Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-09-25

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Sunday evening concerts still continue q
the Soldiers Home.
$4,000 was paid out 1t the Soldiers Home
week before last
Mrs Jas. Kinsly. Of Cincinnati. Ohio. who
has been spending the summer With Mrs
Bowman, in Farmingdale, has left for heI
home.
| Major r. G. Rollins, of Bangor, received
a telegram announcing the death AZ South
China, on Sunday. of his mother, Mrs. Jane
II Rollins, At the advanced age of 81 years,
months, and % days.
Messrs. John ]. Gray and Geo johnson of
| Hallowell, recently bought in AroostOok
county l.s head of the highest grade of cat.
tie. with the intention of taking them to Au-
gusts.
| Henry Tolman and Hervey Andrews of
West Camden, were injured quite seriously
few days since by premature discharge OF
blast in ledge. They were using small
stones for tamping an eight-inch charge of
mortar hole one foot deep, and were using
twenty-five pound bar to drive tamping,
instead of an ordinary light tamping bar.
Evidently the pressure caused by the use of
this heavy bar caused a conclusion which
produced the explosion. Mr.. Andrews was
terribly injured. having some two hundred
wounds between bis knees and head, caused
by powder and flying stones. He was badly
burned about the face and hands, and will
lose one eye-the left. The right eye is in
Jured, but will be saved.
The death of Mrs. Ella NJ, wife of Geo. l..
Maker, AT North Haven, recently, occurred
under peculiarly distressing circumstances
W sa1 bv fha hra ~ n
sci in the brain, which was induced BY ex-
element and fright. 4 large dog owned by
Mr.. Maker savagely attacked two gentlemen
who called, and Mrs. Maker seized the ami.
NAL and prevented him from harming them
As she did so, she suddenly became totally
blind. Commissions ensued and she died in
% hours.
A school of herring struck New Harbor
last week, but they staid one night only;
some 60 or 20 barrels were taken.
OXFORD
Persons who are familiar with Ransford
Gratz, the man who shot Gibbons in the rail-
road shanty at Reeds Pond the other evening
say they believe he is suffering from insanity
Last spring he worked on the Connecticut,
driving logs and returned home sick. Since
that time his actions on several occasions
have been observed to be singular and appar
emily not those Of sane man.
A little son of Isaac Merrill of Norway.
about five years old, died Tuesday, of cerebo-
spinal meningitis Friday in attempting to
climb fence he fell backward, but they
thought it hurt him but little and he did not
complain any till Monday. 1t is thought,
however, that the disease was caused BY the
fall.
At Fryeburg, recently while digging holes
to set out fruit trees, skeleton was unearihed
about two feet from the top OF the ground.
The teeth were very regular and sound, and
from all appearances never had to visit the
dentist. The body was lying east and west
and is supposed to be that of an Indian.
The son of Ransom Cole of Greenwood,
who had his right arm shattered so badly re-
Gently by the discharge of gun, is doing as
well as could be expected. We learn the
doctors think there is a prospect of saving his
arm. although a bad break. His right eve,
that was thought to be ruined, is likely to be
saved
PENoBsCoT.
The whereabouts of Louis Corners and
Miss Hamor, the seminary girl with whom he
eloped, has been traced to Conn, and the
girls father and an Office have gone on to
persuhLe tnem 10 elOpe Oack.
The Piscataquis Observer saws Dexter is
to have wholesale liquor establishment and
a new lodge OF Good Templars. Business is
booming over there.
PIsCArAoUis.
Charles W. Pierce of Milo, is now EN-
ploying 40 men in the sections of the country
where the Juniper trees grow. There the
knees are got out in a rough state and from
81 .,rx IL H.
and made ready for transportation. They
are mostly sent to the shp-building localities
on the Maine and Massachusetts, coast, hav-
ing Belfast and Newburyport as the principal
limits. Last year the shipments amounted
to $4,000, and this year they will reach
S27 200.
SAGADAHoC.
The Bath Times says: The man who near
ly frOze to death last winter down to Mt. De-
sert being thrown from a sleigh while cross
ing lake and rendered sensess, lying there
for some time, was in Bath Friday He lost
all his fingers and is just able to hold a spoon,
knife or fork in the angle of the lower joint
of the thumb and the opposite joint of the
forefinger. All his toes were lost too.
The fire in the woods in West Bath still
continues to burn and is spreading with ra-
pidtv. Friday the fire was within sixty feet
of Daniel Webster's house on the old Turn
pike road. The men engaged in watching
the fire sent into Bath for one of the engines
as they could not cope with it, but they could
not get one.
A Mr.. Mari of Jefferson, on Friday while
attempting to board a train on the Knox
Lincoln X. X. at Nobleboro station broke his
leg above the ankle, and had his arm very
badly wrenched.