Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-05-26
State News.
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| Miss Viola Meader, an operative in the
Barker mill. reported to the Lewiston police
MondaNevening, that she was robbed of her
wallet containing ten dollars in cash. bv a
pickpocket, in the Lewiston postoffice. that
evening.
new horse epidemic is going the rounds
In Lewiston and Auburn. The horse doctors
are non-plussed. horse taken BY the disease
| nrst shows it by growing stiff in the hind legs
and perspiring profusely. B. II. Scribner
lost one of his best horses from the disease
on Monday. Among others. Mr. Linnell. the
hackman, and r. S. Bradbury have also had
| horses sick with il.
CUMBERLAND.
The town of Naples at a meeting holden
Saturday. Nav 2lst. voted l43 10 &c TO ex-
tend aid to the Bridgton and Portland rail
road TO the amount of three per cent of its
valuation. or about 81 800
The Argus speaks of a shooting affair which
occurred in Portland on Monday As follows:
Two young men. one of them j II. Covenv
have been paving their attentions to a Young
lady residing on Cumberland Street. and of
course considerable jealousy existed between
them. MONDAY evening C"venv was out
walking with her. and going TO her home
was sitting with her. when the other party
whose name is not known entered the room.
Some angry words PASSED between the two
men. when they went ont doors They lad
no sooner reached rh- street than the unknown
man drew pistol AMI fired II Covenv the
ball entering the breast hut short distance
from the heart The pistol hal been held
close that the powder hal smirch-i the cloth
ing. Had the bullet gone to the left less
than an inch. Coveny wonld have been
instantly killed. Internal hemorrhsgs is
feared, and if it does set in death is most
certain. COveny refuses to give the name of
his assailant.
kENNEBEC.
Five farms in Manchester have recently
fallen into the hands of the Halloweil Savings
Bank, the holders being unable to liquidate
the mortgages which the bank held against
the firms.
Friends quarterly meeting occurred at
Fairfield on Saturday and Sunday, the 2lst
and 22d insts.
LINCOLN.
The News says that the Alewiye Fishery
Co, of Waldoboro. are having a splendid
run this season. Fish are abundant and find
ready sale; large quantity are being
smoked at the smOke-honse and the surplus
after supplying the people of the vicinity. will
be delivered over to Messrs Nickerson 4
SoHs III VINO nave Utttu up paGk
ing factory at the mills, near the X. & l.. X.
r. depot.
The following table of attitudes about An
dover, is taken from paper entitled "A So
journ in Andover. Maine" by Prof
LAM, of the Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
noiogy published in ''Appalachia' for MAY:
Andover valley, 624 feet above sea level;
oil I 10
22O6 Blue Mt, $3.50; Bald Pate, 1906
Long Mt, 30Sl.
PENoBsCOT.
The Wing says IA man hv the name Of
Robert Ray. on Tuesday had one of his hands
badly injured by the explosion of some nitro
glycerine cartridges, which he had in his
pocket.
SAGADAHoC.
The Times says dry house owned by
Lincoln and Jackson of Bath, and used by
them in connection with their block factory
was burned, Saturday night. Some lumber
was also burned.
The tive-years old son of Mr. A. b Per
kins of the Eureka House, Parkers Head,
met with a sad accident. last week, falling
over the rocks and cutting fearful cash in
his head laying bare the bone, and narrowly
escaping with his life.
WASHINGTON.
300 to 400 people are at work in and about
the Sardine Factories at Jonesport, and the
force is likely to be increased rather than
diminished.
The steamer Henry Morrison now makes
two trips per week between Rockland and
Ellsworth. connecting at Rockland with the
Boston and Portland boats each trip.
The Machias Union says The potato crop
in Harrington in 1880. was 80 to 100 per cent
less than in IS79-Only about 5000 bushels
have been shipped since the harvest. of which
Mr.. V. L. Coffin shipped about $500 bush
els. From January |, 1880. to May ~.
1881, Mr. Coffin shipped 23.003 dozen eggs.