Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-02-17
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State News.
AROOSTOOk.


The Aroostook Teachers Convention will
be held at Caribou. Feb. % and "a.
The annual farmers meeting of Northern
Ar0ostook will be held at Mapleton, next
month.
The Ttar says On Tuesday night of last
week, the store and goods of Mr.. b. Mann of
Spragueville were totally destroy ed by fire.
The loss is fully covered by the insurance.
The shin2le manufacturers at Caribou are
doing good business this season, and have
large stock of sawed shingles on hand, on
which they expect to realize good prices the
coming spring.
The school house in the Chase District.
Bryant's Pond was burned on the night of
JAN 10Th. 1t caught in the wood house from
some cause uuknown. There was a meeting
of the voters of the district at the residence
of Alonzo Felt, Thursday, Feb. 10 for the
purpose of making arrangements for the
erection of a new house.
Messrs. Morrel & Grant, Albany, have
received orders for the frame of another
ship or rather vessel. This is the fourth
they have got this season. They deliver it
at Yarmouth for Sl5 per ton, and are making
quite fair profits. good pair of oxen will
draw from a ton to a ton and half to the
depot. a distance of four or five miles.
propretors, at Paris, S. ID. Hutchinson was
elected President; II. +. Hammond, Secre-
tary, and J. b. Cole, Treasurer. vote Of
thanks was extended to J. II. Rawson, the
retiring Treasurer.
SOMERSET.
Wentworth Varney has a three year old
heifer that dropped calf the 25th of January
that weighed LOG lbs. 1t was after his Dur
ham bull. Who has heifer that can beat
that?
The Skowhegan Reporter says: The steam
engine for the Skowhega shoe factory ar
rived last week and is being rapidly put into
running condition. 1t was manufactured by
the Corliss Manufacturing Company of Prov
idence, r. |. 1t is between 20 and so horse
power and is said TO be one Of the finest en-
gines ever put up in this part of the country.
The work of setting the engine is under the
supervision of John Quinn, an employee Of
that company, and he informs that he ex-
poets to have it in running order this week.
The Skowhegan Reporter says: Early on
Thursday evening of last week, the HeseltoD
House was the scene Of unusual
excitement for little time, caused
by an insane man, accompanied
by large dog, and followed by a crowd Of
about 200 people, suddenly rushing into the
Office. But the proprietor. as usual. showed
himself "Master of the Situation" and while
he locked the doors against the crowd, har-
bored the wanderer and did all in his power
| to make him comfortable. But hearty sup
per and kindly pursuasion were alike power
| less to calm the excited mind Of the poor fug-
| tive, who claimed that he had been rObqed Of
! his pocket book, containing $500. The good
character of the man charged with this crime,
and the wild appearance of the man who had
come in his slippers from Stetson, alike pre-
vented full credence in his story. That night
he was carefully guarded, but the morning
| found him much more amenable to reason.
| The ''event proved that he had met with the
loss claimed. as Alfred Brown of Canaan ap-
peared with the missing pocket book, which
had been left in his store. After paying all
| his bills, and making manly apology for the
! false accusation, our visitor left for Stetson
declaring that he never wanted to come here
again--unless sent for.
WALDO.
| The date of holding the April session of
| the County Commissioner Court has been
changed from the third to the second Tues
day.
| Waldo Pomona Grange will meet with
Seaside Grange, at Peirce's Hall, Tuesday,
the 10th inst. at o'clock A. NJ. The ques-
tion for discussion will be "Spring and Fall
plowing.'
| If your lungs are almost wasted by con-
sumption DIR. Pierce's .sGolden Medical Dis
covery" will not cure you, yet as q remedy
for severe coughs, and all durable bronchial,
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Send two stamps for DIR. Pierce's large
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