Daily Kennebec journal., 1883-06-23
STATE News.


AxDnoscooeu.
The Journal says: The Auburn man. Chas.
nanforth, whose drowning by the capsixine
OF . pleasure boat, of Wells Beach, vas re
ported number Of days since. arrived in Au-
burn, Thursday mofniug. Mr.. Danforth lef>
Haverhill, Mass, where he has been at work
during the past winter, for . cruise along
shore, with the intention of coming as far east
- Portland. His boat was run upon . rock,
sometime after his departure from Haverill,
and drifted in upon Wells Beach. His drown
ing was considered certain. He was picked
up. however, by = vessel bound to Portland.
and landed there few days ago. He started
from Haverhill . week ago last Monday.
The delay in reaching Portland, was caused
by foggy weather.
The Herald says the blueberry crop about
Brunswick promises to be an unusually abun-
dant one. Wet weather during the middle
and latter part of June will afford generous
supply Of smsll fruits and berries and many
a family will derive a good income during
the summer months from gathering them.
FRANKLIN.
The Journal says bears are still giving the
farmers much trouble in Madrid. Many yard
their sheep nights and that has net always
been safe. few nights ago the bears took
two sheep from the yard of Mr.. John Stinch-
field; the next night he with his brother,
George Stinchfeld. watched for the bear. 1t
came back near morning. The men got one
shot at him but not enough to kill him, they
went to the neighbors for more help and dog,
and hunted him up. The bear was quite
NJ hill ha1 i'm,
did he surrender to be finally killed with an
children went to see the remains of old Bruin.
Some think the body will weigh nearly five
hthdred pounds.
At p. M. Wednesday evening, the Sandy
River was the highest for year, and had
fallen but little Thursday morning. Some
men there say it was the heaviest thunder
since their recollection, and more rain fell in
shorter time, than they ever knew. Much
drift stuff in the river. Narrow gauge X. r.
between Strong and Pennington, has some
washOuts, but the train got in Wednesday
night only few minutes late.
WASHINGTON.
The Eastport Sentinel says there are many
persons who believe that beneath the soil of
some of the Islands of Charlotte, the untold
treasures Of Captain Kidd lie securely hid.
The romantic interest which attaches to
this belief is enhanced by the recent dis
covery at Seal Cove, Grand Manan, of ore
and large Jumps of halfworked metal which.
it is thoug ght, are the relics of what once
formed the stock .in-trade of one Wheeler,
who, late in the last century. practised the
art in that vicinity. Mr.. W.
B. Mclaughlin, of Seal Cove, has in his
small French coin, bearing date
1924, which was unearthed at the Cove by
Mr.. Russell. 1t is much corroded, and Mr..
thinks il was used by Wheeler
as a model to coin from.
AT LARGE.
"Salmon at Sebaap," reports a fisherman
Just from the spot, ''Are scarcer than l ever
knew them. Let them alone, though, and
they will restock the lake in a year or two
without any trouble" Fish Commissioners
Stanley and Stillwell were in Lewiston We'd
NJ day. Fish Commissioner Stanley is busy
just now with a stock of 10000 to 80, 600
land-locked salmon that he is placing in
Rangeley. They do well in the Rangeley,
but do not arrive at the growth attainabie by
the same fish in Sebago. The reverse is true
of brook trout. ''U. S. Fish Commissioner
said one of our Commissioners,
"only few years ago offered a bounty for a
four pound brook trout. 1t was onls last
season that saw in box at the lake, two
brook trout, one weighing 81 and the other
81 pounds" Commissioner Stanley says
that he was fishing recently with net for
blue backs for spawn near the old dam at the
outlet of Rangeley. He dipped up the king
of brook trout. II weighed twelve pounds
and two ounces. The twelve pound trout is
still swimming somewhere, presumably at
Rangeley. The average size of brook trout
is a question. The authorities are still on
the active lookout for fish poachers of every
kind. Sebago will be watched sharper than
ever.
The Brunswick Telegraph says Wereceived
a call from Capt. Lincoln Skofield, Tuesday.
Tho has just returned from New York having
been there for the past two months to look
after his vessel, the I. L. Skoield. He
showed us the following paragraph cut from
an English paper Capt. Alexander Doward,
of the barque Peruvian, now discharging at
Fleetwood from the West Coast of South
America, reports that when rounding Cape
Horn, in lat. sc A S. long 81 80 W., on the
7th of Oct. last, he caught bird, commonly
called ''mullihawk" by sailors, from the
neck of which was suspended thin slip of
yellow metal with the following words rough.
ly engraved thereon as near as could be de-
ciphered: American barque i. L. Skofeld
New York-Calcutta, lat. 3S 10 Isl, long.
"a OIL TEL, Aug. IL. 1882" The above
named vessel is doubtless the American
barque Isaac L. Skofield, and which arrived
in New York in April on her return from
Calcutta. 1t seems that Mrs. Capt. Bishop
and Mr.. Geo. Skofield, the latter being mate
of the above named vessel, tied the metal
strip upon the birds neck wondering where
it would bring up From the location Of the
vessels it can readily be seen that the bird
travelled a distance of about 5000 miles in a
little less than two months.