Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-09-05

Inc Journal says that Mr.. C. White
s run into Friday and seriously injured.
ne remained in the stupor for about twenty
minutes. His physicians found upon exam
ming him, that the shaft had broken two of
MS RIBS, and the wheels made bad scalp
wounds,
republican caucus to nominate a candi-
oate Tor Representative to the Legislature.
70 MI the vacancy caused by the death of
L. N Parker. Esq, will be held at Lyceum
naii' Lewiston, Monday evening.
ARoosrooK.
Inc Times says the Houlton Iron Foundry
Is now overrun with orders. and is casting
every day. They are making some very fine
furnaces for drying starch in the new facto-
ries which are being erected in different parts
OF this county this season.
The Times says: Quite an amount of hay
was carried away BY the recent freshet on the
banks Of streams in this county and in New
Brunswick W. H. Coffin OF Pa,ten. lost
nearly all his crop on branch OF the Malta
wamkeag.
CUMBERLAND.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has granted
the request of the Maine Historical Society
ior the use OF the Revenue vessel for two
uays 10 assist in the promotion of its investi-
mittee OF the Society appointed at the annual
meeting at Brunswick will meet in Portland
Saturday to determine the date of the cruise
and the locality or localities to be visited.
KNOX.
The Rockland Gazette SAYS that in T. w.
filx Jr.'s window may be seen a specimen
brick from the Douglas mine, at Bluehill.
inns Is the first bar ofpure copper ever re-
hned in the State of Maine. Five hundred
OF these bricks were turned out at the Douglas
mine on Monday, worth about $3.50.
PENoBscor.
Thomas j. Hart of Holden. was driving
over small bridge Wednesday with load
OF hay, when the bridge broke. Jumping.
Mr.. Hart went into the water and the load
falling on him. he was drowned He was
much respected citizen OF Holden. His age
was ~ wears.
The water power at Island Falls on the
Mattawankeag river has been purchased by
o. l.. Berry, and it is understood he will put
in rotary saw and grist mill The privilege
is good one.
A reward of $500 is offered BY Mayor
Strickland of Bangor, for the arrest and CON
vlction Of the person or persons who set fire
to Mrs. John Dinan's building on Fruit ST.,
on the morning Of September ID.
WALDO.
The Belfast Journal SAYS: "A sailor in
neighboring town recently came home to
find his domestic affairs mixed up worse than
Virginia politics. During his absence the
wife had disposed of the property; and. as
alleged ran off with another man. The farm
was in the possession of one man, the stock
held by another, a horse and carriage in a
distant town, etc. The sailor began to re-
construct matters and has regained the most
of the property except the wife, whom he is
pleased to be well rid off, With the pro-
ceeds of the last voyage in his pocket and
another wife in the prospective, Jack thinks
he may yet be happy"
The Journal says that Frankie a three
years old son of Thomas Logan, of Belfast
was kicked by horse Monday morning. and
will doubtless die in consequence. The horses
hoof struck the boy over the eye, crushing in
both tables of the skull, driving fragments
into the brain.
WASHINGTON.
The Sentinel says that Mr. Alonzo Adams
who has been engaged in running sardines
from Deer Island to Esstport in a sail boat
was drowned at the former place on Monday
morning last. Mr.. Adams was in the act of
hosting his sail, when the halyards parted
and he fell backwards into the water.
YORK.
Another robbery occurred near York
Beach on Tuesday. When two ladies were
driving in a buggy from So. Berwick to the
Beach by way of Eliot, they were sprung
upon by man who came out of the woods
pointing pistol and who robbed them of
their iewelry and two silk dresses. The cul
prit then disappeared Shortly after, the