Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-01-21

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AxDRoscoeGIy.
Livermofe has . mania this season for wed.
dings. No less than nine happy couples
have been united in matrimony within q
few weeks.
Whooping cough 10 epidemic in Minof
postponed ON that account
The veteran Who vas kept in Auburn jail
for three weeks, simply in default Of the pay
ment Of . tar Of e444. has been furnished
the money 70 pay his tax, and has gone home.
TIL town omcess claim that the reason Of his
being IN Jail vas net 20 much disability, as
be claimed, bat obatiDacy, or improvidence,
and that his representations concerning his
war record were exaggerated.
ARoesrooK.
An Odd Fellows lodge will be organized
in Presque I.le in February.
There is 4 man in Mapleton named Fillmore.
one in Castle Hill named Andrew jackson,
and another named George Mcclellan.
CUMBERLAND.
Portland has started an art club, the object
Of which, according to its constitution, ..shall
be to encourage a knowledge and love of art
through the exhibition of art works. the ae-
QUESTION Of an art library and art materials
such as busts, engravings. paintings. statuary
and models for the establishment Of an ART
school and museum, and by lectures upon art
subjects"
An old lady in Portland, by the name of
Martha Winslow who had always been regard
ed as an object of charity, and cared tor BY
certain ladies, died some time ago, and since
her death il has transpired that she Was the pos
SCISSOR Of the neat little sum Of $500.
OXFORD.
The New Religion says an unusual amount
of numbering is being done in Norway this
winter.
The thermometer was 20 degrees below
zero, At Bethel, Wednesday A. NJ, and one
foot Of snow upon the ground brings joy and
gladness TO the lumbermen. They are rush.
ing the birch and poplar to the spool and
bobbin mills, and the long lumber to the riv-
er, at a fearful rate. Those that have iu-
proved the mild weather in cutting and pre-
pairing, will soon catch up in their operations
with former winters. but those who have been
idle and complaining. will, As usual. make q
losing operation. The hardware aud grocery
camps.
PENoBsCor.
Eleven and half inches of ice in the Pc
nobscot opposite Bangor.
A correspondent Of the Wing says he saw
in the yard of Richard Tilton, in Lee, an odd
looking sheep, with four fully developed
horns, the right upper projecting out and the
others curling down. This county must be
looked after.
The Wing says that the other morning an
elderly lady, whose name was not aseertaned.
was Knocked down on a crossing by q sleigh
driven by a lady. The accident is said to
have been unavoidable. The injuries re-
ceived were slight.
SAGADAuoc.
The Bath Times says that Sheriff Ballou
took Hayes to Wiscasset Friday. He will
be bailed in few weeks if Edwards health
permits. The latter seems to be doing ad-
mirably at the present time.
The ice business is booming at George
town. There are ten ice ponds there, some
of which are being handled this winter for
the tirsttime. Cutting will begin right away.
SOMERSET.
Elliot Beals, Asa Watson and Frank
Thompson and George Taylor. on the 25th of
December, left the camp of J. Cottle. at
Stratton, on a cumming expedition. Night
came, but the men did not return. Search
was made the day following. but no trace of
the lost ones The third day they found their
way to the camp, nearly frozen and very hun
cry.
WALDO.
The Belfast Age saws that ship-building
is beginning to boom somewhat. The keels
of two new vessels are laid. and numerous
others are being repaired and are waiting for
repairs. Work is well under way on five of
the eight or nine vessels to be built there this
year.
Two letters sent from the Age office. as
samples, to the type foundry, were stolen
from the mail some time ago. They were
done up pretty securely and the thief doubt
less thought he'd struck a bonanza. The
Age says: Well bet he swore when he
opened his prize. p. S. If anybody attempts
to sell or pawn leap II and lower case M
of ~ line plea, tuscan antique" shoot him,
he's the thief
A boy in Belfast, pupil in the high school,
last week gave two panoramic exhibitions at
his house in order to raise the necessary funds
to procure school books. He was possessed
of pluck to win, notwithstanding adverse cir
cumstances.