The Portland daily press., 1883-08-31
Legislative Excursion.
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From our Exchanges.l
Wednesday afternoon Oliver B. Ulmer at
Rockland quarry grasped rope attached to
hosting machine and was carried up II feet.
He dropped and was picked up insensible. His
arm and shoulder were broken and he was
terribly bruised. He is just alive with little
hope of recovery.
A Canton man put dead adder in box of
shavings which the girls in Richmond's turn
ing mill have frequent occasion to visit A
young woman named Stevens thrust her hand
upon the reptile, and the shock unseated her
reason. She has been ra7ing maniac most of
the time since. and the physicians say cannot
live long.
shores of Lake Quantebacook and Tilden
Pond near Belfast one peck of wild rice from
Michigan. 1t has grown quite vigorously the
present season. Mr.. johnson proposes to sow
more the coming fall. 1t is done in the inter-
est of sportsmen as the ducks love to feed up
on the rice. In the west some of the best
shooting is done in the wild rice fields.
The annual encampment OF the alumni of
the Castine Normal school met this year, as it
has for several years past, at Sherman's Point,
Camden.
The shipment of shoes from the Auburn
factories is gradually increasing as the season
advances, and is much heavier than the ship
ments in corresponding weeks of last year.
At present 300 men are busily engaged on
the Bangor and Piscataquis railroad extension,
and within day or two it is expected the
crew will be increased by go more Italians.
mile and half on the upper end of the line
in the vicinity of West Cove, Is now all
graded. Work on the southern or Blanchard
end is at present concentrated on the first four
and half miles.
The Swedish colo1y ia Aroostook was re-
quired to build one and half miles of the
new Caribou and Fort Kent road. Last Mon
day some 200 turned out; without modern tools
to work with. through dense mixed growth
of forest they cleared and grubbed ready for
the plough, the entire distance, width of 30
feet, in the short space of three days. That is
the Swedish way of doing business
Patents have been granted as follows
Logue, Jones & Morrill,, Deering, composition
for tanning; W. Fl. Marrett, Brunswick, pole
or shaft for vehicles.
About o'clock yesterday morning as Chas.
Coneau, Frenchman, was walking along the
Boston and Maine railroad bridge over Gooch
street, Saco, the train from Kennebunk came
rolling along. The engine bell was rnng, but
was not needed by Coneau, and when it neared
him it struck him and knocked him against
the side Of the bridge stanchions. He was
picked up and carried into the station baggage
room. DIR. bennett was summoned and upon
examination discovered that no bones were
broken, and the man was apparently unin.
jured.
Rev. George o. Little offers 500 for the
body of his son Edward, drowned at Ogunquit
Beach.
The use of commercial fertilizers among the
farmers of this State is rapidly on the increase
q. A. Gilbert, State Inspector of Fertilizers,
| has, with assistants, sampled eighteen differ
| eDt kinds this year. Seven of these kinds are
manufactured IN the State. Mr.. Gilbert says
| that as rule the fertilizers containing the
| largest quantities of available nitrogen, phos-
! phoric acid and potash are not only of the
| highest commercial value, but as it seems in
| practice, the most valuable agriculturally, if
| their use is based on actual field results.
Mr.. Ellery Bond of Lewiston has received a
| telegram containing the news of the drowning
| of his brother, Mr.. Gaius Bond, in the Co.
| lumbia river, Oregon. Mr.. Gaius Bond was
"A years of age. He was formerly of Lewiston
and was at one time proprietor of the old Tre-
mont House. He went to Oregon about two
years ago, and was employed there on one of
the river steamers.
On Thursday of last week an invalid daugh-
ter of John Mcguire, living in West Athens,
was found by her mother in great distress. She
continued to grow worse till her death. Be-
fore she died she acknowledged to her parents
that she had taken Paris green and expected
| to die from its effects. She was a cripple and
at times was very Respondent and took this
| method to leave the world.
A few weeks ago Frank Getchell of Detroit
| lost horse supposed at the time to have been
poisoned. In about two weeks he had hefer
and some sheep of his own and steer of Ruel
| Nichols in the same pasture, die They went
| to hunting in the pasture and found salt with
| Paris green mixed with it, in several places,
| near the watering place where the cattle
| drank Last week, s. P. Clifford OF Plymouth
lost two nice cows and had two heifers and a
horsesick; he also found salt with Paris green
mixed, under shade tree in the pasture, also
the can that it was carried there In.