Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-12-28
state News,


Amherst. OF titty-nine cases attended by
one physician, seven have proved fatal; toNr
having died from invasion of the air pass
ages and three from asthenia. 4 number of
those who have recovered from the disease,
are left with temporary paralysis of various
parts. Besides these there have been mum
Der of cases of acute pharyngitis. unattcnd-
with danger to life.
According to report n clergyman, and for
mer pastor of a church in this city has been
robbed of n small sum of money. The fact
that he was returning from religious CON
vention and that he was clergyman, does
not appear to have any weight with the one
who stole his pocket ook.-Ellsworth Amer
lean.
There is annually sent out of the country
800, 900 in gold for the purchase ofsugar
alone Who will not say-Succcss to the
Maine Beet Sugar Company!
An attempt was made on Friday night of
last week to break into the store of Mr.. +.
w. Douglas. of North Whtefield. by rcmov-
ing pane of glass and cutting the SASH but
the parties were frightened away by resi-
dent of the village. who happened to be re-
turning to his home at that time.
A brutal outrage was perpetrated Wednes-
day upon the person of Mr.. Frank Duncan,
by Mr.. J. Alfred Croker. 1t appears that
Croker was having an alteration with Mr..
Duncan. senior. and Frank experimenting vi
olence to his father, attempted to interfere.
when he received a most violent kick from
Croker, the blow striking him below the
abdomen. inflcting injury from which he still
greatly suffers and the final result of which
cannot as vet be foreseen. Crooker was ar
rested and taken before Judge Tallman, who
held held him in $1,000 bail to appear
Bath Times.
The Somerset Reporter says Messrs. Pol
lard Blanchard the produce dealers in
Skowhegan, last spring tried an experiment
with eggs which proved very successful.
They packed upwards of 5O.O 900 dozen on ice
and by keeping the air at a certain tempera-
ture the eggs were kept until Thanksgiving
time, when they were sold at good prices.
The same firm are making preparations to
put down still more this year. The old ice
house on Leavitt street is being fitted up for
the purpose. The manner in which the eggs
are kept is secret
Rev F. +. Emerich of Mechanic Falls has
recently lost two sons by diphtheria.
While other portions of the country are
buried beneath immense falls of snow the 4th
and 9Th Districts of Maine have been delugcd
with rain, buried in mud. or compelled to
hobble over the toughest of frozen roads.
The storms. so so far in these Districts are
commemorative been Of rain and wind. chiefly
the latter. How much ofthis is due to the polti-
cal aspect of affairs, it is difficult TO say hut
there are many who would prefer less wind
and easier moving around - Ellsworth Amer
lean.
Col. Fogler of this city-ffteen years of
married life, and no babv-monotonv broken
81 tnn Nd nx xrnl 4 al
help us ont again when locals are scarce
Belfast journal.
correspondent of the Wing at Brown
vile writes: Richard Griffith of this town
lost valuable pair of horses while crossing
Schoodic Lake the 10Th. He was about fif-
teen rods from the shore when they broke
through into twenty feet of water, and the
sled being heavily loaded dragged the horses
to the bottom Immediately. They were six
years old and weighed fourteen hundred
pounds each. Mr.. Griffith came near losing
his own life.
1t is thought that the measles will made Il
pretty thorough Overhauling of the village
school-chldren, as it has been several wears
since the disease prevailed here. Mr.. Samp-
sons scholars. twenty of them. we hear, are
on the sick list. BY inquiry it was ascer-
tanned that only nine out of forty-five schol-
ais nave idu tIic uistdse-DOFCT OOScJTcI.
hunter and trapper who resides in Rich
mond, n. b., brought to Houlton, last Thurs
day, about one hundred dollars worth of OF
ter, mink and fox skins. The prices obtained
were otter So to 81; mink 81 to $l.75 fox.
81 TO Sl50.
The Belfast Journal says that the first
woman in Waldo county. ever incarcerated in
Jail for debt committed on Thursday of
last week. Her name is Elvira Gilchrst of
Palermo. The Indebtedness was for bill of
goods contracted by her husband now dead
with Elliot & Fuller Of Freedom. Mrs. Gil
christ is a woman about forty-fve years of
age. On Friday she gave a bond, and
liberated
The Observer saws that the Piscataquis riv-
er closed on the 10Th of December. The ''old-
est inhabitant'' never saw the time before that
it was open so late in the season.
The Honton Pioneer says that +. Merritt
Sons of that town, give employment to
twenty-one persons in the handling of hay.
potatoes. and running their stores there and at
Fort Fairfield.
CITUATInN as domestic wanted in n priyete