The Portland daily press., 1895-12-21
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

Miss Crosby CITY Rod) says the Maine
exhibit at the Sportsmen's exhibition
New York, next spring will be somewhat
| similar to that Of last May, but consider
| ably larger, more elaborate and have sew
eral new features. In the first place the
| cabin will be elite size" and the exhib-
it in quantity and quality in proportion.
Some of the best known guides in the
State will be in attendance at the cabin.
There will be at least two Rangeley
guides, a guide from the Dead river re-
gion and one or two Aroostook guides.g
The foreign entries at the Thomaston
Custom House for the current year have
been 5S. and the olearanoes So There
have been imported 5522 CORDS Of wood,
valued at $8459 so.
The plan to establish q Home for Aged
Women in Rockland has been formulated
and action postponed for the present.
The John Yamy children, who were all
down with diphtheria at Bar Harbor, are
doing well and the fund for their relief
has reached the sum ofS82.
On Wednesday Smith Bros of Steuben
made an assignment to K. s. Macteer
an attorney at Winter Harbor. Smith
Bros have been engaged in trade there
tor years and it was on account of their
inability to collect large amounts due
them that they were forced into making
the assignment One corporation alone
owes them Sl400.
Capt. Lyman of Seal Harbor, whose
vessel the Sea Pigeon, laden with finished
lumber and grain, was blown out to sea
in the sblizzard, Dec. 9th, has as yet
found no trace of her and has given up
hopes of his ship being returned to port
again.
Mrs. FL. S. Grisolda gave the Bangor
General Hospital Wednesday the SUM OF
IS, 600 to maintain free bed there. The
money was given in memory Of her
brother, the late Hon. William McGrillis.
A great ice pavilion will be erected
upon the river at Bangor as soon as the
ice there reaches safe thickness. The
pavilion will consist of single great
structure, 365 feet in width. 1t is to be
one story, but the roof will be high and
arc lamps will be used to light the inter
Tor. The main floor space, 80 feet wide
and 1876 feet long, will be used for skat-
| ing rink; there will be narrow walk
around the edges, and at one end there
will be band stand. At the opposite
end OF the rink there will be Ia broad
platform for spectators and over that a
gallery for the samespurpose. In the rear
| OF this, on either side of the building
| there will be retiring rooms for ladies
| and gentlemen.
| /. Ellsworth still lives in hopes of Having
an electric road, and it is said that if Hon.
| Geo. e. Macomber. of Augusta, takes
hold Of it, it will be a sure go, and the
| two busy communities of Ellsworth land
| Ellsworth Falls willsbe connected by the
electrics Ellsworth is also looking for
ward to our new hardwood factory. The
| Board of Trade is hustling nowadays and
when it gets the river dredged out, sc
that a row boat can be navigated upon
| it without fear of being hung up on the
| Stockings the towns may hope for big
things.
| William Dakin, laborer, employed
cutting trees on the wood lot of J. H.
Gilman in Monmouth was struck by a
| falling tree Thursday and dangerously,
perhaps fatally, injured. He was pinned
| to the earth by the tree and it required
| the combined efforts OF the SIX men, who
| were working with him, to extricate him.
sad accident occurred near Green's
Landing, last week, by which George
the SON of George and Hannah Eaton,
met his death. He was down among the
| islands in boat, and, when he started
on his return home, the wind was blow
| ing heavily and it was cold. He was
found standing under tree frozen stiff
The Thompsons arrested for the muir
der of Sawyer, the Monmouth farmer
claim that they are innocent and will
prove it at the proper time.
| Congressman William A. Smith Of
Michigan, began his career as q newsbo5