Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-08-19
Dailp krnnrbrr Journal.
State News.

The Lawrence Bros, South Gardiner, have
lust finished loading the schooner NJ. l.. Var.
uey, making the fourteenth cargo of lumber
shipped this season, eleven having gone t.
New York, and three TO Boston. besides sew
cral cargocs of wood. How is that for 8.
inch saw.-Reporfer.
The annual reunion of the Ingrahsm de.
SC ndants will be held at "Ingraham Hill,
$. Tbomas;on, on Saturday, Aug. 80, 1879,
q if stormy on the next fair week day.
The Thomaston Herald says that New
York detective is in Pittston at work on the
'.Labelle' case. where a Preach Canadian OF
that name has been missing for three months
OF more, and it is suspected was foully muir
dered and secreted.
Joseph Bradstrcet, Esq, President of Gar
Iii Ter National Bank. and Peter Grant, Esq,
II Gardiner. passed through here Thursday
of last week. en- route for the lakes. They
visited at "Camp Ellis" and returned Tues
day last to their homes. Phillips Phono-
graph.
Mr.. c. Lakey was in Portland. Saturday,
10 secure rolling-mill hands tor the Albany &
Rensselaer, Iron and Steel Company. He was
able to find in that city only four workmen in
that craft at liberty, and engaged them at once.
He had but little better success in Boston, on
account of the cry for help there. He came
Fast from Pennsylvania, where he found no
iron-workers at liberty. and has been South
as far as Georgia. Everywhere, he says, the
iron interest is looking up, and prices are ad-
vancing.
The stallion Tom b. Patchen has returned
from his trotting tour of the western circuit,
with record reduced TO 2.274.
Friday, John Fox and Hector McQuaine
POUNDS yacht just this side of upper He'll Gate
in Back river, Bath, sunk in about 20 feet of
water. They endeavored to raise the boat
but with no success, and finally stripping off
the sail, which Is a new one. containing about
IS yards of canvas, they came with it to this
city, where it was left in charge of Captain
Dinsmore, at Hayden's coal yard. Saturday
noon, q party composed of Charles II. Me-
Lellan, Esq, and Mr.. Clarence Warden with
n number of men to aid them. went to the
scene of the accident, and tried to raise the
boat with the aid of a Spanish wndlass.
They were not successful but to-day South
port party, in the Alaska, with diver Williams,
succeeded in bringing her to the surface. Ii
proved TO belong to VIM. Fields of Southport.
Mr.. Fields, who was about 81 years old and
FISHERMAN, hisdaughter, Hattie Fields aged
IA, his sister-in-law, Mrs. Hattie Westman,
sked 81, were in the boat when she sank, and
Sfre all drowned Fields hat was found float
tsg in the water. The sheet had been made
fsst, and undoubtedly this caused the acct
rnt. Fields leaves daughter, and Mrs.
Xestman husband, and a child year old.
The bodies have not been recovered Port
lind Argus.
Charles Palmer lost finger at the Eastern
railroad yard in Portland, Saturday, shack
ling cars.
Monday afternoon the Wassaumkeag Hotel,
Mt Fort Point, was to be sold at public auc-
ton on the premises.
On the occasion of the annual session of
the Penobscot Baptist Association at Caribou.
there will be agrand excursion over the +.
4 N. A. Railway, from Bangor the fare for
the round trip being only five dollars.
Mr.. Josiah Skillins, of Garland, was badly
and perhaps fatally injured Saturday morn
ing by e derrick falling upon him while at
work on his dam at Hollis Mills One of his
hips was dislocated and he was bruised about
his head and back.
Orrin Simms, of New York, finished out
his sentence for the robbery Of the Bowdoin-
ham Bank, Thursday, and was discharged
The robbery was committed in June. 1867.
he was arrested the following October, and
committed Jan. 9th, 1868. OF the men COM
lmitted with him for the same crime, Bartlett
died in prison, and Mcguire was discharged
recently. Simms' health has suffered seriously
from his imprisonment. He leaves at once
for New York, where he has wife, and child
that was baby when he was locked up.
The Sunday Times learns from what it
considers a reliable source, that the Allan
line Of steamers will probably resume their
winter port connection with Portland the
coming season.
Arrangements have been made at Bidde-
ford for 10 hour go-as-you-please race, to
take place at the Biddeford trotting park on
the 9Th of Sept, open to pedestrians in the
States of Maine and New Hampshire. for a
purse of $500 in gold, divided into eight pri-
xes, as follows: $50 tn LIST, 500 to 3D. s75
10 Sd, $50 to 4th. S45 to 9Th, $50 to 9th, s25
to 7th and Is to 9th.