Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-04-29

dAIanoeook. July oth.
Rev. W. G. Haskell, of Lewiston. Com
mander of department of Maine q. A. r.,
has been invited BY the posts of New York
City and Brooklyn TO deliver the Memorial
address at Greenw cod cemetery on Ma, SGrh
The Gospel Banner says the Nav Fair 10
be given in Auburn Hall. Auburn. by the
ladies of the Cniversalis: church in that civ.
promises TO be an occasion OF much novelty
and OF great interest.
CUMBERLAND.
Hon. w. l.. Prince, at Yves, Cumberland.
had his tank robbed of 500 splendid trout.
some of them weighing three pounds each
Mr. Prince has kept on the watch and found
mink was the thief
The Grand Lodge of Masons sits in Port
land on Tuesday next. The usual half fare
tickets will be issued over the different lines
of communication.
About twenty persons will be received into
the Second Parish (Congresatisnal0 church
of Portland. next Sabbath. bv The pastor
Rev. c. \. Dickinson.
HANCOCK.
While the cellar of Whitcomb. HAYNES 4
Co.'S mill boarding house, at Ellsworth was
being cleared out, piece of quartz rock was
discovered containing large nugget of min
g al tiIdt an uo nave tAaifllUtu pronounce
gold. They propose to investigate further.
\ verv sad accident occurred al Reeds
Brook. Tuesday. While Lemuel Moore was
driving loaded OK team by the school house,
a little daughter of Reuben Moore's ran out
10 get a ride and falling under the wheels was
ran over, inf1icting injuries from which she
died in half hour.
PESoBscor.
The Wing says: We learn that the sal
mon eggs at the Broad street Matching house
are nearly all Matched and the particular,
troublesome job approaches its end The
sea salmon are about all Matched and the
land-locked variety are coming on finely.
The work of widening the gauge of the
New Brunswick Railway is to commence At
once. The running of trains will not be in
terfered with, As the new steel rails will be
laid outside the present track. so that mar
row gauge cars can run regularly until the
broad gauge ones are ready for service Mr.
James Watson has been sent to Yarmouth 10
get the rolling stock purchased from the
Windsor and Annapolis Railway.
PIsCArAQuIs.
The sixth semi-annual session of the Pts
cataquis Teachers Association will be held at
May IL, 10 and u.
SAGADAHoc.
Tuesday evening little past nine o'clock
DIR. James W. Savage of Bath, met with a
severe accident. that will confine him to the
house for some time to come. 1t seems that
the doctor was fastening his doors for the
nj ght, and supposing he was about TO open a
door leading to the back door of the house.
made a mistake and opened the cellar door
instead, and fell the full length of the stairs
breaking the libra OF his right leg by the fall
Eighteen vessels are in process of construc.
ton in the Bath shipyards.
SOMERSET.
The Somerset Reporter SAYS Last eve
ming Johnnie Simmons who was carrying tele-
graph dispatches temporarily for his brother
who is the telegraph messenger, had oscasion
to cross the railroad bridge when he stepped
upon a loose timber and fell over the side of
the bridge. Fortunately he was near the
further end and so only fell some twelve feet
As it was.his right ancle was badly injured.
The question is already discussed: Is the
town liable?
WALDO
One ton OF iron was melted at the Belfast
Foundry on Friday last. One piece. the fly
wheel to pump for mine in Bluehill,
weighed over 1900 pounds.
company of one hundred persons assem-
bled at the farm house of Mr.. and Mrs.
Wales l.. Miller, in the suburbs of Belfast
on Friday evening last. to celebrate the TWEEN
fifth anniversary of their welded life. Mrs.
George W. Lewis and Mrs. Fred Griffin read
original poems. The presents were numer-
Gus and handsome.-Repubiicon journal.
The Journal says: At the annual meeting
of the corporators of the Belfast Savings
L ln.l. Al I'll.
GERS were chosen-Asa Faunce. John G.
Brooks. VIM. o. Poor VIM. H. Burrill and
Chas B. Hazetine as Trustees. Asa Fannce
was elected President, John II. Quimby
Treasurer. and William II. Fogler Attorney.
A. c. Burgess and J. W. Frederick were
elected as corporators in place of W. G.
Crosby and n. NJ. Matthews deceased. The
y-aws were changed so that hereafter money
will be placed upon interest the first Of June,
September. October and March,
WASHINGTON.
A Sardine factory has been completed at
At a cost of $1,000. All
that is lacking now. to make business lively,
is the fish for packing. 1t will take from
three to five hundred men to run the bust
ness in all its departments.
The American saws the little girl taken
from the cannibal islands. last year. and now
living at Capt. Means. in Milbridge, bids
ia ir to be noble acquisition. She is very
intelligent, and has one of the kinjest dis
positions. Though she has been here only
eleven months, she can read and write. talks
distinctly and can do most any Homework.
She remembers the horrid barbarities prac-
ticed in her native home and often tells OF
them The island from which she was taken,
is called by sailors. "Sulu Island" situated
east from Asia.
The Biddeford Times SAYS: Mr.. Samuel
Haines of Old Orchard Beach is progressing
finely with his new hotel. the Aldine. 1t is
nearly clapboarded. and the fathers have
commenced work in the upper story. Mr..
Haines proposes to make his house second to
none of its size a. Old Orchard Beach. II
will be lighted with gas. and every room in
the house will be connected with the office
bv electic call bells.
DIR. Dudley Allen Sargent, now protes-
sor at Harvard University, was married in
Brooklyn. n. Y. April Eth. to Miss Ella
Fraser Ledvard. Prof Sargent was gradu
ated from Bowdoin College in the class of
1875. He acted rs director of the gymna-
STUN during his entire undergraduate course.
STATE OF MAINE.