Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-10-12

Last SATURDAY night, tne JeWelry store OF
A. A. Barrett of Caribou, was entered, and
several valuable watches, chains. and jewelry.
to the amount of about $500, taken from the
show cases. The burglars made their entry
through side window, by cutting the sash
and removing the fastening. There is no
clue to the perpetrators, as yet.
Geo. w. Maxfeld & Co. of Houlton are
killing 700 sheep per day at their slaughter
house in that town.
kENNEBEC.
Thos. NJ. Gray of Windsor, fell from an
apple tree one day last week, and received
severe injury.
PENOBsCoT.
Col. Morrill, of Dexter has received a
check from H. 5. Osgood, Treasurer of the
Maine State Fair, for two hundred and forty
two dollars and fiftv cents, tina: being the
amount of money won for him bv his trotters
in the races at said Fair Only one man
Geo, o. Bailey, of Belfast) won more
money at the Fair than Col. Morrill,. Last
year the Colonel got the largest amount.
Ed Durgin of Dexter will make five hundred
horse hay forks this winter. He readily sold
all that he made last yesr, and could have
disposed of great many more. He is at
present driven on general job work.
Fairfield is still noted for its nice stock,
horses. cattle and sheep, as it has been for
many years. The most noted stallion now
in town is 'Dr. Franklin" owned BY +. j.
Lawrence and A. F. Gerald This horse is
twelve years old, having been sired by Gen.
KNOX the last season he stood in Maine. He
was bred by Peter Leterneau. Oakland,
out of a Winthrop Morrill, mare that
was sold by A. A. Thompson, New York, for
$500. He was brought into Fairfield when
. years old, and it is the design OF his own
ers to keep him there for the improvement OF
Maine horses. OF the thirty-four colts of his
get that are five years old or more, nineteen
are trotters, and the average price for which
they have been sold is $751;
Somerset reporter man called on Mr.
Hall the person who was injured in the Corn
vile affrav when Hall made the following
state ments : Monday Wis ted Mr.. Nathaniel
Winters barn to ask the threshers when
they could come to my barn. As stepped
into the door I saw Mr.. Williams on a TEN.
porary scahold feeding grain down to the ma
chine. As he saw me he made a dive at me
with the tines of the fork as though he would
run them into my stomach. lodged back
and told him to be careful how he handled
his fork. He then said something about
some pork and replied. He then added
81 never borrowed any pork of YOU and
responded ''no but your wife did" At this
he leaned over the NOW and with the handle
of the fork struck me over the head, knock
ing me down.
Mrs. John Hutchinson of Skowhegan died
suddenly of heart disease early Sunday morn.
ing and was buried Monday.
Mr.. George L. Fuller of Hartland, a well
known merchant of that place, had a paraly.
tir ahock Saturday and diad hofova Job
He was buried Sunday.
The house. ell and stable Of Willie Jeweti
in South Scion, were burned Monday morn
ing of last week. Insured for S7cO
The ex-soldiers of North New Portland
and vicinity have formed G. A. X. Post
to be called the Isaac A. Pennel Post. They
are to be mustered as a post on Tuesday
Oct. l6, 1888, at l P. NJ. They propose hav.
ing an entanment in the evening to which
all are invited.
Mr.. G. J. Shaw has just sold for Mr.. II.
B. Grant of PittsAeld, a chestnut colt Al
mont Ledo two years old. by Gen. Withers,
to Mr.. B. W. Abbott, of Worcester, Mass.
for $1,000. The colt was shown on the track
the day of the sale and trotted a half mile in
l.35 without a break. 1t pays to raise such
stock as that on farm.
Ar LARGE.
The Bath Times says that eight hundred
feet of the long ice shoot at Fort Popham
blew down ia the high wind Of last week
The Ice house of the Association is full o.
ice, about 1000 tons. cut last winter.
From all parts of Maine come complaint.
of low water. The water in the Penobsco
river is the lowest it has been for severa
years. The effect has been to make the mar
ket for spruce more firm. G. H. Peters
Co, OF Boston in their September lumbe
circular, says that the fall opens with = bet
ter demand than was anticipated a mont
since, and trade promises to be good in mos
kinds Of lumber the rest of the season.