Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-08-01

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A. Mr.. Black, Of Colbury, Canark, q
boarder at the Uunion House. Peaks Island,
was indulging in bath in Brackett's Cove,
Thursday be WAS suddenly seized With q
strong impulse to remain under water, which
he vas obliged to yield to for . considerable
length of time, and only succeeded in over
coming his desire after he had been thorough
ly chilled through. Mr. Black saws it is the
first time he has suffered from on attack of
this kind, and that it 10 no way resembles
the cramps. He had the the same feeling
early in the morning on starting for Cod
Ledge, and he was forced much against his
will to give up the trip. Mr.. Black is not q
spiritualist.
WASHINGTON.
Tuesday Mrs. John Morse met with q
painful accident. In changing cars on the
n. b. Railway, at Debec, she fell and dislo-
Gated one of her arms at the shoulder. A
physician set the arm at Canterbury, on the
train, and Mrs Morse proceeded to her home
in Calais. She is rapidly recovering from
her injury.
WALDO.
The Belfast Journal says A. A. Brown, of
Liberty, while haying one day last week, got
q spear of grass into his throat and was un-
able to eat anything for three or four days,
and his throat was badly swollen, but he is
now out Of danger.
LINCOLN.
The Boothbay Register says that Mr. Smith
is about closing up the lobster canning for
this season, and is now busy on mackerel,
putting up about $500 cans per day. He
buys all that is brought in small boats and
seiners furnished the balance needed to keen
all hands busy.
Mr.. Thomas Couch of New York, of the
firm of Brown, McAllister & Co., owns a val
liable granite quarry at Round Pond, Bristol,
where fifty men are employed in cutting
granite for monuments, etc. The quarry is
near the water, and the stone is loaded on
coasters and carried to New York. Mr.. c.
and a few gentlemen at Round Pond are
Of buying Penaquid Point, where
they will erect a summer city.
An OK belonging to Mr.. Kenniston of
Boothbay, broke his neck in the slings at
Boothbay. a few days since. while being shod.
An OK belonging TO Benjamin Mason of Booth
bay, broke his neck a few days since in
strange way. The oxen were hauling hay,
when one of them made sudden spring,
throwing the other on his head in such a way
that he broke his neck. Such a break neck
profitable business is being done bv Booth
bay schooners in which Mr. Remission aptly
calls "evening up the climate The schoon-
ers take out ice and bring back coal. Ten
years ago there was no business of this sort.
Ice was then not an article of necessity, but
of luxury in the South, and in Maine coal
was not so extensively consumed. The tend
ency to enlarge human wants is the basis of
an increasing commerce The deposits in
the Boothbay Savings Bank are S97, 900,
which shows prosperity Several new ves-
sells have been launched at East Boothbay,
this season, and there is one vessel on the
stocks nearly ready for launching.
PENoBsCor.
The Whig says the camp-menting at the
new grounds, Temple Park Verona. under
the auspices of the Penobscot Spiritual
Temple, will begin Wednesday, Aug. 18th.
and close on the following Tuesday.
The Whig says the great bulk Of the hay
throughout Penobscot Valley is housed and