Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-11-22
CUMBERLAND.

have used about 1900, 900 bushels of potas
toes this season.
CUMBERLAND.
The Cumberland County Commissioners
have decided on and after January l, 1881, to
put the prisoners confined in the Portland
Jail on criminal sentences into stripped suits,
one-half light, and the other half of the uni
form dark gray.
At a boarding house in Portland, Monday,
one of the domestcs did not appear at the
usual hour. Investigations revealed the fact
that child had been born and was found
alive and kicking, covered up in box on the
top shelf of the closet.
HANCOCK.
E. NJ lie Prohon, formerly Superintendent
of the Atlantic mine at Blue HILL has gone
to Mexico as civil engineer on a railroad.
KENNEBEC.
Mr. Wilbur Starbird of Litchfeld met with
a very serious accident last Thursday. While
driving out of Lewiston, his horse became
frightened and ran. His wife jumped, hoping
to save herself, and was very badly hurt.
She was taken to the house of Mr.. Frank
Trufant, where she was well cared for. She
was able to be brought home Monday, but
arrived in a very weak and exhausted condit-
ion. She is still unable to use her left arm.
Mr.. Starbird was pretty well famed up, but
his injuries were not so severe as those of
his wife.
Frank Butterfeld, wood chopper, dropped
dead at Rockland, Wednesday morning.
The deceased was thirty years old, unmarried,
and the cause apoplexy.
OXFORD.
Henry Hamlin of Waterford, was arrested
Tuesday, on suspicion of completely in the
late robberies in that town.
PENOBsCoT.
Thursday night, Mr.. S. H. Elder, book
keeper at Prescott's furniture warehouse, on
Central street, Bangor, went to the third floor
for some purpose and not noticing that the
trap door was up. he stepped through the
opening, and fell to the ground floor, a dis
lance of about twenty feet. 1t seems almost
miraculous that he escaped with only a
bruised face and bad shaking up.
few days ago, just after the arrival of the
schooner Merrill C. Hart in Bangor, a little
five years old daughter of the captain, Ever
EFT Watts of St. George, fell down the COM
panionway into the cabin, and in her descent
falling headlong, her right eye came in con-
tact with an ink bottle which was on table
near the door, entirely destroying the sight
of the eye, and leaving an ugly mark for
life
SAGADAHOC.
The Bath Times publishes list of names
of l35 citizens, over seventy years old.
The Richmond mineral spring water is be-
ing shipped regularly to Boston, and neigh
boring cities.
SOMERSET
The Dexter Gazette says that the wooden
mills at Pittsield have started up again.
They have been laying still about two months,
and during that time about S25, 900 have been
expended for additions and repairs.
Augustine Simmons, Esq, of Fairfield, has
opened a law office in North New Portland,
as the successor of the late Charles L. Jones.
Esq. Mr.. Simmons was admitted to the bar
in 1877.
WALDO.
A gang of six workmen from Deering are
now in Belfast, cutting and shipping Christ
on the Patterson hill on the east side. The
trees after being cut down are snugly pack ed
in bundles.
WASHINGTON.
The Washington county Agricultural So
ciety held its annual meeting at Pembroke,
Wednesday. Moses l.. Wilder was reelected
President, Hugh L. Porter. Secretary, and
p. f. Vose, Treasurer. BENZ. Lincoln, Ly-
man G. Smith and John Morgan were made
trustees. The treasurer reported four hun
dred and thirty-nine dollars and forty-nine
cents in the treasury, against which there are
liabilities of little more than two hundred
and fifty dollars.
YORK.
Mrs. Knight, the daughter of Rufus Hurd
of So. Berwick, has in her possession pork
barrel that was made by the Rev. Joshua
Chase who lived and preached at Great Hull,
S. B. at that time. That barrel has been in
constant use from that time to the present, a
period of "a years. A few days ago Mrs.
Knight was preparing it for further use.
Allowing that it will pack 200 pounds of pork
there has been put into the cellar 10000
pounds of pork.