Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-05-17
State News.
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A Steamboat is II be launched on the An
droscoggin- Some Lewiston Young men have
formed company and have purchased a small
steamer that will carry about twenty-five pas
senRers. They propose to keep the steamer
Tor the use of private pleasure parties on the
rlver, this summer.
! The Journal says: An old dog, belonging
to DR.. Wentworth of Auburn. has gone on
duty with the Lewiston patrolmen
every night for two wears. He
stays until three O'Clock in the
morning, when the watch comes on.
He arrests all drunken men he meets FRI
day night he came across man Keeling along
the street. The dog jumped on him, and
knocked him down. He held him on his
back until officer Prentiss came up. The dog
does not touch people whose legs walk
straight
ARooSTook.
The steamer Nathan Perry" Captain
Cook. is again making regular trip. between
Fort Fairfield and Presque Isle, and is doing
good business.
Nearly all of the lumbermen in North
Aroostook. have got the logs out of the brooks
into the Aroostook. and the indications now
are that they will succeed in getting their
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CuMBERLAND
During a thunder storm FRIDAY the house
of the late Thomas Cleaves, of BridRton.
was struck by lightning and set on fire.
MIR. j. W. Warren. Saccarappa. is adding
new machinery TO his warp warn mill.
The Argus says For stealing newspapers
from subscribers doorsteps Thomas Irving
was Saturday sentenced to ten DAYS confine-
ment in the county Jail. Let this serve as a
warning to some other boys we wot Of
The injuries of the Wagner boy. who fell
through a scuttle in G. L. behring's store on
Long wharf Portland. a short time ago. were
more serious than at first supposed, and it is
now thought he can not recover.
Friday afternoon the in freight train
over the Portland & Ogdensburg was passing
Gambo. an axle of one of the cars broke and
six of the box freight cars, loaded, left the
rails. Bean and kingman. brakemen, were
slightly injured.
FRANKLIN.
The PhOnograph says that the Universalist
society of Phillips has again secured the ser
vices of Rev. o. ii. Johnson of Jay, and he
will occupy the union pulpit once in four
weeks for the ensuing year.
LINCOLN.
F. Wiscasset is again to have the benefit of a
newspaper, Chas. Z. Emerson having been
the enterprising man to launch a bi-weekly
paper called The Lilliputian."
PIsCArAoUIs.
The Piseataquis Observer says the report
that Rev. J. +. Norris of Foxcroft, mission
ary to Burmah, had been murdered bv the
natives. can be traced to no trustw orthv source
and is probably unfounded. His relatives in
Foxcroft have received no news of the kind.
SOMERSET.
The Fairfield Journal SAYS that diphtheria
and scarlet fever have made their appearance
in Fairfield.
During the year of 1880. there were ship
ped from the Fairfield station, l,2O6 full
loaded cars of freight
Messrs. Merry & Caswell. drovers of North
Arson, report, good fat cattle scarce in Som
erset county. The past year they have
handled SEQ head of cattle and 4, 800 sheep,
mainly butchered.
Waldo district lodge of Good Templars met
in quarterly session, with the lodge at Jack
son. Ten lodges were represented by the
delegates. There are % lodges, and over 1000
Good Templars in Waldo county. The next
session will be held in Augusta, on the shores
of Swan Lake.
WAsUISGToN.
The local subscriptions to the stock of the
proposed cotton mill in Calais now amount to
Sl00,0
YORK.
\ Boston firm is to start a shoe factory in
kennebunk.
In WATERFORD, York county Messrs. G. f.
DeeriDg Il Co. are erecting three buildings
for sweet corn packing; one is 30x50 feet,
two stories one 30z40 feet one story; also
husking shed, 80 feet long.
4 large tumor, malignant in its nature was
removed from Mrs. Grover of North Berwick
recently, by Drs. Bray of Portland, Day of
Alfred and Parker of Lebanon.