Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-09-15

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Cleeves monument Portland, lastJuly. III,
/, workmen unearthed . solid ingot o
copper ten feet below the sur
face of the ground. Ii was announced At tn
) time as a bar of gold, but Investigation proves
thatthis Was false. 1t was conjectured thu
the ingot might have been . portion of an ex
tensive quantity of plumber buried at or nes
the place by gang Of burglars.
Coroner Gould of Portland. was callet
Thursday to the house of Mrs. Elizabeth
Gertz Mrs. Gertz was a woman possessed
Of considerable property and lived on the in
come. Her husband is at sea. 1t appear,
that Mrs. Gertz has been suffering from ty
phoid fever and heart trouble without attend
ance, until three days sgo. when DR.. Ordway
was called. Thursday morning she died
and the coroner, on hearing TIE facts, con
sidered an inquest unnecessary.
kENSEBEc
There will be an auction sale of thirty zone
Texas horses at Clinton o-day. The
horses will range in weight from 800 to 500
pounds.
LINCOLN.
The Damariscotta Engine Company are
talking of having firemens muster the 20tt
of this month.
OXFORD.
Hon. John b. Hill, formerly law partner
Of Judge Appleton of Maine. has now reached
his Seth year, and is residing at Mason. Mr.
Hill was a classmate of Ralph Waldo Emer-
son at Harvard College. and they cores
ponded for more than fifty years with each
other. The town history of Mason was CON-
piled by Mr.. Hill His eyesight is quite
good. He does not use glasses.
PENoBscor.
| DIR. n. X. Boutele of Waterville. has
entered his herd of Jerseys and flock of
South Down sheep to exhibit at the Eastern
Maine Fair.
aThe department superintendent at the
Eastern Maine Fair are as follows: A. G
Hunt, Superintendent Horse Department; l
| ID. Henderson, Superintendent Stock De-
partment; f. A. Gregory, Superintendent
Agricultural Hall at Grounds; Capt. Calvin
Carr, Superintendent Norombega and City
Halls.
PIsCATAQUIs.
At the present term of Supreme Judicial
Court in Piscataquis county, - indictments
have been brought against parties for the
violation of game laws in killing either
moose, caribou or deer during close time.
SAGArAHoc.
A Lewiston man relates that he was on the
excursion train from Thomaston, Friday,
and that he was standing on the platform OF
the train near Bath man who was paving
his fare. First the man pulled out a bag
of silver aud then roll of bills. The roll,
he says, contained three one hundred dollar
bills. One of the bills dropped out of the
roll and futtered down between the cars
The man looked over his roll and but two of
the one hundred dollar bills remained. He
offered the conductor ten dollars 10 stop the
train.
| SOMERSET.
Mr.. Geo w. Kincaid of No Convile. has
contracted to build a church at No. Arson
village for the Congregationalsts and has
left an order for the frame with the kenne.
bee Framing Company Fairfield.
Aunt Polly Allen of Smithfield. widow of
the late Francis Allen, visited Mr.. Daniel
Aliens at Fairfield, recently. She is an
active lady, SO years of age, and enjoys good
health. She does not look to be more than
so years old and retains all her faculties I'M
impaired. She is the mother of eleven
children, and two of her sons, Ansel and
George Allen, formerly lived in this village.
She is sister of Samuel Taylor, formerly OF
Fairfield and is the last surviving member
of that family.
The Fairfield Journal says: In our issue
/ vi aug ioth W ds q loCdi Ill ItSdTu W Tue
shearing of twenty sheep in four hours and
ten minutes by Frank Morrison of Pshon's
Ferry. He also caught his sheep and tied up
/ the wool in that time. This local causes a
subscriber in Southern Kansas to send an item
in regard to sheep shearing on the farm of
/ Mr. Henry l.. Nye, formerly of Fairfield Cen
tire. One of his men sheared. last spring,
800 sheep in five days. and so full blood
merinos in one day. Mr.. Nye is willing to
put up money that he will shear l25 sheep in
one day and catch his own sheep. In shear.
ing the 800 in five days, he caught his own
sheep as also in shearing the merinos. Mr..
Nye is doing an extensive business in raising
sheep. He sold ten tons of wool last spring
and shipped the same to Philadelphia.
WALDO.
! Mr.. Horace Tyler of Freedom, tilted
suicide Wednesday evening of last week by
hanging himself to an apple tree He was
well-tO-dO farmer, with some ten thousand
dollars worth of property and no family ex-
cept wife. Last spring he sold his farm.
but had always appeared contented with his
lot in life, until within a short time. A few
weeks ago he tried to buy back the old farm,
but failed to make satisfactory trade, since
which time he has been somewhat despon-
dent, and for the past few days had been
watched for fear that he would make some
attempt upon his life. Wednesday evening
he made an excuse to go to the barn, whittier
he was followed in a few minutes by another
person. who soon returned and reported that
he was not at the barn. Search was made,
and be was found in the orchard, suspended
by the neck from tree, with his knees rest.
ing on the ground and his hands on fence,
dead.
At LARGE.
Fairs will be held In this State as follows
Maine State, Lewiston, Sept. 1921; Waldo
county, Belfast, Oct. 9, 81 No. Knox, Hope,
Oct. Gil; Penobscot county, Carmel, Sept
Is, IA; Knox county, Rockland, Oct. 1917
Eastern Maine, Bangor, Sept. 25-29; So.
Branch Grange, Prospect, Sept. 25; Waldo
and Penobscot, Monroe, 4 and ).
The Maine Central has issued a special or
der in relation to the running of trains during
State Fair week. No trains will be allowed
to leave the station at fair grounds without
receiving either a special order from the
train dispatcher or a chartered order from the
operator. A signal register will be placed
there and at Auburn. Engineers are ordered
! to keep trains under full control so as to stop
back if necessary. Extra caution is de-
manded in starting and stopping trains so as
to do no injury to persons or proDerty Con.