Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-11-01
state News.
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CUMBERLAND.
The Press says that two gentlemen. con-
tractors from Lynn, Mass are con iderin9
the project of building narrow gauge rail-
road between Portland and Cumberland Mills
providing chatter can be had from the L. g.
lslature, and residents on the proposed line
will subscribe for half the cost
A building has been bought in Portland for
q home for aged men.
Saturday night SO fishing vessels were at
anchor in Portland harbor. The skippe-s.
with but few exceptions, appear to be dissat-
lsned with the result of their catch. and spesk
OF their cargoes as being very poor fares.
Hon BiOn Bradbury, while going down q
fight Of stairs in Stanton Block, Portland,
Friday, caught his heel and fell some dozen
steps, badly bruising his shoulder and side.
The i'll fated bark Malleville of Freeport,
reported Mondav BY telegraph as lost with all
hands, was partly owned in Portland. Messrs.
Lvman & Son. Alvin Neal, Esq and others
had an interest in her. She was valued at
about s35 600, and was partially insured.
FRANKLIS.
Messrs. George Tower and w. PhiIIips had
a very narrow escape while out cunning in
boat last Thursday. In the act of firing at
duck. the gun burst in Towers hand: about
SIX inches of the barrel, from the breech up,
disappeared mysteriously and the stock was
badly shattered One of the fingers of Mr.
Towers right hand was badly cut, but other
wise no injury was sustained.
HANCOCK.
The Mt Desert Herald saws that the Rev.
c. s. Leffingweli, rector Of St. Saveurs
Episcopal church. Bar Harbor met with
painful and possibly serious, accident recent
ly. While engaged in ripping off board
from his piazza by knocking upward with his
hammer,t later slipped. striking full on the
eye ball ere the lid had time to close He
has not vet been able TO see anything with
the injured eye although the bruise appear.
TO BE- healing.
The Democrat says pumpkins are plenty
in Andover. Fifty pound ones are chron-
icled
A pint of raspberries were picked in Hart
ford, on the 9th, some of which were three
fourths of an inch in diameter.
hunting match took place recently be-
tween ten Andover sportsmen, led bv f.
z. Thomas, and an equal number, whose
captain was Peter Poor, resulting in a score
of 7,4l0 for the former, to $3.50 for the
latter party. The game secured included
ninety partridges two foxes and five hedge
hogs.
Miss Edith Bradeea. of Porter, died of
diphtheria very suddenly the 22d inst, at the
residence of Mr.. Joseph Warren in Cornish.
She had been sick only few days. was not
thought dangerously i'll, and walked from
her room to the kitchen only few moments
before she breathed her last.
PENoBsCor.
The Commercial says that a good many
4 L. u
are cut here, but the majority go to Boston
markets. This sreported to be great year
tor partrid2es in Maine. The woods are said
to be fall of them. A few days ago over 500
dead ones were put aboard a train on the east
ern division of the Maine Central railroad to be
taken to market. They were shipped from
towns all along the line of the railroad be-
tween Olamon and Vanceboro.
WALDO.
The Commercial says that a very bold and
wholesale robbery, the facts Of which for
obvious reasons, have not been made public
before, took place at Searsport during the
night of Sunday, Oct. 10. The freight
store-house OF the Boston & Bangor Steam
ship Co, was broken open by a thief or
thieves, who gained admttance by prying
open the door with crowbar, and robbed
of the following articles: Four barrels of
flour; one barrel sugar; one box tobacco
roll leather; one box canned goods, and one
box patent medicines. The goods stolen
were worth about SI25 The thieves
evidently came and went by water, and are
probably ordinary specimens of the half
pirate, half Fisherman class which infests
Penobscot bav.
WASHINGTON.
At Cherryfield Saturday, the wife of
George l.. Hill blew out her brains with a
shotgun. She was partially insane.
YORK.
There are nine firms in Cornish village
manufacturing clothing for parties in Boston,
Mass. and Providence, r. L.. all doing an
extensive business. There is soon to be an
other firm added to the number.
AT LARGE.
The suit against the Grand Trunk Railway
Company, brought by Attorney General
Cleaves to recover $4,000 taxes due the
State has been transferred by the corporal on
from the State court to the Circuit court I'M
der the United States statutes, authorizing
foreign corporations to remove cases brought
against them in the State courts. The case
will be in order for trial at the next April
term of the L. S. Court in Portland, and is
to be contested by the railroad The suit is
of great Importance to the State.
y. patent has been issued TO George II.
nathorn, Chester Driving Calk.
Sarah A. Bull, fancy goods, Houlton. Me-,
has gone into insolvency.
The Order of Good Tempars is still -four
ishing in Maine with its usual vigor. There
are now 275 lodges and about 10000 men,
bers.
ES~Mr. John Parsons has secured the