Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-03-17
Dailu 1srnnfbrr 3ournal.
State News.

In sight of the st. Croix river live some
smart old ladies, as well as young ones. One
old lady eighty years of age, (and great
grandmother) always gets up at four o'clock
on Monday mornings to do the family wash
ing. When she gets her white clothes ont
she calls her daughter (who is grandmother
TO get breakfast Calais Advertiser.
Bucksport must be the banner town in the
State for centenarians A Mr.. Wayland re-
Gently died there at the age of los years.
Mr.. Henry Breokman is still living there at
the age Of l03 years. Mr.. Brookman may
be seen on the street, walking out, on pleas
ant days, and though his step is hardly as
elastic as it was once he bids fair to live
some years yet.
Tiger, an old white horse owned by DR..
j. l.. Allen of Saco, aged 32 years, died re-
Gently When Tigers shoes were loose he
would come and stand at the shop door Of the
blacksmith. lie seemed 10 be able te dis
tinguish the Sabbath bells from any others.
and on Sunday morning needed no guiding
to the church. When the bells rang out he
would start off for church. even if the Doc
tor was not behind him. No longer ago than
the first Sabbath in this year he was standing
by the stable door when the church bell
struck, when off he started for church. A
clergyman passing caught and returned him
to the house, remarking he had heard that
"Tiger" would walk off at the bell stroke,
but now he had personally seen the report
verified.
A French Canadian who called his name
Moses Marsa, came to Alonzo Adams, in
Jackmantown plantation, n short time ago,
in an exhausted condition He had hardly
strength to open the door, and attempting to
step over the threshold he stumbled and fell
10 H., hal
frozen-so were his hands, ears and face.
His appearance and conversation indicated
partial idiocy or insanity. Mr.. As dwell
ing is five miles from neighbors. Ii appears
that he had laid down in the snow. beside
the road, the night previous, in wet mecca
sins, where without food. fire or shelter. he
came near perishng Mr. A. called on Mos
COW for aid, which was furnished, and he
was removed to that town. and both feet am
putated.- Somerset Reporter,
Messrs. Wasson & Marshall, whose mill on
Fahi stream, SkOwhegan, was carried of by
the freshet last fall, have erected a new mill
and commenced the manufacture of shovel
handles. The new building is substantial
structure, thirty by fifty feet. two stories
high, with basement, and stands upon the
site Of the old one
Thursday evening, Mr.. James Brown a res
ident Of Dexter, went to his stable TO look af
ter his horse. While at the stable he was at
tackled with pains in his chest. He was
sisted to his house, where he died almost in
stantly. Heart disease is supposed to be the
cause.
The frozen fish business at Passport. ia
about over for the season
The Boston papers announce the death in
that city of David ID. Stackpole. prominent
merchant, formerly of Portland at the age Of
6S years. Nr. Stackpole had been in failing
health for some wears, and in addition to other
diseases, was affected with partial blindness.
Goss & Sawyer have on the way the frame
of a schooner of $50 tons capacity. for Capt.
Thompson now Of the ''S. :. Bickmore.'
The deer have had an easy time 80 far this
winter. Light SHOWS have prevented repe-
tition of the annual slaughter of late years
Dorer Obseyrer.
0. ii. Wakefield will make about 100 600
feet spool bars at his mill at East Dowell the
present season.
Coal is now retailing in this market for
06 so for chestnut and 100 for all other
grades except the Franklin, which brings
e7.50.-LertstoH .joU3Udk
The report of the assistant pastor of st.
Peters (French Catholic church in Lewis
ton, shows that there have been 40 deaths
in that society the past year OF these, co
were males and 30 females. Thrty-six were
over ten years OF age and seventy-four under
ten years.
Ephraim johnson was sitting on n log with
q friend at Harpswell, "Wednesday. and held
An augur in his hand. His friend playfulv
pushed him off the log, and he rolled down
an embankment the point of the augur pene-
trating the skull near the base of the nose.
At first it was feared the brain had been pen
etrated but the physician finally decided he
was out of danger. The wound bcd pro-
fusely.
Charles Newcomb of Brewer, two years
ago mutilated his right hand very badly on a
circular saw. Thursday. while working in
Smiths mill, a circular saw cut off the
thumb of his LEFT hand