Daily Kennebec journal., 1877-11-22
STATE NEW 3.

The Lewiston Journal says that Thomas Mar
shall, the thief, was found in Bangor, clad in tho
clothes he had stole from Bicknel Il Neal of Lew
ton. He had stole the overcoat. Marshall was
sentenced to three months in the Penobscot county
Jail for stealing. At the expiration of that SEN
tence Judge Cornish Of Lewiston will administer
on his case. After serving out his sentence in
that case, his residence at Auburn Jail will be
tinued for an unexpired term there, .s he recently
escaped from that establishment Next he will
be wanted in New Hampshire for stealing watch
ring and money. Then be will be wanted at Hail.
DWELL where he stole q suit OF clothes and some
money. All told. he will have two or three years
in various Maine and New Hampshire jsils before
tie law gets even with him.
Mr.. &. G. Atkins is actively engaged in collect
ing land locked salmon spawn at Grand Lake
stream. He has six men employed besides him.
self; all are kept constantly busy and do q large
amount of work in day. The fish are much
more numerous than last year and have got gu te
accustomed to the squeezing" process. The
brook running from the Matching house has been
thoroughly dredged and cleaned out, and now the
young salmon can be put in it as soon As hstched,
thereby saving the extra work Of carrying them
to the stream.
At q recent meeting of the experimenting
school committees and school teachers of the east
ern part of Somers set county, an organization was
formed called Somerset Educational Associs-
ton"
Tuesday afternoon an express team owned BY
John Hurley, was standing in front Of Patten's
auction room, when the horse became frightened
at the brsying of pair Of mules standing near
him and started of at . furious gait. He collided
with team owned by Mrs. Davis of Eddington
and made wreck of her wagon and then kept on
up Main street, breaking of a granite post and
leaving portion of the wagon, after which he
took the sidewalk and IN turning the corner at
Dakins drug store he sell down. The horse was
slightly injured. Wing.
Mr.. S. n. Fox, of West Peru, found his fine
young horse worth one hundred aud fifty dollars,
dead in the stable short time ago, from cause
not known.
The West waterville Good Templars and Iron
clads are getting up joint levee, the proceeds to
be equally divided. 1t is designed TO have the
levee two successive evenings, both organizations
to furnish part of each evenings entertainment.
There were four births in West Peru, recently,
all upon one day.
new freight steamer, the Ellie knight, has
been put the line from Belfast. The Journal
says she arrived early Tuesday morning from Bos-
ton. She is large and strongly built steamer
and seems well adapted for this route. Capt. John
Hail. formerly in the employ of the International
| company, is in command of the steamer, and is
popular with freight shippers along the line. The
carving capacity of the steamer is four thousand
barrels.
A monument has been erected in the cemetery
at Topsham, to the memory of the late DIR. Wheel
er. He was man OF great worth.
| f. j. and G. w. Lawrence of Fairfield, have
just purchased the township of Lowell town, on
Dead River, comprising twenty-three thousand
acres OF as fine pine timber land Is can be found
| in Maine. This land Was purchased Of Ex-Gov-
ernor Coburn of Skowhegsn. The same comp
any has bought all the real estate lately owned BY
Wing & Bates of Somerset. The enterprise Of
| the Messrs. Lawrence!may be readily seen when
we add that they will employ one hundred men in
| the woods the coming winter, beside twenty or
twenty five hands, and sixteen to twenty yoke OF
| oxen.
/ Early Tuesday morning it was discovered that
| the flooring in j. b. Browns large store house,
Portland, was giving away. When the trouble
was discovered workmen were sent for, and the
| floor were shored up, 50 as to prevent further
trouble. At one time in the afternoon the timber
begsu to crack, and the building was instantly
cleared, fearing that it Was about to fall. The
alarm, however, proved false.