Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-01-26
State News.
ANDRoSCoGGlN.

| Willie Moran, who was taken to Low ell
from Lewiston on writ of habeas corpus by
Inspector McCafirey, January 18th. for steal
ing DR.. Irish's team on the evening of Nov.
! 10. 1882, proves TO be innocent of the offence.
When interviewed in Auburn jail, Moran
told the officer that he stole the team.
| The journal says that a very annoying
gang of thieves is apparently operating in
Lewiston. They seize upon the sleigh robes
of citizens who leave their teams in the streets
and oblige the aforesaid citizens (and their
wives, too. in some cases. to ride home with
out protection from the cold. The latest
cases reported are by Hon. w. w. Bolster
and DR.. W. X. Oakes, of Auburn.
! The journal saws THE body of the young
man that the coroner had in charge at The
Dalles, Oregon is that of Cyrus NJ. Weld.
formerly of North livermore, Me. He went
TO Oregon about Is years ago, when he was
about ~ years of age. His widowed mother
resides in the Town of Peru. Oxford county.
| His only brother, + A. Weld, is a farmer at
| Livermore Centre. He was a free, open
hearted young man, beloved by his compan-
ions and admired for his generous and unset
| fish disposition, in which deceit found no
place"
| George B. Dyer, a yonny man living in
| Salem. was arrested Saturday. 10th inst, on
| conptalnt OF AnUTeW 81. ftlnkleS OF Lew lstDn.
a cattle dealer, and brought before Justice
Fogg at Strong, charged with having by false
pretence and fraud obtained of the complain
ant, certain cow and other property last
November. Hon. T. II. Stubbs appeared for
| the State and w. l.. Whitcomb, Esq of
| Pennington, for the respondent. After an
examination OF several witnesses and argu-
| ment by counsel, Dyer was ordered by the
| court to recognize in the sum of 500 for his
| appearance before the 5. J. Court next TO be
| holden at Pennington ON the first Tuesday of
| March, in default of which he was committed
| to the county Jail
ARoosrooK.
The Houlton Pioneer says that the snow is
! about two feet deep in that part of the county
and three in the Aroostook valley.
One of Wood & Bishops large Monitor
Portable Wood furnaces has been put into
| the HoultOn court house.
| The amount and kind of freight sent from
| Houlton by rail during the past year is as
| follows: IS. sos 600 shingles, $50 carloads of
potatoes, 34I do. sleepers. 90 do extract.
| works burnt in july 80 do. leather, - do.
starch 1873 do. hay, 53 do. sawed lumber, 30
do. bark. l54 do. merchandise. 2G,1 154 sheep
and lambs &}9 cattle and l64 horses. Thir-
| ty-six hundred seals were used in sealing the
cars, two seals upon each car. The duties
collected AT the station amounted to 50 ,093.
40.
The Houlton Pioneer says An old man
named Chamberlain, claiming to be an ex-
English soldier, has been an expense to that
| town for some time. His occupation gone,
| he seemed completely demoralized, and would
perambulate the streets, apparently half
| drunk and the other half crazy, followed by
troop of boys who were spelling for sport
On Wednesday evening, 18th inst, after
warming himself at the Exchange hotel stove
| he started for the poor-house. Across the
bridge he called at the house of a Mr.. Peters
| and asked for food. He was given piece
of boiled corned beef, which, in attempting
to swallow. lodged in his throat, causing al
| most instant death.
Import duties collected in the Aroostook
district last year amounted to Sl9, 442.37.
SAGADAHoC.
| The Bath Times says The smoke stack
| for the Goss Marine Iron Works arrived
| Tuesday. 1t is 60 feet tall and made in two
pieces, each 80 feet long. They were
| originally long cylinder boilers with the
| heads removed. As substitutes they make
the very best possible smoke stacks. The
masonary work is quite completed and the
work OF boiler setting is done. No fires
| have of course been started as yet under the
boilers. The next job is that Of fitting the
steam pipes throughout the building. The
building will be heated by steam from the
exhaust pipes of the boiler The steam
hammer will receive steam direct from the
boiler. 1t is an item worthy of mention if it
has hitherto escaped notice that all laborers
will be employed at home that can possibly
do the work required
| HANCOCK.
| The load Of damaged coal on board the
schooner Sea Breeze, at Castine, was sold
at auction Saturday, 20th inst. to Bucksport
parties. The coal was sent TO the Castine
Packing Company, but was refused by them.
| because the schooner run ashore on the
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