Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-11-10
state News.
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Il State News.
ASpRoscoGGIS-
The journal saws that Burke. the mailman
2 who ran from Lewiston to Portland in TN
3 dress and who has recently beel in the Au
gusta insane asylum. is becoming better. and
ha. written rari.nal letter to his brother.
The French people of Lewiston. propose 10
raise by subscription the sum of $40 oas, fol
the purpose of erecting an immense structure
on Lincoln street TO serve a school. So
). ciety room. gymnssiam. reading-raom. etc.
The sum of 5000 has already been sub
seribed.
AgoosrooK.
The Pioneer saws that Alden A. Green.
who owns about forty acres in the southwest
portion of ioulton opened street last spring
from Cour, to the Military road leading to
Bangor The new street i. One-haii mile in
length and upon each side are many de>ir-
able mouse lots. During the present season
ne has sold twenty one lots Ia actual SET
tiers who erecting comfortable dwellings
npon the same. There are about fifty more
lots TO be sold.
CUMBERLAND.
The Portland Press SAYS that Mr.. F. ".
Bisbee of the Maine State college, class of
1876. has been given a position at $1,000 a
year and expenses on the Mexican Central
railway.
Herbert Winslow is erecting a mill at
West Falmouth for the manufacture of ear
rage wheels. The building will be 80 by 40
feet in size and will he completed in few
weeks. \ twenty horse power engine will
run the necessary machinery.
FRANKLIN.
Tbo Daoo.l po.as ,h. oh Of pta
toes and apples in Franklin county. Winter
apples fit for barreling have mostly been sold
at good prices. and what remains are in pros
pect waiting for rising prices. The canning
establishments are working up all the cans
that can be found are manufactured, in pre-
serving apples that are not reliable for export.
Considerable quantities of vinegar will be
made from apples exposed to freezing up for
the winter, from which the juice will be
pressed in the spring. Another source of ag-
ricultural profit is the marketing of pump
kins thraugh the medium of canning opera
tons.
OXFORD.
At Brvant's Pond the other dav as a trial
of skill. Galen Curtis shot an apple of from
the head of c T. Sessions at distance of
from forty to fifty feet. Mr.. Sessions then
did the same from Curtiss head. The shoot
ing was done with rifle. otf-hand. Portland
Argus.
PENoBsCoT.
Before many weeks, saws the Waterville
Sentinel, the suit of the Dexter Savings Bank
against the Barron estate will be renewed
and will doubtless bring afresh to the minds
Of the people all the sad particulars of the
tragedy. In May, 1880, action was brought
against the estate by tire bank to to recover
| ba of hn Aatpipprtas whIrh tho
book showed. At the January term of the
Court, by mutual agreement of both parties
the will be brought up and doubtless
auditors will be appointed to make a thorough
and systematic examination OF the accounts.
| The result of this investigation will be eager
" awaited, as it will doubtless be impartial
and will determine to a great extent the final
decision of the case.
| From sixty to So, entv million feet of logs
will be left in and below the booms of Ban
gor, this fall, and so there will be an ample
abundance of logs for Il e saw mills to keep
busiiv employed in the early spring of next
year before the early cut logs can reach Ban
gor.
| SAGADAHoC.
| The Portland Advertiser says of the wreck
| of the jamestown. found in Arctic waters
and supposed to be from Boston: There new
October. 1880. the ship jamestown. of Rich
mond. Me-. was in Boston harbor. The last
record of this vessel shows that she sailed
from ST. John. y. B. for Liverpool. Nov
10Th. 1880. was abandoned at sea in latitude
43. 40, February 18th. 1881. and again seen
drifting April 9th. The vessel was loaded
with lumber. This NAV be the vessel
spoken of by Mr.. Wadlegh.
SOMERSET.
l.. b. Paine, of Watervile, has purchased
the fine farm in Fairfield formerly owned and
carried on bv Mr.. Hall G. Buregh. the we'll
known breeder and importer of stock. The
farm Mr.. Paine has bought is about four
miles from Watervile and the same distance
from Fairfield and West Watervile. 1t now
cuts over sixty tons of hav, and Mr.. Paine
proposes to give more attention to the raising
of cattle and sheep than to the thing of the
soil
The Lewiston Journal says: Willie aged
IA. son of John Simpson of Brooks, died
last week of typhoid fever. and was buried
SUNDAY. There are two cases left in town:
both patients considered convalescent.
WASHINGTON.
| According to the Bangor Commercial the
sea serpent has appeared Ii was in the
! Machias Chain Lake and Mr.. Eh- Hall OF
Calais was the individual who met with the
encounter. Ii was broad daylight, eleven
O'Clock A. NJ. the hour, when he beheld the
spectacle and of course he cannot be mis-
taken He and another logger were on the
shore of the lake when the serpent came
round point at great speed. aud. with his
head six feet in the air bore down upon them
When close to Mr.. Hall and his horror srrick-
en- companion the monster, on account of
shallow water or another cause, suddenly
turned and went down the lake and through
the thoroughfare like steamboat" lcav-
ing a great wake behind. The serpent, ac-
cording to Mr.. Hall and his fellow witness.
was as "biQ round pork barrel" not less
than fifty feet long. and measured at least
two feet across the head. Immense scales
covered his back, which at one time ap-
peared above the water.
AT LARGE.
The Argus says that Thursday. Calvin B.
Roberts, a LAWYER of Carbon. was arrested by