Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-04-03
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are now selling some of their goods in the
West.
The logging crew of the Lewiston Steam
Mill Company are finishing up their winter :
work. and the teams started for home, Mon
day. The company have had five teams OF
their own at work all winter, and numerous
''nativc" teams have been at work for them.
The timber has not been all scaled. but it is
estimated that they have cut about four and a
halt million feet th, season-an excellent
seasons work The crew has had good luck
and the Shedding has been first-class. up to
the date of their departure. The company Is
now making extensive repairs on their steam
mill preparatory to starting in good shape,
when the river opens. The company propose
to enlarge their capacity for saving lumber,
this summer. and there is talk of putting in
an additional large circular saw, which will
nearly double the capacity of the MILL
LeEist0H JOHyHai
4 new company has been formed at Blue
hill, who will work upon the property recent
ly purchased of Geo. Slower, with good pros
poets of obtaining copper in abundance. i
sample taken from the top assured % per
cent. of copper to the ton.
A. a straw. indicative of the times the Ok
ford station agent states that at no period for
the past six wears has there been so much
freight brought to the station as during the
month of February.
The following business changes are report
cd in thi, State the past week
Bangor-Dennctt & Waldron. provisions.
dis, now Prince B. Waldron < Co.
Fairfield-kennebec Framing and Furnish
ing Co., sold to Palmer < Davis.
IIoulton-Mrs. McMasters, millinery, sold
to Mrs. Sarah 4. Bull.
North Observation-Disclosures Bros fancy goods
sold to Albert Parker.
Portand-TIayes & Douglass, crockcry
Hayes deceased.
Readtield-Fogg and Stevens, groceries
and meat, dis, now ID. b. Fogg x Son.
Capt. Reed of lIarpswcll, has purchased
the farm formerly occupied by +. A. Adams
of Bowdonham, known as Merrymeeting
Farm, and is engaged in fitting up the build
ing, for a permanent residence.
Or. o. T.. Durgin, died at his residence in
hcering. Mar. -. ut the advanced age of 81.
He was born in Boscawen, y. H.. 1874. %and
studied in the medical schools at Albany, y.
V, Hanover, y. H.. and Boston, graduating
in 1921 from the medical department of Brown
University. He commenced practice in SAN
bornton, \. H.. where he remained five years.
Thence he came TO Portland where he soon
acquired and retained Il practice equal to any
physician, I'LL age and declining health forced
him TO lelinquish it. He Lay justly claim to
have first discovered ,he anasthetic qualities
of sulphuric ether Nearly forty years ago
while suffering rom a distressing chronic
disease. and searching for "a substitute for
l.
was prevented by a personal idiosyncracy
from using, he experimental with ether.
Having constructed simple apparatus for in
haling it he found it to be tie long sought
remedy. He at once introduced it into his
practice, thus anticipating its after discovery
a. an anasthetic, by several years.
The following failures are reported by the
Commercial Bullet in this State, for the
past week
+. g. Delano, merchant tailor, Saco, re-
ported financially embarrassed and unable to
meet his liabilities. His stock is heavily
mOrtgaged.
Geo. \. Jordan, general store, Lisbon, re-
ported failed He has made an assignment,
for the benefit of his creditors.
Asa c. Cary, general store. Fort Fairfield
is lying to compromise with his creditors a,
% cents on the dollar.
Joseph Stevens, tailor, Scion, is reported
in insolvency.
The Times says that the dead body of Il
child has been found in Cutler, under sus.
piclOus circumstances.
Mr.. Aaron Garner, an employee of the
Gazette, took improper liberties with a load
ed revolver, Saturday night, and the Gazette
office is one hand short to-day. The hand
was properly dressed, however, and the
wound is not severe. -LertStoH Joprnaf
The clinic ut the medical school. Bruins.
wick, on saturday, was much more inter.
csting than is usual with the first clinic of q
term. one of the cases was that of IA little
girl with strnmous disease of the knee Joint
This patient has been under the care of DIR.
Dow of Richmond, and the results from his
treatment have been so satisfactory that
scarcely any change was ordered in the treat.
ment The second case before the class ne
ccssitated the removal of tumor from the
neck in close proximity to large blood YES
sells and Important nerves, requiring careful
dissection. Next came little boy from each
OF whose hands sixth finger had boon pre-
Nlously removed. and he was brought this time
To have sixth toe removed from each foot
Few OF the audience who were present n,
Portland Theatre. Saturday night, and wit.
messed the rough wooing of Lady Anne asa.
die Marinot) by Richard. had any idea that
this lady wa, soon to be bride in reality.
At the conclusion of the performance Miss
Martinot took the midnight Pullman for Bos
ton. Sunday afternoon at four o'clock. in
the Revere House parlor in that city, Rev
NJ }. Savage, pastor of the Church of the
I NIFTY. married Miss Marinot to Mr.. Free
Sunson, manager of the Howard Athaneum
ana we'll known in Portland -Po,1iano
Press.