Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-12-13

Silas S. Kirk and j. C. Emery were digging
around spring in Auburn, on Wednesday,
when they began to find frogs imbedded in
the mud. They kept on digging until they
had taken out 597 frogs, within small space
the most of them from three to five feet I'M
der the serface, near the underground dourse
of the spring. Some of them we're alive, but
the most of them dead-many in decaying
condition.
| fellow who has been travelling under the
names of -. H. Locke j. II. Fernald and
J. ii. Foss, and pretending to hail from
Portland and other cities, has been arrested
for trunk tiIieving. Lately he was employed
in the baggage room of the Eastern Railroad
under the name of Joseph II. French. The
detectives find that his operations have been
quite heavy. Eleven trunks were recovered
with other property to the value of about
$4,000. One of the trunks belonged to Mrs.
Emma Tewksbury, and was lost in August
last while coming from Dover to Portland
1t was worth, with contents, $500.
The Wing says the new engine house and
car house which the European and North
American Railway Company has been build
ing, about a half mile from the Exchange
Street Station, Bangor, are now completed
and ready for use. The former is of a semi
circular form, with ''stalls" for FIVE iron
horses, radiating from a turn-table in the
centre. The car house covers an area of
"a by 22O feet, and will hold eight passenger
cars. 1t is contemplated to erect a repair
shop so by 100 feet, near the site of these
houses, next season.
The Houlton Times learns that the re-
mains of man was found, one day last
week, across the boundary line in piece of
woods where formerly lumber operation
was carried on, and near the road leading
| from Fetcher's Mills Monticello, to jack
sontown, N. Il. There was only the skele
ton, some brass buttons, and a pair of army
shoes on the bones of the feet, remaining.
1t is supposed that some bounty jumper, as
long ago as during the war, in the act of de-
serting, lost his way in the woods, and there,
through fatigue, hunger and exposure, per-
ished.
The Gardiner Reporter says last Monday
morning, as the early passenger train was
leaving that city, Capt. b. A. Neal attempted
to get on the forward end of one of the cars
to ride down to the freight depot, but the
platform was covered with thin coating of
ice, and his foot slipped, leaving him sus-
pended by his hands. One of his feet was
caught under the track, but as he had on
rubber boots, he managed to slip out his foot
so that only the boot suffered injury, and he
pulled himself upon the step of the car unin-
jured. 1t was indeed most narrow escape
from a frightful accident.
William II. Crandall, Providence ship
builder, died Sunday. from a singular cause.
While stopping at hotel in Maine few
months ago, a shoe and leather store in the
same building was burned out, filling his
room with the smoke of burning rubber and
leather He was nearly suffocated and his
digestive organs were paralyzed, SO that he
was never after able to partake of solid food,
but little even of liquid, and has literally
starved to death. His age was II years.
The Bath Times says last Tuesday even
ing man evidently insane, was roaming
round Winnegance, entering houses and
otherwise breaking the peace. He was
brought to this city and confined in the lock-
up, where he yet remains, the authorities
being unable to learn his name, residence or
anything else connected with him. He is
evidently of foreign birth and will reply to
no questions only mumbling over the same
words that are spoken to him.