Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-08-20

pounds of raspbefries had been shipped from
Fort Fairfield station. This amount includes
all from this section excepting those being
bought and prepared for use in Caribou By
Mr.. Stetson of Medford, Mass who is doing
an extensive business. All the berries first
mentioned are steamed and put up for ship
ment At Fishers potato house. at Fort Fair
field The raspberry crop will continue
about two weeks longer. and il is estimated
that over 5000 will be distributed among our
people on account of this new business.
CUMBERLAND.
The loading of the steamer Brooklyn was
finished Friday and she sailed Saturday fore
noon for Liverpool. Her cargo consisted in
round numbers, of one and a quarter million
of lumber. in the opinion of her stevedore,
the largest freight of this material ever
shipped at Portland.
FRANKLIN.
The narrow guage railroad from Farming
ton to Phillips. they are talking of taking up
and placing a broad guage one in its place
This would make $1,000 difference in the ex-
penses of one numbering company alone
The Sandy River" whose lumber has to be
taken in smaller lots to Pennington and then
again transferred there. They handle TO-
900. 900 of lumber year. They have lately
oous ht up Vial ~at -ooV dCfSs VI iatiu CIONu-
ed with splendid spruce. clean and nice for
$1,000. The Maine Central has about the
same as bought the narrow guage. and when
it is taken up for the broad guage. it
will be moved on to Rsngeley, opening up
eighteen miles of fine lumber country They
talk nothing but railroad up that way.
KNOX.
The Free Press says Mrs. Geo. W. Drake
ofp notlapJ aJ spj,1aul,. 10
day night. being in that city for medical treat
ment.
The Free Press says the Bodwell granite
company at Vinalhaven are running their
mills dav and night, employing about forty
men. They seem to be full of orders, and have
the largest force of cutters working by the
dav that they have had for some years past
Facts have been developed during the past
week which tend to show that the killing of
Murdoch Campbell by Patrick Cain was not
the sudden and causeless act of a mailman.
but willful and premeditated murder. 1t
seems that the men had angry words few
days before the killing, and on that day
Campbell, the foreman, found lewis-hole
made by Cain which was not properly
finished, and, calling the attention of the
latter to it, ordered him to fix it as it should
be. Cain was evidently angry, and instead
q
new hole. Campbell said no more. but
turned and left the quarry. Cain followed
very soon afterwards. caught up with Camp
bell, and struck him down with the drill,
which he had taken from the quarry under
the pretence of having it sharpened. An ex-
animation of the drill with which the blow
was struck shows it to be quite sharp so that
Cain, it would seem. could have had no le-
gitimate reason for carryingi it to the shop, or
out of the quarry. These things are chang
ing the public sentiment. so that Cain is now
looked upon as a murderer rather than a lu-
matte.
LINCOLN.
very exciting occurrence took place at
the Catholic excursion to Damariscotta Mills
last Wednesday, which came very near being
serious in its results. A party consisting of
James VIM, John Film and Misses Kate
Hanrahan, Mary Ellen Brady. Maggie Sulli-
van and Annie Burke (the young ladies all
belonging in Thomaston) got into sail boat
in the pond at Damariscotta, and sailed
short distance, when flaw of wind struck
the sail, the boom jibbed over, the boat upset.
and the party were precipitated into the pond.
This occurred in the presence of nearly all
the excursion party, and for a few moments
the excitement was intense and wild. For
tunatelv there was large lot of logs in the
pond to which some of the party chung After
cOnsiC cradle effort they were rescued, but
not until one of the young ladies came very
near being drowned
PIsCATAoUIs.
Mr.. LYMAN Bean of Foxcroft who has
been confined to the Insane Asylum at Au-
gusta for nearly seven years. died one day
recently, and the remains were brought to
his native town for interment.
Mr. John Speed of South Atkinson, is near.
ly insane on account of the death of his lit
tie boy, who met with an accident while
driving a horse a few days ago.
The Wing says that the township of Will
matte is owned by S. & J. Adams & CO., of
Bangor, which the Willimantic Co. are leased
for 20 years, with the privilege of using all
the timber they need. The supply of white
birch seems inexhauitible, and it is highly
probable that there will be no more use for
the thread spools after the last tree has
been felled there. The company in the past
winter and spring cut and sawed into blocks,
some two thousand seven hundred cords
which amount is calculated to supply them
for year. They are required to manufac-
ure about 5000 gross of spools a month at the
works in Connecticut. Their machines are
of high order, and some of them will make
sixty spools a minute. New machinery and
shafting have been sent there within the past
month, and ere long twenty spool machines
will be in operation, and the force of forty
workmen now employed there will probably
be increased to $50 or more.
WALDO.
The Journal says the granite industry at
Belfast is rapidly increasing.
The Belfast Journal says a woman in Lib
erty was recently on trial on charge of lar
ceny, who had eleven husbands, seven of
whom are now living.
The Journal says young man by the name
of James Thorndike of Montville, who has
recently become insane, escaped from his
keepers on Sunday morning, and at last &C.
counts had not been found.
YORK.
The Biddeford Journal saws it is reported
that one of the ward constabes of that city
has rather put his foot into it, and laid him
self liable to arrest for single sale. In
company with another officer, he drove to
Old Orchard, Friday of last week, and seiz-
ed quantity of liquor at 10 Berniers place,
which he loaded into his carriage and drove
towards home. The story goes that he was
overtaken on the road by Bernier, who after
considerable parleying. offered the constable
a good round sum 70, the contrabapd goods