Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-05-04

State News.
AxDRoscoeeIx.
Two hundred gallons Of seized liquors ar
stored up in the liquor room at the polio
station, Lewiston. Officer Douglass seizet
le gallons Wednesday from the Merchants
Express and McGillicu1dy a FIVE gallon kes
Wednesday afternoon at the Maine Central
The drive of the Androscoggin Water Pow
er Company started Thursday morning from
Gilead at the mouth of the Wild River Tn,
drive will come along with the Canton Steam
Mill Co.'S drive. They will probably take {
week or ten days on the down trip. The log'
were cut along the Wild river.
The Quartermasters of the g. A. X. POST
find lots of work TO do. Burnside Post il
Auburn reports more sickness than usua
among the veterans. A number of them ar'
. nearly done fighting their eventful battles, ane
Burnside is as busy and cheerful in the aid a.
can be conceived. The Post has good funt
and is at present dispensing very literally.
The following is statement OF the busi
ness of the Lewiston letter carriers for the
month of April: registered letters delivered
l43; mail letters delivered. IS, 62l mail pos
tai cards delivered. 9,02S; local letters deliy-
cred, 10; local postal cards delivered, sos
newspapers, etc, delivered, l7,737; letters
returned TO the office. 2I; total number ol
pieces delivered, 46, S2o; letters collected
l2,s7s; postal cards collected. 5.574; news
papers, etc, collected, l.S77; total number
of pieces collected, 20. 329.
The Auburn shoe business still retains q
vigorous tone. The past weeks shipments
amount to 2,526 cases and the receipts of
stock l03. POP lbs. Ii will be seen that the
latter figure is especially large, the receipts
of last week being 73 ,99S and of the CORES
ponding week last year 5S, 557. The ship
ments of last week were =, AS cases (the work
being one day Short and of the correspond
ing week last year LAP cases. The decrease
is slow one. Since January lst this year
the total number of cases shipped is 1855
During the same time last year the amount
shipped was 1926, gain of the preseE,
season over last year of s,672 cases.
ARoosIooK.
Reports from the lumber regions of Aroos
took show that the spruce trees are dying at a
fearful rate. Last winter operations were
begun on a part of township where it was
expected that 700, ,00e #. would be cut, but
only $4,000 fl. of sound spruce could be
found. A close examination showed that the
spruce on the rest of the township was in the
same condition. There is a township Oh the
Fish river waters that is well timbered and
fine chance for lumber operations. On this
tract it is estimated that 900, 900 it, of sound
spruce is standing today, but at the rate trees
are dying, in five years there will not be a
million feet. So far as can be ascertained
there are no worms at work on the spruce and
the cause of its decay is a mystery. The tops
of the dead spruce have a reddish color and
look as though they had been seorched with
fire. The re are a number of townships on
which it is estimated that three-fourths of the
spruce is dead The loss to owners of the
land will be verv heavy for this cause. One
gentleman suggests that the trees are dying
from old age.
CUMBERLAND.
The Times says Willis J. Sprague of
Brunswick, died very suddenly of heart dis
ease, Monday evening
The Advertiser says that Tuesday, before
the Cumberland county commissioners, in
regard to procuring the attested copies of the
old York county records for publication by the
Maine Historical Society, it was decided to
take no present action.
The Passenger train from Portland, We'd
nesday morning was delayed about half an
hour by slight accident. An engine at
tached to special freight train while going
over one of the numerous frogs in the yard
at Brunswick left the track. An eye wit
says there seems to be no special occasion
for it as the engine only gave sligh; start
and left the rails slowly, breaking up about
twenty feet of cross-ties. No one was in
jured by the accident and only delay of
obout half an hour in getting the engine on
the track.
PEyoBsCoT.
Mr.. Thatcher p. Harding, of Simpsons
Corner, Dixmont, highly respected and
well-to- do farmer, committed suicide recent
" by taking Paris green. His sad death has
cast gloom over the whole community in
which he lived No real reason can be as
signed for the deed.
SOMERSET.
Last Sunday afternoon young man named
Cyrus Carey, living at the Eddy in Skowhe
gan was fatally wounded by the accidental
discharge of a gun, loaded with buckshot. He
was starting for the woods near by. carrying
the gun carelessly by his side, when the ham
mer caught on a rock and caused the discharge
The whole ofthe tissue from the arm-pit to
the sternum was blown away, making ghast-
lv wound six inches long by four wide laying
bare the ribs. exposing the large arteries
under the arm and the anterior part of the
suoulutT IOiul. suiNtIluS dCtonidi tuu vi
clavicle, and wounding the apex of the right
lung to such an extent that bubbles of air
could be seen in the homorage which ensued.
Owing to the internal injury his death oc-
Cured in "a hours after the sccident.
WALDO.
r. F. Cummings, of Prospect, has a book
that is quite a curiosity. 1t is entitled sol
emn Advice to Young Men. Not to Walk in
the Wages of the Heart and in the Sight OF
their Eyes but to Remember the Day OF
judgement" The book was written by In
crease Mather. president of Harvard College
in Cambridge and preacher of the gospel at
Boston in New England. Printed by Mar
tholomeu Green in 1895. Sold by Samuel
Phillips, at the Brick shop near the old Meet
ing House. The doctrine of the volume is of
the fire and birthstone order radically differ
ent from that preached to-day by the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher. The book was for
merly owned by Lieut.. Thomas Cummings
who moved from Natick, Mass, to Prospect.
Lieut.. Cummings was in the French and In
dian war and served through the Revolution
WAsHINGToN.
The Commercial says at the recent session
of the Grand Jury of Washington county, at
Calais. Levy Mitchell was arrested on a
charge of killing deer during close time.
Though it is not usual to do so Mitchell was
allowed to address the jury in his own behalf