Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-12-06
State News.
HANCOCK.

HANCOCK.
There 10 an animal in the vicinity Of Nor
gan's Bay in Surry. that il frightening every
body. II il said to be . very large. fefcs
looking creature. by those who have seen il
answering to the description of panther
His principal forte is killing sheep, and he
seems to want fresh one every day.
On Monday last. little daughter of james
Lane. of Rockport, Camden, vas severely
burned during the absence of her parentl
from home for few moments. She attempt.
ed to throw some hot shells into the stove,
thereby catching fire to her apron, which she
Immediately pulled OF, and BY means Of
which she set FIRE to the rest of her clothing.
Her screams brought neighbors to her relief,
but her injuries are such as to render her
chances of recovery exceedingly small.
KKxxEBEc.
The Hollingsw orth & Whitney Paper Co.,
in Gardiner, use about 1000 cords of wood
per month in the manufacture Of pulp. They
have recently purchased II, 900 cords of edg
ings at Hallowell, and are carting them to
Gardiner.
Rev. Americas Fuller. pastor At Hallowell,
1852 sc, has accepted call To new church
enterprise in Milwaukee, Wis.
Mr.. James Young, one of the Oldest and
most respected citizens Of Fayette, died the
2lst, aged 81 years. He was the last Of 30
members that originally formed the Free Will
Baptist church in that place.
OXFORD.
The Oxford Advertiser SAYS little girl OF
fourteen, in Stoneham, eloped Thursday
night with young man of twenty-one; wenl
to New Hampshire and was married.
The Journal Gays: Rev. E. NJ. Smith, who
was recently elected president Of the Maine
Wesleyan Seminary and Female College, on
Monday evening, Nov. 27th, delivered his
lecture Castles and Crags of the Old
World" to q very intelligent audience of the
people Of Bethel.
The Advertiser says: Mr.. Marcellus Whit
comb. . middle aged resident of South
Waterford, lies in critical condition. being
partially paralyzed, the result of recent
severe accident.
Mr.. j.. A. Seitz, editor of the New Religion
at North Conway, is seriously i'll. His con
and daughter are also quite sick.
PENoBscor.
A lady living at Lincoln Centre, Mrs. Lyon
by name, is said to be in her l02nd year.
She sits in her chair and knits all day. In
her younger days she used to shear sheep for
the farmers Of that vicinity.
The port of Bangor opened to navigation
on Sunday, April 9th, and has been open to
navigation 249 DAYS, . little longer than the
average period. In 1881 the river opened
March goth and closed practically Dec.
10th, making an open period of 272 days.
SAGADAHoC.
The Times says that Friday morning,
Horatio Patten, at work in the ballasting
crew of a new ship in SewalPs yard, Bath.
while walking between decks stepped through
an open ballasting hatch and fell into the
hold, a distance of Is feet. striking upon the
ballast. No bones are broken, but injuries
to the spine are feared.
One hundred and ffty-two feet is the depth
that Mr.. Arthur Sewall's artesian we'll, for
his shipyard, was sunk in the solid rock.
There is an abundant supply of water, enough,
Mr.. Sewall thinks. to supply the city of Bath.
SOMERSET.
Mr.. Keene SAWS that he shall be running
the Skowhegan shoe factory before January
LIST. He expects to employ home talent as
far as it is possible and for that reason will
commence in q moderate manner.
The Belfast Journal says: The larger part
of the 900 ton cargo of coal discharged in
that city for the Maine Central Railroad will
go to Vanceboro. More coal for the E. &
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Central, will be dischared at Belfast this fall
and winter, our city being the nearest open
winter port.
Ar LARGE.
1t is said the joint earnings Of the Maine
Central and European & North American
railroads during October were 900 in ex-
cess of the same month in 1881.
The Boston Journal says of Fred B. Cover,
the reported fiance of Lillian Norton, that he
was born in q little town on the Maine coast,
not far from Mt. Desert. His father was q
Baptist minister of great ability, an ardent,
energetic worker, an incorporating and
fearless anti-slavery man in the first days OF
abolitionlsts, and . man who left . memory
still beloved by his parishioners. He died
when his three boys were babes, and his
young widow struggled As best she might to
keep her little ones together with her and to
educate them. She is still = young woman
and has her great reward in being the bes
loved mother ever saw. Young Fred showed
marked ability and became assistant editor o.
\ Hartford paper when but little more than I