Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-11-16
State News.
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two days Half fare on railroads and stesm-
boats will he received and free entertain
ment while in attendance.
| A dispatch to the Boston Journal saws that
the Allan Line have decided not to run their
passenger steamers TO Portland this winter.
Two reasons are assigned for changing the
destination of the steamers: First, the i'm
proved facilities of other Boston lines; and
second, the dissatisfied feeling among the
'longshoremen at Portland. The Allan Line
will run their freight steamers t. Portland
and the Dominion Line also. These. with
other regular lines will furnish fair amount
Of employment for the 'long>horemen now
residing here
Try Again" Lodge. No. 2O4. l. o. G. T..
has been instituted recently at South
Harpswell.
| Albert Leighton, of Portland with party.
was duck shooting. last week. Two of them
went out in boat, and in firing at some
ducks the boat was overturned. Both men
were bound TO save their guns. so they held
them with one hand and chung to the boat
with the other, and in this condition they
remained three-quarters of an hour. They
were finally rescued.
KENNEBEC.
| The United States government has given
| four rihed PARROT guns to Gardiner under
the act of Congress donating ordnance to
towns and cities erecting soldiers monu-
| ments.
PENoBsCoT.
| wonder in the way of a water animal
made its appearance in the water faucet at
F. ii. Doherty's store. Bangor. Saturday
| The curiosity had head something like a
| pickerel, with eyes set far back and very
capacious mouth armed with rows of sharp
teeth. The tail resembled that of an eel, or
small snake. 1t probably was baby sea
serpent.
| Geo. w. Maxfeld of Bangor, paid into the
Houlton custom house last Friday, $500 so
duties on sheep, on a valuation of 81, 329
| The duty il 20 per cent.
! X. ii. Stanley, a drug clerk belonging in
| Bangor. while on Court street. Boston. Mon
day morning, was accosted by two strangers.
who requested him to change $50 bill for
them. Mr.. Stanley took the bill and on
examining it discovered 1t to be a counterfeit
After handing them hack the bill he called
/ policeman and told him his story. The
strangers were brought to Division and
carefully searched, but the bill could not be
found and the men were discharged.
PIsCATAQUIs.
| The Eastern State says that since March.
Constable A. ID. Sturtevant of Blanchard
has made about II seizures, and legally de-
stroyed nearly 200 gallons of intoxicating
liquors.
The product per annum of the Monson
slate quarries. is now 81 900 squares of slate.
or 800 carloads. Many teams are employed
in drawing it to the b. & =. r. X five miles
distant. More than 1000 cords of wood are
consumed each year, and the various compa-
MES pay ont to lab0rers and others from
| Sc, 900 to S., 900 in every month. Laborers
receive from 81 b to 81 80 per diem.
| Five children in the family of Mr.. Samuel
| Mitchell of Shirley, have died of diphtheria.
in the past two weeks. In the family of Mr..
Elwyn A. Gilman. two children, aged three
and nine years. have fallen victims to the
same disease. and three others are now sick,
two of them dangerously.
SAGADAHoc.
| The Times SAYS that the work of refunding
the bonded debt of Bath has arrived at qnite
an advanced stage The city has bought and
refunded 1921 800 six per cent X 4 L. aid
bonds. at four per cent up to date and ST.
500 in X. & l.. bonds have been paid. The
sale of the four per cents have not quite met
the purchase of the six per cents, but the
funds for payment are all provided.
They had squallv time at the Bath Cen
trail Congregational church, Sunday. Six
babies were chrstened.
The Bath Times says When the lady who
represented Dolly Dutton in Hazel Kirke re-
turned to the dressing room in the hall last
| Thursday evening at the close of an act. she
was startled by the sight of man entering
the dressing room by an open window. The
lady screamed and as the company ran to her
assistance the intruder fed.
While Anthony Mcclellan, of Grand River,
Prince Edwards Island, was at work, Thurs
day, on the stern staging of William Rogers
ship, in Bath, he was knocked backwards off
the staging into the water, distance OF % feet,
BY the breaking of a small ribbon he was
bending on to the stern tmbers. He readily
climbed from the dork, changed his clothes,
| and went to work without receiving even a
scratch.
| SOMERSET.
Joseph H. Pearl of Methuen Mass has
get together 81, 500 with which to purchase a
a farm at Arson. The night before he was
to start he was robbed of the whole amount.
WALDO.
1t is proposed to organize Grand Army
post in Brooks.
Mrs Chas Pendleton of Searsport, met
with quite an accident while riding around the
Cape. Her horse became suddenly frightened
and she was thrown from the carriage. break
ing tho main Dones in her arm. besides in
Turing her internally.
AT LARGE.
! The Pioneer says: Thirteen hundred sheep
from Canada were seized few days ago near
the Forks of the Kennebec river, for duties.
The Times says: Mrs Charles 2. Tilley
was passenger on the steamer State OF
Maine, which arrived at St. John, Thursday
afternoon from Boston. On Monday night
between Portland and Eastport, she was rob
bed of two wallets containing Sll0 and a lot
of small trinkets. She did no,
discover her loss until the following
morning. The thief was ascertained to he
one Collins one of the crew of the Falmouth
who had been paid and was on his way home
The money was recovered.