Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-14

the Town House in that town and it was con
silered one of the best they have ever had.
PLNoBsCot.
| Capt. G. y. Armstrong of the ship Tenn
! plar, and his daughter, Miss Emma j. Arm
strong, arrived in Bangor, SUNDAY. ihcv
came overland from San Francisco, making
the distance in just twelve days
| The removal of the Charleston campmcet-
! ing has been decided upon and the choice has
been narrow cd To Foxcroft and Atkinson.
Miss Gertie Edmans of Dexter, the con-
tralto soloist. who sang ut the musical con-
vcntion in Bangor, is only sixteen wears of
age: and vet il is said that she sang "Swect
Home" in a manner that was pronounced by
good Judges to be almost if not quite equal to
the famous Annie Louise Cary's rendering.
Her musical powers seem to be almost phe-
nomenal.
Gen. Daniel White of Bangor, in going
down the cellar stairs at his jewclry store on
Kenduskeag bridge, Saturday made a mis-
step and fell to the ground below, breaking
the lower bones of his left leg.
The Bangor and Bar Ilarbor Steamboat
Company are thinking of building new
steam Yacht for the use of private and pleas
ure parties to run on the Penobscot next
summer.
WALDO.
The most extensive grapery in Belfast is
that owned bv David Pierce, Esq. 1t i ~
feet long - feet wide. and about lG feet high :
and 2io0 square feet of glass, of double thick
ness. was used in its construction.
SAGAp,HoC.
Bath boasts a forty year old grandfather.
Bath people are much gratiicd at learning
that Hon VIM. Rice went safely through the
dangerous surgical operation he was obliged
to undergo. He has been troubled for years
with disease in one eve, and Monday lac
went to Boston,--to have an operation per
formed which, while it promised good results
| if success sful. was at the same time attended
with much danger. He went through brave
ly however, and is new doing well.
WAsHINGToN.
1t is stated that j. NJ. Sanborn, who re-
Gently swindled parties in Portland, has con
Quoted similar swindlng operations in other
cities Five years ago Mr. Sanborn and
another man opened Il store at Calais, under
the name of Smith 4 Co. They reported
$500 in the local bank and then wrote to sew
eral wholesalers fer goods. referring to the
bank. The bank acknowledged "A deposit
when applied to for information, and the
firm secured large quantity of goods They
announced great bargains" and sold goods
for less than cost. This aroused the suspic-
ions of their creditors. One fine morning
one of Smith Co.'S creditors resolved t.
levy an attachment on their goods. But he
discovered that the merchants had LETT town
in the night, carrying everything OF valu,
with them. They had obtained on credit
suits of clothes, jewelry, etc. and then de
parted. One of the two men was minus the
two first fingers on his left hand, which
may be clue to his detection.
Ar LARGE.
The First Maine Cavalry fought more bat
ties by three than any other regiment IN the
army during the whole length of the war. a
Wisconsin regiment, it i said, enjoys the
second place.
/ George A. Gardiner. who recently died n
terrible death in New York from poison
placed by dentist in a decayed tooth, was a
native of this State. He has lived both in
Watervile and in Portland.