Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-10-04
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Mr.. George Rose Of Little Chebeasue who
| lately swallowed peach stone remains in .
verv critical condition. His throat is fear
fully innamed and swollen.
Mackerel have taken another boom, and
there was = sale of three hundred barrels in
Portland Monday At e8, Sl1 and Ola. an ad-
vance of 4 dollar. 1t is reported that there
is svndicate in Portland holding 5000
barrels of mackersl for speculation.
The shop of the Durham Packing Compa-
nv AT New Gloucester, flushed packing corn.
Friday night. $50 900 cans were put up, the
equivalent of about 10 600 bushels of corn in
the husk.
The distance from RAYMOND Cape to Deer
ing bridge is 254 miles. Monday Mr.. Sam
mel Mains, a man past 20 years of age.
walked that distance in four hours and thirty
minutes.
Runners from Boston have been in Portland
the past few DAYS in quest of cod and had
dock and have offered eight and nine cents
per pound.
Miss Nellie NJ. Abbott. of Gorham. ha.
two thousand and one hundred different ad-
vertising cards.
FRANKLIS.
Iessrs. Reuben and /. T. Hutchinson
caught bear in the western part of Weld. in
trap, one night last week. II is 4 Young
one, and would weigh about 100 pounds.
They have it alive in a cage.
Fish Warden L. F. Phillips, on Wednesday
night last. found two Young fishermen. both
Of Dixfield. fishing with net at the foot of
webb's pond. He brought them before Trial
Justice Russell, when they plead guilty and
we're each fined sil and costs, amounting in
the aggregate to S25. 75.-Leristony Journal.
KENSEBEc.
Friday Mr.. Cyrus Sprague, a workman in
the shop-of the Oakland Manufacturing Com
pany in Gardiner, had one knee badly crushed
while At work over 4 planer.
Considerable sickness is reported in Pitts
ton.
The Winthrop Budget says the West Ken
nebec Home Canning Company At North
Wayne, have closed up the business of can
ming corn for the present season. This
company has put up 500 casea of its own
raising, having employed from 20 to 80 hands
daily.
The steamer Mt. Desert, which recently
met with an accident to her machinery, is be-
ing repaired NJ Rockland.
Nothing has yet been heard from Prescott.
the escaped murderer. -
TENObsCOT.
Lincoln seems to be cursed just now with
house breakers. Friday before last the sta
ton of the E n. A. Railway was broken
into and S42 in coin taken. Last Friday
the express office was broken open and three
patterns of dress goods taken belonging to
Mute & Rocks, valued at $50. Sunday night
large lock was broken at the Lincoln Hotel.
The Wing says On Saturday young man
solI q vnk Of tn Ramon hnfchor for
500. 1t has since been ascertained that the
youthful individual was not the owner of the
cattle, but had stolen them from Ira Hill, of
Exeter, in whose employ he had been. MIR.
Hill has since come to the city and taken the
oxen, leaving the butcher minus the money
he had paid out.
Mr.. d. II. Clewly, residing at Eddington,
is now so years old and never till last Satur-
day had he seen a printing press in motion.
The Wing says the total valuation Of the
taxable property of Bangor. a. appears BY
the assessors books. is 50 ,307 1888. against
So l56. 23l last year, gain of 1851 ,652.
Rate of taxation 50 80.
Weller Brown proposes to start . drove of
400 head of cattle moving westward from
Bangor next Saturday. They were gathered
in Aroostook and Penobscot counties.
PIsCATAQUIs.
The honse of Philimon Parsons in Fox
croft was entered Sunday while the family
was at church. and jewelry and silverware to
the value Of about 500 TAKEN hi0.
YORK.
The file mandatory on Lincoln street
owned bv Mr.. Lawrence Bradigan is about to
be given up and Biddeford is to lose pros
porous industry. Mr.. Bradigan will move
his business to Portland.
There are several cases in the two cities of
Bddeford and Saco where children who were
vaccinated a year ago, have not yet recOv-
cred from the effects of the vaccination.
AT LARGE.
Postmasters appointed-S. J. Grant. Bar
Harbor, Hancock county; Susan II. Dennis,
East New Portland, Somerset county; Henry
w. Knowles. South Lewiston, AndrOscoggiu
county; Marshal F. Coffin, WATERFORD Cen
tire, York county.
The f. & N. A. locomotives are to be
changed gradually from wood burners to coal
burners and eventually coal will be the chief
fuel used on the entire Maine Central line.