Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-12-17
DaiIp kennrtrr 3ournal.
State News.
ANDRosCoGGIN.

ANDRoscoGGIN.
Mr.. Frank f. Crowley, the ticket agent
and telegraph operator at the Lewiston sta
ton, has been promoted by Superintendent
Tucker to the position of station agent at
Belfast. Mr.. T. c. Noble, Jr., will take the
position vacated by MIR. Crowley.
Mr.. Quimby of the Dewitt House, Lewis
ton. has seal skin cap and pair of gloves
valued at 800, the gift of one Of his guests.
Capt. Broughton, the champion checker
pla, er is in Lewiston.
ARoosTooK.
The family of Mr.. John c. Steele, Sher-
mans Mills was attacked with Diphtheria re-
Gently, and FIVE beautiful, bright children,
all he had except the eldest daughter, married
and away from home, were taken away from
him in little more than two weeks.
CUMBERLAND.
Last Saturday Miss Hannah Hamlin, aged
20 years, fell down stairs at her residence in
Gorham and broke her neck.
The twenty fifth anniversary of the wedding
of Capt. Samuel b. Soule and wife was cele-
brated at his residence on the fore-side of
Yarmouth on Friday evening last.
Samuel Bliss of Freeport, aged 81 years,
died Monday from a shock of paralysis sus-
tanned last Friday.
Schooner Winnie Weston, Capt. Fred Y ork,
went ashore on Broad Cove rock about seven
o'clock Sunday evening and is total wreck.
There was heavy snow storm at the time
and the captain was endeavOring to make
harbor, when she missed stays and went on to
the rock. The crew of eleven men took to
the dories and succeeded in landing on the
Cape in safety, but not a thing was saved of
any kind.
HANCOCK.
Hon. Eugene Hale and wife are in Wash
ington.
Andrews orchestra of Bangor, furnished
the music for party at the residence of Hon.
Franklin Smith, in Waterville. Tuesday even
ing.
PENoBsCoT.
The prizes for the grand pedestrian tourna-
ment in Bangor, on Thursday and Friday,
amount to 1925.
1t is now thought that Mr.. Crockers loss
by the fire at his wool factory in Bangor will
not exceed three thousand five hundred dol
lars. He is now repairing the building.
Last Saturday Harry Davis of Eddington
Bend, while out cunning discharged the
piece accidentally the shot taking effect in
his arm breaking one of the bones. 1t is
thought the arm will be saved.
SAGADAHoc.
Friday afternoon, as Oracle Nichols. child
about years old and daughter of Mr.. Geo
Nichols of Bath, was being carried on the
back of another little girl, she fell, striking
her head on pile Of wood, from the effects
of which she died the next morning
bas his
tus to Jas Winslow, and intends moving to
Colorado.
A young Peru boy in Mr.. Chas. Russell's
slaughter house in Bath, on Saturday. in re-
moving some hay discovered a lot of rats.
He killed with ptchfork enough to fill a
half bushel measure.
WASHINGTON.
About 5000 barrels of potatoes have been
shipped from Lubec this fall, 1000 of which
were shipped by NJ NJ. Foster, Esq.
YORK.
The salary of Mr.. Howe, who will assume
the position Of agent for the Pepperell and
Laconia Corporation at Biddeford, on the
first of January, is $4,000 year.
Hon. Amos Tuck. who died in Exeter, n.
H., last Thursday night, was brother of
John Tuck, Esq, of Biddeford. He was
Congressman from New Hampshire from
1847 to 1858.
Four teams, consisting of twenty men,
struck for higher wages Monday morning at
Newconlb's shoe shop, in Biddeford. They
demand sixty cents more on a case. The
company REFUGE to advance, and the hands
are packing up and will go to Haverhll.
Miners are working day and night in the
Portland Co.'s shafts in No. Lebanon, and a
very large vein has been discovered, which is
said to be very rich and several feet thick.