Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-10-18
state News.
AypROsCOGGIy.


i The Journal saws: 1.-The Lewiston owner.
in the Good Fortune and Grand Moeul mine.
are excited ever a postal card received or
! Saturday. from A. Philips. their agent. dated
4 New Mexico, and reading n. follows: "AlI
our mines o. X. Struck Chord silver in
Good Fortune; and Grand Mogul and Alton
banning out well. Chord in &c. F. will
assay as high as 5000 per ton. We have
got bonanza"
| CUMBERLAND.
The number of deaths in Portland for the
week ending October 18th. was IL. from the
| following causes Cholera infsntum, 3;
paralysis. 3; ur@mia. dropsy. congestion o,
lungs, diarrhea. consumption. Group. each.
The boating association of Bowdoin Col
lege have elected the following officers for
the ensuing year: Commodore-W. O.
| Plimpton: Vice Commodore-A. E. Austin
Secretary-J. A. Waterman: Treasurer-H.
E. Cole: First Director-E- L. Curtis; Sec
ond Director-E. A. Packard; Third Direc-
tor-A. II. Brown.
HANCOCK.
Between GO, 900 and &c. 900 shares of Deer
Isle stock were sold in Boston, recently, at
prices ranging from SLIP to sl.S9.
The Mount Deser, Herald SAYS: Mr..
Augustus Hamor lost valuable horse last
week. Mrs. Hamor was driving the animal
from Ellsworth. but had not got out of that
village when the horse suddenly dropped
dead
KESSEBEC.
correspondent of the Lewiston Journal
says: Some of the finest stone slabs the
State of Maine can produce, equal to the
best products of the Carlow or Welsh quar-
ries, are now being hauled by the veteran
contractor and teamster. James Small of
Brance Mills, to Zenas Percival of China.
from the Sabin quarries in Palermo. The
slabs vary from - to 100 feet each.
The Opinion saws that Mr.. Edward 10th
rop. a yoang man 81 wears of age, son of
Nathaniel L. Lothrop of Union, returned
home from Dover. n. H., where he had been
at work. by the Boston boat Wednesday
evening. Thursday morning he was found
dead in an clubhouse. The cause of his death
is not certainly known.
the News saws that Ambrose Hall. who
fell few DAYS ago while working on a ship
at Damariscotta died Wednesday.
The Register says that the smallpox scare
is about over for the present. The eighty
cases reported at Wiscasset having been
proved to be myths, and only to be found in
the very fertile imaginations of people out
side of town. The disease is confined to the
one single patient and he is in fair way to
recover.
PENOBsCOT.
The Commercial says: The subscription
to the stock of the Oldtown water power COM
pany is still booming. There has been up to
the present, over $4,000 subscribed.
hydraulic engineer Cat the solicitation of
gentleman who is largely interested in the
Milford side of the river will examin the
property this week. and make report as to
its availability for manufacturing purpose on
that side.
WALDO.
From October |, 1880, to October l, 1881,
the five dealers in Belfast have handled up
wards of 10, 900 tons of pressed hay, and it is
estimated that the amount shipped by tran
sient dealers, farmers and others has been
something over 200 tons shipped from Bel
fast in one year.
The journal says that thieves have been
prosecuting their work upon clothes lines,
fruit trees and grape vines pretty assiduously
in Saco and Biddeford during the past few
weeks man and wife in Bddeford have
beck Obliged to divide the nights watching
their pears. plums and grapes. All this is
encouraging to the industrious and frugal,
who like to see plant or tree growing and
producing in every otherwise vacant spot.