Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-04-06
State News.
ANDRoSC0GGIN.


| The county tax has been assessed at $50.
600, an amoum some 81. 900 in excess of the
assessment of last year. Out of this the
county debt will probably be reduced some
SS 900 or s.. 900.
| Officer Douglass of Lewiston seized ter
gallons of liquor at the Upper Maine Central
station Tuesday afternoon. Officer McGilli'
euddy seized, the same afternoon. four FIVE
gallon kegs.
: Large numbers of horses are TO be noticed
in every freight tram from Lewiston to Bos-
ton.
The Auburn shoe business still keeps up its
vigorous tone. The shipments of this week
amount to 27Il cases. The company will
move into the new shoe factory by the last OF
July.
The Lewiston City Government is some
what i'll at ease on the question whether the
Lewiston Zouaves or the Sheridan Guards
should have the use of City Hall on the even
ing before Fast Day.
Henry Ladd, on a spree in Auburn, claims
to have been drugged and robbed of SIS all
the money he had. He was fined for being
drunk by the court.
ARoosTook.
The Pioneer saws fire, March Esd, destroyed
the house and barn, belonging to Geo. s.
Snow, in No. IL, Range l. Loss about $500.
No insuranc.
The Commercial says Mr.. Horace E
Jones of Caribou. is the inventor of an ad-
Unstable month piece for comets that is des-
tined to come into general use. 1t is so ar
ranged that the size Of the cup may be altered
without changing the pitch of the instrument,
and only one mouth piece will be necessary.
Two large manufacturers of comets have
made Mr. Jones very liberal sums tor the
right to use his invention.
The Pioneer says: Saturday last one John
Beardsley was arraigned before Trial JUS
tiee Staples, on a warrant charging him with
an assault with an intent to kill one David
Adams on Monday night, March 26th, at the
house of Nancy J. Murch in Littleton.
Adams was stabbed in seven places. Boards
ley was remanded to Jail to await the result
of Adams wounds.
Ten hundred and fifteen tons of hay have
been purchased in Houlton by Mr. o. b.
Smith of Bangor, since Jan. lst. 1t is
shipped to different portions of New England.
CUMBERLAND.
The Herald says that Frenchman at
Brunswick came near being drown while en-
gagged clearing the dam of ice. Joe Bennett
was his name, he was rescued by one of the
men throwing a rope in the form of lasso
over his body while he was in the water.
The Herald saws Charles f. Aubens of
Brunswick died very suddenly on Monday, of
pneumonia.
At the meeting of the Natural History So
ciety, at Portland, Monday evening, Miss
Kate Kurdish, of Brunswick. read a paper
giving an account of her botanical studies in
Maine the past ten years. No less than s53
plants have been painted by her, and the list
of Maine plants, made by Goodale, has been
largely increased. A feature of great inter
est has been the discovery of great number
of varieties of well-known number
species. What is known as ''cut leaved'
variety of the beech was found at Chester
vile and also on Mt. Blue.
Capt. Timothy b. Tolford, one of the old
est residents of Portland, died at his resi-
dence on Congress street Wednesday morn
ing, after years illness, from cancer. Captain
Tolford was born in Saco, Jan. 10th, 1909,
and came to that city when he was four years
old. His father, Joshua Tolford, was the
first clock maker in Portland.
Steamer Buenos Ayrean. of the Allan line.
sailed from Portland Wednesday afternoon
for Glasgow. taking 437 head of cattle and a
cargo value at Sl62,S05
FRANKLIN.
Mr.. Hermon Corbett, of Pennington, is
contemplating building silo the coming sea-
son. 1t will be the first one ever built in the
vicinity.
Mr. Fred d. Whiting, late editor of the
Pennington Herald, has purchased sheep
ranch in Nebraska where he intends to To-
cate. Mrs. Whiting has disposed of the
household goods in Pennington and will join
her husband in the West.
The residence of Seth c. Burnham, Esq.
of Pennington was burned Sunday night.
as before noticed in Geographic news. Ad
ditional particulars show that the fire was
caused by a chimney burning out. The sta
BILE was saved by tearing away the ell con-
Meeting it with the house. Loss estimated at
81. 100; insured for 81, 900.
SOMERSET.
There is much sickness reported in Bing-
ham.
Mr.. Henry Plummer, the oldest drv-goods
dealer in Somerset county is very low from
Pneumonia.
The Skowhegan shoe factory started up on
a small scale, Monday Of this week, with %
girls mostly old hands who work in the stitch
ing room; but by the last of the month they
will employ about 100 girls. The stock at
present will come from Lynn.
The Reporter says, a Massachusetts, man,
was in Somerset county last week looking af-
ter valuable horses. He found eight that
suited him and shipped them to Milton, Mon
day.
Mr. Jacob S. Herrin, who was serving his
term in State Prison for the murder OF
Merritt ]. Harmon, of Canaan in May '7S,
and for whose pardon petition was circulat-
ed last winter. died of consumption in
Thomaston. last Friday. March 2Sth. His
body was taken to Canaan Saturday for
burial.
WASHINGTON.
There are twenty-four persons in the Calais
poor-house.
The Union says that pneumonia is preva-
lent in Lubec.
An exchange saws that sixteen year old boy
in Milbridge, good looking and of common
intelligence who has never spoken word to
| any one except his parents, although his play
mates have resorted to strategy, and even TO
violence, hoping thereby to cause him to
| abandon so singular a trait. He has told his
parents that when he attains his majority he
shall converse as others do.
The fourth bullet mas been successfully re-
| moved from Herb Eaton's head, and hopes
are entertained of soon extracting the fifth
| and last ball Eaton is out of danger and is
doing as well can be expected He is
safely guarded pending the action of the
United States authorities.
Ar LARGE.