Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-12-12
STATE NE WIS.

| The wife of Joseph Levy, Portland tailor,
took cold bath on Thursday afternoon; and they
said she was trying to commit suicide. She only
| fooled them.
! Some time since the city of Saco voted to close
its liquor agency and return the liquor to the State
agency, if an arrangement to that effect could be
| made. The State agent has refused to receive the
liqnor, and now the city is at loss to know what
to do with it.
December is usually dull month for the shoe
manufacturers; but in Auburn, says the Journal,
business, especially in heavy work, has been bet.
| ter than last year.
The shovel handle factory in West Pennington
has the steam up for fifteen or twenty men to
make 26 900 dozen handles, the blocks for which
are now on hand.
There is lady living in this city whose sister
Is her mother How can it be 1t happened in
this way; her sister married the father of her
husband. Ellsworth American.
The Royal Arch Masons in the vicinity of
Harrington are taking measure to establish q
chapter in that place.
The Bridgton News says that the family and
friends of Mrs. Lizzie Baston Fuller at Hiram,
were panied to receive the intelligence from Bos-
ton that she was dangerously sick in that city,
from the effects of taking overdose Of john
sons Linimentf which the physician afterwards
pronounced deadly poison, which she had taken
to relieve temporary suffering. 1t came very near
proving fatal, her pulse apparently ceasing to
counts she was some better
A woman was brought in last night so drunk
that she had dropped out her false teeth. Her
Jaw" was efectually stopped.
The building committee of Bowdoin memorial
hall, having pad for some time the interest on the
$4,000 debt, feel that the task has become an on
erous one, and something ought Immediately to
be done in the premises.
The .Aroostook Times says that on Sunday last
man employed In l.. B. Pollard's camp left for
Linneus in the morning, and not returning the
same evening as he intended, several of his COM
panIols in camp started out in search of him. and
they found him not far from the camp in high
tree in nearly exhausted condition. 1t appears
that he had been pursued by fierce animal and
took to the tree for safety after vainly attempting
to escape by running. The animal which is sup
posed to be an Indian Devil" fled on the APP
proach of the men from the camp, and the man
was rescued from his perilous position.
Mrs. l.. L. Walton, wife of the Skowhegan
correspondent of the Lewiston Journal received
last Saturday evening by express very beautiful
| caster, as wedding present from the proprietors
of the Lewiston journal.
The Z. & N. A. Railway are to erect new
freight shed in Bangor. to be 100 by 40 feet in
size.
The Gait wharf property, Portland, can be
purchased for $4,000 and the papers are urging
its purchase by the city.
A little five years old girl of Mrs. Gilbert, in
Pennington, the other day fell backwards into .
tub of scalding water, and was terribly scalded
about her back, breast and arms so that the flesh
almost dropped off in some places. 1t is hoped,
however, that her injuries will not prove to be
fatal.
Over thirty thousand bushels of potatoes have
been bought, sent off, or stsred in Skowhegan
since the potato season" opened.