Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-07-31

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Horace Choloeef's slaushtef hoaoe AK
eight hogs were burned ct Houlson, Satur
day morning. The IRE vas incendiary. Losl
$500; insurance 800.
CunxR1AHD.
The arrangements for Col. Farrington'l
Temperance camp-meeting It Sabaeo Lake
are nearly completed. II il 70 be held Satur.
day and Sunday, August 18th and 5th.
The News says Volney Barker Of Bridg-
ton, has invented and patented an ingeniOu.
machine for washing the tops Of cans fol
any kind of canned goods, preparatory to
sealing. 1t may be run either by foot or BY
steam power, and will wash about forty cans
. minute, doing the work of eight eirls better
than by hand. Some seven hundred of Mr..
IS corn-cutting machines are in use in this
country. He is developing his miller,
and 10 At work on other inventions now in en-
bryo.
FRANKLIN.
Commissioner Wildes says he made re-
connoisance Wednesday of proposed road
from Strong to King6eld and found the grades
and thinks very fav orably of the project He
says the length Of the road will be fourteen
miles, that it will develop much valuable tim
Der land and be constructed for about $1,000
per mile, or cay $4,000.
The Chronicle says that foxes are plenty
and bold in Industry. J.. A. Storer had
twenty one turkeys taken by them one morn
ing, recently. Mr.. Frank ]. Greenleaf has
captured seven young ones, but there is still
ample work for the hunter.
HAxcocK.
Messrs. Fred S. Palmer & Co, of Bar
Harbor, have lost fifty-six pigs by hog
cholera this summer. 1t is raging in several
places in Maine.
KENNEBEC.
The Waterville Mail says . jam of logs
which had formed on the dam BE- tween Rock
Island and the Winslow shore, and complete
ly blocked the way, was dislodged by blast
freely.
PENOBsCor.
The Wing says that Wednesday afternoon
as Mr.. E. A. Kicker Of Leavant, was getting
in his last load of hay his wife in attempting
to step from the load into an open window at
the side of of the barn, slipped and fell be-
tween the load and the building, striking
with such force upon the ground as to tract
ure the bones of her leg below the knee.
The Commercial says that Aman by the
name OF w III. Le18lner VINO llveu In the
Perley Brook settlement. killed himself by
cutting his throat with draw knife. Fits
of epilepsy were the cause of the rash act.
PIsCATAQUIs.
The bee keepers of Piscataquis county will
hold a meeting in FOxcroft on Thursday,
Aug. End, to form county association.
SOMERSET.
The grangers of Somerset county are max
ing arrangements for a large gathering at
Hayden Lake, August 9th.
The Fairfield Journal says horse belong
ing to Mr.. Stephen Faunce, about two miles
above Fairfield Centre, was found late Mon
day morning, in the barn of Mr.. Leslie Dav-
is, with his throat cut in three places. The
horse when found by Mr.. Davis, was very
weak and hardly able to walk. This is about
a mile from where Mr.. Faunce lives. 1t is
thought that some one had stolen him, and
not proving as good as expected, cut his
throat.
The Advocate says Miss Hattie Blunt of
SkOwhegan, while driving from Norridge-
wock to her home, was injured badly by
being thrown from the carriage. The horse
took fright at bag of shorts that had been
dropped in the road, upset the carriage and
threw Mrs. Blunt out, cutting her face and
tearing her ear badly. She was unconscious
for ONE time, but on recovering managed
to extricate the horse from the overturned
and walked to the nearest house,
where her wounds were dressed.