Daily Kennebec journal., 1880-12-23
state News.
AHOoSTOOk.


DIR. Tanners ifnitator, Geo. Edwards. re-
corded last week as attempting suicide by
starvation. was visited Tuesday morning by
DR.. Walker. who reports his condition very
little changed. Pulse, IS; respiration, 30.
This is his 22d day of fasting, during which
he has swallowed nothing except water, say
three pints a day. He is less .'rantankerous'
than one week ago, and his strength is evil
IDENTIFY faiIing--Houit0n Pioneer.
ANpRoscoGeIN.
Hon. Eugene Hale and wife were at
Auburn Tuesday morning, on their return
from Turner Mrs Hale came from Detroit,
where SHE was spending the winter with her
mother, Mrs. Z. Chandler, to attend the
funeral of Mr.. Hale's father.
CuMBERLAND.
The Press says that Monday. the dead body
of man. who had evidently frozen to death.
was discovered on the snow on the Saunders
place. near Portland.
FRANELIS.
The Pennington Chronicle tells of 800
pound Maine Central official who went on a
bear hunt up to Rangely, but was himself
hunted by the bear and only escaped with
| the loss of his coat TAIL
HANCOCK.
yers. eight doctors and eight BARRIERS.
A few families i'm Ellsworth have organized
themselves into little society which they
call ''Cornucopia," the object of which is
genuine social intercourse, free from the
trammels and formalities of fashionable So
ciety The bill of fare consists of nothing
stronger nor more expensive than popped corn
and apples. The Cornucopis holds meeting
| at the residence of some one of its few men,
| bers each week.
| OXFORD.
| The Democrat saws that Hastings & San
dersOn are doing quite an extensive logging
on Wights brook. Gilead. They have crew
| of about twenty men in all and six oxen yard
| ing spruce, and twelve oxen and four horses
drawing to the river. If the winter is favor
able they intend to put in million feet.
The Democrat saws that VIM. Hazeltine's
mill at Lowell, has been shut down for few
days to make repairs on the engine room. He
has splendid eighty horse power engine,
which runs the spool mach nerv, steam saw
and edger. He uses about 100000 feet of
spool timber yearly, and saws 100000 oak
| slaves, which he manufactures into shocks.
| PENoBsCOr.
A public meeting was held in Bangor, Mon
day evening, to see what measures should be
taken to secure better enforcement of the
Maine law. Remarks were made by Rev. s.
L. 3. Speare. Rev. N. G. Axteil and Judge
Brett, on the expediency of forming league
for the promotion of law and order.
Counterfeit half dollars are bothering the
merchants of Bangor.
PISCATAQUIs.
Omar Pease, a young farmer living in Mon
son, is ill with smallpox. A number of his
friends have been exposed, and the results are
awaited anxiously.
SAGADAHoC.
Bath people are anxious for a cotton fac
tory.
Congressman FRYE was in Bath Tuesday,
21st inst.
| WASHINGTON.
The weirs having failed in West Quoddy Bay,
many of the fishermen resorted to driving
herring. They were very successful indeed,
when weather permitted them to drive. Driv-
ing has been attended with greater success
than for many years previous. The herring
sold readily at S. per hhd
YORK.
Bean Bros. of Saco, received last Friday
one hundred and twenty fine hogs from the
west.
Speaking of the late purchase by the Free
Baptists at Old Orchard, the Boston Journal
says the farm includes 81 acres, cost $4,000,
and $4,000 more will be spent in improvements
next season, and so of the 400 houses erected.
There are 500 Free Baptist churches in
terested with membership of "a, 600.
The Times says that Calvin Buzzell of Ac-
ton, while travelling with an axe on his
shoulder. slipped and fell, and his head struck
the edge of the IKE Just behind the ear, cut
ting on an artery and leaving fearful cash,
which bled freely.