Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-04-18
State News.
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Apropos of the vast strides made in the
nse OF electrical machinery and instruments.
.ne statement that Lewiston man has an
oio pamphlet which proves conclusiveiy that
the transmission of telegraphic messages by
ocean cable Is absolutely impossible.
schooner load of yellow pine for the
Bates mills in Lewiston is on its way TO Bath.
from Palatka, Florida
auburn is getting metropolitan, and a
weekiy rubbish cart is to 20 the rounds in
that city hereafter.
small and conscience-stricken youth in
Lewiston, whose conscience has begun TO be
troubled over his winnings and losinps at
marbles. has placed temptation out of his
reach oy burying all his marbles in the earth.
CuxBERLAND
There are now on file at the Maine General
hospital, rs application. for free beds,-from
the towns OF Searsport, Ellsworth, Readfield
hockiand, kingteld. Cape Elizabeth. Goulds-
ooro- Lewiston. Gorham. Thomaston, York
and Portland. Most of these are urgent
cases.
The Maine Central railroad began Monday
morning, With 100 men, grading and excavat-
ing for the foundations Of their railrord
shops at the West End. Portland. IL is pro-
posed to build machine shop, car shop, and
paint aud blacksmith buildings, a portion of
which az least will be of brick They will
De completed in season for the necessary en-
ployes to move there with their families be-
fore fall.
HANCOCK.
The Ellsworth American says: "a hotel
with 400 sleeping rooms and dining-room
that will accommodate 1000. is something of
a hotel for Maine. but that is about the size
a fhs4n .xr Dol, n
number of capitalists, including several
Bar Harbor gentlemen. have purchased about
5000 acres on the Isle au Haute with view
to converting that island into an attractive
summer resort This is one of the most
picturesque islands the coast of Maine
bar Harbor was wicked, and did not OBJ
serve Fast Day, for the Herald SAYS that .'a-
Dor and amusement went on as usual
PENoBscOr.
The poison administered to Mrs. Veazie of
Bangor was the cyanide Of potash, a we'll
known poison, while the medicine which had
been prescribed for her was the citrate. The
druggist, says the Wing, by whom the pre-
scription lad been filled and refilled several
times is DIR. n. s. Harlow, one of the Oldest
and most experienced men engaged in the
drug business in this vicinity. He informs
us that the mistake is most unaccountable
and can only be explained by the fact that
the order was filled at noon time when he
was greatly driven nth a pressure of bust
ness. She leaves three children, the oldest
bright little boy of IL summers. and an aged
father, brother and sister to mourn her loss.
WALDO.
Hiram o. Alden, the oldest member of the
Waldo bar and resident of Belfast for over
half century, died Saturday evening, aged
50 wears. He was native of Claremont, y.
H., and graduated at Union College in 1928.
For 20 years he was president of the Maine
Telegraph Company, whose first lines were
partly built by him, and long a vice presi-
dent of the American Telegraph Company.
With Cyrus W. Field and others, in 1857, he
projected and was Interested in the first At
lantic cable.
WASHINGTON.
Millbridge, one of the prosperous Washing
ton county towns, talks of organizing Il ma
tonal bank
John +. Lynch of Machias has been re-
tanned as counsel for defence in the Cherry
field murder case. Trial at Calais, April
term.
A little boy some four years old, belonging
to Robert Davis of Limiugton near Steep
Falls. was out on Thursday last where some
larger boys were throwing stones. As one
of them drew his hand behind HIM to throw
his stone, the little boy ran behind him, when
one of his knuckles struck the little boy in
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