Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-12-01

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john r. Given of Auburn, suicided b!
hanging. Tuesday forenoon. ~
Coal has gone up q dollar ton in Lewis
ton and Auburn.
Says the Lewiston journal: There were
unloaded at the loser Maine Central station,
in this city, Tuesday. for the Union Wafer
Power Co., some Of the biggest timherx ever
brought into this city. They we're hard pine
and came from Georgia Part of them were
fifteen inches square and part ten inches, and
each was seventy feet long. They we're or
dered last May and have just arrived. 1t was
impossible to sooner find schooner which
could take them. They will be stretched
across the canal and will be used for taking
the water measurements. Considerable eh-
gineering was required to unload and team
the long sticks.
CUMBERLAND.
The Portland High School Cadets, TO the
number Of forty, gave a military and civic
ball at the town hall. Freeport. on Wednesday
evening, Nov. %. The programme consisted Of
company movements, manual of arms, silent
manual, and bayonet exercise Then thew
danced to the music of the Yarmouth string
band until the arrival of the Pullman, when
they returned home, highly pleased with their
visit.
In card published in the Argus, Wednes.
day morning, Rev. F. Southworth, of the
Seaman's Bethel. Portland, asks for dona
tons of good reading matter for the sailors.
stating that about 500 packages are annual,
ly used for this purpose.
OXFORD.
Henry G. Thayer has just completed q
steam saw and stave mill, and shook house,
at Canton Point. Mr.. Thayer has contracted
with A. H. Foster to cut and haul to his
mill three hundred cords of oak. This en-
terprise will be of great value to the owners
Of oak in this section.
The manufacture of Shaker chairs in the
town of Paris, has grown to be quite an in
dustry. We believe they are made in no
other place in Maine, to any extent, al
though in some other states they are made
extensively. Two factories are at North,
and one at West Paris. employing about
seventy-Ave hands. in all-shop-hands. ped
dlers, and basket-makers. The chairs retail
at three or four dollars. and are as comfort
able as upholstered ones at fifteen and ,wen-
ty.
The market value of the crops raised on the
Bangor City Farm during the past season as
between q ,oUO ana $J.UUU.
The Commercial says that, although the
port Of Bangor is not yet closed, the ice en-
barge has begun and would prove a serious
obstacle to sailing craft were it not for the
steamers and tugs that break up the ice.
PIsCArAoUIs.
The Wing eays that Mr.. Edmund Scam
mon, a well-known and highly esteemed citi-
zen of Greenville, had an attack of paralysis
on Friday last. rendering him speeches., and
Monday he was reported as failing rapidly.
SAGADAHoC.
Andrew Harrington was severely injured,
on Tuesday last, while heaving anchor on
the sloop ''Casco," at SWEETS Mills, Parker's
Head. An iron struck him in the face while
revolving with lightning rapidity. He was
knocked senseless and overheard, and would
have been drowned but for the efforts of his
brother. He is slowly recovering.
Sagadahoc Lodge Knights Of Pythias was
instituted at Richmond, Monday, starting with
a membership of seventy-fve new knights.
and FIVE members of other lodges, who will
join this lodge.
Union Telegraph Company passed through
Richmond Monday, stringing the two wires
for which the Eoles are arranged. The gang
is working tow ards Portland.
SOMERSET.
The Arson Advocate says The numbering
operations in the Dead River region are very
extensive. Tons and tons of supplies are
hauled thither from this station. Wages are
ene-ffth higher than those of last year.
WASHINGTON.
James McReavey & Son. and Robert Nc
Reavey. who are logging on Machias river on
Townships 4, Al and ~ have 65 men, IL oxen
and Is horses in the woods. They bought of
F. Shaw Brothers at Grand Lake, % tons Of
supplies consisting of 81 bbls. -four, 4s7
bushels Of meal. $50 gallons of molasses,
400 lbs. butter, lard. etc. This 10 only a
part of their supplies that will be needed.
Ar LARGE.
1t appears that the statement that the par
ty now engaged in surveying line from the
Maine Central railroad to the Aroostook has
been Withdrawn, is incorrect, and that ad-
vices from the engineers in the field show
that they are finding a very satisfactory line
a good country. The report may have Origi-
mated in the fact that the engineers have been
withdrawn from the line between Danforth
and Houlton by the European North Amer
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