Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-07-14

Mr.. Geo. W. MaxAeld. formerly Of Ban
gor. has associated With him under the hru
name of Geo. ". MaxAeld 4 Co., promines
dealers out Of the Ssaae and they are nov
bailding in Houlson large slaughfef house
The main building i a feet BY 20 feel, viii
| two large wings running each way. Thu
| heavy stone cellar ID now completed and the
frame of the large building is up. 1t is pro
posed to slaughter sheep and cattle at this e..
Enlistment and ship the dressed meal
through to Boston By refrigerator cars. The
establishment will be ready for business by
September.
The Commercial SAYS the body of the young
man Who Was lost at New Sweden, last week,
has been found in Little Madawaska Lake.
CUMBERLAND.
A little boy named Gallagher, while play
ing on = high staging, around the house OF
John WEIGH, on Clark street Portland,
Wednesday, fell 10 the ground and Was shock
ingly mangled. Both legs and one arm was
broken. and it vas thought that his scall was
fractured. The boy was alive yesterday, but
it was feared he was fatally injured.
The Argus says that Mrs. Abbie Bean was
Wednesday brought before the Portland Mu-
nicipal court. on the charge Of conspiracy.
The conspiracy consisted in planning with
Haskell and Dimmock the escape of John
Green from the Jail. The court room was
we'll filled With curious people, but Mrs. Bean
did not appear to mind their gaze At ALL Her
bail was fixed At 81 500, and her brother and
husband became her bondsmen.
FRANKLIN
The Chronicle says at the railroad meeting
held in New Vineyard, last Saturday, q vote
was taken upon the question ofloaning the cred
it of the town for 3per cent Of its valuation
The result was IS IN favor to 81 against. The
meeting then voted BY a strong two-thirds
vote TO reconsider the vote, and adjourned
for one week.
The Chronicle says an engineer has been
looking over the route of the Pennington and
Carrabasset Railway of late, and reports it q
most favorable one He says that the Notch
at New Vineyard is no obstacle, and that the
road can be easily built.
KEsNEBEc.
The Gardiner Home Journal says il would
be Interesting if we could figure out the gain
to Gardiner in dollars and cents BY our cele-
bration. We do not mean whether the indi-
viduals who subscribed IS or $40 got their
money back with a dividend or not hut the
effect on the money in town As whole
There must have been abont 900 visitors
here from other towns, and they all left some
money here. ranging from % cts. upward, say
$1,000 in all. All of the money that went out
of Gardiner was for the prizes, fireworks, and
music, say $500, which would leave a fair
balance to the good. And then add to this
the amount our own people would have spent
in gowing somewhere else, and there certain
Gardiner the day after the Fourth than there
would have been had there been no celebra-
ton.
The Wing says the work on the new break
water at Rockland has closed for the season,
the appropriation being exhausted. An ad-
ditional length OF $50 feet has been added
this summer, making the total length from
the point 20 end of break water 1900 feet of
the 1900 to be built. The old beacon has
been changed TO the end of the completed
work.
LINCOLN.
The Press says in the cases of Shurtleff vs.
Wiscasset, some Of which have been pending
nearly four years, the plaintiff has finally set
tied with the town and the cases are ended.
OXFORD.
The Argus saws the children and family of
Hanson L. and Emeline Chapman, met at the
old homestead in Porter July 8. 1t was a
curious fact, they we're all together for the
first time in their lives. Mr.. and Mrs. Chap
man have been married twenty five years last
November; have eleven cbildrss, three
daughters and eight sons, the oldest "a years
of age, the youngest one year old. Two of
the daughters are married, each having two
children. One Of them, Mrs. Fred A. Tuck
er, lives in Lynn, Mass the other, Mrs.
John Ridlon, in Porter. Mr.. Tucker and
Mr.. Ridlon, with their children were also
present. Mrs. Effie Stacy, lady aged II
years, widow of the late Oliver Stacy, a SOL
der in the war of 1912, is Mrs. Chapman
mother. She resides with her daughter,
therefore four generations were represented.
WASHINGTON.
While rowing in a shell boat at Reeds
Point, Tuesday, Fred q. Burpee, aged 20.
son of Hon. Isaac Burpee, struck q hawser
running from schooner to the wharf, which
upset the boat and he was drowned. All
efforts to recover the body were unavailing.
The six year old son of Henry Greenlaw, OF
PASSPORT, was drowned while playing on the
dock, Tuesday.
The Wing says the Solicitor of the Treas
ury ha. ordered the collector at PASSPORT to
withdraw from sale the old Custom House
property at that place, advertised to be sold
on the 18th inst This action is made at the
suggestion Of the collector, on the ground
that there would not be enough competition
to realize a fair price.
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