Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-11-16
State News.
ANDROsCoGGIy.

| Passengers on the Monday afternoon trair
from Brunswick, had sensation. The en-
CINE shrilly screeched down brakes" ~her
nearing a crossing in South Lewiston
top buggy was coming recklesslv down over
the hill The horse crossed the track on
the dead run, and the buggy, with It's &C.
cupants, just scraped by. it being impossible
to stop the train--Lerisfon Journal.
ARoosIooK-
Four and q half miles of rails are already
laid betwe Carbon and Presque Isle. The
depot in the last named village is nearly COM
pleted, and an engine house, near by, has
been begun.
The Times saws that the duties on the
steel rails for the road from New Brunswick
line to Caribou, were S3l, $50. 1t took !, pa
tons of rails for the road. l6 miles long.
CUMBERLAND.
The Argus SAYS that. Sunday, John Milon
of Portland, was arrested for a savage as
sault with knife on BARLEY Conley. Con-
Iev's head and face were badly slashed and he
was shocking sight when brouy ht into the sta
ton. In Milon's pocket vas found the knife he
used. covered with blood. Both men had
been drinking.
During the heavy gale that passed Fair
Point. Va. on Sunday night and Monday,
the 9TH inst, the engineer and fireman of the
fishing steamer Belle and Hattie" were badly
injured by a sea that boarded the boat. filling
the engine room They are both Maine boys,
the engineer belonging in Portland. Mr..
Battle, the engineer. it is thought is seriously
hurt about the he Biddeford Times.
FRANKLIN.
Mr. Hodgkins, of Madrid, is making quite
extensive repairs on his mill at Madrid, and
is putting in machinery for the manufacture
of pail bail handles. with a capacity for forty
thousand day.-Bangor Commercial.
The Ossipee News SAYS that dphtheria is
prevailing quite extensively in Porter, there
being at the present time not less than a doz-
en- cases in the village and in the Stanley
Mills district in town. But fortunately, only
two deaths have occurred as yet.
The Ossipee News reports diphtheria pre-
vailing in Hiram.
The industries connected with the apple
traffic are diligently progressing at Farming
ton. Some are proposing TO turn their atten-
ton entirely to orcharding, as many of the
hilly localities in Pennington are easily con-
verted into orchard farms, while tillage and
cropping as business is sadly interfered
with by the steep inclination of hillsides. An
apple tree will thrive on a side-hill as well as
any where.
Hancock.
The richest ore yet found in Hancock
county, appears to have been struck recently
in the Deer Isle mine. An assay made at the
New England Smelling Works of sample
of this ore, showed it contained gold, silver
and copper in the proportion of s557.44 per
ton
The Portland Press says: Mr.. Stephen
son, civil engineer, commenced the survey
Yesterday of a new railroad route from Hir-
ram to Bridgton via South Bridgton.
PENoBsCoT.
Bangor is talking up the electric light, says
the Wing.
SAGADAHOC.
The first trial of Goss ( Sawyer's marine
railway at Bath. was made last week with the
schooner J. L. Vannaman. The next to 20
on will be the Mt. Desert steamer City OF
Reconsideration Journal.
AT LARGE.
The following post Office changes were
made in Maine the past week: Postmasters
appointed-Lucinda A. Dodge, Seals Cove,
Hancock county; David Rowell, Jr,, Scion,
Somerset county.