Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-14

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| The Woman's Benevolent Association o
Lewiston is doing a good work among the de
serving poor in that city. Their mission
school numbers about so children. Tn,
superintendent of the school, Miss Hattie n
| Willett il also missionary. She commenced
her work as missionary in April last. Since
| that time she has made 2402 calls. 635 of VI hici
were upon the sick. She has received snc
given away $50 garments, and many children
have been able to attend the public school.
regularly, who. without them, would have
been at home or in the street.
Bates College was lately presented. by the
publishers, with Reprin, of the Encyclopedias
Britannica, of which thirteen volumes have
already been published.
CUMBERLAND.
The Portland Press saws: Last Saturday
afternoon, as young lady was walking along
Green street, large icicle fell from the root
of the building on the eastern corner of Green
and Congress streets and struck her on the
head. She was knocked senseless TO the side
walk, and received SO severe a cash in the
head as to require six stitches 10 close ii up.
The Argus SAYS: The work of recstalogu-
ing Bowdoin College Library is being vigor-
ously pushed this winter by Prot. johnson.
the librarian. together with several assistants.
The arrangements are being carried on upon
the topic system. All the works in any par
ticular department of thought are arranged
together, so that when the cataloguing is com
pleted person can easily find all the works
that the library contains, and any branch he
wishes to require into.
HANCOCK.
An Otter Creek correspondent says that
hulled corn and milk are very plenty since
the corn vessel went ashore. and thinks more
than hundred bushels of the damaged corn
have come to the Creek.-M Desert Herald
The Herald saws: At the Cranberry Isles
Life Saving Station, during the big snow
storm of Sunday, the 9TH, three men on pa
troll duty were slightly frost-bitten. The
surf-men report it the worst storm of the
season.
PENOBsCOr.
A few days since, the Bangor Wing says
a man called at house in this city and offer
ed for sale some fish that he called trout He
said that he had been out fishing and, having
caught more trout than he could use, want
ed to dispose of this lot, and as it was against
the law to sch trout at this season Of the
year, he had removed the skin that one
could not tell what kind of fish he had. The
lady Of the house, whose husband was very
fond of TROUT, thought she would give him a
pleasant surprise, so she purchased the trout
laid aside the dinner that had been ALREADY
sent up, and had the fish prepared in the most
delectable manner. Her husband arrived al
the usual hour and was well pleased at the
change until he took seat at the table, when.
10 his extreme disgust, he found that the
fellow had imposed on his wife by selling her
skinned tom-cods for trout. We understand
that the fellow performed the same trick in
several other places.
YORK.
The Biddeford Journal says several cases
of attempts bv thieves to enter dwellings at
night have been reported lately.
South Berwick has somewhat peculiar
case. A citizen has lost the end of one of
his fingers. his wife is similarly afflicted, and
recently their two-year old boy met with an
accident which deprived him of the tip of one
of his digits.
A pickerel was recently caught in Chase's
pond, at York, weighing four and three
quarters pounds