Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-23
State News.
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Mr.. o. S Ham of Lewiston has sold .
handsome Hamblefonian trotter for s4oO
The Maine Central station agent at Leeds
Junction has received a rail velocipede-a
vehicle which runs on one rail with a guide
wheel on the other-on which to ride in the
performance of his duties.
The Lamsou automatic cash carrier has
been placed in Lewiston dry goods store.
Portland is the only other city in the State
in which the system is in use.
A well-informed Lewiston gentleman
estimates that Lewiston and Auburn will
have consumed $500 worth of dandeliou
greens before the dandelion season is over.
One hundred bushels Of green's are now sold
here daily.-yokrnai
CUMBERLAND.
Portland is considering the ACCESSIBILITY of
celebrating the Fourth of July. Also, of
erecting $4,000 statue TO Longfellow, TO be
paid for by local and State subscriptions.
There are IS prisoners at the county Jail
sparrow accidentally hung himself in
Portland the ether day. He got caught in a
string that hung from branch of a tree and
was choked to death before he could be res
cued.
Doesn't the following from the Argus SAVIOR
of fish story: AT the Office of the Water
Company may be seen a trout three feet in
length. as lively as when he was taken out of
a water pipe at Lake Sebago. a few days
ago."
HANCOCK.
The mines in Franklin have not been work
ing for the past two or three weeks.
1t is said by those who know. that MANY
people who have never before summered at
Bar Harbor have arranged to 20 there this
rhnr - ,,f
cessful season.
The proposed extension to S. Saviour's
church at Eden, Mt. Desert.will nearly treble
its seating capacity.
The Herald thinks that that correspondent
of the Boston journal who saw at Bar Harbor
a new business block "lS0 feet long and five
stories high" must have taken an ''eye-open-
err inasmuch as mo such mammoth structure
has vet been discovered by any reporter for
the Herald
PENoBsCoT.
The salmon at the Matching works at En-
field have all Matched and are doing very
nicely.
The Wing saws the ice left Moosehead
Lake on Friday the 18th. The sportsmen
have been anxiously waiting for the ice to
depart and fishing parties will at once leave
for Greenville.
Two BOYS were arrested at Bangor, Sunday,
for playing ball. Their charge was Sabbath
breaking.
SAGADAHOC.
Saturdays Times saws F. A. johnson, the
electrician of the Bell Telephone CO.. passed
through Bath recently on his way to Booth
bay. where he will establish a telephone ex-
change. A cable will be laid to Squirrel
Island. Many citizens are interested in the
movement and hope to see ii succeed. Booth
bay will be connected with the Bath system
as soon as practicable.
WALDO.
pension has just been granted to Eliab s.
Stevens of Jackson. he receiving nearly 5000
back pension, at the rate of 81 per month
since 1868.
WASHINGTON.
Millbridge can congratulate itself on hav-
ing had regular. bona fde strike. A reduc-
ton in the wages of the sealers at the sarCfine
factory caused them to quit work, and some
40 hogsheads of fish were spelling while both
the owners and the operatives remained OBJ
durate. An attempt to procure help elsew here
was unsuccessful.
The Pepperell and LacOnia corporations of
Biddeford are intending to put fat roofs on
all their mills this summer. and the first cargo
of Southern pine lumber has arrived for that
purpose.
The Argus says Joseph Hobson and Sons
are shipping from Saco large quantities of
sawdust to Boston via Eastern railroad. 1t
is sold to ice dealers. Six hundred cords were
shipped by them last year.
Painters in Biddeford are paid l.50 per
day, and want 81.