Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-06-22
state News.
ANpROsCOGGIx.

A despatch to the Argus from North Wolf
boro', n. H.. June 20, says: Moses Barney.
a wealthy citizen of Lewiston. Me. came
here Friday, suffering from nervous agiia
ton. Saturday he developed symptoms o;
insanity and escaped from his boarding hause
being still at large. He was seen al Wake
field yesterday. where he walked into u
strange house, hung his coat on nail and
went ont again. Parties are hunting tn.
woods and surrounding country night and
day in search, but there are grave fears that
he may perish from exhaustion.
The Journal says: The trustees of the
Maine Eclectic Medical School will meet in
the Aldermen's room, in Lewiston on Thurs
day, at 10 o'clock. A. 81. for the purpose OF
electing the medical staff OF the new school
The first course of lectures will comm-nc,
the lst of October.
CUMBERLAND.
In Portland number of people believed
! that the world would really come Ia an end
SUNDAY. One man. who drives a bake cart.
made all his preparations. and on Saturday.
went about and babe all his friends adieu
He seemed very happy in his belief. and
must have been sadly disappointed A lady,
who lives on Munjoy Hill. it ~as reported,
who owned small house and had little
property OI DcT own. coHsl>tint, III SDtnt SSUb
| made a deed of the property to some friends.
but held the deed over SUNDAY before hav-
ing it registered to make sure that she
would not need it any more.
Quite sudden death recently occurred al
Harrison One of the coat shop girls named
Ridlon was somewhat i'll from ''rising" in
her throat: she had been out of the shop but
one day, and was quite comfortable; she re-
marked that the sore felt as if it had broken
and the matter running down her throat
and in five minutes from that time she was
dead. She belonged in Naples.
Thirteen hundred and fifty bales of rags
for the Cumberland Mills paper mill arrived
in Portland Sunday on the Norwegian bark
Solid.
FRANKLIN.
The grammar school at East Wilton hiss
closed very abruptly. The cause of this is
some trouble in the school.
The Lewiston Journal says Messrs. Hobbs
& Son of West Pennington, horse rake man
nufacturers, are having ready sales for
all their goods. Such was the demand
for these rakes two years ago. they made an
extensive addition to the factory. and this
year have put 2O00 dozen rakes upon the
market, and still not enough to fill all their
orders. Their business has steadily increased
for the last four years. They have machin-
cry for turning fork handles and rounds for
hay racks, large numbers of which are an
nually turned ont. They are now putting in
machinery for the manufacture of excelsior,
which will be in operation another fall.
HANCOCK.
AS the men were repairing the road about
a mile from Salisbury's Cove, they found a
very singular deposit. In the bushes which
a. ~, -. tkn
road, they found hidden under stone
bunch of sixteen skeleton keys of all sorts
and sizes, evidently designed for dishonest
purposes. They had not been there very long
when found, for the string with which they
were strung together was not at all decayed.
The keys were mostly of brass, and ar
ranged as TO be changed to suit different
locks.
The opinion says that Warren A. Hamilton
and F. II. Swaziland, who left Rockland in a
small boat one week ago Friday, intending
to go to the Fox Island Thoroughfare and re-
turn the same night, have not been heard of.
and it is more than probable that their boat
foundered and both were drowned that after
noon.
OXFORD.
SUNDAY "A. W., JoSePH ~ MOTSe, one Vi
the elderly citizens of South Paris. had his
leg amputated above the knee for senile gan
creme of the foot and leg. His recovery is
very doubtful.
PENOBsCOT.
The Commercial says: On Saturday Lord
ElphinstOne, and his son. and Sir John s.
Mcneil, all of whom are interested in the
Land Company formed in England for the
A. L. l.. a.
Brunswick Railroad Company and since pur-
chased By the New Brunswick Land Com
pany, arrived at st. John. Accompanied by
Hon.. Isaac Burpee, they will inspect tine
lands owned by the company.
WASHINGTON.
Salmon are caught this spring in Dennys
vile river.
A deer suddenly made its appearance in
the cemetary at Calais last week. He proba-
bly, thought that was the quietest place he
could find.