Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-21

NtAte News.
AxDROecosom.
The letter carriers Of Lewiston are draw
ing up memorial for presentation 10 Con
gress. The memorial 10 similar to thosl
presented by letter-carriers of other cities
II asks chiefly for the abolishment of the
distinction between first and second class
cities and the consequent distinction in price
1t also prays for leave Of absence for thirty
days with pay for each carrier during the
year.
A Mr.. Smith came very near being killed
1t the Maine Central station in Lewiston, or
Wednesday. He had drawn the pin connect
ing the engine with car to be shifted and
was setting the brake up hard to prevent it
running BY the switch, when his hand slipped
of the brake and he fell to the ground in
front of the moving car. He had presence
of mind and sufficient nerve to roll himself
from under the wheels before the cars reached
him.
AloosrooK.
Chester W. johnson has been appointed
Postmaster in Limestone in place of Daniel
Libbey removed.
The dwelling house of L. NJ. Andrews in
Caribou on the Madawaska stream, was
burned with all its contents last Sunday.
Loss S40o. No insurance.
John Libby who was scalded At the boiler
explosion in KimbalPs mill, has so far re-
covered as to be able to 60 out Leslie Par
sons continues to gain, and 10 now considered
out of danger. Cook has not been quite a.
well the past few days owing to an attack of
pleurisy.
| HANCOCK.
| A house belonging 70 Mr.. John York of
North Hancock, was burned to the ground
Monday. 1t was occupied by the family of
Mr.. York, and on the door above, by the fam
| ily of Carl Korn. The loss to Mr.. York,
who saved q small portion of his furniture, is
about $500. Mr.. Korn's loss is about $500
Mr. and Mrs. Korn lost everything even to
sum of money which was in his trunk.
| There was no insurance, as the policy had
run out and in order to make his final pay
ment on the property, Mr.. York needed all
| the money he could raise, and did not REIN
| sure.
Twenty-Five years ago the late s. Nicker-
son of Bar Harbor s6ld three-fourths of An
acre of land, in that place to A. J. Mills for
the sum of twenty dollars, payment to be
made in wood cutting. The improvements, in
the way of buildings ETC.. that have since
been put on the land amount to about $1,000,
and within the past year it has been sold for
$13, 500. Such instances are not uncommon at
Bar Harbor.
The Eastern State Normal School opened
Tuesday 18th, with an attendance of eighty
pupils, the entering class numbesing thirty.
Ex-Mayor Roscoe Holmes of Ellsworth
while engaged in surveying timber lands in
township 81, Saturday, slipped and fell, strik
ing on his knee with such force as to fracture
the cap. The injury is quite severe.
SOMERSET.
Mr. Joseph Clark of the Forks, died ON
Saturday night the 10Th inst. He had been
in i'll health for some time. He was very
time of his death was landlord of the large
hotel at the Forks. lie was born in Moscow,
and has always lived in that vicinity. He
was buried with Masonic honors.
W. r. Dunn, of Waterville, will speak in
Skowhegan next Sabbath afternoon at three
o'clock and evening. Subject in the P. M,
Goods Wisdom and Mans folly" In the
evening, constitutional Prohibition"
Mr.. Peter Hurd, formerly of the Athens
and Skowhegan stage, fell in his dooryard 4
short time ago, breaking two ribs.
Messrs. Brown & Hight Of Skowhegan, are
doing an extensive cattle business in the
county, buying them for foreign markets.
They shipped one car load the 10th inst,
and another on Monday morning. the 18th
inst. Within the past ten days they have ex-
pended for cattle over 81, 900, nearly all, in
the upper part of the county and as long as
the market holds good and they can find stock
in condition for the same, they are to con-
tinue to keep their money circulating. They
think it would pay our farmers to feed their
stock for that purpose.
The Somerset Reporter tells of a man in
that village who went into drug store and
purchased some Paris Green and began to
take it into his mouth By the use of jack
knife. He had got tired of living any more.
doctor was procured and the young man
feels better.
WALDO.
Mr. and Mrs. T. Huxford of Brooks, ar
rived in Boston Friday en- route for New
York. While waiting at the Old Colony sta
ton to take the train for New York, they
were robbed of all their baggage, consisting
of three large travelling bags, two shawls and
one bag of peanuts. The articles stolen had
been left in the ladies' waiting room. man
was seen to enter the room and walk of with
the baggage.
Mr.. C. J. Hall has shipped from Belfast
to Baltimore, two carloads Of red granite, in
the rough. Mr.. Hall now has 70 men en-
ployed at his granite works in that city. This
does not include his quarry men.
A Belfast paper under the head of ga
Tramp Nuisance" says as the winter advances
tramps are increasing at a rapid rate. The
roads are getting to be full Of them and our
Jail at the present rate will soon be crowded
with them. Our County Commissioners are
determined if possible to abate the nuisance,
and they established House of Correction
at the jail, where this gentry will find some
thing to do besides eating and sleeping. They
propose to appoint an overseer who has the
requisite qualifications for dealing with
those vagabonds, if one can be found, and
they earnestly request all the county magis-
trates to sentence them to the said House of
Correction.
Probably the heaviest box of freight ever
shipped from Belfast was taken away recent
ly by rail, belonging to Mrs. Anna s.
Thomas. The dimensions of the box were
24x34xs feet, and its weight was 1855 pounds.
1t is going to Austin. Texas.
Some special work in organizing new
lodges of Good Templars in Waldo county