Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-04-05
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far from $4,000. II. 5. Raymond has put
has put 10000 spruce into Swift river for
the same company.
The new republican police force of Lewis
ton are making good beginning in seizing
contraband liquors.
Now shut up your hens. Don't let them
out till they can bo of service. Wait till
your neighbor has planted his garden, when
they will We found excellent helps in bring
ing things to the surface.
What an anxious public wishes to know is,
whether or not Fogg's pencil is still station
AIRY in his draw Oxford Democrat.
Mr. G.. $. Penney, clerk of the Calais Ex-
change, empted some kerosene out OF a lamp
into a coal fire. causing an explosion which
threw the blaze into his face, burning it badly.
At Calais the rain storm of Tuesday was
accompanied with thunder and quite sharp
lightning.
The fools are not all dead yet. How many
times have our readers heard that remark and
wondered when the last one would die. Four
farmers living in VIM, Enfield. Chester and
Woodvilc respectively, wanted to become
rich They had heard that $1,000 of money
that would pass for good could be obtained in
New York for few hundred dollars of actual
good money. They raked and scraped all
they could get. and the Chester man. borrow
ing $40 watch, set forth with the sum. Ar-
irving in New York, he was met by mem
Der of the firm, went to their office. and
81 300 of money was counted out in one of a
number of valises setting around the dim
room. He was also persuaded to pawn his
borrowed watch for revolver, which was
worth about a 81 90; also to send his valisc
by express. He was then handed vaise,
presumably the same that contained the 81,
800 of good looking money, and the man was
escorted to the express office, thence to the
depot for home. When the man and vaisr
arrived, the quartette assemble |, examined
their booty, when instead of $1,000 which
they could pass for good, they found nothing
but a clock weight, cotton battcn. and other
rubbish. Imagine the CONSERVATION of the
conspirators. They had been thoroughly
cheated by the New York swindlors. but not
more so than they were intending TO cheat.
and no sympathy should be wasted on them.
The only one to be pitied is the man who lent
the watch.
| The Sentinel says that the barn of Mr.
Frank Irving of PASSPORT, was struck by
| lightning Monday afternoon, the bolt ripping
off one rafter and Il portion ofthe roof, expo
ing his hay 10 the rain and filling the barn
with smoke; fortunately no fire ensued. Mr.
Irving was milking a COW at the time he felt
strange sensation, but received no injury.
letter in the Morning Star from Presi-
dent Cheney shows the interests of Bates Col
| ege are near his heart in his foreign travels.
| lie pleads for the means to improve the
grounds. He SAYS that several hundred trees
should be set out this spring, and that every
dollar will add tree to the grounds. He al
so says that 'the farmers in and about Lew
iston, at a cost hardly worth mentioning,
might make almost an Eden of the College
campus"
Five young men leave Skowhegan next fall
to study medicine
On the 26th of March, as Stephen, son of
Mr.. George Brooks of Ellsworth, was lead
! ing horse to water, he was kicked by the an
imal on the right side of his face. The blow
caused injury to the brain, and after lying
unconscious until Friday, he died. lie was
fourteen years of age, and favoritc among
all those who knew him.
The people of Phillips are very jubilant
over the certainty of the construction of the
proposed railroad. The work is moving sue
cessfully Permanent organization will be had
April sth, and actual operations commenced.
In the wrestling match, last week, between
Masterman of Phillips, and Burt of Montreal
at Lewiston, Masterman was declared the
winner.
We regret to learn from the Algona Repub-
lican, of the death of John Barnard Daggett
which took place in Wesley, Iowa. the 18th
ult. Mr.. Daggctt was a son of Colonel Sam
ucl Daggctt and resided in Pennington
many years Here he married his wife. Miss
Cornela ID. Russ Pennington Chronicle
The County Commissioners of Androscog.
gin county, are about issuing $40, 900 in fy,
per cent. bonds to fund the temporary loan
The bonds will command premium.
The journal says that the Lewiston City
Treasurer is authorized to refund Sl3j, 200
worth of per cent. bonds at lower rate OF
interest.