Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-02-11
state News.
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A Lewiston jury which Was locked up from
three p NJ. to 1--WE A. NJ, being unable I,
agree, and standing five to seven, gave 1t NJ
and had a good time with mock trials. walk
| ing matches. etc.
A party of three went from Lewiston Il
Fargo, Dakota, Wednesday morning, and an
other party started in the afternoon.
One of Auburn's smart women carries on
farm of so acres about four miles down the
river. She makes nothing of a walk from the
farm to the city, with load of butter and
eggs, and is said to bring in more produce in
this way than BY team
The first extension of the Maine telephone
company will probably be the line between
Lewiston and Brunswick.-Joernoi
ARoosrooK.
The Republican mourns because ION the
other side Of the line, mails from Woodstock
carried by stage are received at Little Falls
sixty miles north of Caribou. at an earlier
hour each day, than mails from Houlton are
received there"
A young man by the name of Benson En-
erton, at work in Aroostook, was taken while
in camp with diphtheria. He started TO
walk to the settlements distance of IS miles
He had been gone few hours W hen man start
ed from the camp with a team to help him
along On arriving at the settlement doc
tor was called. but only TO inform the young
man that he could live but a few hours.
Young Emerton called for pen and paper,
and commenced writing farewell letters to
his parents and friends. He wrote two.
but, before he could finish the third,
died in his chair. On hearing of his
sickness, his parents FASTENED with all speed
to his assistance but only to learn on arriving
at the house. that their son was dead and
buried.-Commereiai.
CUMBERLAND.
There are about twenty-five employees in
the Portland telephone exchange, and Thurs
day the officers who retired when the lines
became consolidated - Chas. b. Gardner.
Payson Tucker and +. j. Rollins-presented
each of the twenty -five with a five dollar bill
and neatly printed card of thanks for their
services.
The Brunswick Manufacturing Co will
soon begin the business of manufacturing
fans for advertising purposes. The pulp
board will be printed in Boston and sent to
the factory at Brunswick. where they will be
cut BY dies worked bv machinery. These
dies will cut through 30 thicknesses of
the pulp board of which the fans are made
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by parties in other towns, and are put on
the fans with the help of a small machine
invented by Mr.. Marsh. The hammer with
which they are tackled on the fans is mag
netized. and catches the tack instantly, there
by saving the help of another hand. 1t is
expected that nearly 100000 fans will be
manufactured by the firm before the sum-
mer season commences.
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The Commercial says James Emery of
Bucksport has invented an apparatus for
heating and cooling cars, and cxpeling the
dust.
OXFORD.
Rev. Abram Maxwell died at Andover,
Ohio, on Jan. 3Oth, after an illness of only a
few days. The cause of his death was
Bright's disease of the kidneys. Mr.. Max
well was formerly pastor Of the Congrega-
tional church at Sumner, and preached at
Weld and other places, and, until recently,
had labored in Nebraska. He was a graduate
of Bowdoin College and was present at the
meeting of the alumni last sumner. On his
return from his visit to Maine, he located in
Ohio. He leaves wife and three children
there.
PENOBsCoT.
The first train from st. John since Satur-
day, reached Bangor Wednesday night.
The sick list in Dexter presents quite an
array of names. says the Gazette.
SOMERSET.
Messrs. a. II. & c. f. Duren of Fairfield
recently, in their logging camp. spruce tree
which made a log 120 feet in length, six feet
in diameter at the butt and scaled 5000.
A hall AXIS is to be erected in the spring
bv the Spiritualists of Somerset county, at
Hayden's Grove near the lake. in Madison.
The material is being hauled to the spot
now, and the work pushed vigorously.
Within one year three of the oldest cti-
zens of Mercer have died. Thomas Pressy.
Isaac Boston and Thomas Burdin. each aged
80 years, and all of them 1912 pension
ers. Only one pensioner remains Benz.
Ladd, who is about 80.
WASHINGTON.
The consumption of charcoal at the sar-
dine factories in Eastport has made the man
ufacture of charcoal quite a business in Char
lotte. There were burned here last year.
and almost wholly for the Eastport market,
5000 bushels, which required 100 cords of
wood. Among the largest burners were Mr..
Asa Phipps, who burned about 900 bushels,
and several others who burned from two to
five thousand bushels each. This coal would
bring, after reaching the market, something
over $1,000.
The Sentinel says The fishing schooner
Anna Bell, of Gloucester, arrived here on
Saturday last. having on board the remains
of her captain, John Beal, which were
brought here to be forwarded to Gloucester
While boating ashore fish at Grand Menan
recently. a boat loaded with fish and contain
ing the captain and two of the crew filled and
sank. leaving the three men in the water.
They were rescued by the crew of vessel
near by. The captain took a severe cold,
resulting in death from congestion of the
lungs.