The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-05-03
THE STATE.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.

The Bowdoin Y. NJ. C. A. elected the fol
lowing officers for the ensuing year Thurs
day night: President. Jonathan =. Cilley,
recording secretary, chas. Il. Howard, 'Ss;;
man, 80; treasurer, Arthur S. Haggett, '93
HANCOCK COUNTY.
The Bowler cottage at Bear Brook, "Chat-
void" is advertised for sale.
Mr.. Parke Goodwin is reported to have
purchased one of the Albert Higgins
c'Twin') cottages on Albert Meadow.
Mr.. S. III. Atkins Of Milton Mills, n. H.,
who was called to the pastOrate of the Win
ter Harbor Baptist church a few weeks ago,
has been Obliged to give up preaching on ac-
count of i'll health.
The United States government has bought
136 acres Of land near the Matching house In
Orland. and will enlarge the works. A plan
for new Matching house has been drafted.
Already several small buildings have been
erected. About 20 men have been employed
during the past year. Aqueducts have been
laid for the purpose Of keeping the necessary
supply OF water at the Matching house all the
season. Formerly the eggs were developed
there and sent of in the winter. Now many
Of them are hatched and the fish grown one
year, then turned out. The fish on hand are
400 sea salmon, two years old, and measuring
Z to inches long; 16 900 one year old. These
are made up Of sea salmon, rainbow trout,
laDd-l0cked salmon and Michigan trout.AlsO
356, coo fry, 277,O00 sea salmon. 66 900 land
locked salmon, 1000 sarbling tout, 5000 lock-
lawn trout
OXFORD COUNTY.
AT meeting of the Baptist church and
society Monday evening, 1t was unanimous
ly voted that Rev. G. 4. Harden be continu-
ed as pastor another year.
PIscATAQUIs COUNTY.
The commissioners of Piscataquis county
have learned wisdom by the experience of
the Penobscot county authorities, and have
had their court house at Dover insured for
5000.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
:. large bear was. recently captured near
the old LAGER place in Hudson by the veter-
an bear hunter Of that place, Frank Hussey.
The bear weighed $50 pounds. Mr., Hussey
has caught and killed many bears, and has
often been sent by others to fdestrOy these
sheep-killing animals.
The city treasury of Bangor is now coming
In for its share Of the profits of the Ice harry
est, the assessors having decide1I to tax the
amount stored in the city.
About three weeks ago a young man, who
gave his name as Albert Soule, and his home
HaItland, engaged board in Brewer and tried
he remarked that the meal which he was
then eating would be his last, and soon after
that he disappeared and nothing has been
seen or heard Of him since
AT present the daily output OF the Bangor
creamery is 400 lbs. of butter There are
numerous teams on the road collecting cream
and besides this considerable is received ev-
cry day from Sebec over the B. & p. II. R..
and the Bradford and Lagrange farmers will
soon send in their cream In the same way.
This season 1t is expected that the produc-
tion of butter at this creamery will be great
er than ever before.
YORK COUNTY.
Rev. Z. Hatfield is to close his folr years
pastorate at Wells Depot some time this
month.
The Teeside eng salt field covers an area
of eleven SQUARE miles AVERAGING savantx