Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-10-27
state News.
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On Tuesday afternoon, the 18th inst, two
lads. Sherman Cornelison and Charley Foss
of HuultoD, were playing with a pistol. when
the former pointing it at the latter and snap
ping it the contents entered Foss's breast.
The ball was extacted, and tie wound is NOT
considered fatal.
Thirteen hundred and twenty-!our cheeses
(a5out 10000 ibs.) were made at the Nieker-
son theese Factory the past season.
At the factory a. Sherman Mills the past
season 200 tons OF potato starch were manu-
factured- The season for manufacturing this
starch lasts two months.
CUMBERLAND.
| Jeremiah Reardon, II years old. living in
Portland, was arrested Thursday evening bv
Officer Frank Merrill, for attempting 10 steal
| several lalrs OF pants from the basement of
StUrer Brothers building.
| The new steam heating apparatus which
| the paprT> reported as put in the Chapel al
BowdoIn College, has been put in the library
also. IL was found the coal dust and gas
| from the furnaces were inluring the binalnss
| oi the books. but steam heating has reme,lied
| this.
/ HANCOCK.
| 4 shooting accident happened in the house
of Elijah Richardson OF Amherst, Me-, ON
| Thursday evening. While his youngest son,
eight years old. was handling a loaded revolt
| Yer, II was accldeBtiy discharged. wounding
Mr.. Richardson In the arm The revolver
was self acting OF No. IS calibre The ball
went through Mr- RS clothes near the hip
| and hit the wall of the room, from which IL
bounced back to the opposite side and lodged
in smali basket thai was hanging under the
mantlepice. Ii appears that single nail
had also been put into the barrel OF the re-
| vuiver and was fired of 18th the charge, as
| the nail was found with a small piece OF the
bullet driven In Mr.. Richardson's arm. The
conclusion instantly put out lights in the
room, leaving all in darkness. Ii was dan
! gerous affair, remarks the Ellsworth Ameri-
| can, as there were seven persons in the room
when the accident happened.
Western parties have purchased OF Damon
Sargent, OF West Gouldsboro, his granite
quarry which Is situated near the shore
with bold water where wharf can be built
with small expense TO float almost any class
Of vessels. 1t is hoped this quarry will be
opened soon and give business a little start
in the quiet village.
| PESoBscoT.
II is reported that a wild COW is on the
rampage III the suburbs of Brewer. On the
appearance of human being she lifts her
| uSdu diiu " ltil spcSu VI Z TuuulllS
crosses the fields, leaping high fences and
wide bitches with the greatest OF ease.
| Workmen began Tuesday, the 23d inst to
lay the side track from the bucksport branch
| OF the Nj. T.. IN Brewer, to the Smith pianta-
ting mills, starting near the bridge.
| The large dam recently burned at the foot
| of Mattaw amkeag lake was owned by Bangor
parties. They will not rebuild the burned
portion until next summer. 1t is estimated
| that 1t will cost Sl2U0 or $1,000 to make it
good. Quite extensive repairs had recently
been maue upon the dam under the direction
of Mr.. Is. l.. Sanborn, OF Island Falls, who
has had charge of it the past ten or twelve
years.
| PIscATAQUIs.
The farm buildings owned by E. F. Chase.
| Of Atkinson, situated In the west part OF
| Ornevllle, were totally destroyed by fire on
Sunday evening the 2lst inst The house
WAS rented to Mrs. l.. Farnham, who was
absent at the time of the fire. But little OF
the contents were saved.
| SAGABAHoC.
ship carpenter in Bath, one day recently
| in biting Oft a chew of tobacco, his teeth met
| with a hard substance which proved to be
| part of the skeleton of a small lizard. the re-
| mainder being i'll the rest of the plug. He
| has LETT of chewing.
| The Bath Times says: There is a charm
| ing young lady of this city, who, an heiress TO
considerable property, has an iraseible old
bachelor for a guardian The young lady is
in love with a sturdy Young farmer in this
vicinity, whom the guardian will not allow
to visit her. She does the visiting herself
| by employing hackmen to take her to the
young mans home secretly. The irate guar
| dian fOup6 and forbade all hack m N
again being employed by her under prosecu-
ton.
| A wild animal has been seen in the West
| Bath woods a number Of times during the
| past month, by several of the people in that
| vicinity. This animal is about the size of a
| calf and a number have tried to shoot it, but
were unable to as they could not get near
enough to the animal. milkman went to
Bath Thursday morning and asked one the
noted gunners to 20 out and capture the
animal the people have feeling of fear
| from him. 1t Is not known what the
species OF the animal is as those that have
| seen it never saw one like it before.
WALDO.
The receipts of the recent fair in Monroe,
were Sll90, says the Belfast Journal After
the repairs on the building the past season
there were left in the Treasury of the Society,
$500. But for the accidental killing of the
trotting horse Nat Otis, the society would
have realized something over $500 from the
Fair this tall. In regard to the horse Nat
| Otis, the matter will be left to three men to
decide as to how much, if anything, the So
ciety will pay.
YORK.
John Rogers of Kittery. in two days last
week planted fifty-two thousand four hundred
| tulip bulbs, and two thousand lilies, besides
preparing the ground for the same.