Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-11-20
State News.
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Artemus W. Douglass. of Portland, aged
81 wears, died Sunday night. after years Of
helplessness and intense suffering from de-
composition of the bones.
Twelve hundred people heard Buffalo Bill
in Portland. Wednesday evening.
HANCOCK.
Near the brick yard of E. r. Bowden &
Co., in Penobscot. there is an excavation,
which. from various relics recently discov-
cred, leads to the theory that it was once the
cellar of an ancient settler. of which history
or tradition gives no definite information.
kENNEBEC.
The wife Of Rev G. II. Park was brought
to Readfield on Wednesday week for burial.
she having died in Presque Isle, where he
has been labOring for the past year. Mr..
Park formerly preached at Manchester, N.
Fl. Mrs Park was the daughter Of Gilman
Hawers of Readfield and is mourned by
many friends.
Camden has Goldsmith Club, of which j.
F. Stetson is President. and W. b. Rich, A.
johnson and Mrs. f. NJ. Wood constitute the
Programme Committee. The order of exer-
cises embraces music, readings, discussions
and declarations.
LINCOLN.
F. T. Hodge of Newcastle, was caught be-
tween two cars on the Knox & Lincoln Rail
road and very seriously hurt, Saturday.
j. P GIidden of Waldoboro' is finishing up
granite monument to be erected at Pemaquid
in memory of the late William Hackleton.
The monument is from Round Pond granite.
Willie Dreamer, son of Danny l.. Dreamer,
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South Waldoboro' Friday fell and broke his
arm below the elbow. The little fellow is I'M.
fortunate. He broke leg last year from the
effects of which he still limps.
OXFORD.
Charles Wadsworth of South Hiram, har-
vested $50 bushels of cranberries from his
bed near Slab City.
Some of the leading business men of Kea-
Ear Falls met on the 18th inst, to take into
consideration the propriety of building and
running a wooden mill, with the capacity for
the employment of 80 or 40 hands, and in
thirty minutes enough was subscribed. within
$1,000, to organize a stock company. Doubt
less the requisite amount will be raised, and
the work Of building commence at once.
PENOBscOT.
Business is booming in Dexter. There is q
notable difference in this respect between the
present time and year ago.
SAGADAHOC.
A fine colt, belonging to Edward +. Lin.
coin Of Bath, got loose in the stable, ate toe
much grain, and died in few hours.
SOMERSET.
Saturday evening G. A. Towle wheeled
Chas. f. Wright, in wheelbarrow, through
the streets in the village. VIM. Sanford, al
the same time, carried E. Cook in a brick
hod, escorted by thirty or more torch lights,
several drums, saws. ETC.. the whole forming
a laughable company. Before the conven-
ton Towle bet the whealbarrow ride that
Blaine would be the next President The
bet was on the late election.
WALDO.
Mr. Wentworth of Searsport. shot in his
door yard last week hawk measuring four
feet and over from tip to tip of his wings.
The bird had a steel trap attached to his
talons.
Diptheria is quite prevalent in Searsport,
a dozen or more children between the ages OF
and l3 have died there of late, and more
are sick.
YORK.
Work on the U. S. steamship Lancaster, on
the ways at the Kittery navy yard, is progress
sing rapidly. A considerable force of calk-
ers is at work upon her, and she now looks
very much like ship. She will be ready to
take the water sometime next spring. and
will then be better vessel than when at first
launched