Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-06-24
State News.

State NoWs.
ANDROscoGelx.
The celebration Of the Acadians and Cana,
dams at Lewiston on Thursday was 4 suc.
cessful affair. There we're GOO men in the
procession and IL, 900 people we're at the pic.
mic grounds on Auburn hill. Several thous-
and people dined in the bake-bean yard. The
Harmony Band. Glover's Band. the Mont.
calm Band and the Rochester Band played Al
different times.
An excurion of 800 people from Montreal
came to Lewiston Thursday.
ABoosrook.
Farmers of Easton are holding their wool
until they can get % cents 4 pound for it.
The Republican says that T. E. Sinclair.
OF Mapleton, found q swarm of bees in =
large pine tree. three miles in the woods. He
got bee keeper to 60 with him, and althous b
the bees were % feet from the ground, they
feiIed the tree, transferred them into . sim
plicity hive and carried them to q settlement.
where they are doing nicely. Their comb
was eight feet long. and they had as pounds
of old sealed honey.
CUMBERLAND.
Schooner Gertie May of Portland, lying
at the end of Custom House wharf, was struck
by lightning Sunday night. The bolt broke
of the top of the foremost, tore I'D the fore
castle floor and passed out at the stern by
ripping off a plank. The damage was not
heavy.
The Flower Mission which las been so
successful branch of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union for five years, will
commence its labors this year among the sick
and unfortunate on Saturday, June 24th.,
and will continue until October.
Wednesday afternoon at three O'Clock, q
little eight-year-old son of Cassius NJ. c.
Pratt, of Portland. was instantly killed bv
being run over by one of the city teams, in
front of his fathers house on Quincy street.
Thursday Captains Horace and Wesley
Davis, brothers, of Portland, had a miracu-
lous escape from being run over by the cars
on Central wharf.
Joseph S. Sanborn Esq formerly of Port
land, committed suicide in New York City
Thursday.
FRANKLIN.
Mr.. Jasper Wendell of Pennington. II
years of age, can do more work than MANY
younger men. Since 1882 came in. he has
sawed 60 cords of wood, picked up the small
rocks on l6 acres, and worked out one month.
beside doing all the work on his own farm
A short time since. Gustavus Kyes of North
Jay, came near losing his store BY fire.
MIR. Andrews. of Norway. Me. who pur-
chased large tract of spruce timber land in
Letter E Plantation last fall. is about to erect
portable steam mill on the above named
HANCOCK.
Mr.. Emery of Great Pond, discovered ice
in his camp door-yard six inches thick last
Friday.
The door, sash and blind manufacturing
Co. from Searsmont are negotiating to move
their work to Camden, occupying Knowltvn
Bros. car shops.
W. A. Belcher, Rockland, has just COM
pleted microphone, which was tried with
the telephone and proved very successful. 1t
is wonderful how the slightest sound can be
multiplied many times, as the movement of
a fly sounding as loud as the footstep of a
man, and the like.
SACADAHOC.
A sloop recently built at Bath has been
named Jumbo.
Goss & Sawyer are building a schooner at
Bath, for Augustus Bailey and others of
Gardiner
SOMERSET.
Efforts are being made to establish post
of the G. A. r. in South Norridgewock.
There are some fifty veterans of the late war
now living in that town-Ner Age.
J. H. Burgess of South Norridgewock, re-
Gently lost a valuable colt by pink-eye.
Certain Lynn shoe men are to erect a fac
tory at Skowhegan. large enough to give en-
ployment to 500 hands. Skowhegan is dis
posed to be liberal, and little doubt is felt but
satisfactory arrangements can be made to
bring the factory here.
A contract has been made to have a tele-
phone from Pittsield to Hartland to be com
pleted in July.
The firm of r. G. Leighton Co., has been
dissolved and the business of the firm is to be
transferred to Portland. This is quite a Sc
rious loss to Skowhegan as the firm employed
some Is hands.
Messrs. S. f. May & Co., of Lewiston. in
whose hands have been placed coupons rep
resenting a large amount of the Embden and
Arson defaulted railroad bonds, commenced
a suit against the towns, Wednesday. Mr..
Walker, representative of the town OF
Embden, was in Lewiston Thursday, offering
w compromise iot ~ PCT Ccut, but MS oueI
was not accepted.
WALDO.
James +. Worthing, who is runner for
the firm of Shaw & Co., Portland, had his
team stolen from his stable at Branch Mills
Monday night, June 10Th, together with a
large amount of samples of boots and shoes.
+. G. Hall of Brooks recently had two
cows killed on the railroad track.-The
school in District No. has closed.-Simon
Cilley of this town, has recently been grant
ed United States pension of SO yer month
and arrearages amounting to over $780,
journal.
A telephone was put up some two weeks
ago at Frankfort, from the quarry Office on
Mt. Waldo to the wharf and also to the will.
age, and is complete success.
YORK.
Thursday morning an unsuccessful attempt
was made to rob the Boston 4 Maine ticket
Office at Biddeford.
The Times says Mr.. Joseph Hodedon OF
Sturgeon Creek. Eliot. has q somewhat un-
usual pet. He recently trapped and pre-.
served alive female skunk. which shortly
after her capture gave birth to FIVE little
ones. The mother and her young became
attached to Mr.. lIodgdon, and they allow
him to handle them as one would kittens; il
strangers come near the mother shows by heI
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