Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-11-26
state News.


Porter of Portland, finished their series Of
ten checker games at the New England
checker rooms, Boston. Thursday afternoon,
the result being . credit of two games fol
each man and six draws. The series, which
is for the amateur championship of the world,
will consist of 20 games and the other ten will
be PLAYED in Portland.
An aged Portland lady vas we'll acquainted
with Ralph Waldo Emerson, when the emf
nent thinker vas young man, observes
Talk She says that Emerson vas regard
ed by the girls at that time, a. being too in
dolent to try to be entertaining Emerson was .
frequent visitor at the '.old Emerson place"
at Waterford, Me-, where an aunt of his re-
sided Near the Emerson homestead "a.
Ward" il buried.
The water power of the Kenpebec at Wa
terville is sufficient to drive 400 900 spindies.
Lockwood Co. at present have 10000 in op-
Grafton.
Franklin Wright, highly respectable citi-
gen of Mt Vernon, died while sitting in his
chair, In apparently usual health. at his home
at West Mt Vernon, Tuesday the 20th inst
About seven years ago he gave up work and
removed to that town, where he has since re-
sided
One of the daily trains on the Somerset
Railroad has been discontinued 80 that here
after passengers will have but one opportu-
nifty daily to reach stations on the road.
Previously mixed trains have run in both d.
rections twice each day. Depreciation of
business during the winter months occasions
this change.
1t is a little late for horse trotting, bat the
| Waterville Sentinel learns that preparations
| are being made for q match race on Water
vile Park, Dec. Sd, between Collins mare
B,ss, and Chas. Hills mare Grace for $3.50
side, the money is already in the hands of
Geo. Stackpole. Mile heats, best in to
harness.
A flock of sheep met Tuesdays passenger
train about three miles west of Oakland,
and not turning out were badly dilapidated.
| Over forty were killed and injured. The
sheep belonged to Benjamin Gleason.
| The Executive Committee of the State
Pathological Society will meet at Gardiner
| on the first Wednesday in December, for the
purpose Of deciding on the time and place of
| the winter meeting. Persons in localities
desiring the holding of the meeting in their
section should send in the invitation in proper
form to be acted upon at that time.
KNOX.
| On Friday evening, says the Free Press,
Mrs. Sterling Davis of East Union, in going
out of her house, slipped on the door step,
and falling upon q stick Of wood, broke her
| shoulder and dislocated the arm at the
shoulder joint. She is quite an aged lady,
and her injuries are proving severe strain
| upon her constitution.
| Hon. Hiram Bliss of Washington, who has
passed through severe sickness, is now re-
covered and has been able to attend the ses-
sion of Court at Rockland. says the Free
Press.
| There are now 16O convicts in the State
prison. Warden Bean has stocked the pond
in the unused quarry with carp. The guard
room and the warden's office have been newly
painted. Improvements have been made
about the main entrance, giving better light.
| PENOBscor.
Prof. NJ. C. Fernald. President of the
State College, is about to publish list of all
the students who have ever attended that in
stitution, with their residence and occupa-
ton.
| Twenty thousand dollars worth Of sapling
pine on township Long A. Penobscot county.
was utterly ruined in the late gale. 1t was
owned by Chas. G. Sterns of Bangor, and
Caleb Holyoke of Brewer. Twenty six men,
driven out of the woods by the gale are now
living at the expense of the town of Brown
vile. One crew started out of the woods
after the gale and attempted to drive four
oxen and two horses, After twenty-seven
hours hard work they had advanced only two
miles, and finally had to kill the animals, it
being impossible to get them out.
Nathan Rideout, Jr. young man twenty
| three years of age, youngest son of Nathan
Rdeout of Lee, was killed by a boiler explo-
sion at ButtonwCod. Pennsylvania, last Fri
day. HIS remains we're brought home on
Tuesday in charge of Amos Patterson of Lee.
1t is said that the sudden shock has rendered
the mother of the young man insane.
PIsCATAQUIs.
The body of q man partly suspended by
| rope attached to a bough of a tree, was found
Thusday, by lumbermen on Ebeeme Noun
tain, Piscataquis county. They Judged he
had been dead several days. 1t is supposed
to be the body of John Kendall, 80 years old,
who recently made his home in Milo. APP
pearances indicates suicide.
The Dover Observer reports a case of he
rosm on the part of a woman in Clifford.
One night recently. the wife of Hastings
Brown was taken i'll and her husband har-
messed his team and started for Stilman Whit
ney's some distance away, to procure the
services of his wife. The night was pitch
dark, and on returning home with Mrs. Whit
new, Browns horse became frightened,
near a small bridge, and commenced backing.
The woman becoming frightened, jumped
from the wagon. Brown was unable to man.
age his horse, which backed completely over
the bridge and landed in the brook, distance
of to 10 feet. Mrs. Whitney started to re-
turn home but thinking better went back.
On reaching the brook she found the wagon
upside down and Brown lying in the water
underneath it. Though frail woman, she
by main force lifted the wagon off and held
it until the half dead man crawled out few
minutes more would have decided the fate of
Brown, without q doubt.
| SOMERSET.
The Somerset Reporter says: Mr.. Ethan
Conant, young man about 81 years of age,
living on the "Spencer" about Is miles from
Parlin Pond, was found dead in his cabin
Wednesday morning, the 18th, by a crew of
logging men at work for Omar Clark in the
above named place. The deed, was, without
doubt, done in fit of insanity. as the man
has been known to be out or his mind at
times and talk has been made of sending
him to the asylum. Conant came from
Massachusetts, where his folks now reside.
about two years ago. since which time he has
employed himself by hunting, and selling the
fur for his support.
How natural it is to be suspicious. Truly
this is an age of suspicion. Nevertheless,