Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-01-07
state News.
ArpRoscocc1x.

ANermore- Saturday last, Edv. Haggett and
rne. accompanied BY Mrs. knight, started
lot raymond, TO attend conference meeting.
whue on the way, he was stricken with psr-
aiysis and lived but few hours. The widow
received telegram, Tuesday noon, that her
orotner- James Hodgdou, vas the unfortunate
man Who was killed At the Kennebunk rail
road accident. while on his way to attend the
funeral OF Mr.. Haggett- The coincidence
was very strange. and has cast a gloom over
our village Mr.. Haggett was a man wi;iely
known, and was good husband and kind
neighbor
A. ID. Knapp Of Leeds has a contract To
furnish one hundred thousand hoops TO mar.
ties in New Hampshire
The full town records of the old town of
PeJepscot. now Auburn. commencing with
us organization are In the city archives OF
AUBURN. The old books afford graphic ac-
count OF the hard struggles of the pioneers
ana their labor in clearing the settlement,
building roads. etc.
ARoosTooK.
Caribou seems to be one of the county.
most prosperous towns. Its population is
no" 5000, and during two years there have
been added Il stores, saw and single mill
large addition to the capacity of the starch
factory, halls, and 40 dwellings
Lumbermen are Offering from s35 TO s45 a
month for teams to go in the woods, says the
Times.
CUMBERLAND.
The Brunswick reform club is among the
things which have ceased to live. The prom
erty OF the club-the furnishing Of their hall.
including Cabinet organ. has been removed,
and report says. sold. and the proceeds divided
among the few remaining members The
Young Mems Christian Association recently
organized, is reported to occupy the hall
erected by the reform club
The letter carriers of Portland report
32S, O99 pieces handled by them last year.
FRASKLIN.
The Chronicle says that Phineas Whittier,
the veteran orchardist of Pennington. has
contracted with G. II. Watson. the owner of
the Franklin Mill, to build 500 apple barrels.
to be finished in season to put apples in next
year. He has sold some five or six hundred
barrels of grated fruit this year.
The Chronicle says that the new steam mill
at Phillips, built by Russell Bros. is now in
complete running order, but partially idle at
present for lack of lumber. caused by the
great lack of sufficient snow to make good
shedding for hauling in the large lots of birch,
poplar and ash, which have been cut express
" for this mill
The Chronicle says there is quite an amount
OF sickness in Salem, sore mouths and throats
accompanied 18th bad colds.
OXFORD.
The Kezar Falls Factory Company are
making nice sattinett of Western wool,
which sells for 81 90 per yard double width:
and heavy mems wear for suits and over
coats.
Stock have got great portion of their
living out of doors up to January, coming to
the barn in good condition, which will save
thousands Of tons Of hay and many thousands
of bushels of corn in this State. Good hay is
worth SIC per ton, corn S71 cts. per bushel.
Potatoes are very scarce, and but few are
willing to sell lest the rot should deprive
them of potatoes in the spring.
The diphtheria has broken out again in two
families in Porter, and other families are
threatened with it.
PENoBsCoT.
Bangor is recommended for tirst-class
signal station. If this is done. the CONNER
cial SAYS: The station will be equipped with
full set of meteorological instruments. Six
readings of these instruments day will be
made and three daily telegraphic reports for
warde1 to the Chief Bureau. In the event of
the establishment of station of the first
class here, reports will be received tri-daily
from Montreal. Quebec, Toronto and East
port. These things being accomplished the
station will be of general service at the port
of Bangor.
VIM reports the thermometer at % de-
grees below zero on Thursday morning.
SOMERSET.
The American Express office at Madison
Bridge was broken open, on Wednesday night,
and about $40 worth of liquors stolen, en-
trance being effected by unlocking the door.
Mr.. w. w. Cochrane, student at Colby,
preached at the Baptist chapel in Fairfield,
last Sunday. During the service he was sud
denly taken i'll and fell to the floor. but soon
recovered. He had had a fit of sickness re-
GENTLY and his attack is attributed to physical
weakness.
The Advocate saws the firm which has just
closed the manufacture of boot shanks in
Waierville has bought the water power the
Mil Stream in North Arson. also the large
mill erected there the past season. The
writings have been made, and therefore the
trade is closed. At least 1900 cords of white
birch will be used every year and about sixty
hands will be employed by dav, and the same
number by night.
The Journal saws that the Waldo county
Jail register for 1881, shows that the whole
number of commitments for the year was 206
two more than the previous year. Of this
number ll9 were for drunkenness, assault
25. larceny 90, vagrancy IL. debt Is, arson D.
taxes 4. adultery =. forgery |, intoxicating
liquor l.
WAsHINGToN.
The sea-serpent has been heard from again
A track supposed to be made by his royal
lengthiness has been discovered in the neigh
borhood of the Third chain lake in Meddy-
bemps The track extended forty rods in a
zigzag direction, from one body of water to
another, and was about four feet wide and
three deep. Parties who were there in the
fall are positive that this track was not there
them ostport Sentinel.
The Sentinel says Mr.. Sweeney of South
Robbinston, ploughed all day Friday, the S0th,
breaking up green sward. and at the same time
Round Pond, in Charlotte. only ten or twelve
miles distant was fozen over so that teams
passed over it.
The dredging of the balance of about l2o.-
600 wards at Lubec Narrows, at present sus-
pended, will be resumed early in the spring.