Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-11-28

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charge Of Conductor Locke's baggage-mas
ter. consisted of the engine and four cars
The shackIe broke between the second and
third cars when the train RI, passing through
the woods Just before reaching the station
The engine and t~o vard cars proceeded
on to Crouley's. The cars jumped the track
At the switch-the engine passing in safety
Both cars we're derailed, the forward of the
two being q total wreck. The cars were
loaded With meal in barrels. Both ends
Of the first car are torn out, and sides spit
open and meal strewn for rods along the
track. The rails were spread. sleepers torn
up, rendering the track beyond the CON-
lplete wreck for q number of rods. The train
from Brunswick was DELAYED from the fact
that the last car had jumped from the Farm
ington track almost to the edge of the Lewis
ton track, rendering it impossible for train
to pass.
The jury at the Supreme Court for
Androscoggin county. was discharged Satur.
day. The jury was in attendance forty-six
days, in all. making term the longest and
busiest, it is believed, in the history of the
county. The number Of cases disposed of
is large. The pay roll of the jury amounted
to $1,000. Court will meet again the third
Tuesday in January and with many long
standing cases no longer on the docket.
| ARoosrOOK.
There are in Hnulton fifty-four stores and
places of bushes where goods are sold over
counters, giving employment to upwards of
two hundred clerks.
Complaints having been made by merchants
in the vicinity of Eoulton, that large quanti-
| ties of knit goods we're being smuggled into
that town and being shipped west by express,
a government officer has been upon the bor-
L. G. Al Al
up the matter. As a result OF his labors,
there were seized at the station, Monday morn
ing, BY Dep. Coll. Nickerson, some three or
four hundred dollars worth of Struggled socks
aud mitts. 1t is hoped that this seizure will
break up the business.
| CUMBERLAND.
| A carload Of Jersey cattle was Monday
shipped from Broadmoor farm Cumberland
to Kentucky. This is the second carload
shipped to that state this year. The best
Jersey bull in the country Is now at the head
of the Broadmoor herd. This is Romeo
de Bonair," and half brother to the celebrated
Jersey COW "Mary Anne of st Lambert"
valued at $4,000. The BlanChards were
offered 81, 900 last week, He is held how
ever, at SlO,O The BroadmOor herd now
numbers over 100 Jerseys.
| The barkentine Fannie II. Loring left Phil
adelphia on the 9Th inst. with cargo of coal,
bound for Portland. Since that time no It'd
ings have been received from the vessel and
| it is feared she is lost. says the Sunday Times.
The vessel was command by Capt. Alonzo
Soule OF Knightville, with a crew of nine
men. and ow ned by j. s. winslow & Co. Of
| Portland. 1t was of AGO 81 tons burden, and
built in Yarmouth in 1872
Capt. Emery Davis of Ferry Village has
received from the Court of Commissioners
Of Alabama claims an award of over Sl40O,
payment for a fishing vessel of which he had
command and which was destroyed by the
rebel cruiser Tallahassee in 1864.
PENoBscoT.
Mr.. ]. c. Muzzy of Brewer. a carpenter,
was engaged last Friday on the Bucksport
railroad bridge building box for . water
pipe, when freight train backed down over
! the bridge, Mr.. Muzzy, when he heard the
| train coming, thought it was on the track be-
| low and did not get out of the way. He was
struck on the forehead by the end of sleeper
on the rear car and knocked off the box on
the end of the bridge to the river bed some
| Sc feet below. He was badly shaken up and
| his eyes were badly infamed but no bones
were broken nor any permanent injuries sus-
| tanned.
The Penobscot tribe Of Indians are good
DIV 10 civilization, owing perhaps to their be-
| ing nearer the settled portion of the State.
and the work being done among them by the
Catholic priest and the two sisters who care
| for their education is calculated to have
marked effect upon their future. On the day
the tribe were visited, thirty children were
| in the school. and these we're examined in
reading, arithmetic and spelling upon the
blackboard, in all Of which the pupils &C.
| Quilted themselves better than was expected
| by anybody present The most advanced
class 10 working in percentage in Robinsons
arithmetic. and though they sometimes ex
press themselves slowly, on account Of their
slight command of the English language,
their actions show that they understand the
work. The schoolhouse. the church, and
everything under the care Of the sisters, ia
maint aimed in a scrur1lous state of heatless,
and this characteristic has extended to the
houses of the Indians. which are generally
quite neat outside and inside.
| WASHINGTON.
| Sardines were not at first much sought after
| in Maine, but this season hundreds OF cases
have been used in Washington county alone.
There are eighteen factories in Eastport,
seven in Lubec, two in Robinston, three in
Jonesport. and one-the largest in the State
in Millbridge. The Eastport paw roll
amounts to about $4,000 per week. Here
is found the champion cutter Of the State.
In one week recently she earned s35. Small
boys earn sl2 per week, and sealers have av-
eragei during the past two months, sls per
week. This has been an unusually good sea
sen for the business. Fish will probably not
be so plenty again for a long time. The prof
| its have been small for the owners of the fac
tories this year. Prices have ruled low and
reached their minimum in September when
they sold in New York for IS so per case.
The Eagle Preserved Fish Co.. have expend-
ed S25 900 for impro, ements this year, and
expect before their factories close to get out
sl00, 600 cases.
The Esstport Sentinel says: Nicholas Sal
more. one Of the Pleasant Points Indians,
was drowned, Tuesday night of last week, at
Long Lake near Peter Dana'a Point his
body was recovered.
YORK.
| The lobster fishermen are meeting with
good success, and the moderate weather 10
much in their favor. Large HOLSTERS COM
mand good price, and the small ones are
| readily snapped" up by the dealers, says