Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-20
State News.
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Lewiston received by mail from Lowell
Mass, package that contained an emblem
of a broken affection and blighted trust Il
was ring which . Lewiston girl had giver
her lover before his departure for the Bay
State. He would not return it, when she had
him arrested in Lowell, and be gave it up
CUMBERLAND.
The first number of the Head Light, the
new s'straight" Greenback organ, 10 out.
Rev. w. F. Eaton of Cape Elizabeth, 10 ed.
| itor, and P. H. Gordon of Portland, and Sew.
| all Golf of Mexico, contributors. The paper
will be issued weekly if sufficient encourage.
| ment is given. An elaborate plan of the or
ganization of the party is published, and the
editor states that Mr.. l. Hanscom of Wells,
is acting as State organizer and is at the
present time organizing clubs in the First
Congressional district.
| FRANKLIN.
| A singular incident occurred last week in
| Scot Swett-s blacksmith shop in Weld, viz
the explosion of his bellows, according to
the Franklin Journal. The FIRE on the forge
had not been used for short time and an in
lammable gas produced by partial combus-
ton of the coal had from some cause worked
back into the bellows, causing the gas to
explode.
| kENyEBEC.
| Rev. W. S. McIntire, pastor of the church
in Waterville, commenced series of revival
meetings, Tuesday evening, Dec. llth, with
an able sermon on prayer" A large num-
Der were in attendance. Wednesday evening
the topic of the meeting was personal Effort
for Salvation of Souls" Thursday evening
Rev. j. A. Corey of Fairfield, preached q
thoughtful and appropriate sermon from Pisa.
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held.
Lewis Lane, the iovial cattle buyer OF
Monmouth, showed FIVE pairs Of handsome
cattle in Lewiston, Monday. He bought
them in Androscoggin county. One yoke
girthed feet and weighed 1900 and Zoo,
respectively. Two yoke girthed feet Z
and weighed $500. One pair girthed feet
and weighed 1000. The smallest yoke
girthed feet 10. The larger oxen cost
$3.50 yoke. Mr.. Lane shipped the oxen to
Brighton.
| The superintendent of the Light House
Board has directed all light keepers and
other employees to obtain and wear prescrib-
ed uniform. We notice friend Groves of
Burt Island light getting the measures to be
| forwarded to the department. How will
Uncle Sam arrange with lady keepers ?-Nr.
Albert n. Reed of Boothbay, in carting dirt
from the old earthwork on Barrack Hill, re-
Gently unearth six cannon balls together with
grape shot, crockery ware, bones, etc.
PENoBsCoT.
| There has been considerable alarm in Ban
gor of late on account of diphtheria. The
Commercial finds however little occasion for
| il. A good many cases of sore throat have
been called diphtheria, but the number OF
cases of actual diphtheria are four.
The mercury fell to IA degrees below zero
at Bangor Saturday night.
SOMERSET.
| Nellie Lewis, an inmate of a house of low
repute in Boston, was found lying uncOn-
scious on the floor of her room, Wednesday
morning. The chimney of kerosene lamp
had been taken off. The fact that the girl
allowed the fumes of the oil to overcome her
before she put it out, especially as it was
daylight at the time. and that she should be
overcome so suddenly as to fall upon the
| floor without being able to raise an alarm, is
sufficient to throw some doubt upon the state
ment about her condition at the time, and it
is not likely that the truth of the matter will
be easily ascertained. Congestion having
set in. her recovery is a matter of doubt.
The girls real name is Nellie Lesseur. She
have brother in Skowhegan, Me.
WASHINGTON.
A Calais despatch says the thermometer
began to fall quite rapidly early Saturday af-
ternoon, until it registered ten below at seven
Sunday morning. From noon to Z PM. the
tempreture moderated fast. About 8 PM, .
driving northeast snow storm set in and con-
tinued uninterruptedly upto Monday. About
foot of snow has fallen. The cold followed by
snow is a great boon to lumbermen. A large
number of teams started for the woods to-day.
The snow is drifting badly and the roads will
be terribly blocked for few days.
YORK.
About 7.30 o'clock on Sunday evening as
Trial Justice John w. Frost of Springvale.
was sitting by window in his residence, a
stone the size of a mans fist was hurled
through the glass and striking a section
of the sash, it carried away two panes of
glass and struck Mr.. Frost on his arm. inflict-
| ing serious bruises. The stone was doubtless
aimed at bis head, which it would have struck,
had it not been for the sash. 1t was an act
of revenge for the part taken by Mr.. Frost at
the last term of court, in securing the con-
vction of rumsellers. Considerably excite
ment exists, as this is only one of series of
outrages which have been perpetrated on citi-
zens interested in the prosecutions at that
| time.
| The first annual meeting of the subscrib-
ers to the stock of the York Harbor & Beach
Railroad was held in the town hall in York q
few days since, about 200 shares of stock
being represented and the following named
persons were unanimously chosen as direct
ors for the ensuing year Edward S. Marshall,
John S. Staples, jeremiah p. Simpson, Sam
uel w. Junkins and DIR. John G. Stewart of
York, and DR.. f. B. Hammond of Nashua,
n. II. From the treasurer's report it appeared
that provision had been made whereby all the
bills against the company were being pr omptly
met, and assurances had been made the COM
pany that their bonds would be taken as soon
as placed on the market. The directors also
reported nearly one half of the stock pleged,
and the subscribers to the stock voted to pro-
secute the work of increasing the amount OF
subscriptions. and chose committee for that
purpose. At a meeting of the directors held
subsequently, Edward S. Marshall was chos.
en- president. John G. Stewart clerk, and
Samuel W. Jenkins treasurer.
1t might be well to refer to the opinion OF
d. II. Armstrong, Esq Assistant Postmaster
of Delta, La. the gentleman says: suffered
for nineV-s six hours with mumps, and one
bottle of st. Jacobs Oil cured me in two days