Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-08-10
stats, NEWS.

The people of Rockland are taking meas
ures looking toward the enforcement of the
liquor Law.
The machinery for the new steamboat at
Jefferson has arrived. The boat is progress
ing finely.
There is but one gentleman still in trade in
this village who was doing business when
Ihos. ID. Currier commenced in 1926, since
which time Mr. Currier has not been kept
from his place of business day by sickness,
except once by fever and once by measles,
and he 'still lives" The gentleman referred
to is Mr.. Joseph Clark, who commenced ira.
ding here in 1928. Dea. Henry Kennedy
went into trade in 1924 but has not followed
1t for several years. Waldoboro' News.
The Biddeford Journal says that John Sea-
vey, of North Limington, has turned his at
tention to trout breeding. Last year he ar
ranged small pond and put in some trout,
and now he has about sixty of the speckied
beauties, some Of them about thirty inches in
length.
The Presque Isle Sunrise learns that lit.
tie boy OF Mr.. Walter Dockendorf fell out of
chamber window in that village on Monday
evening, and was very severely injured
Fears were entertained that his injuries might
prove fatal.
Daniel Gray of South Hiram, killed water
adder last Sasurday, Aug. LIST, that measured
four feet and ten inches, in length, and as
thick as mans arm.
The shoe factory at Buckfeld failed some
weeks ago, and is to start up again to work of
the stock on hand. $3.50
Mr.. J. w. McDuffee's stallion King Will
liam, won the 2:29 purse at Dover, N. H.,
Thursday afternoon, in three straight heats.
Time :3S; 2 81; SO.
Campmeeting at Old Orchard begins on
Tuesday.
Capt Randall Libbey of South Hiram, was
seriously injured one day last week by being
thrown from carriage.
People in certain towns in the State are
cautioned against leaving their front doors
open, as entry and sneak thieves are doing
their work.
They are manufacturing hoops for starch
barrels in Aroostook county.
On the 4th of July last, Messrs. Granville
and Ephram Child of Canton, purchased
five years old horse of Mr.. Dudley of Wilton,
for 5000, and since that time the horse has
trotted half mile in is, and the owners
have sold a half interest in him for the hand
some sum of 81, 800.
A man by the name of O'Brien, who is en-
ployed in the gas works in Bath, went home
Friday morning. and resting his head on his
hands with his elbows on a table dropped to
sleep. A while after his wife walked him up,
when he gave a start SO sudden as to dislo-
cate his collar bone.
The Fish Commissioners of the State have
forwarded to Sheriff Pennell of Cumberland
county, plans and notices to be served on the
| owners and occupants of the falls of the Pre-
sumpscot river from Sacarappa to the Lake,
for tishways to be established at their dams.
The barn of Mr.. Daniel Merrill and George
Green in Pownal wss struck by lightning and
set on fire and burned to the ground few
days since, and with it from 20 to % tons of
hay, good horse moving machine, horse
take, carriages and many other farming tools.
In the ell connecting the barn with the house,
which was also burned, were three years wood,
a great many tools and some lumber. The
buildings were new and good, By the stren-
uous efforts OF the neighbors the house was
saved. The loss will exceed $1,000; no in
surance, the policy having expired a few
weeks before.
The Wing says the Hinckley & Egery Iron
Company of Bangor, have just shipped on
board schooner Ida, for Messrs. A. Campbell
& Co., of Cherryfield, one of the best i'm
proved gangs, complete, with steel frame. 8 s
by y inches, continuous friction feed and
wrought-iron sweep. The pit-shaft is five
inches in diameter. and weighing 1876 lbs, fly
wheel six feet, and weighing 1925 lbs,. and
the pit-shaft boxes weighing 1747 lbs. The
weight of the whole was between twelve anv
thirteen tons.