Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-01-26
State News.

4 car on the New Brunswick Railway.
containing $50 bushels of potatoes belonging
to II. r. Fletcher of Caribou, caught fire
from the stove, at W Woodstock. on Wednesday
night. The car was partly burned, but the
potatoes were total loss.
CUMBERLAND.
large enthusiastic and interesting meet
ing of the Irish National and Industrial
League was held Monday evening in the hall
of the Irish American relief Association.
Rev. e. A. HAYDEN of Portland, states
that during the past fourteen days he has
attended five funerals outside of his own par
ishes. made thirty PASTORAL calls, preached
fourteen sermons equal to one day. and
travelled two hundred miles.
FRANKLIN.
The Photograph says that the steam mill
of Luther Tibbetts in Rangeley is driven to
Its utmost capacity. in all its branches. Six
men are kept at work the year through, and
many more in some portions of the year
The products of this mill are boards and d.
mension stuff. shingles, clapboards and laths
and for rough lumber and manufactured arti-
cles, everything that is used on a farm or
for logging purpOSes-from a wheebarrow
to a logging sled
HANCOCK.
Work is actively progressing on the Doug
lass copper lode at Blue HILL several COM
panies having contracted for the erection of
smelters. The lode has been prospected by
the Douglass shaft to a depth of lS5 feet,
with no perceptible signs as yet of either
pinchng out or becoming barren.
On Friday last Dana Kent, of Ellsworth
while at work hauling logs on Township No.
2, for Jerry Giles & Co., of Amherst. had his
leg crushed in a terrible manner at the knee
Mr.. Kent was unloading logs from his sled
when his leg was caught between two logs.
He remained in this condition an hour and
quarter before help arrived to relieve him
from his painful situation.
OXFORD.
Mrs. Phelps, wife of G. c. Phelps, ESQ.
of South Paris. aged about sixty years, died
of diphtheria Saturday night; also a young
man named Morse died very suddenly of the
same disease at the same place. An hour or
so before his death. he was about the house.
The New Religion says that c. b. Cum
mings of Norway, is getting out vast quanti-
ties of birch, oak and poplar, having gangs
Norway and Waterford.
Ex-Gov. Stearns of Florida, formerly of
Lowell, was in Norway. Tuesday.
IENORStOT.
On Saturday last, Mr.. +. o. Beal. of Ban
gor, sold his handsome pair of bay mares for
eight hundred dollars. They were purchased
for Boston parties.
The Wing SAYS another cargo of Katahdin
iron is being shipped to Belfast by rail from
Bangor. and then loaded into vessels, making
three cargees sent thus far this winter to that
port. with prospect Of more
Mrs Ada Palmer Of Rrewer while w all
ing home from Bangor, Saturday evening.
slipped on the icy sidewalk near the Exchange
and broke her ankle. = A gentleman assisted
her into his sleigh and carried her home and
a physician was called.
SAGADAHoc.
Tho Sagadahoc Historical Society has per-
fected programme for a celebration on the
10Th Of March. of the hundredth anniversary
of the first town meeting in Bath.
SOMERSET.
There is to be big sheep show a: North
Arson, the first of February. The State
Board Of Agriculture will be there and some
distinguished sheep-growers of Vermont are
expected.
Mr.. Frank Evans of Mechanic Falls and
Brooks Brothers Of Norway have secured a
patent for making good pulp by a new pro-
cess The invention promises to entirely
revolutionize the pulp business.