Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-09-19

for the Past Two Weeks.
The following are the important transfers
of real estate in Kennebec county, As re-
corded at the Office of the Register of Deeds
for the week ending Saturday. September
18th:
Cs;harine Doherty Of same town. land with the
s asa''' to Melville smith Of same CITY, land in A.
BENroS.-Alden B. Rice of Benton. to Sanford
5. Chapman of Fairfield. land in Benton. $,soo.
/ CLINToy.-Willis V. To;man OF Clinton to Manly
Morrison of same town, land in e., s6so.
CHELsEA.-John " Ferguson of Chelsea, TO
>ewali K Aldrieh OF the soldiers Home, land in
/ Chelsea, $40
| eARpINEE.-AbbieA A. and Ammi Davenport of
Farmingdae e. 10 Emma +. wyman of Gardiner. land
with the buildings thereon in G.. sssoo: Lewis F.
Gay of Boston, Mass, 10 Joseph Bradstree, OF Gar.
diner. land in -, els.
Winslow, all Of Hsiowell. TO james 6. and Olive l.,
Cummings both Of said city, land with the buildings
thereon in Ii sso0o.
MANCHESTER j. u. Sampson and Jes L.
Woods. both of Manchester, 10 j. q. Cummings Of
Augusta, land in Manchester, sl5e; same same,
Mt vERSoN.-John Fairbanks OF Vt. Vernon. 10
| SlO5
sIDNEY-Lydia VI. Monson Of sidney, 10 Thomas
W. Avery of same town. land in s., S65o.
EAssALBoRo.-HartwellH II. Some of vassaiboro,
= u.
land with the buildings thereon in V, $500.
WArERvILLE -Chas p Crommiit of waterville,
", sloO.
INrHRoP.-Rufas A. King of Winthrop. to Geo.
H. Haines Of Boston, Mass, land with the buildings
thereon in Winthrop. 5000.
WINsLow.-Eunice T.. Strat,on of wInslow, and
VIM A. stratton of Boston, Mass I, John t. Pol.
land OF Minslow. land in W., sl6oo; Edmund F.
land in W., &io.
WEST GARDISER:-Louisa 5. Sanford of Boston.
Mass, to Nicholas Williams of West Gardiner land
with the buildings thereon in West g., $500.
Maine Personals.
Col. Frank Baker, editor of the Marine
Journal of Cincinnati, o., has been on a
tour to Mt Desert and eastern Maine
We hear that Rev. b. p. Wing of Freeport,
has been invited to the pastorate of the Cen
trail street church, Bath.
Judge DanfCrth was in Bangor Sunday on
his way to Houlton where he holds the Aroos-
took term of Court and from there he will go
to Washington county.
Gen. c. W. Roberts of Bangor has gone to
Milwaukee, Wis to attend the annual meet
ing of the Board of Trustees of the National
Soldiers Home.
Miss Laura Hatch of Brunswick has gone
TO Wellesley College to take a course of in
slruction at that institution; she has been
teaching in the public schools of Brunswick,
for some wears past.
Before the adjournment of the Supreme
judicial Court of Piscataqnis county resolu-
tions in honor of Chief Justice Appleton were
passed. The resolutions were introduced bv
Hon. A. G. Lebroke, and appropriate remarks
made by A, NJ. Robinson, Esq. Judge APP
peton made feeling respond.
Francis Murphy, the great temperance
worker whose efforts in Maine are well re-
membered and whose marvellous success in
England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales has
given him international fame, arrived in New
York on Friday lat i'll the Anchor Line
Steamship, City of Rome.
rare couple are Mr.. and Mrs John
Mitchell of Auburn. They are sc and So
wears of age respectively. Last season they
took care of the cows and milk and sold but
ter to the stores and disposed of a surplu
supply on On lot that Welded them S7S They
manage farm of 100 acres.
The Calgary Herald. a paper just started
at Calgary. Alberta, y. w. T. contains the |
card of 1.-The Cochrane Rancho Co." of WHICH
Mr.. +. White, formerly g. L. agent at Lew
iston, is manager. The rancho was stocked
in 1881 with 1000 cattle. 5000 were added in |
1882, besides the increase, giving Mr.. F. a
fair stock to look after.
Mr. J. NJ Knight, of Minneapolis of the |
firm of Harrison, Knight & CO.. died of con-
SUMPTION recently, after an illness lasting |
nearly two years, aged ~ years. Mr.. Knight |
went to Minneapolis about II years ago, and
after time went to Saltwater. where he |
occupied the position of superintendent OF
schools for three years. He was a native of
Sweden, in this State.
By invitation of Chas. l.. Stevens Post G. |
A. r., of Canton, Dir Herbert w. Leach, |
one of the survivors of the Inflated Jean
nette" delivered his lecture on "A voyage to |
the Polar Seas, with an account of the wreck |
of the Jeanette" ard escape of the survivors. |
He told how he came to Join the expedition
and gave description of the vessel and its
officers of the voyage to Alaska and a de- |
scription of that region; of the subsequent
voyage and first winter in the ice; of bear |
hunt and of their amusements on board; of |
the breaking up Of the vessel and their es-
cape to the boats and sleds; of their coo
miles travel over the ice, part of the time
making only mile and a half in a day; of
their landing in Siberia and some account of
their life there. He proposes to prepare
another lecture giving full account of bis
life in Siberia and his observation of the Gus
toms modes of life of the native Siber-
ians and of the political Russian exiles.
The lecture was an entire success.
State News.