Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-12-19
State News.


ABOOSIOOk.
Alex Gibson has formed q company to
build q large paper mill at Marysville. The
memorandum of association has been fled
The corporation will be known as the ..Marys-
vile Paper Company" with a capital of
$4,000. divided into $50 shares of 500
each.
The large steamers of the Allan line attract
much attention at Portland.
Mr.. Samuel Burnham, for the past eight
years trombone player in Chambers Band,
also now in Grimmer's orchestra. is at the
Maine General Hospital critically i'll with
heart disease.
Sunday morning the fourth attempt to
break into the jewelry and clothing store of
Mr.. George +. Springer. at Saccarappa vii
lage, was made, but with little success Nov
I'D, 1881, the store was entered bv unknown
parties, and goods to the value of $500 taken
Since that time enc of the clerks, Mr. n. F.
Worthley, Jr., has slept in the store Sunday
morning about two o'clock he heard noises in
the store and got out of bed to see two burg
lers fleeing through the door. The clerk
fired two shots in their direction but without
effect, and the robbers escaped.
Senator Hale and Representative Reed of
Maine have ask ed the lighthouse board to re-
consider their action in regard to lights on
Cape Elizabeth. The matter will be taken
up at the next meeting of the board. A
proposition which will probably be acted
upon favorably at that meeting, is to substi-
tute for the present light at Cape Elizabeth a
first order light of 400 candle power with q
ten second flash.
HANCOCK.
The steamer Florence made her last regu-
In. ker.s Lxt, n
on Saturday. For the present she will make
two trips per week between Bucksport and
Sedgwick.
The Dunn Edge Tool Co. of W. waterville
have purchased one of the celebrated machines
for making punched polls" and it is now be-
ing set up. The machine is very expensive,
the royalty to the inventor amounting to some
$4,000. There is an increasing demand for
axes made from these polls, and this company
will no doubt have demands, outside of regu-
lar customers, for all the polls they can man
ufacture.
The water in the Cobbossee stream at
Gardiner is still SO low that the manufactures
located thereon experience considerable
trouble for power. Richards & Co., are run
ming portion of their paper mill by steam.
PENoBsCoT.
The Bangor police made a successful raid
on a notorious gambling den in Granite Block.
Bangor, Saturday night.
PIsCATAQUIs.
The Wing says the new, spacious and ele-
CANT hotel at Monson, called the Lake He
bron, was formally opened to the public
Wednesday afternoon and evening by an as
sembly of nearly 200 wide-awake and merry
guests.
SAGADAHoC.
The Bee says that nearly all the old Ice
firms in the vicinity of Richmond have staked
out their claims, and are scraping their fields
preparatory to filling their buildings. The
damp snow of Wednesday night is hard to re-
move, though the different companies en-
gagged in the work are making satisfactory
progress. The indications now are that a
considerable quantity of ice will be harvested
in Richmond this winter.
WASHINGTON.
The marked Improvements inaugurated by
the Maine Central at Vanceboro are rapidly
approaching completion.
Ellery Fitzhenry, of East Machias, while
at work in one of Messrs. Talbots gang saw
mills at Salmon River, n. b., had one of his
eyes put out by knot flying from deal
plank while being edged.