Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-13
Dailp krrnfhcc Journal.
state News.



The Presque Isle grist mill, owned and run
by A. II. Dewitt, Esq, ground during the
year ending Sept. LIST. 3s,5s7 bushels of
wheat and 81 AGA bushels of other kinds of
grain--total 7005l bushels. The mill has
only four runs of stones two of which are
for wheat, one for buckwheat and one for
feed.
About seventeen hundred sheep were sent
west over the Maine Central on one train last
week. They filled nine cars, all ''double
deckers." These sheep come from Aroos-
took county.
Mf. Arthur Stanwood was attacked near
his residence in Gorham by tramps Wednes-
day night, who fired pistol at him. Stan
wood returned the fire with his revolver,
when they left. No one was hurt.
The school of the Portland Fraternity is
now organized for winter work and several
classes have been formed
The Portland school for medical instruc-
ton opened Thursday with lG students.
FRANKLIN.
The Pennington Chronicle has received
very fac specimen of plumbago from the
hands of Isaiah Chick Esq, of Madrid. from
mountain near Madrid village 1t is 30
per cent. pure plumbago, and is found in
large quantities.
There are So students at Castnc normal
school,
~ LINCOLN.
A composition bell of fine tone and work
manship has been recently presented to the
Bremen church, by Mr.. Samuel Donnell of
Bath. He has also added to his former gen
er0us offer of $1,000 and lot, the proposal
to give q much larger bell and a clock, when
ever new church shall be built.
KENNEBEc.
Last Thursday, man living in Clinton, by
the name of Horn, was arrested for threaten
ing to take the life of his wife and ''breaking
the peace generally. gtlI
OXFORD.
The Oxford County Musical Association
will hold its annual convention on Oct. 2s-3l,
ut Buckfield village under the direction of
Prof Ryder of Boston.
PENoBscoT.
Prof x. S. Morse has arrived at his home
in Bangor, after a several years sojourn in
Japan.
1t is expected that Senator Hamln will in
troduce Hon. Schuyler Colfax, on the occa-
sion Of his lecture on 1.-The Life and Charac-
ter Of Abraham Lincoln" in Bangor, next
Wednesday evening. These gentlemen are
the only ex-Vicc Presidents of the United
States now living, and both were warm per-
sonAi friends of the late President Lincoln,
the former having been elected on the same
ticket with him in 1861.
SAGADAmoc.
J. H. Shelton and wife of Richmond, cele-
brsted the 25th anniversary of their welded
life, on the eve Of Oct. LIST.
SOMERSET
Rev.C. c. Tilley, Il graduate of Colby in
the class of 70 who for two years has been
connected with the Newton Theological In
stisution, has accepted call to the Baptist
chusch in Fairfield.
The gate money at the recent fair of the
Waldo and Penobscot Agricultural Society,
at Monroe, amounted to between 81 100 and
$1,000.
DIR. Sargent of Belfast has accepted the
assistant professorship Of trainer and director
Of the Harvard University gymnasium.
The Spiritualists held camp-meeting in
grove near Searsport, recently.
A recent discovery has been made at East
Nofthp0rt, where gold or other valuables
have been procured in pots or pail, some
measuring two feet in depth by about nine in
diameter. The depth of the mine from the
surface Of the ground is eleven feet.
tn YORK.
Mrs. Nathan Hilton of Bridgton, who is
50 years of age, got tired of waiting
for q team that was to carry her
from that village to the home of her son,
about four miles distant and off she started
afoot, and walked almost the entire distance
without apparent fatigue