Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-09-16
State News.
AyDRoscoGGIN.

AyDRosCoGGIN.
Sixty car loads of machinery have been
shipped by the Lewiston Machine Co. to At
ianta, Ca. during the past season.
The Greenback-Labor Chronicle. formerly
Chase's Chronicle, prints of the report
OF the election enclosed in mourning
rules and headed with a rooster heels up
ward, with the motto: "And here we are
FUSION did it," Ii charges the disaster upon
Pillsbury and W. NJ. Rust, the fusion en-
gineers.
CUMBERLAND,
+. A. Shea Of Portland, challenges NJ. T.
Conlon Of Leominster, Mass, to a fifteen.
mile walk, for S25 q side; walk to take place
within twenty days from date, and challenge
TO remain open five days.
The Maine Pharmaceutical Association
nave concluded to give up their projected ex-
curslon to North Conway, and will instead
mold their annual meeting at the Falmouth on
the evening Of Sept 18th.
The Sun says Mary C. Calhoun of No. 10
Mountfort street, Portland, has been missing
from her home over two weeks. A young
child was with her when she was last seen.
The New York. Daily Witness published
last week dispatch from Chicago, stating
that several heavy stockholders of that city
have in contemplation the purchase of the
steamship, Great Eastern, to be used for the
transportation Of cattle to Europe. Portland
will be the shipping port.
In Deering Saturday, a mad dog bit three
persons before it was killed
case Of abusive conduct of husband
towards his wife is reported from Morrill's
Corner, which if true, and there appears to
n M L. "a l. 4
Investigated. The manis earning good wages.
HIS wife IL DYING eff consumption, and the inhu-
man usband refuses to furnish food or other
comforts. The poor woman was found by
neighbors lying on an old bed, with scarcely
any covering, and in house unfit to live in.
They purchased her good bed, and have car
ried her in many delicacies, but the mans
mother who lives near takes them away from
the poor sick woman and carries them to her
own house. The woman mother was here for q
time attending her de- lighter, but other Of her
children in Lawrence were taken sick and she
was obliged to 90 home. The man would
not pay her fare and the neighbOrs contribut-
ed enough. She started for home but has
not yet arrived, being partially paralyzed. If
fthe person does not Immediately take pro-
per care Of his wife and children, his name
will be published.-Aygus.
KNOX.
A little daughter of Joseph Richards, Mill
River, was hooked in the eye on Sunday last,
cutting the eyelid badly, but fortunately not
injuring the eye.
PENoBsCOT.
Isaac F. Abbott, for many years prOmi-
nently engaged in the wool business in Bos-
ton, long partner of the firm of Hilton,
Weston & Co., died Saturday, from the effects
Of paralysis, aged IS years.
PIscArAQUIs.
The trial of Steadman, the fraud who has
created so much sensation in the eastern part
Of the State, Is now going on at Dover. In
the course of his examination he admitted
that he had seduced one woman and married
her on that account, and that he had told a
great many deliberate lies in connection with
the case. A woman who says she is a sister
Of Steadman's father testified that in eight
cen hundred and seventy-four, she and her
cousin, one John C. Steadman, were present
ct the marriage of the defendant with Geor-
gia Campbell, by q Catholic priest and in q
Catholic church, and that on said occasion
paper was signed by herself and John c.
Steadman, the defendant and his wife, and
also the priest
SAGADAHoC.
Cnetleo keller, the Swede VINO was killed
Friday afternoon by falling from the main
top-gallant yard upon the capstain of the
Theobald, was buried by the United States
Government in Bath, on Saturday. The sea-
man was but 30 years old and hailed from st.
John.
WASHINGTON.
Gen. Z. C. Pike of Eastport, left New
York in Cunard Steamer, last Wednesday,
for . short European tour.
II 10 said that the Rumball Touring mill,
In Harrington, is one Of the best in the State.
AT LARGE.
Hon. John D. McCrate, formerly well
known lawyer and politician of Maine, died
at his home in Sutton, Mass. on the It'll inst,
aged about II yrs. Mr.. McCrate was born in
Wiscasset in 1902, and graduated at B0wdoin
College in the class of 1919. He studied law
and soon became one of the leading lawyers
in the State. Always an active and consistent
democrat, he was elected for many years to
the State Legislature, and during the admins
trati0n Of President Polk represented the Lin
coin and Oxford district in the National House
Of Representatives. Mr.. McCrate retired from
the active practice Of his profession some 81
years ago, and removed to Massachusetts,.
1t is said that more than 5000, 900 cans of
corn are packed annually in Maine, and sold
in every part of the world.
Every mother-in-law should recommend
DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup for her grandchildren