Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-08-22

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week have been shipped from Auburn this
week. It costs from sixty cents to dollar a
case less to make shoes in Auburn. since the
| Mckay patent expired, on the 18Th.
| The Gazette, of Lewiston. three months
ago, called the attention of the city authori
ties to the bad condition of several localities
in that city, particularly to that on low er
Park street. The writer intimsted that they
we're regular breeders of fevers. IL now ap-
pears that since the date referred to, in that
one street alone, the doctors inform the edi-
tor .'that three deaths from typhoid fever con-
tracted in that one street, have occurred.
with eight or more additional cases of fever
sickness. Three deaths and nine sick cases
in three months for one street,
CUMBERLAND.
The Odd Fellows of Portland have been
obliged to postpone their excursion to Lake
Maranocook until about the first of Septem-
Der.
Mr.. John Briggs of Poland, at his steam
mill is turning out about 500 boxes day to-
ward the filling of contract for &C, 900.
On Friday forenoon Mr.. Lorenzo Towle of
Saccarappa, while at work on a new house
on Haskell street, Cumberland Mills. fell
from staging some II or IL feet to the
ground. striking on his head and shoulders.
He was taken up unconscious and carried to
his home. The extent of his injuries is not
fully determined, although very severe and
perhaps fatal.
Rev. c. ID. Barrows of Lowell. formerly of
Fryeburg. has been called to the pastorate of
the First Church in San Francisco, at salary
of ten thousand dollars.
kENNEBEc.
The annual Show and Fair Of the North
Kennebec Agricultural Society for this year,
will be held on the 18th and 9TH of October
next.
Public opinion in regard to the fate of
Willie Cain seems to incline more to the be-
lief that the stories first told by the boys.
Richards and Grose, was the true one, and
when they said they pushed him overheard
from the punt, and he drowned in the Lily
Pond, they told the truth. and that when they
repeatedly asserted that he was in the pond.
they really believed he was there. The
latest developments in the case are such as
will still more strongly confirm the belief
that the boy met his death at, or in the vi
cinity of the Lily Pond. In fact the proof
is almost conclusive upon this point.
LINCOLN.
The dog fish industry at Boothbay being
conducted by Luther Maddocks at the factory
of the Maine Oil Co., is assuming considera-
BILE Importance, and furnishes means of re-
munerative work for the fishermen usually
| earning small sums in the hake and cod fish
cry. The dogfish bring one cent each in
cash. delivered at the company's wharf, and
ten dollars has been made by single individu-
ais in one day. The fish are caught in heavy
buoyed travis and hand lines. The livers
make good oil and the body of the fish is
cooked into scrap and Immediately delivered
to the Cumberland Bone Co., whose works
are adjacent to the oil company. 1t is thought
the fish will remain on this coast till October
-Ners.
PENoBsCoT.
The Wing says: eve learn that an old
and respected citizen of Prospect, named
Charles Twiss, hung himself in his barn last
Wednesday. His age was seventy-two years.
The motive for the deed is not known
PIsCATAoUIs.
| M. G. S. Shaw. Esq. of Greenville. is
building large dam on Dead river, and is
getting ready to make large operations on the
chain Of ponds township during the coming
winter. His intention is to cut from six to
seven million feet of logs
The Observer says: The brick work to
the new part of Browns wooden mill has been
completed to the fourth story, or the caves of
the old part. Another story is to be added to
the whole structure. which will necessitate
the removal of the roof and suspension of
work in the interior for about month, as we
| understand.
| SOMERSET.
New Circuit held at Dexter. Hartland and
Skowhegan will close at Skowhegan Park
next Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug 23d and
oath, good day and track. 1t will be interest
ing to those who wish to see good trotting.
There are twenty horses entered, some of
the fastest in the State. Admission % cents.
WALDO.
! On Tuesday of last week a most shocking
accident happened to Mrs. Gross. wife of
Clarendon Gross of Prospect. While driving
on the highway her horse took fright and ran,
by which she was thrown from the seat in
such a way that she fell astride the wheel,
and was wedged in that position, the tire,
which was an old and ragged one, cutting
into her person in a horrible manner. The
horse ran against moving machine, where
| he stopped and Mrs. G. was released. The
cut made by the wheel was nearly foot
long and four inches deep, and it is thought
will be fatal. Mrs. Gross is about 80 years
of age, and weighed 225 pounds.
] WASHINGTON.
At the Sardine factory in Milbridge they
have had more fish than they could take care
of most of the time since the first of July.
They now employ from 225 to $50 hands
pay out for help 1920 to $500 a week, and
$500 or $500 for fish. About two hundred
cases are packed each day. Sardines are put
up in three ways-in pure olive (not cotton
seed) oil, in vinegar; and mackerel in two
ways-in tomato sauce and in mustard. A
case contains 100 boxes of sardines or "a
large boxes of mackerel.
! YORK.
As Mr.. Byron S. Littlefeld of Hollis was
moving the other day in John c. Clark, IS
meadow, he came across large snake. He
attempted to kill him, whereupon the reptile
attacked him. The young man was obliged
to retreat and defend himself with the scythe.
He finally succeeded in killing the snake,
which proved to be an adder. three feet and
eight inches long, the largest ever seen in
that section.
HumbugGed Again.