Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-10-31
state News.
CUMBERLAND.

Herald. Two thefts have lately occurred
Mrs. Isaiah Simpson. who lives right in the
village. lest nine hens one dark night, and
Oliver Doughty, farmer living on the Deep
/ Cut read, lost nearly rs out of total of 40.
Many Of the latter were of fancy breeds and
valuable birds. 1t is supposed that the latter
were picked by the thief and at once dis
posed of in the village, as a large quantity
; of feathers were found in pasture not far
from the Doughty farm
! KENxEBEc.
| Rev. Mr. Bellows delivered very inter
esting lecture to a large audience, in the
Unitarian chnrch at Wsterville, SUNDAY even
/ ing. His subject was Matthew Arnold as
poet and critic
The following officers of the Reform Club
/ at Waterville were elected last FRIDAY even
ing for the ensuing quarter Pres. W. Mitch
/ ell: vice presidents. Richard Furlong. r. A.
! Stewart, John Ludlow; sec. S. d. Webb:
financial Sec. and Treas. IL. W. B. Webber;
chaplain c. W. Fogg. The ladies' of the W.
c. I. X. had arranged literary entertain
ment and refreshments which were enjoyed
by few who were sufficiently patriotic in
the cause to come out in spite of the Storm
The Winslow Methodist chapel on Sand Hill,
Winslow, is to be :aoved short distance and
put in repair outside at the expense of the
Lockwood Co. of Waterville. The estima-
ted cost is about $500. The company have
nearly sixty tenements occupied by their help
in the immediate vicinity of this chapel A
Sabbath school is held every Sunday morning
and a short preaching service by Rev. W. S.
McIntire.
KNOX.
party of forty-two people left Roekport
| and Rockland on the steamer Penobscot Mon
day evening for Boston, whence they started
Tuesday for San Francisco. going by the
Central Vermont, Grand Trunk, Chicago &
Northwestern and Union Pacific Railroads
The party was organized by Z. ID. Merriam
of Rockport, and A. A. New bert of Rockland,
and is composed mostly of mechanics and
their families going to reside in the Sacra-
mento valley. Three car loads of furniture
are taken ~ithout change by rail
OXFORD.
Last week "bum weaver" whe works in
the wooden mill at Welchville got full of bad
rum and made a disturbance. They put him
out of the mill, and tried to quiet him: but,
taking another drink, he returned to the as
saut. In the scutfle the buns face was
severely injured. By evening he was fairly
crazy, aud armed with an ax-handle, went
down to the boss-weaver's (Sam Harriman)
house, entreated Mr.. II. to come out and be
killed. He pounded on the door, executed
war dance in the front yard and finally be-
came so violent, not only threatening, but
actually attempting to burn the building, that
the sheriff and posse were called out.
PENoBsCOT.
Dphtheria is now raging in some parts of
Bangor.
1t is predicted that a very large lot of ice
wi i'll no ont n the ppnOhscot ha cOminU urip
ter.
Through the exertions of Rev. ii. L.
Griffin. Hammond street church. Bangor.
will have a memorial window to commemo-
rate the fiftieth anniversary of its founding
and the twenty sixth years pastorate of the
Rev. Mr.. Maltby therein. 1t will be placed
in position before the 9Th of December The
cost of the window will be 500.
Prof. George A. Hamlin of the State col
lege, has been making some important sur
veys of the Penobscot river in Oldtown and
above for the Bowel Water Power Company.
J. 7. Stewart & Co., of Bangor. are pre-
pairing for a large movement of fruit box,
shocks and spool timber-the former to the
Mediterranean, the latter to Glasgow. The
shocks will be carried by two briggs and
bark, the spool timber by the ocean steamer
Cryton. The cargo of these vessels require
about three hundred cars in the transportation
from Lambert Lake, La Grange, etc, to
Bangor.
Engine No. 50 telescoped a train of flat
cars in Brewer Monday afternoon. The
smokestack of the engine was knocked off
and damage done to the boiler head Several
cars were demolished. This is the first &C
cident on the Shore Line.
A dividend of ten per cent has been de-
clared by the Portland, Bangor and Machias
Steamship Company.
PIsCATAoUIs.
One day, recently. at Bucksport a man
named VIM. Blaisdell. who has, with his
wife, been stopping at the house of Mr..
Eldridge, being ill, called for a physician,
DR.. Putnam, to attend him. Mr.. Blaisdell
on the doctors arrival. evinced symptoms of
insanity, for, as the story goes, he seized two
revolvers and chased the physician from the
house and down the street. The NJ ID.
presented quite a picturesque appearance. as
he had removed his hat and coat in the
patient room. 1t is also said that an officer
who went to arrest Mr.. Baisdell, carried
with him. by wey of protection. two revolvers
and dirk knife. The lively invalid is re-
ported as saving he was only in fun.
SAGADAHoC.
There is a lady in Bath, says the Times,
who has marked mesmeric power, although
few of her friends are cognizant Of the fact.
When she is travelling in the cars by con-
centrating her mind upon any passenger
ahead of her, she makes the aforesaid
passenger very uneasy and causes him or
her the case may be. to turn around. She
can by intensely thinking of anv friends of
hers in the city make them come to her
house If she sees any neighbor come into
the house she can tell whether they want to
gossip or borrow the flat irons, or get a slip
Of some of her plants. Her husband is entire.
" under the control of her mesmeric powers
greatly to his sorrow.
YORK.
Woodbury. Boynton of Saco, a gentleman
about GO years of age, left his home about
four weeks ago for Augusta, Georgia. Since
that time he has not been heard from. His
friends are getting uneasy about him, SAYS
the Biddeford Times.
Good fares of cod are brought in bv the
Biddeford Pool fishermen. The herring
catch this fall was very light in comparison
with years past. Last year about Is 900 bar
rels were taken in that vicinity. and this year
not more than half that number At Ogun-
quit, another good school of herring made
their appearance last week and many of the
fishermen got good dose; in fact some of
them got more than they could take care of
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