Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-11-27

CUMBERLAND.

10ree mOntno ago harvey McManuS OF
Brunswick, - We learn from the Telegraph,
had q heifer two years old which dropped her
| calf in the woods, and all attempts to capture
| them have been in vain, though hunted At
different times, once for Eve days in success
sion. Monday morning the heifer and calf
we're found in the barnyard. As soon as the
people were seen, both started for the woods !;
the mothr got entan8led and was caught; but
the calf dashed through the fence and got of.
A few weeks ago an aged and respected
| citizen Of Portland died from the effects of u
| slight fall, Mr.. Henry Bradbury. His sister,
Mrs. Sophia Fickett, after devotedly attend
ing to all the details of her brothers funeral,
had an almost equally slight fall, which re-
suited fatally last week.
A barn with % tons Of hay at Middle Bay
owned by Israel Simpson, was DESTROYED by
fire Wednesday night; supposed incendiary.
FRANKLIN.
Richmond, Thompson & Co.'S novelty
wood-turning shop, at Jay Bridge, is said to
be the largest in the world, says the Frank
lin Journal. that is, it operates more lathes,
than any other establishment of the kind
1t runs six automatic and sixteen hand lathes,
and consumes about four thousand cords of
white birch and produces blueing and drug
lists boxes to the value Of SIS, 200 annually.
In addition to this department Of their bnsi-
ness, which gives employment to fifty hands,
the saw mill of the firm cuts about 500, 900
feet of long lumber and 500, 900 shingles an
nually, besides saving 800, 900 feet of pine
into box boards for their own use. They also
run CHRIST mill which grinds 4 carload of
corn per week. They employ from sixty to
eighty men, with a pay roll of over $1,000
pr month.
Mr.. Phil Sawyer of Vinalhaven. the local
pilot, was one day recentlv digging in the
creek mud at the back of Kittridge's hill in
that town, when he found q large bone, the
lower part of one the legs of some huge ami
NAL. The bone which was on exhibition at
the drug store, weighs ~ pounds, is about
Is inches long and II inches in circumference,
and is thick At one end. This curious fossil
has been the subject Of much speculation
among the worthless of the town for the last
few days. Some pronounce it the lower part
Of one of the fore legs Of an elephant, others
are inclined to connect it with some part
of whale. while one or two seem
to think it part of some mighty mammoth of
a prehistoric age. The most likely theory
is that it belongs to the elephant, as will ap-
pear from the following: Some ~ years ago
a vessel named the Royal Tar, carrying a
menagerie of wild beasts from the Provinces
to some southern port, took fire and was run
ashore few miles from where this bone was
found. few Of the old people can tell how
they heard the terrible cries of the animals,
and recollect about large elephant having
swan ashore from the wreck. The bone is
doubtless part of this elephant. and appears
as if it had been broken from the main body
and washed away.
One day recently Capt. Wadswo orth of Lin
colnville, sheriff of Waldo county, was in
Rockland looking for Lewis s. Hodgman, a
young man who belongs in Belfast, on COM
plant Of w. W. Gilman, a travelling sales
man for 4 Boston liquor firm. 1t appears
that the young men had been engaged in a
game Of poker and Hodgeman had won from
Gilman about $50 in money and his watch.
The result was . surprise to the runner, who
had an idea, common among fresh young men
of his profession, that at poker, Down Easters
are always the easy prey of those who have
had the advantage of culture at the Hub.
LINCOLN.
Measles are very prevalent at North White
field.
Eleven inches Of snow felf in the vicinity
of Pemaquid during the late storm, making
very good sleighing for several days.
Saturday morning the 18th inst, Mr.
Samuel Sherman of Newcastle, was found
dead in small open boat on the Sheepscot
river near the fall, says the Lincoln County
News. He had been missing two days, and
probably died in fit. He was 70 years of
age.
number of the men and boys around the
| Friendship Harbor have gone into the bus.
ness Of digging clans for the Round Pond
canning factory, says the Lincoln County
News, They get twenty-five cents per bushel
for the clans and are selling from four to
| FIVE hundred bushels per week.