,
10 Dr; Oren z. Tarbox of Princeton, MINI.
Dr. Iarbox is graduate of Bates, $50, and
Is promising young physician. Mrs. Tar
Dox VIII be long remembered by her pupils
In the public schools of Lewiston. The GER
OF Bates College.
Mrs. e. I. Adams, wife of Presiding Elder
Adams, of Lewiston District. is 0nite mi
with catarrhal lung fever
ARoosTooK COUNTY.
The largest bark operation ever under-
taken IN Aro0St00k Is Just being completed
ty 3. Y; Cummings. of Haynesville, and b.
alexander OF Linneus, who have peeled and
are 10 denver TO Z. d w. |. Shaw, in New
Limerick, 5000 cords of hemlock bark and
nave bought the stumpage of all the spruce.
cedar and pine and the hemlock logs. They
Will also haul them this winter into Beaver
BROOK and drive into Penobscot boom the
coming season. There will be about four or
five million feet
HANCOCK COUNTY.
Nearly all of the hotels at South West
HarDor are full of guests, who are ENJOYING
the scenery and other charms Of the place to
the utmost. y
The Green Mountain Carriage Road Co.
has been organized at Bar Harbor, Maine.
with with capital stock $25,OOO; paid in, SIS par
Saiue San snares, 70. John z; Carr Of Bar Har-
Dor, treasurer. The business to be prose-
cuted IS to construct q toll road from the
summit to the base of Green Mountain i'm
the town OF Eden, Maine. Certificate filed
July II, 1888.
KENNEBEC COUNTY.
:, The Buffalo bug has made his appearance
, The Gardner Journal says that Mrs. H. d.
Leonard, OF Gardner, who was injured by
collision on the Maine Central at Farming
uale ABOUT year ago, has been up to the
present almost helpless. On Tuesday con-
ssqltatlon OF physicians consisting of Drs.
5tLo9t ana sawyer of Gardner, and Drs.
Brickett and Martin of Augusta, was held at
her residence. 1t is understood that the re-
suit OF their examination was, that in the
opinion OF these physicians, she is perma-
nently injured, as direct result of the ac-
cluent, ana SUIT Is at once to be brought
against the Maine Central for compensation.
few weeks previous to the death of DR..
Russell, of Fayette, a special town meeting
was held to consider the question of pur-
cnaSing town hearse. All favored the
movement except DR.. Russell, who yigor-
ously opposed, saying that the town debt
should be paid first and there was no neces-
sity OF purchasing a hearse at present. The
majority ruled and the hearse was purchased
ana was used for the first time on the occa-
sion OF the funeral of DR.. Russell.
KNOX COUNTY.
The annual reunion of the 26th Maine Reg
iment Will be held at Camden, August II.
The Bass Harbor, Swans Island & Rock
land Steamboat Co., has been organized at
drseim.ont, 70 a. Maine, with capital stock. 200;
palQ in D, ,OO0; par value shares, S25. Willis
watson OF fremont, is president, and c. III.
,. webb OF Oceanville. treasurer. The bus
lnoss to be prosecuted is to carry passengers
and freight by steamboat between Rockland
and Bass Harbor and to and from other
points in Maine and Massachusetts, Certi-
ficate filed July II, 1888.
OXFORD COUNTY.
A gigantic enterprise is being talked I'm nv
some OF N0rway's business men. The outlet
Of the lake, in the vicinity of the VILLAGE
runs through meadow land which, during
part OF the year, is overfiowed. IL all OF
this low land could be kept covered with
mighty reservoir for the mills at the lower
falls, lately purchased by the Wallaces of
Rocester, N. I'll. Not only would it furnish
sufficient water for manufacturing purposes
through the dry season, but 1t would be con-
| lieyed that the time is not far distant when
| an immense business will be carried IN M
| this place. The entering wedge was the
Wallace purchase.
PENoBscor COUNTY.
George Spencer, of Veazie, aged 40. was
drowned at Milford yesterday noon.
SOMERSET COUNTY.
During the Democratic jubilee in Portland
| July 9TH the telephone offices at S<owhegan
| Wateryile and Fairfield were switched on
| to main line and distictly heard the cheers
Of the multitudes the sounds of the bands,
ETC., as the procession was passing the Port,
| land office.
WALDO COUNTY,
Mrs, Diyinda Evans, a welI-kpown and
| highly respected lady, had been heipinp her
| son, Mr.. Frank Mason, of Brooks. in the hav
| field and was riding in ON load Of hav SAT-
urday, when the rack tipped slightly and She
| fell to the ground, breaking her neck. She
| died instantly.
WASHINGTON COUNTY,
Philo L. West, lobster fishman ~ NIL
| bridge, was fined 500 AMI costs LAST weeL
| for violation of the fish law, from which de'
cision the respondent appealed.
IN GENERAL,
Geo. w. Kelley has been commissioned
postmaster at Bancroft, Maine, and Marca-
ret M. Newton, at Jackmantown.