Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-08-26
State News.
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ANDROSCOGGIN.
The Auburn shoe makers are now har,l.
driven. There il great pressure in the fac.
tories to Ill orders. 100 more cases we're
made this week than last. There are over
loO buyers in the Boston market.
The Journal says that fifty year. ago. an
ssed farmer IN Turner, by name John SWEET.
mad disagreement with a neigliber as to the
boundary line between their farms The old
man declared certain big rock marked the
line, and dramatically laying his well-worn
family Bible on that rock, took oath to that
effect He then covered the Bible with fat
stone and instructed his descendants TO ALLOW
1t to remain there, forever. few DAYS ago.
an Auburn gentleman walking in the field
with friend. came across the big rock and
found the Bible under the fiat stone, where il
mad reposed for half a century. The prin,
was legible.
CUMBERLAND.
Mr.. Lorenzo Towle, of Saccarappa. who
was so severely injured by falling from the
staging OF house at Cumberland Mills, last
Friday. died Tuesday morning
The Franklin Family School at Topsbam.
commences Sept. Goth d. L. Smith re-
mains as principal.
Wallace Ross will leave for Toronto early
next week. He will take two boats with him
The Press says that among the veterans on
the camp ground, Wednesday, was G. L.
Pierce. Esq. of Wilton, 20 years of age. He
served under Gen. Winfield Scott (who was
then ColoneD in the Black Hawk war and
was present at the surrender of the Black
Hawk chief. Mr.. Pierce was in Capt Car
ney's company in that war. He is now in
full possession of his faculties, and was verv
much interested yesterday in the proceedings
at Camp Berry.
FRANKLIN.
The Lewiston Journal says that the report
of the death of Mrs. Harriet Stanley Scales
of Temple, by diphtheria was incorrect, but
the death of three of her children is con-
firmed.
HANCOCK.
The American saws that developments on
the Mammoth Copper Mine, show that the
most sanguine expectations were not up to
the reality, and we understand that parties
are taking hold of a neighboring lot of land,
in hopes to find rival to the Mammoth.
The work on the Granger, Bluehill,
Douglass and Twin Lead is pushed right
along. and the Stewart at last, seems to have
fallen into competent hands, and to have a
Superintendent who knows what he wants to
do, and how to do it.
kENNEBEc.
As before stated, the officers of the Kenne-
bee Agricultural Society-parent of all the
agricultural societies in Maine-are making
active exertions to have the approaching fair,
the semi-centennial exhibition. one of the
best it has ever had. The semi-annual meet
ing will be held at Readfield on Monday
Sept. ). at o'clock p. NJ, and the show and
f,i Of paaI6alJ nntohar r. Ind.
Bean is to deliver an historical address; there
is to be poem, speeches, etc, a comparative
exhibit of farm implements. and we may
expect an occasion of great interest to the
farmers of the county and State. j. b. Low,
Esq. Readfield, is Secretary.-Home Farm.
PENoBsCoT.
The Wing says: The Milford Land and
Lumber Company, of which Hon. j. X. Bod
well is President, have opened the store No.
Sc Exchange street, lately occupied BY Il. II.
GetChell & Son, as the main office for their
lumber business, although it is but Il branch
office of the main concern.
Horatio Gates, Esq, prominent merchant
and postmaster at Lincoln Centre, had &C.
we're attack of apoplexy Tuesday afternoon.
He had not rallied at B o'clock yesterday af-
terneon, though his physician thinks the at
tack will rot be fatal.
The Wing says that negotiations are said
to be pending between the Bangor & Bucks
port Railroad Company and Provincial en-
gineers and it is probable that surveying
party will soon commence to lay out the
route of the proposed railroad extension from
Bucksport to Ellsworth.
SAGADAHoC.
The Bath Times says: A keel for center
board schooner of about 600 tons, is being
laid at the Moses yard. At the Sewell lower
ward bark of 1000 tons is partly in frame.
The steamer at the Goss. Sawyer & Packard
yard is being planked of the best of white oak
material. A vessel of about 800 tons is part
lv planked at this yard.
SOMERSET.
correspondent writing from New Portland
saws that Mr. Daniel Moore who lives in that
town is nearly 80 years of age. He is a ma
tive of Wakefield, N. H., but came to Maine
when about five years old, settling with his
parents in Mount Vernon. When young
man he went to Lewiston. passing through
a small clearing where now stands North
New Portland village. About thirty years
ago he made New Portland his home. His
father served as soldier under Washington
and was nearly ninety nine when he died,
while his mother lived to be four score and
nineteen. MIR. Moore was a soldier in the
war of 1912, and now draws a pension. He
never had a doctor but once in his life, and
to-day is hale and hearty. He walks out to
the village every day, and during the sum-
mer has cut and piled ten cords of stove
wood. at the same time keeping the stove
going.-Repo,ter.
WALDO.
Mr.. C.. J. Hall of Belfast has just opened
at Otter Creek, red granite quarry, said to
be one of the finest of the kind in the country.
Since July 23d, Mr.. Hall has shipped and